Abstract
In this paper we wish to address a problem which has to do with the growing obsolescence of human beings in the context of societies which are at once ultra-technological, hyper-consumerist and based around a market economy. We aim to examine critically and in detail the psychosocial and anthropological conditions of a world where women and men are being overtaken by a sometimes explosive combination of commercial speed and globalised capitalism. Technophilia, the true fetishism of our age, operates at full capacity as one of the legitimising ideological discourses of that historical process by means of which men are dwarfed by their own creation; men overwhelmed by the crushing power of a set of technoscientific developments which - and this is crucial - unfold with relative and worrying autonomy and following dynamics which often do not respond to actual human needs. Technology, which is never politically innocent, acquires uncommon proportions and scope when, in addition, its deployment responds to a cumulative capitalist logic of a boundless nature. It is this issue, therefore, which we aim to elucidate from an anthropological and philosophical point of view.
Highlights
Verdadero fetichismo de nuestro tiempo, opera a pleno rendimiento como uno de los discursos ideológicos legitimadores de ese proceso histórico por medio del cual los hombres empequeñecen ante su propia creación; hombres desbordados por la potencia apabullante de un conjunto de desarrollos tecnocientíficos que, y esto es crucial, se despliegan con relativa e inquietante autonomía y siguiendo dinámicas que en muchas ocasiones no responden a necesidades humanas reales
We aim to examine critically and in detail the psychosocial and anthropological conditions of a world where women and men are being overtaken by a sometimes explosive combination of commercial speed and globalised capitalism
Technophilia, the true fetishism of our age, operates at full capacity as one of the legitimising ideological discourses of that historical process by means of which men are dwarfed by their own creation; men overwhelmed by the crushing power of a set of technoscientific developments which - and this is crucial - unfold with relative and worrying autonomy and following dynamics which often do not respond to actual human needs
Summary
Las tesis del filósofo Günther Anders, desarrolladas en su imprescindible Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, deben ser consideradas y estudiadas con muchísima atención. Por lo tanto, siempre se han desplegado a través de un entramado institucional complejo que no encuentra su razón de ser en la desnuda actividad técnica, ya que incluso esta última aparece entretejida con otros motivos, instituciones, normas y finalidades que no quedan reducidos en su significado último al mero aprovisionamiento energético. Y más ominoso aún es su vaticinio del surgimiento de una “megatécnica” de carácter planetario[56], estructura que será controlada por pequeñas minorías oligárquicas; y en vez de obrar como un ente autónomo y activo, el hombre se convertirá en un animal pasivo y sin objetivos propios: un ser enteramente condicionado por la “vida” de las máquinas. El hechizo del fetichismo tecnológico nunca se rompió del todo; aún hoy se despliega con muchísima fuerza, proyectando sus nuevas promesas de utópica liberación en los prodigios que trae consigo la era digital[58]
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