Next Friday the 24th at 7 p.m., in the Rawson de Dellepiane building of the UNNOBA (RS Peña and Jorge Newbery) the presentation of the book La fantasy neoliberal, by the historian Carlos Gracian, will be held recently published by the Rojense publishing house Nido de Vacas .
The activity, organized by the Popular Library “Juan. B. Justo”, will be held within the framework of the free lecture “Casa del Pueblo. Cultural debates on philosophy, politics and urban agenda. UNNOBA University Extension”. The activity is free and open to the community.
Also, on Saturday the 25th at 7 p.m. A presentation of similar characteristics will be held at the TAFS (Av. 25 de mayo 241), in the city of Rojas.
This work is part of the FilosoQué? collection, a cycle of activities that is carried out periodically in different cultural and educational institutions in Rojas and its surrounding cities. Founded at the beginning of 2016, the initiative has so far promoted more than fifty traveling meetings in the cities of Rojas, Pergamino, Salto, Colón and Chacabuco. Furthermore, within the framework of this project, nine philosophy workshops have been developed in the Rojas Municipal Library. This year the workshop “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Philosophy and Literature” took place – with the participation of Professor Leticia Sales – and the workshop “The Incarnate Word” is ongoing. Tribute to Horacio González”, on Mondays in May and June.
About the book
By managing to compose our existence within a social field in which life experiences are determined by the principles of commodification (“unlimited” consumption), financialization (permanent debt), entertainment (spectacularization of everyday life), virtualization (digitalization of links and interactions) and performance (competition and productivity), the neoliberal order has managed to make desire and life compatible with the production of capital.
These processes that have led to a greater loss of control over our lives do not occur without serious tensions. The ever-increasing pressure to follow the imperatives of performance, digital self-promotion and consumption has made it possible to sustain acceptance of a way of life in which the constant overfitting to measure up to what is expected leads to increasingly discomfort. deeper. It is about the emergence of symptoms of what can be interpreted as the saturation of the subjectivities proposed by the neoliberal order; but that, despite this, still manages to organize individualities through the articulation of their ideological fantasy. Thinking about the ways in which these subjectivities are articulated, as well as analyzing the processes that generate and sustain them, will be the objective of this meeting.
About the Author
Carlos Gracian was born in Rojas in 1980. He is a professor of History at the National University of Luján and is pursuing his Master’s degree in History at the National University of Tres de Febrero. He works as Adjunct Professor of the Introduction to the Problems of the Contemporary World chair at UnTref and is coordinator of that curricular space in the University’s Virtual Education area. He also teaches History at the Middle Level. He participates as a researcher in the Center for Studies on the Contemporary World, within the framework of the UnTref Scientific Programming.
He has collaborated in the writing of the book: Contemporary Problems. Essays on a time in transition (Eduntref, 2015) and in the production of various academic articles. Neoliberal Fantasy is her first book.
