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Ausência e sujeição ao presente: a propósito da ontologia destes tempos em Michel Foucault
Absence and subjection to the present: on the ontology of these times in Michel Foucault
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Abstract The irrecusable consolidation of an expansion-consumption-tolerance regime rectifies every symbolic manifestation of the present in a common life. The symptoms of today's civilization of consumption, in subjectivities and in their bodies, sum up the composition of suitable orders - of individual and... view more
The irrecusable consolidation of an expansion-consumption-tolerance regime rectifies every symbolic manifestation of the present in a common life. The symptoms of today's civilization of consumption, in subjectivities and in their bodies, sum up the composition of suitable orders - of individual and collective relations - under the signs of economic development, legal guarantees, vulgar erotomania, and banal liberalities; who have magnetized themselves, minions, at all levels of experience and culture in the present time. The present signs and codes of a kind of generalized indifference convolve all the complex structures and performances of power into increasingly precise scripts, upon which the desubstantiation of reality and the experiences of a paroxysmal absence become ontologically imprinted. In our attempt to analyze and unleash the new reality of technology, control and consumption without locks, we will evoke the last Foucault, who formulates - in the synthesis of an original ontology of the present - the prospect of possible new ethical dispositions of the subjects and their bodies, specifically by updating a singular aesthetization of their own existences.... view less
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Present time ontology; Aesthetic of existence; Subject; Body; Ethics
Document language
Portuguese
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-20
Journal
Griot: Revista de Filosofia, 21 (2021) 1
ISSN
2178-1036
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed