Open AccessLa universidad en estado (a)crítico: entre la tecnocracia y la burocracia
Author(s) -
Stéphane Torres,
Leonardo Ruiz Gómez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
estudios filosofía/historia/letras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0185-6383
DOI - 10.5347/01856383.0138.000301211
Subject(s) - technocracy , legitimacy , bureaucracy , political science , humanities , meaning (existential) , power (physics) , state (computer science) , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , law , politics , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
The university, insofar as its main objective is the generation of knowledge, is constantly in a state of crisis. However, it is currently in an uncritical period regarding the power dynamics that have shaped its development in the last century. In this text, bureaucracy and technocracy are analyzed as control structures that determine the university in their own designs. From the acquisition of various functions outside its original objective, and from the transfer of legitimacy to other external bodies, the university has uncritically adopted an imposition of meaning that gradually leads to irrelevance. Only critical reflection and the unconditional search for truth can restore it to the central place it deserves in modern societies.