Human rights for the World 2.0?

Abstract

It seems undeniable that the arousal and development of new technologies have caused material transformation of the world. This change, in the middle of which we currently live, can be read in different ways, namely as an e-topy –as W. Mitchell suggests– or as a hyper-reality –according to J. Baudrillard–. A reflection on these confronted views and their potential applicability to the contemporary world can offer an approximate basement for a new concept of subject, which could work well for its new postmodern condition, as a fictional protagonist of a 2.0 world. Starting from these theoretic premises, a necessary redesign of the so called “Human Rights” must be justified; these modern rights don’t match anymore with the notion of a postmodern subject that has already overtaken the principles that gave birth to that juridical frame. Therefore, the consequence of a change in the material conditions of our world is that we must rethink its main ideas, and, of course, among them, Human Rights, which play a fundamental role in the contemporary philosophical thought.