DigithumPub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.394504
Juan Bautista Ballestrin
{"title":"The effects of work. A Simmelian view of delivery platforms","authors":"Juan Bautista Ballestrin","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i29.394504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i29.394504","url":null,"abstract":"Based on historical materialistic perspectives that account for certain characteristics of the work at delivery platforms, this article presents a qualitative analysis of such work, taking workers currently operating in the City of Buenos Aires as empirical reference. A Simmelian theoretical interweaving of the categories of money, freedom, vocation, acceleration and boredom is carried out to reveal some of the subjective foundations on which this type of employment is based, as well as certain adverse personal effects and affections it can cause to those who carry it out.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135135920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DigithumPub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.396232
Esteban Vernik
{"title":"Simmelian Contributions to a Relational Sociology of Senses and Emotions: the Case of “Platforms of Delivery Workers”","authors":"Esteban Vernik","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i29.396232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i29.396232","url":null,"abstract":"I
 In The View of Life, the last Simmel criticizes the Kantian approach to Ethics, because it considers the individual exclusively from his rational dimension, leaving aside his sensitivity; that is, \"temptation and seduction by the senses.\" At the same time, he warns about the dangers for modern life of the technical expansion of the sensitive world, such as when “a being who has the structure of a giant telescope” or legs, “half-kilometer stilts” is conceived.
 Beings conceived in these way are today the delivery workers. Riding around the city very fast their bikes or motorcycles, receiving orders from their cellular phones, they administrate their bodies and senses –especially the view- at the service of their self-entrepreneurship. The article examines for the case of Buenos Aires, this emerging phenomenon of contemporary capitalism, such as the constitution of precarious working relationships between distributors of the current platform companies of delivery","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135136004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DigithumPub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.394169
Juan Miguel Báez Melián, José Ángel Bergua Amores, Maribel Casas Cortés, Amparo Gracia Bernal, Laura Moya Santander
{"title":"De la precariedad económica a la vulnerabilidad existencial. Notas para una ampliación de paradigma","authors":"Juan Miguel Báez Melián, José Ángel Bergua Amores, Maribel Casas Cortés, Amparo Gracia Bernal, Laura Moya Santander","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i29.394169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i29.394169","url":null,"abstract":"El artículo cuestiona la centralidad de la noción de «precariedad», con un fuerte contenido económico y ligado a las distintas versiones del estado de bienestar, para ofrecer el concepto de «vulnerabilidad», con un carácter existencial y vinculado al cuerpo, aún carente de la adecuada cobertura institucional. Para ello se realiza una crítica genealógica de las principales instituciones económicas siguiendo las sugerencias de Polanyi. Así mismo, se muestran las orientaciones y límites de las diferentes clases de políticas del bienestar. Finalmente, se propone el concepto de vulnerabilidad, muy ligado a la «economía de los cuidados», para llegar a una realidad que los conceptos clásicos no contemplan ni atienden, pero que es cada vez más importante en el debate contemporáneo sobre las políticas públicas y sociales.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43469441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DigithumPub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.398246
P. Donati
{"title":"The Third (included) in the interdependence between the human and the social","authors":"P. Donati","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i29.398246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i29.398246","url":null,"abstract":"The article argues that most of today’s social theories tend to look at social phenomena in ways that lead to a conflation of what is human and what is social, or to disconnect one from the other. They remove the Third as an emerging effect (therefore included) of social relationality which is generated not only by the contributions of the terms of the relations but by a plus which is the reciprocity effect of the relation itself. In this way, the ontologically constitutive relationality of the social in which the Third resides is obliterated. This outcome is both a reflection and a regenerator of most of the human crises that we experience today in social life. To get out of these crises, relational sociology proposes to go beyond the monistic and dualistic semantics of the Third by adopting a relational cultural matrix capable of connecting the human and the social, while maintaining their distinctions. The basic thesis is that a social form is human if and to the extent that the social relations that compose it are produced by subjects who mutually orient themselves on the basis of the superfunctional sense that exists in the Third generated by their relationship.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49455766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DigithumPub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.396391
Erick Serna Luna
{"title":"Das Geistesleben unter die großstädte: the socio-affective order in the subway from a Simmelian perspective","authors":"Erick Serna Luna","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i29.396391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i29.396391","url":null,"abstract":"The reflection on socio-affective relations and the construction of social order in public transport originated in the thought of Georg Simmel. A theme that has been deepened by the French tradition of urban studies. Which has studied the role of emotional exchanges between the user public in the construction of the social order of the New and York and Paris subways. However, when observing transport systems of this type in Latin America, there are other populations that, by using the subway for commercial purposes, influence the construction of the socio-affective order in the subway. These cases allow us to relate other Simmelian reflections on socio-affective relations, such as the notion of the poor and the extranger. Based on this, the article proposes to move towards a general and inclusive reflection on the importance of socio-affective relations in the construction of social order in the subway.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135136003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DigithumPub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i28.396384
Olga Sabido-Ramos
{"title":"The social form of the secret. Gendered bodies, senses and menstruation","authors":"Olga Sabido-Ramos","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i28.396384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i28.396384","url":null,"abstract":" In this article, I am going to show how the social form of the secret in Simmel’s sense traverses the sensorial experience of menstruation and perception policies towards menstruation. To achieve the above, I have divided the article into three sections. In the first, I give a summary of state-of-the-art critical studies on menstruation, which allow us to think of menstruation as an object of study in sociology and to underpin this proposal. Second, using Simmel’s relational sociology and sensory studies approach, I show that one of the mechanisms of perception policies towards menstruation has been to keep it secret. Third, I present a sociology of senses related to the secret of menstruation based on the findings of a recent study. The findings show that, although there are tendencies to re-signify the experience of menstruation in solidarity with friends, perception policies prevail that lead women to hide menstruation from intimates and strangers. On the other hand, although the odours of menstruation have been and continue to be stigmatized, the use of new artifacts or menstrual hygiene techniques allows a certain resignification of the menstrual smell, although this requires certain material conditions of possibility. ","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42073864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DigithumPub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i28.394181
David Ruggieri
{"title":"Being grateful to Georg Simmel. Emotions, gratitude, and the relational concern of sociology in the globalized society","authors":"David Ruggieri","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i28.394181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i28.394181","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues for a sociological and relational concern of “gratitude” in Simmel’s thought as a key feature of human interaction as well as a key “emotive disposition” (Stimmung) to engage with the challenges of modern society. Georg Simmel is undoubtedly one of the most crucial theorists and a pillar in the social sciences, and his theoretical contribution also stands as the foundation of relational sociology stricto sensu. He taught that interactions supporting social processes must be investigated as forms of relations. A relation is a precise mode of being connected to others; it is a tie emerging from reciprocal action and acquires its consistency by generating causal effects on involved actors. Among his main insights within the sociological tradition, Simmel’s excellent concepts and arguments engage emotions as a sociological matter, that is, under a relational aspect. Not only do emotions have sociological relevance (that is, they are a worthy subject for sociologists), but they also characterize the precise manner of interaction among individuals. Emotions are the relational effect of being associated in an increasingly differentiated society, which apparently only neutralizes individuals’ emotive sides, or else instrumentally drives or “colonizes” them. Simmel explored gratitude as a particular emotion that is a form of relation and interaction: it has an eccentric position among the other emotions that he investigated in his many essays. Gratitude represents a non-symmetrical or economic (exchangeable) “transactive” emotion: it puts the giver and receiver in a peculiar socio-emotional form of reciprocity. By considering relations, emotions, and gratitude through rigorous textual exploration, this paper tackles Simmel’s view and challenges a globalized world and hybridized digital society. Finally, gratitude could be regarded as a demarcation criterion for identifying and distinguishing social interaction forms from other kinds of non-social processes or transactions.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45545064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DigithumPub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i28.374138
Miguel Rodríguez Guerrero, Evaristo Barrera Algarín
{"title":"La violencia como espectáculo en las movilizaciones sociales: un caso de estudio sobre los medios de comunicación","authors":"Miguel Rodríguez Guerrero, Evaristo Barrera Algarín","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i28.374138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i28.374138","url":null,"abstract":"El artículo muestra la investigación realizada sobre la proyección informativa de uno de los mayores medios de comunicación de masas de España en relación con movilizaciones sociales. La metodología, desde el enfoque sociológico estructuralista de la comunicación y las nuevas teorías de comunicación de masas, mezcla técnicas cuantitativas y cualitativas. La hipótesis inicial es que dichos medios construyen sus procesos informativos en torno a la extracción de beneficios y dentro del esquema del orden sistémico hegemónico. Los resultados tienden a confirmarla, revelando un encuadre de las noticias con alto contenido espectacularizante y la aplicación de una narrativa diferenciadora que excluye diversos temas y actores sociales.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47403511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DigithumPub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i28.400351
Swen Seebach, Ana Beriain Bañares
{"title":"Towards a sociology of emergency. Epidemics, biorisks, and the society of the Coronavirus","authors":"Swen Seebach, Ana Beriain Bañares","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i28.400351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i28.400351","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decade, the social agenda has been shaped by a continuous chain of potentially forthcoming future emergencies. Imagined, projected, and expected emergencies and crises have affected political and scientific agendas and redefined the pre-planning for risks at a local, national, and global level. Whilst most of these emergencies took place largely on an imaginary stage and never materialised – at least not with significant effects on global society – the COVID-19 pandemic finally made real the imaginary that had been expected and projected for over a decade. This article claims that within the context of an emergency in the making and the consequent social, economic, political, and material crises, sociology and social analysis need to assume new responsibilities by providing answers and perspective to those social developments that are direct and indirect results of the social and material conditions of a society of emergency. In a world in which the reality of emergencies has started to outrun the prevention of risks, a sociology of emergency is not only a useful but a necessary step in the development of social theory. We suggest that a redefinition of some of those concepts and ideas that marked the sociological agenda of risk society becomes unavoidable. We argue also that reconnection with those issues that had been discarded from the conceptual framework of a society of risk has become absolutely necessary.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43446420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DigithumPub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i28.393478
Fernando Artavia
{"title":"On bureaucratic waiting. A Simmelian approach to a liminal time","authors":"Fernando Artavia","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i28.393478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i28.393478","url":null,"abstract":"Waiting is both a type of experience and a form of interaction. The contours assumed by the former are marked by the dynamics and features that characterize the latter. This essay addresses the waiting to which we are usually subjected when carrying out procedures in any of the instances and dependencies of the bureaucratic apparatus. Returning to the analytical contributions of Georg Simmel, a relational approach to this phenomenon is attempted, highlighting three of its basic dimensions: time, space, and interaction or reciprocal action. The essay finishes with some considerations regarding what waiting represents for modernity and, more generally, for human existence. ","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48023368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}