Capitalismo, culpa y redención. (Sobre la fundación espiritual de la metro-polis)
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Universidad Industrial de Santander
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El artículo expone una crítica a la llamada ‘memoria histórica’. La actividad de recordar a los ‘olvidados’ se ha postulado como una actividad anti-capitalista por antonomasia. Por el olvido de sus ‘orígenes’ al habitante de las ciudades se le acusa de inautenticidad. Un análisis conceptual de las subjetividades en disputa hace notar que su oposición es solo aparente: ambas conforman la unidad formal del capitalismo. El sujeto que convoca a sus ‘ancestros’ y el que no cesa de moverse (capital) son ahora la forma de un mismo sujeto. Tanto la ciudad tradicional, que relacionaremos con la acción del recordar (determinabilidad), como la cosmo-polis, relacionada con los procesos capitalistas de límites erosionados (la ciudad que descansa sobre ella misma), son ya insostenibles. Es la Metro-polis (y sus criaturas), la que en su metraje se desborda, aquella que puede conjugar ambos momentos. Así que lo que se presentaba como resistencia al capitalismo, se hace notar como perteneciéndole de manera íntima.
This paper exposes a critic to the called ‘historical memory’. The activity of recalling the ‘forgettable’ has been postulated as an anti-capitalist action meant by itself. Because his ‘origins’ oblivion, the city’s inhabitant is accused of lacking authenticity. However, a conceptual analysis of these subjectivities in dispute notices that their opposition is only apparent: they both are part of the new formal unit of capitalism. The subject, who convene his ‘ancestors’, and the one who is constantly moving (capital) are now the form of a same subject. Both the traditional city, which we will relate to the action of recalling (from being determined), and the cosmo-polis, related to the capitalist processes of eroded limits (the city that rests on itself), are no longer sustainable. It is the Metro-polis (and its creatures), which overflows his footage, which can conjugate both moments: Then, what was presented as a resistance against capitalism is also seen as belonging to it in an intimate way.
This paper exposes a critic to the called ‘historical memory’. The activity of recalling the ‘forgettable’ has been postulated as an anti-capitalist action meant by itself. Because his ‘origins’ oblivion, the city’s inhabitant is accused of lacking authenticity. However, a conceptual analysis of these subjectivities in dispute notices that their opposition is only apparent: they both are part of the new formal unit of capitalism. The subject, who convene his ‘ancestors’, and the one who is constantly moving (capital) are now the form of a same subject. Both the traditional city, which we will relate to the action of recalling (from being determined), and the cosmo-polis, related to the capitalist processes of eroded limits (the city that rests on itself), are no longer sustainable. It is the Metro-polis (and its creatures), which overflows his footage, which can conjugate both moments: Then, what was presented as a resistance against capitalism is also seen as belonging to it in an intimate way.
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resistencia, memoria, tradición, capitalismo, ciudad, Resistance, memory, tradition, capitalism, city