ICT (Imaginary, Capitalism, and Technology). The paper defends the use of the concept of social imaginary as a tool of analysis of contemporary capitalism, using a philosophical approach. Firstly, I claim that such a concept is more useful than the traditional concept of ideology, because the idea of unmasking or undressing an ideology produces a structural impasse (§ 1.1), and because “social imaginary” grasps the features of a society populated by digital images in a better way. In doing this, I insist that if the logic of ideology is textual and referential, the logic of social imaginary is imaginal and non-referential (§ 1.2). Secondly, I focus on the imaginary horizon of digital contemporary capitalism: I present the “immaterial” nature of post-Fordist capitalism (§ 2.1), I describe the “cerebral” work of information machines that animate it (§ 2.2), and I thematize the informatization of the imaginary , arguing that the age of technological reproducibility of the relationship engages us to imagine a world at the center of which we have not things, but interrelations or interactions (§ 2.3).
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Migrations historically build up the imaginary of territories and mold national identities; phenomena such as the migrant caravans (from Central America to the U.S.- Mexican border) introduce the opportunity to rethink the diversity of the representations that interact in the national identities. The false image of the migrant invasion results in the basic forms of nationalist propaganda: a threat against local employment, monsterization of the "other"; but such reiteration is far from the once known as a local effect. In this context, the article proposes to update the notion of imago-politics, in order to understand the role of what is considered “fake” in the nationalist imaginary on migration.
{"title":"Imago-politics of migration: mexicanities, xenophobia & the fake “other”","authors":"C. González","doi":"10.7413/22818138153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138153","url":null,"abstract":"Migrations historically build up the imaginary of territories and mold national identities; phenomena such as the migrant caravans (from Central America to the U.S.- Mexican border) introduce the opportunity to rethink the diversity of the representations that interact in the national identities. The false image of the migrant invasion results in the basic forms of nationalist propaganda: a threat against local employment, monsterization of the \"other\"; but such reiteration is far from the once known as a local effect. In this context, the article proposes to update the notion of imago-politics, in order to understand the role of what is considered “fake” in the nationalist imaginary on migration.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131775994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Butler, like Foucault, believes that power is no longer constrained within sovereignty, but it pervades the social fabric and has, using the Austinian lexicon, a performative character, as it produces “normal” subjects and excludes others as “abnormal”, establishing norms of social intelligibility. Butler learns from Derrida that a norm, like every sign, works if it is iterable, if it can be cited by all members of a community. However, the rehearsal of the conventional formulae in non-conventional ways also governs the possibility of a counter-hegemonic re-conceptualization of politics. In the performativity are inscribed both the normalizing exercise of power and a breaking force, an insurrectionary potential of the collective imaginary, which is embodied, for Butler, especially in plural performances of critical protest, like public assemblies. Performative politics is a politics of imagination, which dismantles the supposed natural order, creating possible alternatives.
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Global “robotic plots” and their social impact on the new typologies of “governmental innovations” are the content and experimentum crucis for my assumption and the core of my contribution. The main source of inspiration is the need to adopt a new (cultural-)embedded variant of post-Marxian cultural criticism in order to tackle and analyse properly the alliance between cultural capitalism and cultural imaginary, which is to be considered as an autonomous and fruitful field of research. The so-called cultural capitalism is assumed to have carried out the shift from the markets of things to web connections. Therefore, we have the appearance of unprecedented relations that produce fidelity marketing of clients as regards global, transnational enterprises. Going far beyond the controversial twenty- year-old prognosis of Jeremy Rifkin (Rifkin, 2000) we should check to which extent the progressive dematerialization of property, spaces and borders between goods, once upon a time identifiable with material objects in discrete succession, takes place in the world of the markets, economics and finance, and with repercussions on the daily life of millions of persons.
{"title":"Cultural Capitalism and Global Robotic Plots. The case of Japan","authors":"Barbara Henry","doi":"10.7413/22818138181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138181","url":null,"abstract":"Global “robotic plots” and their social impact on the new typologies of “governmental innovations” are the content and experimentum crucis for my assumption and the core of my contribution. The main source of inspiration is the need to adopt a new (cultural-)embedded variant of post-Marxian cultural criticism in order to tackle and analyse properly the alliance between cultural capitalism and cultural imaginary, which is to be considered as an autonomous and fruitful field of research. The so-called cultural capitalism is assumed to have carried out the shift from the markets of things to web connections. Therefore, we have the appearance of unprecedented relations that produce fidelity marketing of clients as regards global, transnational enterprises. Going far beyond the controversial twenty- year-old prognosis of Jeremy Rifkin (Rifkin, 2000) we should check to which extent the progressive dematerialization of property, spaces and borders between goods, once upon a time identifiable with material objects in discrete succession, takes place in the world of the markets, economics and finance, and with repercussions on the daily life of millions of persons.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121593682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article has a twofold purpose: firstly, it highlights how the theme of migration declined in terms of emergency has become a social imaginary, that is a fundamental symbolic resource for the storytelling that fuels the political communication of Italian parties. It shows that this interpretation represents a primary cultural framework creating a climate of "moral panic". Such a climate has justified very restrictive and deadly actions and policies. Secondly, the article aims to show that the stratification of these policies has finally consolidated a mass structural violence sustained and legitimized by two closely related forms of immaterial violence: symbolic violence and cultural violence.
{"title":"La migrazione come risorsa simbolica dello storytelling politico. Immaginario emergenziale, discorsi d’odio e media in Italia","authors":"G. Nicolosi","doi":"10.7413/22818138150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138150","url":null,"abstract":"The article has a twofold purpose: firstly, it highlights how the theme of migration declined in terms of emergency has become a social imaginary, that is a fundamental symbolic resource for the storytelling that fuels the political communication of Italian parties. It shows that this interpretation represents a primary cultural framework creating a climate of \"moral panic\". Such a climate has justified very restrictive and deadly actions and policies. Secondly, the article aims to show that the stratification of these policies has finally consolidated a mass structural violence sustained and legitimized by two closely related forms of immaterial violence: symbolic violence and cultural violence.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126923477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The “Promethean shame” (Gunther Anders) is propitious to understand the collective sensibility which accompanied the deliquescence of Enlightenment humanism. After two critical events over twentieth century (extermination camps and Hiroshima), we attend two main “escape way”. The first concerns the self-engineering; the second the becoming-animal as “absolute deterritorialization”. In hollow of this “imaginative tension” we can catch the new imaginary of humanity growing from modern values debris. In this article it will be question of exploring imaginary relating to these “escape way”, on the one hand the becoming-thing of humanity (for example the video game NieR Automata), on the other hand, the becoming-animal of humanity (for example the fur fandom). We propose a sociological analysis of saturation of Enlightenment humanism and ways in which it tries to persist through the absorption of non-human.
{"title":"Glory to new mankind: transferts du sujet de l’humanisme","authors":"Marianne Celka","doi":"10.7413/22818138130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138130","url":null,"abstract":"The “Promethean shame” (Gunther Anders) is propitious to understand the collective sensibility which accompanied the deliquescence of Enlightenment humanism. After two critical events over twentieth century (extermination camps and Hiroshima), we attend two main “escape way”. The first concerns the self-engineering; the second the becoming-animal as “absolute deterritorialization”. In hollow of this “imaginative tension” we can catch the new imaginary of humanity growing from modern values debris. In this article it will be question of exploring imaginary relating to these “escape way”, on the one hand the becoming-thing of humanity (for example the video game NieR Automata), on the other hand, the becoming-animal of humanity (for example the fur fandom). We propose a sociological analysis of saturation of Enlightenment humanism and ways in which it tries to persist through the absorption of non-human.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125599813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Capitalism and Imaginary. The cave, the labor and the algorithm. The aim of this paper is to discuss the controversial relationship between capitalism and imaginary. Using Adorno’s concept of constellation in science, we shall underline different kind of relationship between those. we will try to identify vital conceptual nodes that can illuminate the relationship between capitalism and the imaginary. In the first part we discuss address the attention to two different perspectives aboutof the interrelationship dichotomy between capitalism and imaginary. Starting from Bataille’s reflection on Lascaux’s wall painting, we highlight focus on the difference between instrumental activity and expressive activity, while in a social and historical perspective, we pay attention on the irreconcilable contradiction of these activities that emerge with the modern concept of labor. In the second part, we analyze a case study - an algorithm called “The Next Rembrandt” - in order discuss aesthetical and cultural condition of the contemporary capitalism. How we show in the last part, the aesthetical and cultural dilemmas not only offer us a possible link between capitalism and imaginary but, at the same time, allow us to face up the ethical dimension of contemporary cultural logic of capitalism.
{"title":"Capitalismo e immaginario. La grotta, il lavoro e l’algoritmo","authors":"Vincenzo Mele, A. Tramontana","doi":"10.7413/22818138177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138177","url":null,"abstract":"Capitalism and Imaginary. The cave, the labor and the algorithm. The aim of this paper is to discuss the controversial relationship between capitalism and imaginary. Using Adorno’s concept of constellation in science, we shall underline different kind of relationship between those. we will try to identify vital conceptual nodes that can illuminate the relationship between capitalism and the imaginary. In the first part we discuss address the attention to two different perspectives aboutof the interrelationship dichotomy between capitalism and imaginary. Starting from Bataille’s reflection on Lascaux’s wall painting, we highlight focus on the difference between instrumental activity and expressive activity, while in a social and historical perspective, we pay attention on the irreconcilable contradiction of these activities that emerge with the modern concept of labor. In the second part, we analyze a case study - an algorithm called “The Next Rembrandt” - in order discuss aesthetical and cultural condition of the contemporary capitalism. How we show in the last part, the aesthetical and cultural dilemmas not only offer us a possible link between capitalism and imaginary but, at the same time, allow us to face up the ethical dimension of contemporary cultural logic of capitalism.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133174816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plato’s analogy of the cave evokes a complex picture of the way cultural power is imaginatively constructed in order to maintain prevailing norms and stratifications, via the use of technologies of collective belief manipulation. To Plato, collective imagination is central to the modes of spiritual enslavement which embed us in morally defective structures of power. This paper will argue, along Plato’s metaphysical trajectory, that without the positing of moral truth, critique is self-defeating and every type of power devolves towards mute violence in support of the interests of the strong at the expense of the weak. Following Plato’s trajectory, this paper will seek to morally critique the post-political advance of transnational corporate power, drawing out both the manipulative and immoral technologies of collective imagination formation which underpins this trend, and the role of metaphysical imagination as a still viable path towards the moral reform of power.
{"title":"The Politics of the Metaphysical Imagination. Critiquing transnational corporate power via Plato’s cave","authors":"P. Tyson","doi":"10.7413/22818138051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138051","url":null,"abstract":"Plato’s analogy of the cave evokes a complex picture of the way cultural power is imaginatively constructed in order to maintain prevailing norms and stratifications, via the use of technologies of collective belief manipulation. To Plato, collective imagination is central to the modes of spiritual enslavement which embed us in morally defective structures of power. This paper will argue, along Plato’s metaphysical trajectory, that without the positing of moral truth, critique is self-defeating and every type of power devolves towards mute violence in support of the interests of the strong at the expense of the weak. Following Plato’s trajectory, this paper will seek to morally critique the post-political advance of transnational corporate power, drawing out both the manipulative and immoral technologies of collective imagination formation which underpins this trend, and the role of metaphysical imagination as a still viable path towards the moral reform of power.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131052239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, I claim that Carl Schmitt's enigmatic work Land and Sea provides contemporary philosophers and social theorists with important insights into what appears to be an emergent, post-neo-liberal, political imaginary. With theologico-political imaginary grounded in a conception of politics framed around elemental forces, Schmitt allows us to see that the slow retreat of neo- liberalism portends a return to early modern political imaginaries. In so-called ‘populist’ age, when the nation and nationalism seem to be returning to the political arean in transformed ways, Schmitt allows us to see that the geo- political imaginary of the land and the sea are again involved in this transition. I conclude with an examination of the challenges that any such elemental, ‘pre- Socratic’, political imaginary are likely to pose for extant democratic norms and values.
{"title":"The Political Imaginary after Neo- Liberalism: Populism and the Return of ‘Elemental Politics’","authors":"N. Turnbull","doi":"10.7413/22818138145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138145","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I claim that Carl Schmitt's enigmatic work Land and Sea provides contemporary philosophers and social theorists with important insights into what appears to be an emergent, post-neo-liberal, political imaginary. With theologico-political imaginary grounded in a conception of politics framed around elemental forces, Schmitt allows us to see that the slow retreat of neo- liberalism portends a return to early modern political imaginaries. In so-called ‘populist’ age, when the nation and nationalism seem to be returning to the political arean in transformed ways, Schmitt allows us to see that the geo- political imaginary of the land and the sea are again involved in this transition. I conclude with an examination of the challenges that any such elemental, ‘pre- Socratic’, political imaginary are likely to pose for extant democratic norms and values.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130832602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Political authority and popular power. The article aims at identifying the deep roots of populism in the divide between political authority and popular power. Whereas political authority finds its legitimacy in the modern imaginary, characterized by the rational order of the State and the design of the social, popular power finds its foundation in the social underground flows linked to the new modalities of being-together. The social effervescence generated by people’s barbaric power allows us to discern those processes of change which, despite their dangerous ambivalence and heterogeneity, are re-establishing the political imaginary.
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