Spatial asepsis technologies: politics and control of life at the beginning of 20th-century in Costa Rica
This transdisciplinary article covers the stages that asepsis underwent to consolidate itself as a biopolitical technology in architecture and modern urbanism in Costa Rica. To this end, we review the infrastructures and policies linked to Dr. Carlos Durán Cartín, during the transition to the 20th C...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Academia XXII |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/88661 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/aca/article/view/88661 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Asepsis technology modernity space biopolitics Asepsia tecnología modernidad espacio biopolítica |
| Sumario: | This transdisciplinary article covers the stages that asepsis underwent to consolidate itself as a biopolitical technology in architecture and modern urbanism in Costa Rica. To this end, we review the infrastructures and policies linked to Dr. Carlos Durán Cartín, during the transition to the 20th Century and up until the mid-20th Century. It is concluded that there was an endemic drift in modern architecture, in which asepsis was a key player in the consolidation of a "civilizatory" project promoted by the country’s elites; this technology was initially implemented for the management of microorganisms, so as to serve the organization of human biological differentiation. |
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