Educação no regime de informação: um pano de fundo da tarefa de educar na positividade

Abstract

This study investigates, explicates, and analyzes, from a transdisciplinary perspective, the characteristics of contemporary social organization. It begins with the neoliberal narrative and proceeds through the social structure shaped by an unproductive and surveillancebased capitalism, which precarizes labor, dehumanizes individuals, and reduces us to mere cattle-like producers and consumers of data. This system profiles and influences us, stripping away our freedom of choice (in consumption and beyond) while also hijacking our attention, as explicitly discussed by Dowbor and Zuboff. The analysis then moves to the superstructure, where a form of psychopolitical domination prevails—one that preaches freedom but, in reality, produces self-coercion. This model gives rise to psychological and behavioral dilemmas in narcissistic individuals, desperate for authenticity and performance, yet increasingly depressed and anxious, entangled in a deep identity crisis—a phenomenon that signals the collapse of truth and temporality, as evidenced by Han. The study then unveils how this logic affects younger generations, who are more vulnerable to the pre-conscious and addictive strategies of digital social networks, as demonstrated by Haidt. Finally, it examines the challenges of contemporary education, offering a critique of new educational methodologies that capitalize on psychopolitical mechanisms. While these methodologies promise effectiveness, they fail to transcend the logic of adaptation denounced by Freire, who would classify them under the "banking model" of education. The study seeks to validate Freire’s transformative educational approach for the present day, proposing new possibilities within this emerging social context