Latin America: Body, Memory and Cyberspace

Abstract

Human beings learn through the body, which implies a permanent but contingent crossing between perceptions, sensations and emotions. The ways to construct, distribute, and reproduce this knowledge stay and operate from individual memories (as a subject), social memories (as a subject belonging to a class), and collective memories (as a subject belonging to a class with particular identities). Parting from the existing studies on memory, body politics and cyberspace, this chapter describes ways in which these factors are shaped on the web, configuring political institutions, knowledge, and collective-action.Then, a conceptual map on the links between body, memory, emotions and cyberspace is presented. Finally, a possible agenda for Latin American social sciences is delineated, making a statement on the need of “emotional memory” approximations. Social and collective memory as a particularly important issue for Latin America, found in cyberspace a place where to build and re-build their central features.