In advanced capitalism, science and technology are at the forefront of production. Nevertheless, traditional forms of reasoning (fuzzy logic, I+D+i, ...) , or what Marx called "general intellect", far from being simply subordinated, are being fundamentally reconstituted in line with…

La emergencia de las ciencias sociales está ligada a la constitución de una red de tecnologías, conocimientos, prácticas y discursos para regular y gobernar la sociedad; desarrollando formas de control en el que las ciencias sociales juegan un papel central.…

It is argued that thinking, specially everyday and social thinking, is based on a sort of mythical thought, that which is not true because it is verified, but because we believe in. Culture belongs to it. Namely, the idea of…

A problematização das práticas de intervenção na área psi tem sido orientada, muitas vezes, por alguns conceitos foucaultianos como poder, saber e regimes de verdade e tem introduzido questões diferenciadas em relação àquelas que tradicionalmente tem-se caracterizado como uma compreensão…

In this work we use Cultural Studies to identify and understand the representations that are transmitted about the educational process in Chico Bento's stories - a character of a comic strip in Brazil. He is a personage who lives in…

Since March 2008, I have been in the artistic – community work of a cultural society in a slum in Londrina (Brasil), teaching belly dancing to five community leaders and, recently, to other young women too. This text was supposed…

According to some definitions, the introduction of a paper, apart from exposing its objectives, should be the stimulant that generates interest in a deeper reading and a wider appraisal. With this definition in mind, I submit for this issue of…

This interview opens a whole range of questions and discourses about an increasingly discussed social category: immigration. It attempts to raise attention about the concept of contemporary migrations and its diffusion. Like any dialogue the interview transcend the limits that…

This Thesis's summary explores the political and epistemological proposal that emerges from Free Software development made from Riereta.net. From the ethnography of this project, we analyse its contributions to knowledge production and to social studies of science and technology. This…

A society that is characterized by the expansion of control devices can generate different analyses about how these collaborate to produce ways of living that are put in circulation in the social sphere. The present article attempts to make the…