The Four-Screened Society: A Latin American Perspective
This book attempts to present evidence of the “Four-Screened Society”, such as the Latin American social fabric of the second decade of the 21st century. A dirtier, less fluid, more earthy form. It is close to the ground, to the street. It is nomadic. It moves. It is concrete.
The Knowledge Society in the peripheral world handles cognitive input well outside the academies and closer to where the action is. It lacks the reflexivity demanded by modernity, and is therefore incapable of imagining itself in a post-industrial era.
Plain knowledge has a perpetual empirical recording machine in the mobile telephone panopticon. It records still or moving images, geo-referenced sights and sounds, statements without intermediaries, and also allows access to the knowledge available on-line, dissolving the predominance of illuminist encyclopaedism. The tipping point in the second century of Latin American independencies.