Aesthetics and pathology of the new normality. Notes for a technological psychopedagogy. [DOI:10.37785/nw.v5n1.a1]

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has abruptly revealed some characteristics of the contemporary culture and societies that a typically simplifying thinking has tended to overlook. The true role of technology is one of these peculiarities. This transcendental centrality does not refer only to the intense presence of technology in social and cultural life, but to the relationships it maintains with thought, along with psychic aspects as controversial as the pathological structuring of social ontology. The catastrophic changes that are taking place advise putting into practice a style of thinking that finds its foundation in those technological elements that are at the origin of dysfunctions. For this, it is necessary to introduce into education a way to think about technology that especially encompasses current technologies of the imagination and their relationship with audiovisual forms such as those related to the interface and the essay-film.