Abstract

SALGADO, Mara. Corpo, técnica e jogo na infância: notas da teoria crítica de theodor w. Adorno. child.philo [online]. 2019, vol.15, e36602.  Epub Jan 02, 2019. ISSN 1984-5987.  https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2019.36602.

The article presents considerations about childhood in Critical Theory of Theodor Adorno, focusing on the reflections about the body, technique and game that mark childhood as another reason. Childhood is portrayed by Adorno as a place of the first utopias, the longed for and always uninhabited homeland that becomes false to any rescue attempt, but illuminates the desire once experienced in a game with body and thought, dream and reality, the experience of another order of reason that feeds the memory of the animal nature of the human, without, however, being exempt from the dominant historical forces that affect the processes of subjectivation. Such reflections start from writings of Adorno and from what his dialogues with interlocutors, such as Walter Benjamin, Freud and Huizinga, can elicit in the analysis of the theme. In a second movement of the text, to understand the limits and potentialities of the current dynamics of technology-mediated play, we have taken as an example some studies about the virtual reality, especially of electronic games in opposition to Huizinga's theory about the character sacred in the game. Conjectures about how contact with reality is already damaged in childhood by the relationship with technology, establishing the search for immediate satisfaction, can reveal the quality of attention that children receive in educational processes and provide clues about the growing manifestation of socio-affective disorders, which culminates in the preference to dispose of the time and the body to the electronic jokes to the detriment of the real contact with the other children.

Keywords : childhood; body; technique; play; eletronic games; critical theory.

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