Authors:Juan Bautista Ballestrin Pages: 1 - 9 Abstract: Based on historical materialistic perspectives that account for certain characteristics of the work at delivery platforms, this article presents a qualitative analysis of such work, taking workers currently operating in the City of Buenos Aires as empirical reference. A Simmelian theoretical interweaving of the categories of money, freedom, vocation, acceleration and boredom is carried out to reveal some of the subjective foundations on which this type of employment is based, as well as certain adverse personal effects and affections it can cause to those who carry it out. PubDate: 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.394504
Authors:Erick Serna Luna Pages: 1 - 9 Abstract: The reflection on socio-affective relations and the construction of social order in public transport originated in the thought of Georg Simmel. A theme that has been deepened by the French tradition of urban studies. Which has studied the role of emotional exchanges between the user public in the construction of the social order of the New and York and Paris subways. However, when observing transport systems of this type in Latin America, there are other populations that, by using the subway for commercial purposes, influence the construction of the socio-affective order in the subway. These cases allow us to relate other Simmelian reflections on socio-affective relations, such as the notion of the poor and the extranger. Based on this, the article proposes to move towards a general and inclusive reflection on the importance of socio-affective relations in the construction of social order in the subway. PubDate: 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.396391
Authors:Esteban Vernik Pages: 1 - 8 Abstract: I In The View of Life, the last Simmel criticizes the Kantian approach to Ethics, because it considers the individual exclusively from his rational dimension, leaving aside his sensitivity; that is, "temptation and seduction by the senses." At the same time, he warns about the dangers for modern life of the technical expansion of the sensitive world, such as when “a being who has the structure of a giant telescope” or legs, “half-kilometer stilts” is conceived. Beings conceived in these way are today the delivery workers. Riding around the city very fast their bikes or motorcycles, receiving orders from their cellular phones, they administrate their bodies and senses –especially the view- at the service of their self-entrepreneurship. The article examines for the case of Buenos Aires, this emerging phenomenon of contemporary capitalism, such as the constitution of precarious working relationships between distributors of the current platform companies of delivery PubDate: 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.396232
Authors:Juan Miguel Báez Melián, José Angel Bergua Amores, Maribel Casas Cortés, Amparo Gracia Bernal, Laura Moya Santander Pages: 1 - 11 Abstract: The article proposes a replacement of the notion of “precariousness”, with its strong economic content and link to the different versions of the welfare state, and offers the concept of “vulnerability”, with its existential nature and link to the body, even lacking adequate institutional coverage. To do this, a genealogical critique of the main economic institutions is carried out, following Polanyi’s suggestions. Similarly, the orientations and limits of the different kinds of welfare policies are shown. Finally, we propose the concept of vulnerability, closely linked to the “economy of care”, to arrive at a reality that the classical concepts do not contemplate or address but which is increasingly important in the contemporary debate on public and social policies. PubDate: 2023-03-20 DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.394169
Authors:Pierpaolo Donati Pages: 1 - 11 Abstract: The article argues that most of today’s social theories tend to look at social phenomena in ways that lead to a conflation of what is human and what is social, or to disconnect one from the other. They remove the Third as an emerging effect (therefore included) of social relationality which is generated not only by the contributions of the terms of the relations but by a plus which is the reciprocity effect of the relation itself. In this way, the ontologically constitutive relationality of the social in which the Third resides is obliterated. This outcome is both a reflection and a regenerator of most of the human crises that we experience today in social life. To get out of these crises, relational sociology proposes to go beyond the monistic and dualistic semantics of the Third by adopting a relational cultural matrix capable of connecting the human and the social, while maintaining their distinctions. The basic thesis is that a social form is human if and to the extent that the social relations that compose it are produced by subjects who mutually orient themselves on the basis of the superfunctional sense that exists in the Third generated by their relationship. PubDate: 2023-03-20 DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.398246
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