If we ever entertained the illusion of a world order governed by the liberal canon of fluidity, that hope now appears shattered. The crisis of speculative capitalism, the persistence of Islam as a political power, the upheavals in South America, and the reemergence of Russia, China, India, and Iran as risk cultures seem to have damaged the mirror of a globalization shaped by the neoliberal democratic model. Furthermore, there is a mirroring of this scenario of new geopolitical disobedience and the negativity that pervades the Western consumer subject itself, who sees various mutations of a malaise it thought it had overcome resurfacing within.

In this context, The Discontents of Capitalism proposes a reflection on five key figures in contemporary thought: Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Ernesto Laclau, Tiqqun, and Slavoj Žižek. These five thinkers' main merit lies in having provided, in recent times, a framework capable of dismantling the ideological entrenchments of the left and right following the fall of the Iron Curtain.

The seminar will dedicate two sessions to each author. While the first session will establish the basic framework of their theoretical contribution, the second will aim to address the dilemmas and challenges the authors face in light of their most representative works.

Directed by Jorge Alemán , Germán Cano and Ignacio Castro.

Time: 19:30 p.m.

[80? · Partners 70?]

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