Critique of the Filter Bubblethrough Otherness in Lévinas and Dussel
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Otherness., Ontology., Metaphysics., Ethics., Filter Bubble, Internet.Abstract
The philosophy of Otherness and therefore Philosophy of Liberation was born as a response to the absolutisation of Western Philosophy, to the Ontology that oppresses and forgets about the Other, and to Capitalism that reduces the Other to the workforce all this under the deceitful veil of universal objectivity. For Emmanuel Lévinas Otherness is an ethical response to the affiliation of his teacher Heidegger to Nazism. Enrique Dussel goes beyond the abstract plane of levinisian critique adding a thorough reading of Marx and applying it to a critique on Capitalism as the oppressive Ontology in praxis. This article discusses how the Internet, the most important means of communication of this generation, has become another totalizing system, which, under the same deceitful veil of universal objectivity, hides, suppresses, and forgets about the concern for the Other. This will be based on the text The Filter Bubble (2011) where Eli Pariser talks about how the Internet has become a personal experience profiled to each user. Thus, this article asserts that the Internet, through the filter bubble, is another system that hides the oppression of the Other, while the subject thinks he or she is accessing a platform of objective information and socialization. What really occurs is a perpetuating of the ‘Sameness’ of the subject.
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