Virtualidades e educação

Abstract

The second issue of the journal ETD – Educacao Tematica Digital of the year 2020 reaches the reader and the reader in the midst of an unprecedented historical context. Mixing an episode of the technological-dystopian universe of Black Mirror with the Camusian panorama of the Oman affected by the Plague, we see the apparent antinomy between distance and proximity reconfigure and become new forms of sociability and interaction. To the necessary social isolation imposed by the virulent spread of a pandemic emerge mutatis mutandis a human being who not only mediates his social relations via technological apparatus, but now takes place (in ontological terms) through and, to a great extent, in dependence on them. Potentially liberating and subversive to the same extent as repressive and submissive, virtuality is imposed rather with the need that as a choice...