{"id":13075,"date":"2016-10-14T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/?p=13075"},"modified":"2016-10-14T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T20:10:39","slug":"por-primera-vez-en-puerto-rico-filosofo-de-la-tecnologia-de-nivel-mundial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/por-primera-vez-en-puerto-rico-filosofo-de-la-tecnologia-de-nivel-mundial\/","title":{"rendered":"Por primera vez en Puerto Rico fil\u00f3sofo de la tecnolog\u00eda de nivel mundial"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid style=\u00bbpagination\u00bb items_per_page=\u00bb3″ arrows_design=\u00bbvc_arrow-icon-arrow_09_left\u00bb arrows_position=\u00bboutside\u00bb arrows_color=\u00bborange\u00bb paging_design=\u00bbnone\u00bb grid_id=\u00bbvc_gid:1476475736525-700844d2-f6cb-9″ include=\u00bb13085″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]14 de octubre de 2016<\/p>\n

\u00bfEs la innovaci\u00f3n algo inherentemente bueno? \u00bfEs neutral la tecnolog\u00eda? \u00bfSe cambian las relaciones de poder con decisiones tecnol\u00f3gicas?\u00a0 \u00bfTienen pol\u00edtica los artefactos?<\/p>\n

Esas y otras interrogantes ser\u00e1n abordadas por el fil\u00f3sofo de la tecnolog\u00eda Langdon Winner<\/strong> \u2014te\u00f3rico pol\u00edtico de fama internacional enfocado en el impacto social y pol\u00edtico de los cambios tecnol\u00f3gicos de la actualidad\u2014, quien estar\u00e1 el martes 18 de octubre, a las 11:30am, en el Teatro de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Bayam\u00f3n <\/strong>(UPRB) ofreciendo su Lecci\u00f3n Magistral The Cult of Innovation: Its Colorful Myths and Rituals <\/strong>(El culto a la innovaci\u00f3n: Sus coloridos mitos y rituales).<\/p>\n

La Rectora de UPRB, la Prof. Margarita Fern\u00e1ndez Zavala, se\u00f1al\u00f3 que \u201c\u00e9sta es la primera vez que estudiantes, acad\u00e9micos y p\u00fablico general tendr\u00e1n acceso directo a una figura como la de Langdon Winner. Su presencia en UPRB y en Puerto Rico es de extrema importancia. UPRB es un recinto STEM (S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineeryng and M<\/strong>athematics) con un fuerte componente en tecnolog\u00eda y ciencias, por lo que es parte de nuestra gesti\u00f3n que tanto profesores como estudiantes tengan acceso a los pensadores vanguardistas en estos campos. En el caso del pa\u00eds\u201d, agreg\u00f3, \u201ctengamos en cuenta que muchas veces las decisiones tecnol\u00f3gicas se toman sin considerar el impacto social o las relaciones econ\u00f3micas de poder de esas decisiones, o sin entender o partir de sus aspectos filos\u00f3ficos, que es donde aporta la academia. En ese sentido\u201d, agreg\u00f3, \u201cel pensamiento y las aportaciones de Winner pueden iluminar lo que estamos haciendo en el presente, cuando estamos mitificando la tecnolog\u00eda y la innovaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de sus verdaderos alcances\u201d.<\/p>\n

Por su parte, la Prof. Josefa Santiago, presidenta del Comit\u00e9 de Lecci\u00f3n Magistral de UPRB, apunt\u00f3 que \u201cWinner no es antitecnolog\u00eda. Sin embargo\u201d, subray\u00f3, \u201ctiene una actitud cr\u00edtica hacia la tecnolog\u00eda. Ante el hecho de que \u00e9sta se ha convertido en objeto de culto por parte de la sociedad, nos parece pertinente que haya qui\u00e9n la cuestione y nos haga reflexionar sobre sus m\u00e9ritos. Entre las figuras m\u00e1s importantes de este campo a nivel mundial, Winner es el m\u00e1s acucioso.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winner \u2014quien ostenta un Doctorado en Ciencias Pol\u00edticas de la Universidad de Berkeley (California) y ha ofrecido cursos y conferencias en todo el planeta\u2014 ha se\u00f1alado que \u201cla palabra innovaci\u00f3n<\/strong> est\u00e1 hoy d\u00eda en boca de todo mundo y es objeto de fascinaci\u00f3n para las universidades, los gobiernos, las corporaciones y los j\u00f3venes que est\u00e1n planificando sus carreras. Vista como necesaria para el mejoramiento de todo, se la mira como algo inherentemente bueno y esencial en el \u00e9xito, prosperidad y fama de quien domine sus secretos. Pero\u201d, se pregunta Langdon, \u201c\u00bfc\u00f3mo ha llegado a ser objeto de un culto tan grande y acr\u00edtico? \u00bfC\u00f3mo actos de destrucci\u00f3n y disrupci\u00f3n han llegado a ser parte de su magia?\u201d<\/p>\n

La Lecci\u00f3n Magistral de Langdon Winner ser\u00e1 en ingl\u00e9s. La entrada es gratis.<\/p>\n

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Langdon Winner<\/strong> is a political theorist who focuses upon social and political issues that surround modern technological change.\u00a0 He holds the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Among his writings are Autonomous Technology<\/em>, a study of the idea of \u00abtechnology-out-of-control\u00bb in modern social thought and The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Langdon received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.\u00a0 Over the years he has taught at The University of Leiden, U.C. Santa Cruz, U.C.LA., College of the Atlantic, M.I.T., Havey Mudd College, and Colgate. He is past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.\u00a0 A sometime rock critic, he has written for Rolling Stone Magazine <\/em>and other publications.\u00a0 He produced, played piano and \u201csang\u201d on the tongue-in-cheek rock album, \u201cThe Masked Marauders.\u201d\u00a0 In 2010 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study changes brought to Spanish politics by creative use of the Internet.\u00a0 During the past decade he has lectured widely at universities in China and Europe.<\/p>\n

A skeptic about attempts to transform education through infusions of new technology, his satirical 2001 video lecture on YouTube, \u201cIntroducing the Automatic Professor Machine,\u201d anticipates today\u2019s commodity-driven logic of MOOCs and nebulous education on the Cloud.\u00a0 Professor Winner\u2019s thoughts on a variety of issues \u2013 energy, climate change, surveillance, public education, technologies for people with disabilities, The Anthropocene, etc. \u2013 appear regularly in his blog, Technopolis<\/em>.\u00a0 Not at all \u201canti-technology,\u201d Prof. Winner advocates democratic, P2P, open source, free knowledge approaches to social and political life as well as concerted research and development to realize a truly sustainable, zero carbon society.\u00a0 At present he is working on two books \u2013 Political Artifacts <\/em>(a collection of his essays) and The Revolt Against Technology<\/em>, a study of the contributions of post WW II American social critics.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space]

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