La estética digital : la odisea del valor de uso en la electrónica de consumo, una lectura materialista sobre la mercancía tecnológica

Colaborador

García, Luis Ignacio

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spa

Extent

121 p.

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Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate the aesthetic specificity of technological goods in the context of contemporary consumer culture. If one accepts as a starting point the idea that the cultural patterns of purchasing behavior have long been integrated into the logic of capital accumulation, it cannot be denied that the emergence of the so-called technological revolution, which began during the last decades of the twentieth century, has completely modified the status of the commodity in the new capitalism. Not only with regard to the predominance of services as opposed to the material character of goods or the emergence of an economy of experience that decomposes the object into multiple dimensions but, fundamentally, the growth within the mass market, of a genre of commodities with a strong component of information, communication and design. These new technological devices, encompassed within the consumer electronics industry, constitute paradigmatic cases of the transformations operated within the structure of capital due to the tension that exists between the informational and aesthetic character of the product. Consequently, the emergence of a digital aesthetic as a cultural and sensitive form of consumer commodity requires both a redefinition of the Marxist dialectic between use value and exchange value, and a profound revision of the traditional explanations linked to purchasing. With the certainty that the commodity aesthetic does not remain indifferent to the frontier opened by the process of digitalization.

Título obtenido

Magister de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Comunicación y Cultura

Institución otorgante

Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales

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