Moldar os espíritos, reformar os corpos, contabilizar os saberes

Shaping spirits, reforming bodies, counting knowledgeHow are social representations, subjectification processes, and the institutionalization of practices produced at a time when technological resources accelerate the possibilities of registration, treatment, and exchange of data that can be used for the management of people, objects, and actions?What reflections and refractions of reality can be glimpsed when there are control mechanisms that claim to be supported by technical rationality, with the offer of access that is direct, transparent, and unmediated by criticism to a world that can supposedly be fully scrutinized, visible in its entirety, revealed in images provided dynamically and continuously to the consumers of endless imaginary novelties?The control of discourses (FOUCAULT, 2008) is based on mechanisms of regulation of practices, concepts, subjects, and objects.One could try to search for the limits of such discourses, infer their functionalities, and stabilize their forms.The considerations on such control are re-signified under the production conditions in which meanings come together no longer only by prohibition, erasure, or concealment, but also by their incessant reproduction and distribution, endless presence, and absolute dispersion.In this volume of Education and Research, we have gathered studies that critically respond not only to the forms of control rooted in the very foundations of literate culture, grounded in the possibilities of printed writing, but also to those established thanks to electronic communication resources (CHARTIER, 2002).From the latter, in the digital world, the ways of management, production, and distribution of culture, the forms of interaction and the processes of subjectification have been organized.In such a state of affairs, the possibilities of resistance, interpretation, and criticism take place as opposed to a set of historically constituted statements, which sometimes reaffirm themselves as similar or transformed, and sometimes are evident in their novelty.In this sense, this issue of Education and Research begins with two studies on political ordering and subjetification in the context of the emergence of digital culture.In "Subjects in the face of contemporary acceleration and limitlessness", Claudine Haroche addresses the effects on subjects currently immersed in spacetime as produced by information technology.According to the author, participating in the culture of acceleration, fluidity, non-interruption leads subjects to the loss of the sense of the self and to the risk of atomization, since there is no longer the management of the self in the face of the other, the subjectification mode prevalent before, but rather the relation with the screen, with the audiovisual, in a continuous flow: "As permanent change results in the loss of stable spatial and time reference points, unlimited and continuous adaptation is imposed on the individual, who cannot

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