It wasn’t necessarily a book presentation. What attracted the presence of Daniel Filmus, Jorge Geffner, Dora Barrancos and Nora Bär during Sunday night in the Grupo Octubre stand at the Book Fair (705 of the Blue Pavilion) was more of a talk that had a book as its object and, at the same time, a kind of preview of what will be the official presentation of Outside!, The place of science and technology in anarcho-capitalism -the book in question, coordinated by Daniel Filmus and published by Editorial Octubre- scheduled for Saturday, May 11 at 2:30 p.m., at the aforementioned site. “How did we end up in this? “Is this the question that tortures us every day?” was Barrancos’ trigger, to begin looking for answers to the conceptual framing of the conversation, linked to the role of education and science in anarcho-capitalism.
“We have not yet finished scrutinizing the matter. It is difficult for me to say the last name of Conan’s father, but the truth is that one could say that it is a phenomenon with a totally anarchic mental structure before which John Locke, the initiator of the so-called social contract, would die, because he thought that If there were not an organizer called the State, we would be gutting each other. We are faced with a character that is very difficult to grasp and his most constant problem is a certain authoritarian fixation when he talks about banishing the goods that the State has been able to guarantee,” the sociologist and historian charged firmly, before an audience that greatly exceeded the allocated space. to him, on the stand. “I think that what there is in the illogicality of the logicality of this character is a clear imitation of what is happening with the extreme right in the world (…) Indeed, We are facing an excess of delirium, but what worries us most is the authoritarian production of that delirium. I hope this delirium does not spread tomorrow with the approval of those falsifications called Bases,” Barrancos concluded, to cheers and applause.
Jorge Geffner, who replaced another of the original guests, the biologist Alberto Kornblihtt, affected by dengue fever, also joined the spirit of the talk with the treatment of the Omnibus Law, basically to ask the deputies not to vote for the positive. “If we do not manage to reverse the policies in progress, in a few months we will experience a profound emptying of all sectors of scientific research, and of university life.”. That’s why tomorrow (today) is an important day. Of course the entire bill must be rejected, and in fact we have been talking to several deputies about it, but there is an article, article 3, that has now been incorporated, and that enables the closure of scientific organizations, such as the Bank of Genetic Data, among many others. It is something tremendously dangerous. If we say that we are only facing a severe adjustment, we are screwing up… this is much more than an adjustment. The objective of this government is to destroy everything important that the State has“, based on well-being in terms of public education and health,” said the doctor in biochemistry, who also denounced a rapid exodus of scholarship holders and scientific researchers during the last four months. “We are also witnessing an immense loss of human resources. There are offers for them, not only in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia, but also in Chile, Uruguay and Brazil, which even implemented an active repatriation program as was done in Argentina at the time,” warned Geffner, who did not He wrote none of the articles in the book, but he did have a lot to say, regarding the role of science and education in these strange times.
Those who did write in Outside!in addition to Barrancos and Kornblihtt, were Sonia Alesso, Victor Moriñigo, María Bielli, Eduardo Dvorkin, Gabriela Dranovsky and Daniel Ricci, who will be present at the book presentation on Saturday the 11th, with the predicted objective of defending, from different perspectives and angles, the central role of the State in education, knowledge, science and technology, against the voracity of the market and its destructive capacity. “The idea of writing this book arose the day after Milei’s inaugural speechin which he made no reference to science or technology, and in terms of education, he only did so to criticize public education,” he expressed. Daniel Filmusthe final speaker, presented by the science journalist Nora Bar, who served as moderator. “This made us start to read what these people are proposing, because it is not about an individual. There is a thought that has global connotations, and a very elaborate conception behind it, that wants to propose the destruction of the State in Argentina. It is not, as was said here, a policy of adjustment and that is why the book proposes to debate, discuss and break down these ideas, to propose a project for a transformative country,” the former minister developed.
