The evolution of the public sphere

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to rethink the issue of publicity from a cross-cultural and evolutionary perspective. Design/methodology/approach: Assuming that there is a dominant paradigm in the studies of the public sphere centered on Habermas’ ideas, media theory (and especially Luhmann who is considered as a media theorist) is selected as a new context that provides different concepts, ideas, language games and metaphors that allow the re-foundation of the study of publicity. Findings: Publicity as a social structure emerges – and acquires different forms during history – out of the complex dynamics resulting from the interaction between success media, such as power, and different kinds of dissemination media. Originality/value: A research into the forms of publicity not only promotes awareness of the ubiquity of the phenomenon across cultural evolution, but also offers tools to make new discoveries and systematize what is already known about the subject and its ramifications.Fil: Blanco Rivero, José Javier. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Centro de Historia Intelectual; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

The anti-GMO advocacy:an institutionalist and systems-theoretic assessment

Purpose: Public debates on the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are strongly influenced by the nongovernmental organization (NGO)-led advocacy, most of which is harshly critical of genetic engineering. This advocacy has resulted in discourse failures marked by the disregard for the scientific consensus on the risks and benefits of GMOs. This paper aims to present a theoretical inquiry into this phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on American institutionalism and Niklas Luhmann social systems theory, the paper explains these discourse failures in terms of the problematic relationship between institutions and technology. Findings: Clarence Ayres would likely see these discourse failures as a form of “institutional resistance” to the progress of science and technology. In contrast, Marc Tool’s social value principle stresses the importance of democratic legitimation and public acceptance of new technologies, while being sensitive to the possibility of ideologically biased discourses. It is argued that the institutionalist understanding of the interplay between democracy, science and technology would benefit from a better account of Niklas Luhmann’s concept of “complexity reduction”. Social implications: The study shows that some NGOs are powerful enough to actively shape, if not manipulate, public attitudes and sentiments against GMOs. Originality/value: The case of the anti-GMO advocacy calls for a new conceptualization of how democracy, science and technology fit together.</p

Bildung und Alltäglichkeit. Kultur- und bildungstheoretische Überlegungen zur Entbanalisierung institutioneller Pädagogik

Wenn wir Alltag als die immer schon gegebene Weise des In-der-Welt-Seins verstehen, stellt sich bildungs-, kulturtheoretisch und didaktisch die Frage, wie das Subjekt Zugang zu anderen Dimensionen von Selbst und Welt finden kann. Alltag ist schließlich gerade dadurch gekennzeichnet, Lernprozesse zu vermeiden und sich auf Bildungsprozesse nicht einzulassen. Mit der Philosophie der symbolischen Formen Cassirers können die Eigenarten anderer Modi des In-der-Welt-Seins (Kunst, Wissenschaft, Religion, ggf. Spiel) herausgearbeitet werden. Erst in diesen »symbolischen Formen« werden die Bildungsprozesse möglich, wie sie die transformatorische Bildungstheorie beschreibt. Aus verschiedenen klassischen subjektphilosophischen Analysen (Kant, Husserl, Hegel) lässt sich die These ableiten, dass Bildungsprozesse nicht nur auf symbolische Formung angewiesen, sondern zudem auf der Ebene des Selbstbewusstseins zu verorten sind, d.h. nicht schon auf der Wahrnehmungs- oder Verstandesebene. Eine Pädagogik, die sich der daraus erwachsenden Herausforderungen entledigt, indem sie auf eine immer schon vorauszusetzende Alltäglichkeit setzt, zieht daher die Diagnose von Banalisierung auf sich. (DIPF/Orig.

Anais do 19º Colóquio Habermas e 10º Colóqui de Filosofia da Informação.

The Colloquiums were held from September 19th to 21st, 2023. This year, the biggest challenge for Brazilians was and continues to be the rescue of democracy. that restores dignity, strengthens citizenship, reduces inequalities and guarantees well-being. It is a practical task to which we must direct our critical thinking. The central theme of the Colloquia was “Democracy in Reconstruction: Justice, social and environmental sustainability”. The issue of the crisis of democracy, particularly the tendency towards the legitimacy of crises in advanced capitalist societies, has been part of Habermas's thinking, at least since the publication of his work Crisis of Legitimacy in Late Capitalism (1971). However, when addressing this issue in the 1970s, the emphasis is on the crisis tendencies inherent in the process of development of capitalism as a result of the increasing globalization of capitalist commercial relations between countries and the consequent weakening of the State to fulfill certain tasks. with the guarantee of fundamental rights, which generates, among other things, the loss of loyalty of the masses and deficits in legitimacy. At this point, Habermas only begins to sketch the broad outlines of the theory of communicative action, particularly with the introduction of the distinction between work and interaction in Technique and Science as 'Ideology' (1968). The publication of Theory of Communicative Action (1981) introduces the concepts of articulated aspects of the system and the lived world, and the vision of the process of growth of instrumental rationality, through the colonization of the world lived by the system and the consequent legitimacy deficits that this type of process entails.The growing influence of rationality with regard to ends in the different spheres of human life steals more and more space from the lived world and results in pathologies, social deficits and legitimacy deficits

Anais do 19º Colóquio Habermas e 10º Colóquio de Filosofia da Informação

The Colloquia were held from September 19 to 21, 2023. This This year, the greatest challenge for Brazilians was and continues to be the rescue of democracy. that restores dignity, strengthens citizenship, reduces inequalities and ensures welfare. It is a practical task to which we must direct our thinking critical. The central theme of the Colloquia was "Democracy in Reconstruction: Justice social and environmental sustainability". The issue of the crisis of democracy, particularly the tendency to Crisis Crises legitimacy in advanced capitalist societies, is part of the thinking of Habermas, at least since the publication of his work Crisis of Legitimacy in the Late Capitalism (1971). However, when he addressed this issue in the 1970s, the emphasis is on the crisis tendencies inherent in the process of development of capitalism as a result of the increasing globalization of capitalism trade relations between countries and the consequent weakening of the state to fulfill certain tasks with the guarantee of fundamental rights, which generates among other things, the loss of mass loyalty and deficits of legitimacy. At this point, Habermas only begins to sketch the broad outlines of the theory of communicative action, particularly with the introduction of the distinction between work and interaction in Technique and Science as 'Ideology' (1968).The publication of Theory of Communicative Action (1981) introduces the concepts of articulated aspects of the system and the lived world, and the vision of the growth process of the instrumental rationality, through the colonization of the world experienced by the system and the consequent deficits of legitimacy that this type of process entails. The growing influence of rationality with respect to ends in different spheres of Human life increasingly steals space from the lived world and results in pathologies social deficits and deficits of legitimacy