Return to nature in Latin America: Challenges of big data and artificial intelligence for Latin America integration in the transition from Knowledge Capitalism to post – humanism

Abstract

The emergence of a new technological and productive base focused on the development of the microprocessor and its articulation with organizational and work management forms linked to the valorization of the cognitive and creative capacities of the workforce allowed the unfolding of a new phase of development, or Knowledge Capitalism, enabling the overcoming of the crisis of Fordism-Keynesianism. This new economic structural base sustained the rise of the sphere of financial capital through big data and artificial intelligence, shaping a surveillance capitalism and its coercive state in the decline of its neoliberal modality. The current transition to a new global order poses serious challenges for the Latin American region, which appears to lack its own project for insertion and integration into the current landscape. The challenge takes on two dimensions of analysis: a social one linked to the absence of a historical subject of transformation; and a technological one, which is explored in this text as a transition towards posthumanism as a scenario of transcendence of the capitalist mode of production.