Mapas nocturnos y mediaciones diurnas

Abstract

In this essay, Colombian philosopher and essayist Jesús Martín-Barbero reflects on the transformations his work has gone through, from his initial attention to the question of the relation between media and mediation, and its connection to particular modes of seeing and listening structurally traversed by history and culture, to the issue of memory, history and temporality. Barbero emphasizes here the challenges that the singularity of Colombian reality pose to our colonized forms of doing history and telling the story of Colombian conflict, inviting us to reflect on the particular tasks that the current political and historical situation requires, if a real possibility of redistribution of power and political voice is ever to take place.  By expanding Heidegger’s reflections on technique and its relation to our contemporary forms of temporality, he invites us to look for potentialities and possibilities of critique and change in the new spaces given to us by “virtual” reality.