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2. Rebooting the end of the world: Teaching ecosophy through cinema.
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Cole, David R.
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ECOPHILOSOPHY ,COVID-19 pandemic ,PHILOSOPHY ,SOCIAL change ,INVESTORS - Abstract
The global pandemic has pushed many of us to online streaming services. A particular genre in these services is the 'end of the world' science fiction film, in and through which the speculated results of processes such as climate change are depicted. CGI technology is frequently deployed to create images of the end of the world, which is a backdrop to the narrative of, 'saving ourselves amidst the ruins'. This philosophy of education essay will critically examine ten films in order to: Explain how 'the end of the world' images connected to processes such as climate change, obscures and displaces attention from the real, scientifically proven processes that are not so entertaining, but are still deadly. The images are created by capital and its machines for audience attention and have little to do with real social change. Science sits in an ambiguous position in this paper in that the real processes of climate change proven by science may be funded by capitalist mechanisms that can also be their cause. Introduce a reformulated notion of ecosophy from the work of Félix Guattari, Murray Bookchin, Arne Næss and Andre Gorz. This essay will suggest that ecosophy has the potential to teach the underlying split between depictions of the end of the world through the capitalist machine and the real social change necessary under climate change. Ecosophy is in the context of this essay a specific conceptual construction designed for teaching about climate change through cinema. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Crisis and Utopia: André Gorz and the end of work.
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Granter, Edward and Aroles, Jeremy
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UTOPIAS ,GIG economy ,CAPITALISM ,CRISES - Abstract
In this paper, we are concerned with the role of André Gorz in the development of the concept of the end of work. We draw from Gorz's stance on automation, utopia, capitalism and labour to reflect on the directions of the end of work debate, leaning towards Gorz's invitation to repoliticize the end of work. While Gorz's writings predate the rise of the gig economy, he presaged many of the developments we are currently witnessing. Even if the end of work is not in sight, we argue that it remains nonetheless a useful concept to help us cultivate possibilities and a sense of difference. Finally, it is our intention to highlight that while Gorz's work received less attention than other scholars broadly associated with critical examinations of capitalism, his scholarship holds the potential to reinvigorate, or rejuvenate, debates pertaining to the end of work as well as the future of work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. Gorz and Stiegler: Politics, ecology and the Neganthropocene.
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Abbinnett, Ross
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CRITICAL point theory ,DIGITAL technology ,CRITICAL theory ,SOCIAL impact ,COMPUTER systems - Abstract
The article explores the relationship between André Gorz's account of the possibility of a deproletarianised regime of labour and Bernard Stiegler's theory of the Neganthropocene. Gorz's formulation of the impact of computer and robotic systems on the turnover of capital was, I will argue, a turning point in the way critical theory conceived the social implications of technology. His account of the supervenience of work and culture over the sphere of production forms the basis of the fundamental questions about life, creativity, and freedom that have emerged in the digital age. The paper will show that it is this notion of a fragile and disputed supervenience that is re-formulated and extended in Stiegler's account of the Neganthropocene, particularly in his account of the fate of reflexive culture under the regime of global-digital capitalisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. No Place for Radical Politics: Universities, the Globalization Movement and a Return to Praxis.
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Bufano, Alessandra
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SOCIAL movements , *INTELLECTUALS , *GLOBALIZATION , *POLITICAL science , *PRAXIS (Process) - Abstract
In response to the integration of the modern working class into the capitalist system, and hence in light of its unfulfilled revolutionary potential, in the 1950’s Herbert Marcuse called upon leftist intellectuals to act as the catalyst of historical change. Organized locally and nationally, the bearers of critical consciousness against ?the affluent society? could perform a preparatory function towards qualitative change. Today, many American intellectuals have renounced this critical role. As Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio observe in The Jobless Future, if quite a number of professors have become willing and complacent technicians, experts, entrepreneurs and consultants to contemporary private and public power structures and institutions, many more?under siege from excessive teaching loads and administrative and clerical responsibilities?can only work as scholars--that is, they "neither challenge the dominant paradigm nor work outside it." More troublesome than this, is the undeniable fact that contemporary academia has become the site of modern American society that most perfectly approaches and presages the dualistic stratification of social activity towards which philosopher Andre Gorz predicts the entire labor market is moving in advanced capitalist societies, if for different reasons. In American academia, as a consequence of the growing numbers of adjuncts assuming increasingly heavier teaching loads for below the poverty line remuneration and without the benefits of any job security and health insurance, the stratification amongst professors at each university has come to resemble that of an ancient Greek democracy where the challenging and yet denigrated sweat equity of women and slaves (adjuncts) allows those initiated and bearing the full rights of citizenship (tenure track professors) to engage in leisure (in the old sense of the word?that is, think critically and actively engage in the public life [of the academic community]), while monopolizing more than one post at different institutions and receiving salaries for teaching that they do not do. In fact, ?Despite reports, such as that of the Carnegie Foundation, that stress the importance of teaching and urge universities to change their reward structure so that excellence in teaching may be elevated to the level of research and publication, few major schools have followed this advice.? Hence, the current status of academia seems to already be a prelude to the larger phenomenon?identified by Gorz?of "a society based on mass unemployment [that] is coming into being before our eyes. It consists of a growing mass of the permanently unemployed on one hand, an aristocracy of tenured workers on the other, and between them, a proletariat of temporary workers [made up of adjuncts, in this case] carrying out [what is perceived but are not] the least skilled and most unpleasant types of work." The above described changes have been taking place within academia for a while now and are not accidental or temporary but structural and systemic. They are the result of a process that is driven by the capitalist market?s own dynamics, and that has given rise to the vocational- and customer- centered approaches to higher education that are currently predominant administration?s choices and policies within most universities,--a phenomenon that has spelled out not just the end of a critical but also that of a classical education. If, in fact, in earlier times, culture was, for the most part, unavailable outside of academia, as DiFazio writes, the current elimination of humanities, foreign languages and social science courses, departments and requirements, in favor of applied sciences, public policy and empirical research--as a response to the penetration within all universities of the market?s divine ?criteria of ?relevance? and ?productivity? and its demand for ?products?useful to the state and industry"-- has now led to culture becoming more and more irrelevant even within academia. This atmosphere so hostile to critical thinking, teaching and writing, currently reigning in most places of higher learning around the country, has been further aggravated by the suffocating (self)-censorship regime imposed by the noxiously freedom limiting side-effects of the yet extremely justified consciousness raising intentions and goals of politically correct identity and sensitivity politics which--unintentionally--have further strengthened right wing and religious fundamentalist claims about the ?appropriateness? and ?immorality? of certain opinions. To these factors, last but not least, one must also add today?s oppressively intolerant and unreflectively patriotic climate in the following of the abominable attack of September 11, 2001. Jumping on the band wagon of political correctness, while perverting its progressive aims, conservative groups and the religious right,--in a modern version of the red hunt of the McCarthy era,--have begun to monitor ?anti-American? remarks made by faculty members. For example, The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, ?a conservative nonprofit group devoted to curing liberal tendencies in academia? continuously compiles and updates lists of perpetrators. In light of all these variables, this paper will argue that for leftist intellectuals interested in generating the conditions within which there may spring new wo/men whose needs and wants go beyond the ones satisfied by the affluent society, academia, as Marcuse had argued a long time ago, may no longer be the most ideal space where women and men may be nurtured who will eventually claim their rights to the satisfaction of what he calls their ?aesthetic needs,? needs that imply the fullest development of their human sensitivity and sensibility. What Reich observed in The Mass Psychology of Fascism of the Marxist movements of his times is ever truer today: The revolutionary movement [also] failed to appreciate the importance of the seemingly irrelevant habits, indeed, very often turned them to bad account. The lower middle class bedroom suite, which the ?rabble? buys as soon as he has the means, even if he is otherwise revolutionary minded; the consequent suppression of the wife, even if he is a Communist; the ?decent? suit of clothes for Sunday: ?proper? dance steps and a thousand other ?banalities,? have an incomparably greater reactionary influence when repeated day after day than thousands of revolutionary rallies and leaflets can ever hope to counterbalance. Narrow conservative life exercises a continuous influence, penetrates every facet of everyday life; whereas factory work and revolutionary leaflets have only a brief effect? We must pay more, much more, attention to these details of everyday life. It is around these details that social progress or its opposite assume concrete forms, not around political slogans that arouse temporary enthusiasm only (The Psyhcology of Fascism, p. 69) Only by stressing all possibilities of a work-democratic way of life, by taking a militant stance toward reactionary thinking and militantly developing the seed of a living culture of masses of people, can lasting peace be assured. (The Psychology of Fascism, p. 70.) It is for these reasons that this paper will argue the extreme relevance to leftist causes of contemporary social movements (the anti-globalization movement, amongst them) in offering tentative answers to the New Left in regards to what type of daily practices or discourses, what type of praxis?in the Gramscian sense of the word?could give rise to the ?creative imagination? and critical consciousness necessary amongst modern citizens for generating the desire for radical changes in capitalist society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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6. RACIONALIDADE ECONÔMICA, TRABALHO E ECOLOGIA EM ANDRÉ GORZ.
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Langer, André
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- 2017
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7. 'Structural Reform' and the Problem of Socialist Strategy Today.
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Rooksby, Ed
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EUROPEAN politics & government ,INVESTORS - Abstract
This paper begins with the observation that the left-wing movements that have enjoyed significant political advances in Europe recently share a broad strategic orientation. They seek, that is, to combine electoral and parliamentary activity on the one hand with extra-parliamentary mobilisation on the other. Crucially, these formations seek to utilise parliamentary channels to introduce radical reforms and thus a central component of their approach is to form a 'left government' within the institutions of the capitalist state. Despite the failure of Syriza in office I argue that the radical left has little option but to work with these ascendant left formations and attempt to radicalise them from within. I suggest that in order to do so the radical left must transcend the twin dead ends of reformism and Leninism and the historical strategic impasse bound up with the counter-position of these strategic poles. I argue that a strategic perspective elaborated by a minority current within Syriza provides useful resources for navigating a route beyond this impasse. I then show that this perspective can be further elaborated and refined by drawing on theoretical resources associated with the concept of 'structural reform' developed in the late 1960s and 1970s. I argue that the work of Nicos Poulantzas and André Gorz is especially useful in this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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8. Against work: a utopian incursion into social policy.
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Levitas, Ruth
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CAPITALISM ,SOCIAL policy ,WELFARE economics - Abstract
This paper argues in favour of using a utopian method of thinking about the future, rather than simply extrapolating from present conditions. This opens up the possibility of thinking in terms of the kind of society we want to achieve, rather than what seems immediately probable. It criticises the Blair Government's focus on the economic and moral centrality of paid work, and argues, following Gorz, that the link between 'work' and income needs to be broken to ensure an adequate livelihood for all. This will entail a re-valuing of forms of human activity, as argued by Herbert Marcuse, and more recently by Fiona Williams. This ultimately calls in question the structures of capitalism itself, since what is entailed is, at the very least, a step change downwards in the proportion of the social product accruing to capital. The paper concludes by contending that any genuinely critical social policy must have this utopian dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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9. EL CONCEPTO DE "TRABAJO" EN EL CAPITALISMO CONTEMPORÁNEO: UNA CONTRAPOSICIÓN ENTRE LOS PLANTEOS DE HABERMAS/GORZ Y LOS DEL AUTONOMISMO ITALIANO.
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Germinal Pagura, Nicolás
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CAPITALISM , *PHILOSOPHY , *LABOR , *AUTONOMY (Philosophy) , *MARXIST philosophy , *HISTORY - Abstract
In this paper two conceptualizations of labour in current capitalism are reconstructed and opposed. On the one hand, Habermas and Gorz understand that labor loses centrality in social life while it is crossed by instrumental and productive logics, whereupon they propose to expand other social spheres governed by principles other than those dominant in the productive space. On the other hand, the Italian Autonomism envisions a qualitative change in current production processes, which gradually abandon the instrumental logic to become governed by others more related to communication, cooperation and the search for autonomy. Here a comparison of those two lines will take place, trying to elucidate its theoretical assumptions, and according to the requirements of a critical theory that can study the present detecting both its fissures and its inherent possibilities for social and political transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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10. Living Labor between Work and Income.
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Corlett, William
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QUALITY of life , *WAGES , *LABOR , *PHILOSOPHERS , *MINIMUM wage - Abstract
The article explores the possibility of living socially, living Labor between the work people do and the income they manage or do without, and examines social philosopher André Gorz's reasons for advocating unconditional universal basic income. To resist the capital relation is to refuse to forget that money is a social form. As money takes over people's lives, commodities mediate more of people's relations, and the immanent measure of equivalence, labor, becomes increasingly obscure.
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- 2005
11. RATIONALITÉ ÉCONOMIQUE, TRAVAIL ET ÉCOLOGIE CHEZ ANDRÉ GORZ
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André Langer
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Cultural Studies ,Ecologie politique ,Sociology and Political Science ,Ecology (disciplines) ,Economic rationality ,Capitalismo ,Environmental ethics ,Rationality ,Trabalho ,Gorz ,Rationalité économique ,Capitalism ,Capitalisme ,Ecologia política ,Labor ,Work (electrical) ,Racionalidade econômica ,lcsh:H1-99 ,Sociology ,lcsh:Social sciences (General) ,Travail ,Political ecology - Abstract
O presente artigo tem por objetivo apresentar a análise crítica de André Gorz sobre o trabalho e a ecologia política a partir da centralidade que o conceito de racionalidade econômica no capitalismo adquire em seu pensamento. Para ele, a extensão ilimitada da racionalidade econômica ao trabalho e à natureza é considerada sem futuro do ponto de vista da sociedade. Gorz reconhece a íntima relação entre a crítica do capitalismo e a tarefa da ecologia política. Outro aspecto presente em sua obra, menos explorado, é a relação entre trabalho e crise ecológica. O capitalismo apropria-se do trabalho ou emprego não apenas para os seus interesses, mas também os transforma em instrumentos de destruição da natureza. Este paper objetiva também, fiel ao espírito do próprio Gorz, embora de maneira sucinta, indicar alguns horizontes alternativos. This article's objective is to present André Gorz's critical analysis of work and political ecology starting from the centrality that the concept of economic rationality acquires in his thought. To the author, the unlimited extension of economic rationality to work and nature is considered futureless from the viewpoint of society. Gorz recognizes the intimate relationship between criticism of capitalism and the task of political ecology. Another aspect present in his work - the least explored one - is the relationship between work and ecological crisis. Capitalism appropriates work or employment not just for its interests, but also for transforming them into instruments of environmental destruction. This paper also aims to indicate - following the spirit of Gorz, although in a succinct manner - a few alternative horizons. L'objectif de cet article est de présenter l'analyse critique d’André Gorz sur le travail et l'écologie politique. Notre point de départ est la centralité que le concept de rationalité économique dans le capitalisme acquiert dans sa pensée. Selon lui, l'extension illimitée de la rationalité économique au travail et à la nature est considéré sans avenir du point de vue de la société. Gorz reconnaît l'étroite relation existante entre la critique du capitalisme et la tâche de l’écologie politique. Un autre aspect présent dans son œuvre, et beaucoup moins exploré, est la relation entre le travail et la crise écologique. Le capitalisme s'approprie le travail ou l'emploi non seulement pour les soumettre à ses intérêts mais aussi les transforme en instruments de destruction de la nature. Cet article veut aussi, bien que de manière succincte mais fidèle à l'esprit de Gorz, donner quelques alternatives pour de nouveaux horizons.
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- 2018
12. La filosofía de la tecnología de André Gorz
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Tula Molina, Fernando
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purl.org/becyt/ford/6 [https] ,Gorz, André, 1923-2007 ,Filosofia da tecnologia ,Filosofía, Ética y Religión ,GORZ ,purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3 [https] ,Sociedad industrial ,Teoría crítica ,TECNOLOGÍA ,Filosofía de la tecnología ,FILOSOFÍA ,HUMANIDADES ,Estudios Religiosos ,Philosophy of technology ,Industrial society ,Critical theory ,Sociedade industrial - Abstract
Tula Molina, F. (2017). La filosofía de la tecnología de André Gorz. Redes 23(45), 15-48. Bernal, Argentina : Universidad Nacional del Quilmes. El objetivo de este trabajo es recuperar el pensamiento filosófico de André Gorz en torno a la tecnología y al lugar significativo que esta puede tener en la construcción de una sociedad alternativa a la sociedad industrial. La obra de André Gorz presenta una inteligente crítica de la sociedad industrial y, sobre todo, del uso que en esta se hace de la tecnología, subrayando la centralidad que presenta la relación capital, ciencia y técnica. Gorz propone rechazar los principios consumistas de la sociedad contemporánea, optando por menores necesidades y mayor satisfacción, aprovechando de esta forma el tiempo de trabajo que libera el uso de la tecnología. Si bien se puede entender el trabajo de Gorz dentro de una perspectiva marxista, sus reflexiones –sobre todo a partir de 1982– contrastan con las de otro gran pensador de esa corriente, Andrew Feenberg. En este artículo se realiza un contrapunto parcial entre el trabajo de ambos autores en relación al papel que la tecnología tiene en la sociedad. Para ello se abordan tres problemas centrales de la filosofía de la tecnología de Gorz que Feenberg no contempla: la democracia –en decadencia–, el sujeto –intercambiable–y el crecimiento –sin fin. The main objective for this paper is to retrieve the philosophical thinking of André Gorz, regarding technology and about the main place that technology could have into the building of an alternate society, different than an industrial one. The works of André Gorz show a clever critic about industrial society and, specially, about its employment of technology, stressing the central role of the relationship among capital, science and technology. Gorz suggests rejecting the consumerist values attached to contemporary societies, by choosing instead lowering needs, heighten then satisfaction, in order to take advantage of the working time released free by using technology. Even if it’s possible to comprehend Gorz’s work within a Marxist frame, their thought –mostly since 1982 onwards, shows some contrast with that from another distinguished Marxist scholar, Andrew Feenberg. Then, in this paper I perform a partial counterpoint among the works of Gorz and Feenberg regarding their understanding of technology’s role within society. In order to do so, I will focus on three of the main problems for Gorz’s Philosophy of Technology, not addressed by Feenberg; the democracy –which would be decaying, the subject –which would be interchangeable, and the progress –which would be never ending.
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- 2017
13. Work time reduction and economic democracy as climate change mitigation strategies: or why the climate needs a renewed labor movement.
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Gunderson, Ryan
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Work time reduction (WTR), or reductions in the total amount of time spent in paid work, and economic democracy, or shifting the control of firms from capitalists to workers, are discussed as strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase well-being. Along with numerous social benefits, reduced working hours are associated with reductions in GHG emissions, energy use, and ecological footprints. Economic democracy not only increases individual and group autonomy, but also creates conditions conducive to lower energy and material throughput. A successful implementation of WTR and/or economic democracy presupposes a renewed labor movement. One tactic to help revive the labor movement is highlighting its capacity to help fight climate change. Pairing WTR and economic democracy may help overcome the false antithesis between the interests of workers and the environment. There is a genuine "win-win" scenario for people and the climate via shorter working hours in democratically controlled workplaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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14. The politics of temporality: Autonomy, temporal spaces and resoluteness.
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Clancy, Craig A.
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DETERMINATION (Personality trait) ,PSYCHOLOGICAL well-being ,PHENOMENOLOGY ,POLITICAL science ,CAPITALISM - Abstract
While many theorists and projects raise the notion of creating more ‘free time’, the implication that this will somehow be ‘beneficial’ is inadequate without a deeper understanding of how time is related to the individual and psychological well-being. This article offers some considerations for the raison d’etre of what can be termed a politics of time, taking as its trajectory the phenomenological understanding of time in Heidegger, and the view that restricted experiences of time in contemporary capitalist society fragment the phenomenological unity of individual temporalities. A politics of time is posed here as the necessary intervention to alleviate the subsequent inability to experience an authentic temporal orientation in such conditions. The article offers that any such temporal project must place such an understanding of temporality as its theoretical basis, and apodictically, the creation of ‘temporal autonomous spaces’ (TAS) as its political purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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15. Sartre, un penseur de l'écologie politique
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Flipo, Fabrice, Laboratoire de Changement Social et Politique (LCSP (EA_7335)), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Département Langues et Sciences Humaines (LSH), Télécom Ecole de Management (TEM)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom Business School (IMT-BS), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), and Flipo, Fabrice
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Ecologie politique ,Ecology ,Ecologie ,Théorie politique ,[SHS.PHIL]Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy ,Sartre ,Gorz ,Philosophie ,Political theory ,[SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences ,[SHS.PHIL] Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy ,[SHS.ENVIR] Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies ,[SHS.HISPHILSO] Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences ,[SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies ,Political ecology - Abstract
This paper reaffirms the rather close links between Gorz and Sartre. In a political theory approach, it seeks to show how Sartre, who did not theorize ecology, can be usefully used to theorize political ecology, perhaps better than Gorz, who has always acknowledged his debt to his master., Cet article rappelle les liens assez étroits qui relient Gorz à Sartre. Dans une démarche de théorie politique il cherche à montrer comment Sartre, qui n’a pas pensé l’écologie, peut être utilement mobilisé pour penser l’écologie politique, peut-être mieux que Gorz, qui a toujours reconnu sa dette envers son maître.
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- 2019
16. ATUALIDADE DO DEBATE E EQUÍVOCOS METODOLÓGICOS DE 'ADEUS AO PROLETARIADO' DE ANDRÉ GORZ
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Marcelo Gomes
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Emancipação ,lcsh:Social Sciences ,lcsh:H ,Fordismo ,Taylorismo – Fordismo ,Trabalho ,General Medicine ,Gorz ,Taylorismo ,lcsh:Regional economics. Space in economics ,Automação ,lcsh:HT388 - Abstract
GOMES, Marcelo. Atualidade do debate e equívocos metodológicos de “Adeus ao proletariado” de André Gorz. Revista LABOR, Fortaleza, v. 1, n. 15, p. 80-99, 2016. Our paper aims to critically approach unexplored in the debate about the book Farewell to the working class and his thesis about the end of work. We aim not defend its validity or not but understand the methodological elements that led Gorz to abandon almost completely the central theses of Marxism. This author shares a misconception in common with other non dialectical authors who understand simplistically / linear evolution of the productive forces mingling with the heterogeneity and complexity of the production processes of the twentieth century way . This one of the reasons that leads Gorz to propose an emancipatory project beyond the social work. Nosso artigo pretende realizar uma abordagem crítica pouco explorada no debate sobre o livro Adeus ao Proletariado e sua tese sobre o fim do trabalho. Não visamos defender sua validade ou não, mas compreender os elementos metodológicos que levaram Gorz a abandonar quase completamente as teses centrais do marxismo. Este autor partilha um equívoco em comum com outros autores não dialéticos que compreendem de maneira simplista/linear a evolução das forças produtivas confundindo-se com a heterogeneidade e complexidade dos processos produtivos do século XX. Este é um dos motivos que levaram Gorz a propor um projeto emancipatório para além do trabalho social.
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- 2017
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17. The Concept of 'Labour' in Current Capitalism: A Contrast between the Proposals of Habermas/Gorz and those of the Italian Autonomism
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Pagura, Nicolás Germinal
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HUMANIDADES ,TRABAJO ,Ética ,Filosofía, Ética y Religión ,GORZ ,AUTONOMISMO ITALIANO ,HABERMAS - Abstract
En este artículo se reconstruyen y contraponen dos conceptualizaciones del trabajo en el marco del capitalismo actual. De un lado, Habermas y Gorz entienden que el trabajo pierde centralidad en la vida social a la vez que se halla atravesado por lógicas instrumentales y productivistas, ante lo cual proponen la ampliación de otras esferas sociales gobernadas por principios diferentes a los dominantes en el espacio productivo. Del otro lado, el autonomismo italiano avizora un cambio cualitativo en los procesos productivos actuales, los cuales abandonarían paulatinamente las lógicas instrumentales para pasar a ser gobernados por otras más vinculadas a la comunicación, la cooperación y la búsqueda de autonomía. Aquí se realizará un examen comparativo de estas dos líneas, procurando elucidar sus supuestos teóricos, y teniendo como horizonte los requerimientos de una teoría crítica que pueda estudiar el presente detectando tanto sus fisuras como sus posibilidades inmanentes de transformación social y política. In this paper two conceptualizations of labour in current capitalism are reconstructed and opposed. On the one hand, Habermas and Gorz understand that labor loses centrality in social life while it is crossed by instrumental and productive logics, whereupon they propose to expand other social spheres governed by principles other than those dominant in the productive space. On the other hand, the Italian Autonomism envisions a qualitative change in current production processes, which gradually abandon the instrumental logic to become governed by others more related to communication, cooperation and the search for autonomy. Here a comparison of those two lines will take place, trying to elucidate its theoretical assumptions, and according to the requirements of a critical theory that can study the present detecting both its fissures and its inherent possibilities for social and political transformation. Fil: Pagura, Nicolás Germinal. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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- 2016
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