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La sensibilidad posmoderna

Me permito ofrecer una cita de Dave Graeber originaria de este artículo que pueden leer a continuación:

The postmodern sensibility, the feeling that we had somehow broken into an unprecedented new historical period in which we understood that there is nothing new; that grand historical narratives of progress and liberation were meaningless; that everything now was simulation, ironic repetition, fragmentation, and pastiche—all this makes sense in a technological environment in which the only breakthroughs were those that made it easier to create, transfer, and rearrange virtual projections of things that either already existed, or, we came to realize, never would. Surely, if we were vacationing in geodesic domes on Mars or toting about pocket-size nuclear fusion plants or telekinetic mind-reading devices no one would ever have been talking like this. The postmodern moment was a desperate way to take what could otherwise only be felt as a bitter disappointment and to dress it up as something epochal, exciting, and new.

Dave Graeber

La tecnología de la simulación

The technologies that have advanced since the seventies are mainly either medical technologies or information technologies—largely, technologies of simulation.

Dave Graeber