Digithum

Aims & Scope

Digithum applies a relational perspective in the analysis of our subjective experiences, our social ties, and our cultural heritage. These objects of study can be approached and studied from different disciplines: sociological/social theory, historical sociology, sociology of culture and sociology of emotions, cultural theory, film theory, information sciences, art and humanities. We are also particularly interested in their dialogue. Each issue of this journal will focus on a particular question or theme that we will announce in due course in a call for papers, although they will all be connected with the axial questions of the various ways in which we can analyze, understand, and explain the individual and collective ways of creating and feeling part of society and its cultural processes from a relational perspective, focusing on the relational ties that we weave with each other and that constitute us, within our society, as members of a specific place. The name of our publication refers to the distance between us as a whole and ourselves, between our subjective experience and our cultural heritage, which constitutes our culture in a process of unfinished interrelationality. Simmel defined culture as the continuum between objective culture and subjective culture; a process that is always necessarily mediated. People have the capacity to create objects imbued with meaning that survive them, and then shape the lives of other people who in many cases had no direct contact with the people who materialized what they wanted to convey. In fact, our lives are always constructed from this anonymous heritage that we encounter the moment we arrive in the world. In this sense, we are heirs, we weave our social relationships and identities on the shoulders of other people and generations, and we become giants on the shoulders of many people. We live our lives by taking advantage of millions of past objects, social forms, traditions, languages, presences, entities, and institutions that may have disappeared, and we personify this heritage according to the conditions under which we can live and create our lives. Digithum aims to address and analyze these relational ties, the materialized fingerprints (digitum) and their productive force, their consequences and forms of expression, especially at a time of profound transformation in objective culture and in the ways of relating to others, to culture, and through it. New media, computer-mediated communication, mobile phones, the internet... all these digital devices and spaces have changed the way we move through our daily lives, connect with others, receive and transmit our heritage. The fingerprint (digitum) has become a digital footprint. New forms and possibilities for preserving and transmitting culture correspond to new ways of creating subjectivities, memory, and oblivion, some sought and desired, others unintentional and undesired, as a result of past actions and decisions.

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