Social inclusion and virtualization:

scenes of ideological work from “Portal Saber” (San Luis, 2021)

Abstract

The reflections in this article are triggered by the transformations that labor market inclusion policies in San Luis, Argentina, experienced during the pandemic time. Two of the main local initiatives -the “Plan de Inclusión social” and the “Programa Juventud”- adapted their implementation through a mandatory virtual training platform, seeking to continue the consideration of state assistance. In this way, under the paradigm of the digital age, since February 2021, the "Portal Saber" structures the actions of its beneficiaries anchoring them to the screens, superimposing the measurement of hourly time with the accumulation of scores and the instructive evaluation. In the same direction, its staging designates an equivalence between the compulsive sequence of viewing/listening to videos and the practice of trades. The discussion that we propose aims to recognize the hypertrophy of this modality within what was the context of the pandemic of the year 2021, demarcating the logic of regulation of the body and the space associated with the procedural imperative of work. We start from an analytical exercise on the ideals of "inclusion" and "rights", to be investigated within a corpus of documentary material that includes reports, advertisements and news on the aforementioned initiative.