Actualidad en la Escuela de Frankfurt: crítica al tecnoceno (original) (raw)

2024, Protrepsis (Revista de Filosofía)

This article examines the possible approximation between the Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Technocene phenomenon, from the critical perspective of the Frankfurt School. The article focuses on exploring how instrumental reason is implied, since the origins of modern thought, based on a model of nature’s expropriation and domination of the world. Which under the imprint of an economic paradigm founded on capitalism, gets crystallized in the notion of unlimited growth. Reason becomes only an instrument, a correlate of the mechanisms of economic value generation; just as the Dialectic of the Enlightenment had concluded. The study seeks to understand the implications of these dynamics within the articulation of individual subjectivity, but also in the concreteness of institutions, the State, meaning devices, and economic value generators, and how all these conspire to the global ecological crisis. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines the critical philosophy of the Frankfurt School with contemporary analysis of technology, society, and environment; key texts by authors such as Horkheimer and Adorno will be reviewed. Together with recent research on the so-called Technocene Age, this concept represents nothing more than a specification that provides greater precision to the one of Anthropocene. The aim is to offer an updated reflection on the relevance of the Frankfurtian critique in the 21st century, emphasizing its potential to promote more fair, democratic, and sustainable societies in a world characterized by technological omnipresence and environmental challenges.