César Rendueles

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César Rendueles, 2015

César Rendueles (born January 1, 1975 in Girona ) is a Spanish sociologist , university professor, intellectual and essayist .

Life

Rendueles grew up in Gijon .

He earned an academic doctorate in philosophy , was assistant professor at the University of Carlos III and visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia . He has been teaching sociology at the Complutense University in Madrid since 2014 . He was a founding member of the Ladinamo group , which published the magazine of the same name, which dealt with cultural and social developments in Latin America . For eight years (2003–2012) he was artistic director of art projects at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (art association) in Madrid. As an essayist, he frequently writes on epistemology , political philosophy and cultural criticism in specialist journals.

He was the editor of two compilations of works by Karl Marx : an anthology by Das Kapital (2010) and a collection of texts on historical materialism (2012). He also published classic essays by authors such as Walter Benjamin , Karl Polanyi and Jeremy Bentham and published many of his own translations . In 2011 he was curator of the major capital exhibition Walter Benjamin: Constellations . As a critic and intellectual he often writes for El Pais in cultural journalism .

His book Sociofobia: El cambio político en la era de la utopía digital (2013) had a great impact on the public and was featured as one of the ten “books of the year” by the national Spanish daily El País . In it, the author critically examines the importance of social networks and the Internet for political options. His result is that their effect is corrosive and generates an impoverished rather than a self-esteem increasing social reality by lowering self-confidence about how helpful political interventions or personal relationships can be expected.

He first questions the ideological consensus regarding the ability of communication technologies to trigger positive social dynamics. In a second step, his analysis of capitalist society shows that it is a system that has a destructive effect on community relationships and places isolated citizens at the center of political rescue attempts. Concepts such as the critical technical term “cyber fetishism” are the focus of this approach.

With his book Capitalismo canalla, Rendueles travels through the last centuries of European cultural and social history and annotates well-versed and incisive recurring manifestations of the "demon" using literary representations and quotations. For example, he quotes Bernard Mandeville's "bee fable" from 1714 and shows that such phenomena have survived to the present day. Using works from world literature, he examines, among other things, the question of why we “accept forms of subordination that we would find repulsive in any other area of ​​our life” in the world of gainful employment.

In his book Los bienes comunes. ¿Oportunidad o espejismo? (2016), which is not yet available in German, he is concerned with the question of whether common goods , such as those represented by Wikipedia, could mean opportunity or “deceptive reflection”.

César Rendueles lives and works in Madrid .

Works

  • Sociofobia: El cambio político en la era de la utopía digital , Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México 2013. ISBN 978-607-31-2787-5 .
  • Capitalismo canalla. Una historia personal del capitalismo a través de la literatura , Seix Barral 2015
    • Canal capitalism - A literary journey through the history of the free market economy , Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-12737-7 .
  • En bruto. Una reivindicación del materialismo histórico , Los Libros de la Catarata 2016, ISBN 978-84-9097-172-7 .
  • Los bienes comunes. ¿Oportunidad o espejismo? (with Joan Subirats ), Icaria Editorial 2016, ISBN 978-84-9888-736-5 .

Web links

Commons : César Rendueles  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Prof. Cesar Rendueles , ucm.es, accessed December 2, 2019
  2. ↑ César Rendueles short biography , accessed December 2, 2019 (English)
  3. ↑ Article by Rendueles in El Pais , accessed December 2, 2019
  4. ↑ Conversation with Spanish social critic César Rendueles , networkcultures.org of October 25, 2014, accessed December 2, 2019 (English)
  5. ↑ Why digital utopias weaken cooperation, explains César Rendueles , taz of March 5, 2016, accessed December 3, 2019
  6. ↑ Present diagnosis : "Wir Lifetime Sellers" , sueddeutsche.de of November 28, 2018, accessed December 2, 2019
  7. ↑ Instituto Cervantes: César Rendueles and Raul Zelik , literaturfest-muenchen.de of November 19, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Rendueles, César
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish sociologist, university professor, intellectual and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH 1st January 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Girona , Spain