El filósofo como recolector de desechos
The philosopher as a waste collector
Abstract (en)
In this text I propose that the so-called “absence of utopias” of our times
is a statement that needs to be rethought. The history of the ideas is the
place where that statement is produced, and history itself is a battlefield
between writings that aspire to hold the heritage of conceptions of the
world, like those on progress or political utopias. As for the conception
of progress, the works of Benjamin and Bauman have proposed figures
such as the ragpicker or wasted lives as suggestive questionings to the
hard layer of universality and conformism.
Keywords: utopia, memory, history, progress, ragpicker.
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