Fernando Flores Morador

Fernando Flores Morador (1950), philosopher and historian of ideas, born in Montevideo, Uruguay and working in Lund, Sweden since 1982. Flores Morador is known by his studies about the epistemology of the humanities and their importance in the development of culture. His work supposes a critical revision of some of the most important theses of historical materialism and of its applications to the study of civilizations. His is one of the founders of the [] Latin American Virtual University(UVLA).

The future and the new challenges of the Globalization of Culture

The research of Flores Morador has been focused in the understanding of the interconnectivity between the processes of Globalization, Postmodernism and Postcolonialism including the most important cultural manifestations that constitutes culture after the Second World War: the end of imperialisms and the digitalization of culture. That he want to understand are the consequences of this new era in contrast to the ideas of the Industrial Revolution and of Modernism. Interrelating aspects of culture, as the rise of popular culture, the human rights movements, feminism, the culture of resistance to globalization, Flores Morador recall in the importance of the new forms of art, the new media products, and the emerging social manifestations of massive communication. In this sense, he will understand the consequences of the “visual turn” in which visual representation became the most important communicative media. His work will also understand the complexity of the new society emerging in an IT dominated reality in which surveillance became “dataveillance” and in which doctors operate through robots.
Since its very beginnings, Flores Morador have working following the coordinates generated by the process of Globalization redirecting our research’s priorities according to the impact of these new realities on culture. This new parameters could be summarized as:

• Complex mutual interactivity between cultural manifestations based on the intensification of communication

• New forms of communication adopting digital forms

• Internationalization of perspectives making cultural studies more comparative than ever

Already in some of his first works Flores Morador (El Algoritmo de la Vida, 1994) showed that the challenges of the new millennium could not be managed following traditional paths; on the contrary, he showed that globalization demanded a complex approach in which the interaction of the different disciplines existing could be a positive capital. According to Flores Morador during the last fifteen years, the ways and forms through which people communicate changed revolutionarily. These changes have had an enormous impact on the practice and understanding of culture. The new technological resources show two fundamental characteristics, the digitalization of media and the increasingly interactivity of the media of communication. From the cultural point of view Flores Morador think that the actual world confronts with the challenge of understand the impact of the new digital technologies on culture and the new emerging cultural forms that in some way are connected to at time existing before the technological revolution.

Humanistic Informatics and Culture in the Digital Era
In his “Las Humanidades en la Era de la Globalización” (2002) Flores Morador showed that the Digital Era has grown at the shoulders of technological amateurs as Bill Gates and other regular consumers of communication’s services outside industry. The Digital Era is obviously connected to Postmodernism and to Globalization and not only to popular culture but also to popular science and popular technology. It brought together the viewer of television and the consumer of mass media, creating the conditions for the rise of “virtuality”. In our age, culture combines intentionality and information in every media, making knowledge and purpose digital and an inseparable part of every human action.

Comparative cultural studies
Global cultural studies -as Flores Morador understands it- means the study of cultural phenomena that give rise to the globalization of culture, phenomena as e.g. those with a scientific and technological character. Nevertheless, global culture studies can also be understood as the study of the culture that emerged as a consequence of Globalization. In short, the reference can be done both to the process of Globalization and to the resulting culture of Globalization. Working internationally with comparative cultural studies, Fernando Flores Morador has being a fundamental actor behind the creation in the last 90ties of an international network with Latin-American specialists around the world. The two most important international networks in the field of Global Cultural Studies are UVLA (Latin American Virtual University) and the RHLA (The Latin-American Humanist Network) which today connect daily more that two hundred researchers in this field working in each Latin American country, in the US and in Europe.

Publications since 1993

Available full texts

*1993, Lund: "Prolegomena för en filosofi om livet." (Libro, Filosofiska Institutionen).
*1994, Lund: "Livets Algoritm." (Libro, Filosofiska institutionen).
*1994, Lund: "El Algoritmo de la Vida." (Libro,Filosofiska institutionen).
*1995, Montevideo, Uruguay: "El Algoritmo de la Vida." (Libro, Fondo de Cultura Universitaria).
*1995, Santiago, Chile: "Paradojas de la Discriminación." (Artículo, Revista de Filosofía Vol. XLV-XLVI
Univ.de Chile).
*1996, Lund: "Siete Ensayos sobre la Libertad." (Libro, Heterogénesis)
*1997, Lund: "Primer Anuario del Seminario Latinoamericano de Filosofía e Historia de las Ideas."
(Libro, Heterogénesis).
*1997, Lund: "Apuntes para una Tipología del texto Filosófico Literario." (Artículo, Idé -och lärdomshistoria,).
*1998, Lund: "Virtual Organization. Political Power in the age of Internet." (Artículo, Idé -och
lärdomshistoria.).
*1998, Bergen, Norge: "Identidad de la filosofía Latinoamericana." (Artículo, Corriente del Golfo, 3-4, Bergen ).
*1999, Montevideo: "Organización Virtual. Poder y organización." Artículo, Montevideo.
*2000, Mexico: "A brief history of the computer." (Artículo, UNAM)
*2000, Mexico: "What is human and what is artificial in electronic communication." (Artículo, Rosenholmeren).
*2001, Lund: "Mellan åsikt och vittnesbörd. Amerika och Västerlandets arkaiska rötter." (Libro, Minervaserien
3).
*2003, Lund: "Från Columbus till Che. Latinamerikas idéhistoria." (Libro, Inst. för kulturvetenskaper).
*2004, Lund: "Från Rudbeck till Mandelbrot. Identifikation,imitation och komparation i nutidsvetenskap."
Minervaserien 9. (Libro, Inst. för kulturvetenskaper)
*2004, Lund: "Las Humanidades en la Era de la Globalización." (Libro, Inst. för kulturvetenskaper).
*2005, Lund: "The country of the social skyscrapers : Sweden 1930-1960". (Artículo, Inst. för kulturvetenskaper).
*2005, Lund: "1960-talets ungdomsrevolt och den sexuella revolutionen”. (Artículo, Inst. för
kulturvetenskaper):
*2005, Lund: "Den nya människan. En handbok om 1900-talets idéhistoria." (Libro, Inst. för kulturvetenskaper).
*2006, Sweden: "Om praxisbegreppet." Filosofiska citat. Felskrift till Svante Nordin. (Atlantis).
*2006, Sao Paulo, Brasil: "La filosofía matemática de Karl Marx en los manuscritos de 1881. Un esbozo."
(Artículo, Coautor: Mario Natiello).
*2007, Lund: "Postmodernism and the Digital Era." (Libro, Department of Informatics).

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