Razão técnico-científica e capitalismo libertário: uma nova barbárie?

Abstract

The starting point was to analyze the historical fusion between reason focused on technologies to the detriment of being and human relations with physis, and hegemonic capitalism with its anarchic logic of accumulation at all costs and exclusion. Since capitalism is also a discourse, its dysnomic beliefs create a form of subjectivation named as "the one-dimensional man", reduced to the struggle for survival, to life lived only in immanence and individual interest; given this principle, there follows a regression to the narcissistic mentality, dissociated from the Other of the symbolic and the other of the social bond, thus giving rise to the deregulation of malaise in civilization, whose values decline. Life, now hostage to positivity, without the dialectical operator, has its creative movement turned against itself, revealing the relationship between capitalism and the death drive. The problem is to describe and interpret how instrumental reason, devoid of self-criticism, linked to the market logic of cultural capitalism, which exploits freedom, attacks the family, universities and traditions of cultural autonomy. The emerging ideology leads to: the standardization of thought; the institution of impulsive jouissance, and the perverse denial of the sexual difference that really exists. Vectors guide the research: the first analyzes how the way scientific reason works leads to the regression of the one-dimensional man (Marcusean expression to characterize the human being imbued by immanence), without transcendence. The second problematizes the liberal democracy (of absolute individualism), which leads to an excess of rights and an absence of duties, associating freedom with enjoyment (which goes beyond the pleasure). The articulation of a philosophical notion with the debilitating release of drives is authorized by the Lacanian proposition: "The unconscious is politics". The third describes the decadence of the university, which has become operational, technicist and the institute of the new barbarism, as the destruction of culture and a threat to life and mankind.