Introduction

Abstract

Following the consolidation of new global social dynamics and decisive technological developments during the transformation from Fordist to post-Fordist systems of production, twenty-first-century capitalist societies have generated new systems of exploitation, flexible work and conditions of precarity, other systems of domination, social exclusion and forms of violence against vulnerable groups and subjects in resistance, as well as unprecedented modes of communication that directly influence our political decision-making. In this context arises the need to return to the question of the human and one of its distinctive conditions: subjectivity. What defines the concept of subjectivity? In what sense can we be called subjects? What implications do the social dynamics of contemporary societies have for the formation of new subjectivities?