IV ISA Forum of Sociology (February 23-28, 2021)

In the last years, two particularly important phenomena have had a decisive impact on the configurations of collective life and on the processes of subjectivation, namely, the consolidation of social networks and the emergence of new right-wing movements challenging the democratic ethos. In relation to social networks, new ways of establishing connections between subjects have been configured, which cut across geographical boundaries and alter perceptions of temporality, allowing the establishment of affective bonds between distant people and, not infrequently, though mostly unintentionally,T, causing ruptures between people who are otherwise close. The use of algorithms in the manipulation of information has proven to be a constitutive element of these new networks, with perverse consequences for the social bond, replacing the logic of dialogue by the logic of aggression. On the other hand, the new right-wing movements have been tensioning historical conquests that aimed to broaden the range of potential identities, putting violence and intolerance to diversity back on the agenda of the day. 

The complexity of these issues requires efforts transcending disciplinary boundaries, demanding theoretical constructions that allow us to think about the implications of these phenomena from multiple perspectives. The purpose of this session is to encourage dialogue between sociology and psychoanalysis in their multiple contexts, in order to explain possible forms of collaboration to think about these recent transformations in their double register, that is, the social bond and the subjective configurations.