Digitalize and Disappear

Anachronisms on Dematerialization and Education

Abstract

The essay, reconsidering the philosophy of education as a discipline at the crossroads between philosophy and pedagogy, assumes a critical-theoretical approach, developing the “anachrony” as a critical tool. Then the essay focuses on the digitalization processes, examining the transformations of space and time in social life and educational work. New forms of scarcity seem to arise from the de-materialization and de-bodyness of educational settings. The anthropological emptying of the “here”, the accelerated overdetermination of the “exterior”, the “present-remote” of school-life, open a new set of educational problems caused by the compression of spaces through time.