Mediatization, polarization, and intolerance (between environments, media, and circulation)

51 Mediatization and virtuality in human sciences: An announced crossroads Tiago Quiroga 1 Abstract: The current economic form par excellence, neoliberal- ism undertakes transformations in the area of labor that do not allow to disassociate it from the phenomenon of mediatization. The novelty resides in visibility and circulation as foundational devices of post-industrial economies. Among the results of the new regime would be the atrophying of the virtuality of time as a difference of the humanities. Established due to its emancipato- ry dimension, such virtuality oriented not only diverse answers to the dialectics between knowledge and social form, but above all the very alterity of human sciences. Today, however, it seems to wither, and in the wake of its retraction remains the knowl- edge as management of social behavior. Keywords: Mediatization. Humanities. Neoliberalism. Episte- mology. Present time. I. Introduction Responsible for the formulation of a teleological time, that is, one that predicted a direction or a realization of history, the philosophies of Kant and Hegel prepare the emergence of an immanent time, fundamental to the order of knowledge, espe- cially to the so-called human sciences (QUIROGA, 2013). From the unfolding (and criticism) of the authors’ work, wemove on to comprehensive intelligibility, aware of the historicity of time, the 1 Associate Professor at Faculty of Communication at Universidade Nacional de Bra- sília. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9095-1034 E-mail: tagorj@terra.com.br