Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaQuiroga, Sarlo and technical primitivism: a speculative approach
This article retrieves Horacio Quiroga’s technical primitivism as a kind of relationship with technology that transcends technophilic fascination and technophobic fatalism. We identify important resonances with a paradigmatic essay by Beatriz Sarlo, which recovers primitivism at the hy...
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Universidad de Chile. Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://comunicacionymedios.uchile.cl/index.php/RCM/article/view/37113 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/78640 |
| Sumario: | This article retrieves Horacio Quiroga’s technical primitivism as a kind of relationship with technology
that transcends technophilic fascination and technophobic fatalism. We identify important resonances
with a paradigmatic essay by Beatriz Sarlo, which recovers primitivism at the hype of globalization. Lastly, we seek to move beyond Sarlo and highlight the continued relevance of primitivism against a post-neoliberal background, through an analytic of the main theories about technics. Against the instrumental disposition of the “early adopters” of technological innovation, we claim that primitivism embodies a truly critical stance, founded upon an aesthetic contact with the reality of things. |
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