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"This book provides a lucid, rigorous, and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities. In particular, The Commons analyses the relations of solidarity and conflict between the commons and public welfare policies, as well as the role the commons can play in the struggle against the global socioecological crisis that is threatening the very future of humanity. Over the past decade, various theories, concepts and political projects connected to the commons have become fundamentally important for social science and numerous social movements around the world. In sociology, economics, political science, history, geography, the law and anthropology, the study of the commons has inspired many important academic innovations. In parallel, community activists, labour unions, ecologists, feminists and cooperativists have discovered in the commons a powerful and thought-provoking toolkit with which to defend public services, guarantee access to cultural goods, organize reproductive and care work, and more generally, fight against commodification and ecological destruction. The first two chapters analyse the dual origin of the academic rediscovery of the commons. On one side, from the realm of political science and economics, the concept of the commons has been used to challenge the dominant paradigms founded on rational choice theory. On the other, from the fields of history, law and anthropology, analysis of the violent destruction of the commons has served to deepen our understanding of the coercive and antidemocratic processes that form the bedrock of capitalism and our current plight. The third and fourth chapters examine the role that the commons can play in emancipatory political projects aiming to deepen democracy in mass industrial societies. As such, The Commons will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and academics with interests in social and political theory, the environment and sustainability, and political sociology"--

En la última década, Slavoj Žižek ha llegado a convertirse en uno de los principales referentes de la filosofía política contemporánea. Su obra posee una gran capacidad para renovar argumentos filosóficos que la crítica había dado por agotados: la lucha de clases, el idealismo trascendental, la violencia revolucionaria, el materialismo dialéctico o la ideología. El objetivo de Žižek es disolver un conjunto de aporías que se presentan no como un desafío intelectual sino más bien como oclusión de las condiciones de posibilidad del propio programa filosófico.La intervención de Žižek está explícitamente dirigida contra el punto muerto epistemológico y político característico de las postrimerías del corto siglo XX, una época caracterizada por tensiones no exentas de congruencia: globalización, postmodernidad, multiculturalismo, neoliberalismo…Este texto analiza algunos puntos clave de la filosofía política zizekiana, con especial atención a su teoría de la ideología, su crítica del sujeto y su rehabilitación del marxismo clásico. ; Over the last decade Slavoj Žižek has become one of the most significant thinkers of contemporary political philosophy. His work has renewed many classical philosophical arguments that postmodernist critic declared overcame: clash struggle, transcendental idealism, revolutionary violence, ideology or dialectical materialism. Žižek aspire to dissolve a set of aporias that arise not just as an intellectual puzzle but a threat to the conditions of possibility of philosophic program itself. Žižek intervention aims at the epistemological and political deadlock of the dying moments of the short twentieth century; an age marked by congruent tensions as globalization, postmodernism, multiculturalism, neoliberalism… This paper analyzes some of the main issues of zizekian political philosophy, specially his theory of ideology, his critic of subject and his restoration of Marxism.

There is a well-known dilemma in Marx's theory between criticism of ethics and the rejection of capitalism as unfair. On the one hand, Marxists think that political emancipation requires the clarification of the ideological components of moral evaluation. On the other hand, Marx saw strong ethical objections to liberal individualism, but he didn't either accept communitarian traditionalism. This paper explores ethical issues related to care and dependency in order to advance towards the resolution of those paradoxes. ; En la teoría de Marx hay un dilema bien conocido entre la crítica de la ética y la condena del capitalismo como injusto. Por un lado, el marxismo ha considerado que la evaluación moral tiene componentes ideológicos cuya elucidación afecta a la posibilidad de emancipación política. Por otro lado, Marx detectó importantes limitaciones éticas en el individualismo liberal, pero tampoco consideraba aceptable el tradicionalismo comunitarista. Este artículo explora cuestiones éticas relacionadas con el cuidado y la dependencia para avanzar en la resolución de esas paradojas.

The great ideological cliché of our time, César Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent events show how technology has in fact driven us farther apart.Named one of the ten best books of the year by Babelia El País, Sociophobia looks at the root causes of neoliberal utopia's modern collapse. It begins by questioning the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into thinking our passive relationship with technology plays a positive role in resolving longstanding differences. Rendueles claims that the World Wide Web has produced a diminished rather than augmented social reality. In other words, it has lowered our expectations with respect to political interventions and personal relations. In an effort to correct this trend, Rendueles embarks on an ambitious reassessment of our antagonistic political traditions to prove that post-capitalism is not only a feasible, intimate, and friendly system to strive for but also essential for moving past consumerism and political malaise.

En las últimas décadas, la difusión de la digitalización ha transformado los procesos de participación política y movilización ciudadana de formas diversas e inesperadas. Frente a lo esperado inicialmente, las consecuencias de la tecnologización del campo político han sido muy complejas. Las mayores innovaciones han tenido lugar en el espacio de la participación política no convencional, a través de un conjunto de intervenciones mediadas tecnológicamente llenas de claroscuros. Este artículo ofrece una muestra de algunas de las prácticas políticas digitales emergentes que han aparecido en los últimos años. El objetivo no es posicionarse en un debate sobre diagnósticos o valoraciones morales sino cartografiar las herramientas digitales para la participación política sin caer en una perspectiva tecnodeterminista, conciliadora o celebratoria. Más bien aspira a analizar distintos modelos de intervención, tanto los exitosos como los fracasados, ubicándolos en su contexto histórico y evaluando sus fortalezas y debilidades.