After having outlined the trajectories of the concepts of capitalism and utopia in sociological thought through a reflection focused on the concept of life form (course A.A. 2020/21), and after having explored the problematic relationships and connections between politics and technoscience in the thinking of some of the most important classical and contemporary sociologists (course A.Y. 2021/22), this year's course, entitled "Sociologies of the post-human and post-social" intends to present the most recent debate in the human and social sciences, with specific reference to the sociological area, around the themes of the post-human, the trans-human and the post-social. Based on the definition of the broader historical-social coordinates, including capitalism as a cosmos and matrix of life forms and utopia as a prospective escape route and political action and political instance to be recovered in sociological practice, it is necessary to start making the accounts with current contemporary scenarios in which many categories seem to have entered a crisis of irreversible meaning together with a profound change in social structures at the global level. The increasingly invasive and totalitarian role of technoscientific knowledge / powers deployed without any restraint and control over individual and social life, identified in a long-lasting discursive articulation that finds its inaugural moment with Positivism to arrive at today's claims of " faith in science "like a religion, becomes increasingly clear in the ability to redefine the human and the social up to their complete questioning that tends to their negation and destruction.
In this scenario, positions are identified as enthusiastic and promoters of such radical changes as well as critical and skeptical and contrary to them: a scenario of conflict between opposing visions of the world and of life unfolds.
In an attempt to offer tools for analysis and understanding of current dynamics by relocating them against the background of longer-lasting historical-cultural and social trajectories that are not crushed on the trans-contemporary contingency of the dominant presentist historicity regime, the course takes up a series of central concepts in the current debate of which, according to a genealogical methodology applied to the human and social sciences, he traces the definition and development over the history of sociological thought with reference to theories and works; and discusses the curves, distortions and new declinations up to address some of the protagonists of current international reflection.
Among the concepts considered:
Capitalism
Form of life
Utopia
Technoscience
Human
Social
Body
Machine
Genre
Race