Videographers from Recife (Brazil), San José (Costa Rica), Paris (France), Athens (Greece), and Los Angeles, California (USA) present new videos for the series “The Futures We Want: Voices from …”.
Does birth have a future? Will the new people come into the world like always before? Or will there be a brave new world with babies started in vitro and finished in artificial wombs?
How shall sociology contend with collective uncertainty and the radical change in the human time horizon? – Some philosophical and sociological challenges
Sociology is provincial. As a disciplinary formation institutionalized in North America and Europe, it is particularistic and parochial while masquerading as universal.
Alienation is a pervasive mal-condition of human beings. Once its meaning and its range become clear, it becomes an inescapable key to understanding the contemporary human condition.
