On Thursday, June 5th, the meeting “Apocalyptic and disintegrated: criticisms and alternatives to attention capture devices” will take place. The event, which will feature the participation of researchers in philosophy, literature, arts and history, starts at 2:30 pm, in auditorium D of the CCHLA. Registration via Sigaa.
About “Apocalyptic and disintegrated”.
The time we have to live is of such a nature that our lives are inscribed “in an uninterrupted duration, defined based on a principle of continuous operation, which has the appearance of a social world, but in reality is a non-social model of machine performance” (Crary, 2015, p. 10). Among all the factors involved in this terminal configuration of capitalism, the hijacking of attention and the impoverishment of experience constitute worrying phenomena, because they compromise our synesthetic system and, with it, “the instinctual power of the human bodily senses” and “the self-preservation of humanity” (Buck-Morss, 1996, p. 12). We do not know whether activating the emergency brake of history, as Benjamin said, is within our reach, but putting up some kind of resistance to this dizzying and sleepless mechanism is one of the imperatives of our time. In this sense, whether by challenging ourselves to think critically about the conditions and consequences of the logic of screens and social networks in the configuration of our subjectivities, or by creatively exploring the existential and political alternatives to this regime, we intend to develop some proposals aimed at breaking ourselves out of the circle of consumption that dominates our societies and interrupting our conditioned behaviors. The contributions of social sciences, neurosciences, arts, history and philosophy will be a fundamental part of the analysis and diagnosis that we will undertake, because this is a problem that cannot do without any perspective for its solution.
