Research Emiliano Acosta

Abstract

In the past, institutions used to operate under an ideology to organize social practices. In our pluralist, rapidly changing society, which is characterised by the centrality of media and technology as well as by social segmentation, we cannot rely on such an overarching belief system any longer. For this reason, this project proposes to examine how (cultural, educational and media) institutions should organize social practices in order to foment interaction and cohesiveness. This will be done through the pragmatist, ecological philosophy of Félix Guattari, who was an important actor of the movement of institutional analysis. His thought is especially relevant here, because it is permeated with reflections on media and institutions in the context of a globalised, capitalist society, in which the mental and social ecologies of individuals are eroding, and in which individuals and groups become more and more segmentalized, polarized, and isolated. The aim of this project is to elaborate on the basis of Guattari's works a metamodeling tool, which would allow to reflect on the role of the institution in such a divided society.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Acosta Emiliano
• Fellow: Van der Wielen Julie

Research team(s)

• Center for European Philosophy

Project type(s)

• Research Project