Human rights. Abstraction, homogenization and domination

Abstract

The following work’s purpose is to stem a series of proposals which I’ve been building from what I call pedagogy of forgetting. The theme of human rights has to do with a chimera that is usually sold to us as a task of modernity and this task prostrates in the individuals what should have been looked at the logic of vivid human rights, what they’re really living is their absence. If we look at abstract concepts, submerging those who suffer, who live their absence in eternal waiting, a situation that turns into an emergency if those who have waited truly live in despair. What to do then? Investing in the matter knowing the problem is badly planted and has to do with the need of borrowing from another concept of time which until now is linear, homogeneous and empty, because of the need of having to make things happen here and now. That entrails a different pedagogy where the one learning has to acquire a different concept of time, which carries a different idea of experience and event as well. Living said event as a breaking point and changing the course of a life, is presented here as two starting points to promote. These ideas inspired in Jews such as Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin amongst others, in reality, they strip down the way how western thinking can be sustained on a profound disdain for humane traits and different cultural manifestations that are being presented to us as a melting pot instead of homogeneous and standardized.