III International City and Philosophy Congress

New citizenships for a collapsing globalization

18-20 october 2023

Since the 1990s, the combination of information technologies, free flow of capital and increased mobility of people and goods has entered into an accelerated synergistic relationship that has channeled the original optimism of the legal-political and socioeconomic theories of globalization towards a horizon of energetic and civilizational collapse. This model of globalization, despite its initial intentions, has endangered the sustainability over time of both our economic-productive models and the juridical-political institutions based on them.

The last three decades have been marked by a large number of practical and theoretical proposals that could offer new alternatives and possibilities to the hegemonic functioning of globalization at the local, regional, state and global levels. However, their failure to constitute a unified alternative capable of confronting the established paradigm has led many intellectuals to consider that a systemic collapse of the current socioeconomic and legal-political mode of operation of globalization is inevitable. In many cases, they have begun to think of new models of operation for a post-collapse world and/or a world progressively and inevitably approaching cataclysm. Faced with this horizon, the III International Congress on City and Philosophy opened a space for inter and multidisciplinary reflection on the limitations and possibilities of our current model of citizenship in its close relationship with the direction that social, legal, economic and political processes have taken since the onset of globalization.

II International Congress on City and Philosophy

Imagine, (co)live and inhabit

Santiago of Chile, October 5-7, 2022

Beyond the simple projected physical space and/or the technical infrastructure built, the city is also the locus of encounter between its inhabitants, and therefore the public sphere from which those facets and ways of life, formal and informal, that structure a certain way of inhabiting and coexisting in the common space that sustains shared political identities and projects from a myriad of different points of view.

The II International Congress on City and Philosophy opens a call for papers for the presentation of all those communications that provide current reflections on the social and political implications of the current way in which we imagine, live together and inhabit the urban space from which we constitute ourselves as a community.

I International Congress on City and Philosophy

Recover utopia in times of Crisis

Online edition, October 6-8, 2021

The utopian impulse has been one of the main driving forces behind the interdisciplinary conception of cities, which affects both their sociopolitical and technical-spatial dimensions. From this point of view, utopias have never been naive fantasies with which to escape from reality, as has been well demonstrated by the fact that the utopian thought of the last 500 years has always been behind the great civilizational projects launched throughout the world. In addition, they have always marked the direction to follow, despite the fact that the result obtained has never coincided with the predetermined objective or goal.

Although the western utopian dimension preserved its unitary character during previous times, the partial realization of many of those that until the 20th century had been considered unattainable dreams or merely tendential has irrevocably exploded that unity. This fragmentation is what has favored the appearance of both its dystopian reverses and the problematic post-utopian specters that haunt us today.

This congress seeks to create a framework that fosters an international reflection in which different researchers identify and synthesize the main issues of the post/dys/utopian that current realism and/or presentist pragmatism have failed to eradicate.