The anthropology of human obsolescence. Hyper-consumption, technophilia and commercial speed
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 anthropolog...
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| description | 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 <em>overtaken </em>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 <em>overwhelmed </em>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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee0050850c65479b8468a13139f5eaa02022-12-21T22:28:43ZdeuUniversidad Complutense de MadridRevista de Filosofia0034-82441988-284X2018-11-0143229531410.5209/RESF.6203256151The anthropology of human obsolescence. Hyper-consumption, technophilia and commercial speedJorge Polo Blanco0Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral. Guayaquil, EcuadorIn 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 <em>overtaken </em>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 <em>overwhelmed </em>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.http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RESF/article/view/62032obsolescencia humanavelocidad mercantilsociedades de mercadoturbocapitalismofetichismo tecnológico |
| spellingShingle | Jorge Polo Blanco The anthropology of human obsolescence. Hyper-consumption, technophilia and commercial speed Revista de Filosofia obsolescencia humana velocidad mercantil sociedades de mercado turbocapitalismo fetichismo tecnológico |
| title | The anthropology of human obsolescence. Hyper-consumption, technophilia and commercial speed |
| title_full | The anthropology of human obsolescence. Hyper-consumption, technophilia and commercial speed |
| title_fullStr | The anthropology of human obsolescence. Hyper-consumption, technophilia and commercial speed |
| title_full_unstemmed | The anthropology of human obsolescence. Hyper-consumption, technophilia and commercial speed |
| title_short | The anthropology of human obsolescence. Hyper-consumption, technophilia and commercial speed |
| title_sort | anthropology of human obsolescence hyper consumption technophilia and commercial speed |
| topic | obsolescencia humana velocidad mercantil sociedades de mercado turbocapitalismo fetichismo tecnológico |
| url | http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RESF/article/view/62032 |
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