Banca de DEFESA: MIRELLA RAMOS COSTA PESSOA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MIRELLA RAMOS COSTA PESSOA
DATE: 13/05/2024
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência Via Google Meet
TITLE:

TECHNOLOGIES TO POSTPONE THE END: time, power and subjectivity in the contemporary regime
of visibility

KEY WORDS:

Finitude, technology, governmentality, visibility, future

PAGES: 146
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This thesis is dedicated to thinking about contemporary technologies aimed at postponing the end and the way they are intertwined with image, information, and communication technologies. Assuming that the regime of truth and visibility enables the shaping of ways to confront finitude and articulate forms of overcoming it, the work also examines how such technologies are imbued with a temporality inherent to the regime they belong to. Adopting a genealogical perspective, we seek to identify ruptures and continuities in the Western-
Christian-capitalist model of thinking about ways to overcome finitude, suspending meanings and values crystallized within the operation of practices and conduct governance of each regime. Therefore, through archaeology and montage, mosaics were designed to contemplate the images of these technologies, investigating possible shifts in the conceptions of death, transcendence, and permanence. Intertwined with neoliberal rationality and a sense of inherent futurity, attempts to postpone the end are no longer the
same, although they carry apparent continuities – which guided the structuring of the three chapters supporting this thesis. (1) If the end of flesh focuses on the idea of the debilitated and dependent body that can no longer consume or be consumed autonomously, technologies leveraging the logics of anticipation and new ways of making time visible passing through bodies begin to determine when and which lives can be terminated. Moving away from attempts to perfect life that produce and strengthen the nation, the
contemporary seeks to prolong the duration of flesh until the limit that ends in the dependent body or cognitive failures. Nevertheless, the flesh insists on dying. (2) And in the face of the certainty of its end, contemporary
transcendence possibilities design technologies permeated by generative images and emulations produced by artificial intelligence, installing new ways of thinking about the permanence of existences, now from their total
conversion into data. Forms of continuity that differ from modern ones anchored in the history of nations, in the presence in images of analog photography, and in the symbolic articulation they promote between visible and invisible. Through our own projection on the screen and in the generative images of today, we see an immortality centered on present information technologies being stitched together, which advocate values of hyper- visibility, clarity, and total control. (3) Meanwhile, in attempts to postpone the end of the world we inhabit, the recurrence of apocalyptic and dystopian imaginaries warns of the imminent global collapse. Although resembling expectations of eschatological time, the marking of clocks predicting the end of the planet is determined by new forces no longer dependent on divine instances. On the other hand, proposed solutions to postpone the end of the planet, centered on connection, monitoring, data capture, and intelligent use of natural resources, while presented as completely new and revolutionary, do not seem to break with the logic of exploitation, consumption, and deterioration of the planet that has brought us to the present.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - CLAUDIA LINHARES SANZ - UnB
Presidente - 3227594 - CRISTINA TEIXEIRA VIEIRA DE MELO
Interno - 1205991 - JOSE AFONSO DA SILVA JUNIOR
Interna - 1435892 - NINA VELASCO E CRUZ
Externo à Instituição - PAULO ROBERTO GIBALDI VAZ - UFRJ