NIHILISMO-EN-LÍNEA: El futuro de la tecnología de la información visto por Soren Kierkegaard en 1850

En este artículo se expone el carácter premonitorio de algunos planteamientos deKierkegaard en su ensayo “La época actual”. Un nuevo fenómeno cultural eirreversible se gestó desde la Ilustración, gracias a la incidencia de la prensaordinaria, antecesora de internet: una opinión pública informada perodesmoralizada, mediocre, irreflexiva y sin compromisos incondicionales

Cinema as mnemotechnics

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Cómo lograr una relación libre con la técnica según Heidegger

According to Hubert L. Dreyfus, Heidegger was not concerned with the problem of human control of technology that preoccupies the technology-as-ideology theorists. In his text, Dreyfus argues that the issue is rather the understanding of being as mere raw material projected in the technological worldview of the modern West. Only by realizing that being itself commands this dispensation can we begin to distance ourselves from that worldview. Ultimately, technology is not a political matter but a mode of givenness specific to the modern age. This realization places us beyond a purely technological outlook on life and opens us to a different relation to technology. What is needed is a new sense of reality that privileges the non-technological facets of experience and community. In that context, technology would continue to exist and do its work but would no longer form the horizon of being and understanding.De acuerdo con Hubert L. Dreyfus, a Heidegger no le preocupaba el problema del control humano de la técnica, que sí concierne a los teóricos que conciben la técnica como ideología. En su texto, Dreyfus sostiene que la cuestión es más bien la comprensión del ser como mera materia prima proyectada en la cosmovisión técnica del Occidente moderno. Sólo dándonos cuenta de que el ser mismo ordena esta dispensación podremos comenzar a distanciarnos de esa visión del mundo. En última instancia, la técnica no es una cuestión política sino un modo de donación específico de la era moderna. Esta comprensión nos sitúa más allá de una visión puramente tecnológica de la vida y nos abre a una relación diferente con la técnica. Lo que se necesita es un nuevo sentido de realidad que privilegie las facetas no-tecnológicas de la experiencia y de la comunidad. En ese contexto, la técnica continuaría existiendo y haciendo su trabajo, pero ya no formaría el horizonte del ser y la comprensión

The Importance of Stopping Environmental Dumping in Ghana: The Case of Inefficient New and Used Cooling Appliances With Obsolete Refrigerants

Environmentally harmful product dumping ( environmental dumping ) of new and used low-efficiency cooling appliances with obsolete ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas refrigerants in African countries impoverishes communities, hinders economic development, threatens ecological systems, and harms public health. The use of low-efficiency cooling appliances increases energy demand, leading to higher power plant emissions and limiting affordable energy access in African countries. These low-efficiency appliances and products contain ozone-depleting refrigerants with high global-warming potential (GWP) or ozone-safe refrigerants with high GWP. Environmental dumping of these appliances and products makes it more difficult for countries to meet their international climate obligations and for the world to meet the Paris Agreement\u27s climate change mitigation targets. Ghana faces high levels of environmental dumping, despite a national ban on importing used cooling appliances and established efficiency standards for new air conditioners and refrigerators. Through the Energy Commission\u27s Office of Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, & Climate Change (REEECC), the government of Ghana is partnering with the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) to stop environmental dumping. This article provides a list of interventions that can be implemented by Ghana, by governments in countries that export to Ghana, and by industry and other stakeholders. Notably, these actions focus on the shared responsibility of exporting countries and manufacturers by calling on exporting countries to update and enhance enforcement of their laws, and on global manufacturers to stop exporting inefficient products with obsolete refrigerants to Ghana and other African countries

Merleau-Ponty and the Measuring Body

In recent years a growing number of scholars in science studies and related fields are developing new ontologies to displace entrenched dualisms. These efforts often go together with a renewed interest in the roles played by symbolisms and tools in knowledge and being. This article brings Maurice Merleau-Ponty into these conversations, positioning him as a precursor of today’s innovative recastings of technoscience. While Merleau-Ponty is often invoked in relation to his early work on the body and embodiment, this article focuses on his later work, where the investigation of perception is integrated with an ontological exploration. The resulting approach revolves around the highly original idea of the body as a standard of measurement. We further develop this idea by coining the term ‘the measuring body’, which to a greater extent than did Merleau-Ponty accentuates the relative autonomy of symbolisms and tools and their capacity to decentre the perceiving body