The author of this paper is currently working on a pilot project with school children and individuals who are in their final years of their prison sentence. The project should offer a pragmatic alternative to the way humanism has established and defined our mode of expressions. Such modes effect our ways of deliberation and judgement when it comes to ethical issues. This paper will act both as a critique and provide, at the same time, a positive alternative to those who (...) are still being coerced into confessing an act they committed in a language in which they do not only not recognise themselves but risk, moreover, not being understood. The likelihood of this occurring stems from a fundamental disconnect, namely the fact that their way of communicating does not chime in with the expectations of the knowledgeable others whose formal speech registers betray deeply-ingrained oppressive humanist modes of discourse and ideologies which, having long been normalized are, to the former’s detriment, regrettably and routinely overlooked. The aim of this paper is to introduce my project in order to show the reader that many of the postmodern critiques of narrative and agent formation can be overcome by a cybernetic system of a new mode of writing, by means of which the intentions of the agent are fragmented and reconstructed immediately by a secondary, non-human agent – the software. I shall be making a case that this software will become vital to mediate human storytelling through non- human generation creating an enhanced understanding for both reader and writer. (shrink)

The present article aims at investigating the political aspects of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, focusing mainly on the Philosophical Investigations. This theme remains rather marginal within Wittgensteinian scholarship, facing the key challenge of the sparsity of explicit discussions of political issues in Wittgenstein’s writings. Based on the broader anthropological and synecdochic character of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, the main objective of the article is to make explicit the implicit political import of some of the main themes of the Philosophical Investigations. This is (...) done by correlating them with certain political concepts and issues, such as reification, mystification, emancipation, self-institution and the common. In such a way, a new light is shed on Wittgenstein’s influence on and his relevance to contemporary political theory, while at the same time the first steps are taken for the enrichment of the discussion regarding personal and social autonomy and the critique of late capit... (shrink)

(1994). The moving boundary: Art, science, and the construction of reality. World Futures: Vol. 40, Art and Science: Studies from the World Academy of Art and Science, pp. 27-34.

Is formal logic a failure? It may be, if we accept the context-independent limits imposed by Russell, Frege, and others. In response to difficulties arising from such limitations I present a Toulmin-esque social recontextualization of formal logic. The results of my project provide a positive view of formal logic as a success while simultaneously reaffirming the social and contextual concerns of argumentation theorists, critical thinking scholars, and rhetoricians.

Los recorridos particulares de la investigación en el ámbito local de los Profesorados nos han conducido—primero paulatinamente y luego con asertividad y firmeza—a recuperar los atributos de lo que llamaremos mundo sensible y que impregnan neurálgicamente las prácticas y discursos sobre la enseñanza y su sentido. El método biográfico-narrativo constituyó originalmente una puerta de entrada a las vocaciones profesionales-vitales de profesores distinguidos primero y de los colectivos académicos luego; en todos los casos se hizo imposible comprender la subjetividad docente sin (...) la complejidad y profundidad semántica que componían las emociones, los sentimientos y las afecciones particulares. Quedaba entonces al desnudo la importancia sustantiva no sólo de incursionar en estos territorios humanizados y humanizantes sino también de intentar abordar y comprender las razones para su exclusión, minusvalía y subsunción en el campo de la academia. Las pedagogías descoloniales, comprendidas como prácticas de autorización discursiva, proporcionan indicios socio-históricos potentes a la vez que inauguran posibilidades de restituir modos de ser y conocer relativamente despreciados en el currículo de la educación docente conducentes, además, a formas de agenciamiento cívico, epistémico-político. The singular paths in research about Teacher Education in the local context have led—progressively and with growing degrees of certainty and assertiveness—to the recovery of the dimensions of the sensible world which penetrate the meaning of teaching in both discourses and practices. In the early phases, the biographic-narrative approach had enabled the reach into the professional-vital lives of selected professors first and broader academic faculty then; understanding teachers’ identity resulted impossible back then without the complexity and semantic depth brought along by feelings, emotions and particular affections. This made it imperative to recover the humanistic and humanizing dimensions of Teacher Education in the same way as it became necessary to find keys into understanding resistance, devaluation and exclusion of such human traits from the formal curricula. Decolonial pedagogies—regarded as discursive authorization practices —provide socio-historical reasons while they foster policies of re-institution of ways of being and knowing otherwise despised in Teaching Education. In doing so, they have the potential to foster epistemic-political and civic agency. (shrink)