Technological Advances and New Ecosocial and Affective Solidarities

In this context of a crisis of values and ideologies in the 21st century, we believe that technological advances are contributing to the creation of new generations of narcissistic and fragile individuals and, conversely, individuals who have a deeper existential and affective awareness of reality. On the one hand, we observe with concern artificial intelligence taking the form of an active and autonomous agency in the organisation of cultural institutions and collective and individual subjectivities. However, in the opposite direction, we see ecosocial reactions in favour of new processes of moral, affective and political individuation. These new physical and virtual associative networks have enabled the emergence of experiences of democratisation of everyday life at local, national and transnational levels that facilitate a new ecosocial consciousness. These reactions generate new processes of collective and individual subjectivisation that allow for the formation of more affective and loving solidarity networks. It's as if the risk of the climate crisis has led those individuals who are more sensitive to the phenomenon of finitude to develop new survival strategies based on more intense and lasting affective and loving ties. It's as if the risk of the climate crisis has led those individuals who are more sensitive to the phenomenon of finitude to develop new survival strategies based on more intense and lasting affective and loving ties. The number of individuals involved in caring for the most vulnerable or who co-operate in the production of solidarity economy or agro-ecoology is growing. This process is necessary for the advancement of a humanist movement that articulates individual and collective rights, respecting the coexistence between humans and non-humans, between culture and nature.