Estado general de la sociedad | Por Alexandre Roig | Clase 1

Seminar held at the Free Faculty of Rosario, May 2022 Help us continue growing and sharing open and free content! Your contribution is important https://cafecito.app/facultadlibre Instagram   / facultadlibre   Facebook   / facultadlibre   Spotify https://spoti.fi/2RXedyz Twitter   / facultadlibre   Government policies and the production models of global elites have become more distorted than ever before. It is now difficult to maintain as indisputable that we continue to operate under the guise of progress, aspirational social mobility, and industrial development as a political horizon, in the same forms that existed in recent times; nor, much less, that leaving ourselves to the “free market” can bring us a more fulfilling life together. It is clear that none of that works anymore and that it is essential to develop strategies with a clear understanding of the society we live in. We are facing a time, globally and nationally, where the State's "not-knowing" is glaringly evident. Does the State truly not understand the social situation, the needs of the people it is meant to govern? Investigating this involves confronting a significant problem: the categories a society uses to understand its reality. And these are not always the same categories used by state institutions, political parties, or powerful sectors to translate the aspirations, needs, and desires of the society in which we live—a society that is, now more than ever, in constant flux. Forms of sociability, interaction, conflict, and even social confrontation have acquired new characteristics, different orientations, and material and discursive expressions that do not easily find institutional translation. We need a capacity for non-apocalyptic imagination to integrate the practices of popular and common life into new forms of production and vital structures of institutionalization, thereby empowering the society that actually exists. To its actors, its collectives, its mobilized groups seeking expanded rights and new forms of work, in constant relation to our significant historical experiences. The novelty of a social institution, because it is in motion, is one of the most necessary actions for advancing toward another way of living together. This seminar will explore the categories we use to describe the current social, economic, libidinal, and political reality we are experiencing.