The gravitational force of common days

Critical theory and daily life in Bolívar Echeverria

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https://doi.org/10.18537/puc.34.01.01

Keywords:

daily life, criticism , capitalist modernity

Abstract

The work deals with what could be called a "philosophy of daily life" in the thought of Bolívar Echeverría. It focuses on the thematization that the author has carried out on the gravitational force that "ordinary days" -whether those that are organized around the routine of work and consumption or those that break with the continuum of becoming through play, the festival and art-have in the historical development. Likewise, it covers two fundamental aspects of a critical theory of daily life in capitalist modernity: the technical and linguistic subsumption that operate in the passing of ordinary days. Echeverría maintains that in their apparent insignificance, in the constant and uninterrupted succession, ordinary days establish and project structuring principles that will collaborate in the reproduction of what exists, or on the contrary, they will go, littleby little and underground, sowing the conditions for its destruction.

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Published

2023-06-13

How to Cite

Smart, Ángeles. (2023). The gravitational force of common days : Critical theory and daily life in Bolívar Echeverria. Revista Pucara, 1(34), 6–16. https://doi.org/10.18537/puc.34.01.01

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Vol. 1 No. 34 (2023): Revista de Humanidades Pucara

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