En 1972 durante una conferencia en Milán, Lacan introduce su formulación sobre el discurso capitalista. Según plantea, el discurso capitalista es el sustituto del discurso del amo, condenado a ...estallar. A partir de las novelas 1984 de George Orwell y Un mundo feliz de Aldous Huxley, se pretende explicar en qué sentido el discurso capitalista sustituye y articula el discurso del amo. 1984 ilustra la dominación del Gran Otro bajo la lógica del Gran hermano. Un mundo feliz permite comprender la relación entre tecnociencia y programación cuyo resultado es la seducción como forma de control.
In addition to the longstanding threat posed by narrow economism, faith in the possibility of peace and progress through democratic politics – central to the humanistic vision of the 1972 Faure ...report – today faces additional challenges. These challenges include the ascendancy of neurocentrism in the global policyscape. Whereas the effects of neoliberalism on education have been extensively critiqued, the implications of a newer, related ideological framework known as
neuro
liberalism remain under-theorised. Neuroliberalism combines neoliberal ideas concerning the role of markets in addressing social problems with beliefs about human nature ostensibly grounded in the behavioural, psychological and neurological sciences. This article critically examines a recent initiative of one of UNESCO’s Category 1 Institutes – the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) – that seeks to mainstream neuroscience and digital technology within global educational policy. Comparing the visions of the 1972 Faure, the 1996 Delors and the 2021 Futures of Education reports with MGIEP’s International Science and Evidence Based Education Assessment (ISEEA), the authors analyse continuity and change in UNESCO’s attempts to articulate a vision of “scientific humanism” which advocates the use of science for the betterment of humanity. They argue that ISEEA’s overall recommendations – as represented in its Summary for Decision Makers (SDM) – reinforce a reductive, depoliticised vision of education which threatens to exacerbate educational inequality while enhancing the profits and power of Big Tech. These recommendations exemplify a
neuro
liberal turn in global education policy discourse, marking a stark departure from the central focus on ethics and democratic politics characteristic of UNESCO’s landmark education reports. Reanimating, in cruder form, visions of a scientifically-organised utopia of the kind that attracted UNESCO’s inaugural Director-General, Julian Huxley, ISEEA’s recommendations actually point towards the sort of dystopian “brave new world” of which his brother, Aldous Huxley, warned.
In our ardent age of "lessons," intensified by the incongruous 2016 United States election cycle and its aftermath, scholars and pundits alike offer up historical warnings and strategies for avoiding ...the worst human beings have found themselves capable of visiting upon each other, habitually invoking the Holocaust as the authoritative touchstone for their assertions. Reflective and candid, his book demonstrates a scholarly and moral commitment to the Holocaust as historical event and to the integrity of the historical profession as a whole that compels historians to "get it right" and strives to expand our humanity. Missing from Marrus's exacting and timely book, however, is reflection on the cynical lessons of the Holocaust as "how-to handbook," in the formulation of Comparative Genocide scholar Robert Melson, for subsequent genocides and mass killings.
Critical studies of classic British dystopic novels from the first half of the 20th century have undeniably been extensive and voluminous, whereas the more contemporary Russian dystopias came into ...being later and there is therefore much less critical research on the issues raised therein, especially in comparison with the scholarship on British dystopia. The aim of this study therefore is to fill a gap in thsi field of academic research. Specifically, the author pays particaulr attention to the interplay between selected works of classic British/Russian dystopia and contemporary dystopic Russian novels. Furthermore, and attempt has been made to pinpoint connections between the reality of the dystopian worlds discussed herein and the real world.
An allegorical thought experiment occurring in a pseudo Huxleyean world in the future is conducted, in which “Euclidean” geometry has been forgotten and can only be retrieved by traversing backward ...in time, physically and virtually by two protagonists, Alpha and Beta, inspired by the challenge issued by their teacher Aleph 1. In the year 136 A.H (After Huxley, or late twenty-first century of the Common Era), all instruction occurs virtually. Mathematics is the exclusive purview of 0.01% of society (the alphas). The thought experiment leads to the discovery and realization from the two protagonists that Euclidean geometry is possible using sensorimotor functions with tools called a straight edge and compass or simply a rope with knots. As an ode to Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) this article is deliberately in the form of a satirical provocation that examines the interaction of technology with the learning of mathematics in a dystopian future. A prolog explaining the context of the thought experiment along with a coda with implications for the immediate future in the learning of mathematics is made. A glossary with terms unfamiliar to the reader is also provided.
Abstract
Eyeless in Gaza
(1936) is usually considered Huxley’s most complex work; it makes a break with his social novels of the twenties and establishes him as a proponent of mysticism. However, ...scholarly analyses of this novel are mostly limited to its non‐linear structure and mystical passages. This paper analyzes epiphanies as important structural and thematic elements of
Eyeless in Gaza
. Our focus is not only on Anthony Beavis as a protagonist, but also on minor characters such as Helen Ledwidge and Brian Foxe. This paper shows that epiphanies in
Eyeless in Gaza
anticipate the major ideas of
The Perennial Philosophy
and
The Doors of Perception
. We also indicate that Huxley’s use of epiphanies defines his views on Romantic pantheism and positions his literature in the Modernist context.
La ficción distópica es un género discursivo conformado por productos culturales (textos literarios, películas, series) orientados a producir un tipo particular de efectos de sentido en el lector ...modelo: idealmente, al consumirlos, los lectores serán capaces de realizar una evaluación crítica de sus circunstancias sociopolíticas. Por lo tanto, la ficción distópica, que es un discurso ficcional, pretende ser motor del cambio sociopolítico mediante la intervención en la esfera discursiva de lo no ficcional. Este artículo se aproxima al género de la ficción distópica en literatura desde una perspectiva semiótica. Específicamente, estudia el tipo de imaginación y de construcción de mundos posibles que lo definen. La tesis que presenta es que la ficción distópica se caracteriza por una construcción de futuros que son plausibles, esto es, que tienen un anclaje en la realidad tal cual es y que, por lo tanto, son viables, a diferencia de lo que ocurre en la ciencia ficción.
Aldous Huxley was deeply influenced in his formative years by the East, and this is key to understanding his later evolution as a writer. Towards an exploration of this, the current study analyses ...the intellectual and cultural context of Europe at the time, with special attention to European writers and intellectuals who had an influence on Huxley and who thus helped to pave the way for his interest in the East and oriental matters early in his life, without ignoring the influence that they would also have on him in later years. Secondly, Orientalism is addressed both as an influence on Huxley and as a modern critical theory, with the aim of demonstrating the author’s modernity in light of this. Finally, the study analyses the work
Jesting Pilate
, not only in terms of its oriental prospects and proclivity as an intellectual travel book, but also as a means of tracing the oriental elements therein as determining factors in Huxley’s seminal stage during his European years. This is seen as a necessary amalgam, and one that would be further developed in his later output, during the so-called American years.
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