Crise de narrativas da pós-modernidade à inteligência artificial

Abstract

This work seeks some avenues to analyze the origin of the current context of fragmentation of narratives and crisis of trust, especially in the western context of digital networks. First, an investigation into the history of modernist and postmodernist arts and culture helps to perceive steady changes towards the politicization of aesthetics. This occurs, in particular, as one advances in postmodernity: artistic and cultural rebellion, largely in response to traumas that affected the entire world, contributes to the fragmentation of styles — and narratives. Modernist philosophy, especially with Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, records the gradual change of intellectuality in relation to truth, objectivity and the very function of philosophy in society. Postmodern thinking deepens skepticism, including about the ideas of universality and neutrality — of principles, ethics, and logic itself. Also in this sense, this work analyzes the first generation of the Frankfurt School and post-structuralism. Both contain elements central to theories linked to the main, increasingly socially relevant and socalled identitarianisms: those of women, LGBT and black people. These, in turn, can help to understand the spraying of narratives especially experienced in Western societies. Finally, the present work evaluates the possible influence of digital networks, search engines and Wikipedia in the conjuncture of friction, declining trust, formation of filter bubbles and increasing political-ideological polarization. Particularly, the role of search engine algorithms is investigated — in addition to the more specific cases of blockchain and deepfake algorithm-based technologies. In closing, there are questions that relate ethics, power, artificial intelligence and other elements of this study — with profound epistemological implications. Among them: should the algorithms that increasingly govern the lives of us all be guided, either partially or largely, by any identitarian theories?