On hope resistance

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https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2022.Especial.13536

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resistance, future studies, anticipation, utopic function, hope

Abstract

In this paper, I analyse our concept of resistance. I tell the difference between hope resistance and resistance tout court - the first figures out as a more basic phenomenon than the other. I specify the concept of hope resistance drawing upon the ontological and epistemological artillery of Bloch’s principle of hope. Accordingly, hope resistance is illustrated and explained through the concepts of possible futures, utopian function, anticipation and novum that nowadays are crucial to the new philosophical field of future studies. I bring examples of hope resistance drawing upon the history of feminism and the fictitious world of science fiction and crime series, particularly Black Mirror, Utopia, and Money Heist.

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Author Biography

  • Caterina Del Sordo, University of the Basque Country (Spain)

    Caterina Del Sordo is a Margarita Salas post-doctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country and visiting researcher at the University of Florence. She graduated in Philosophical Sciences at the University of Florence (2015). In 2021 she obtained a double joint Ph.D. in Basic Sciences and Applications and Filosofía, Ciencia y Valores at the University of Urbino (Italy) and the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Spain). Since 2016 she is a member of the research groups PRAXIS (UPV/EHU) and Qualitative Ontology and Technology (Qua-Onto-Tech, University of Florence). Her research interests include neutral monism, the philosophy of the early Carnap and anticipation studies.

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Del Sordo, C. (2022). On hope resistance. Prometeica - Journal of Philosophy and Science, Especial, 52-63. https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2022.Especial.13536
Received 2022-03-01
Accepted 2022-07-13
Published 2022-08-11