Guanajuato, Gto., August 19, 2016.- Considered as one of the most influential thinkers at the time, the philosopher, sociologists and French Prime Minister, Gilles Lipovetsky will visit Guanajuato to dictate the master conference "From the lightness," next Thursday August 25th 2016 at 18:00, at UG's General Hall.

The PhDs Javier Corona Fernández, current rector of Campus Guanajuato; Aureliano Ortega Esquivel, Director of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities (DCSH) of Campus Guanajuato, and Luis Fernando Macías, Director of the DCSH of Campus León, will be responsible for presenting and moderating the conference given by Lipovetsky, same that will be dictated in French with simultaneous translation into Spanish for the attendants.

"From the lightness" is the title of Lipovetsky's most recent publication in Editorial Anagrama and will be the central topic of the conference that he will offer for the people in Guanajuato. Lightness that, in the philosopher's words, "it manifests in all or almost all aspects of the occidental world. From plastic arts to the industry of energy, from informatics to the consumer practices of education and sports and body culture, from technology to medicine, from design to sexual relationships, from the collective imaginary to individual fantasies, the ghost of lightness, miniaturization, provisionally, the freedom from all bindings, the evanescence, frivolity and virtuality that goes through Occident as an expression of desires, aspiration, dreams, hopes and utopias. Lightness is <>: we are in the civilization of the light."

The French scholar has been invited by Campus Guanajuato, Direction of Extension, DCSH Campus León and Campus Guanajuato, and the Class José Revueltas of Philosophy and Literature, with the objective to strengthen and encourage the humanist formation and the liaison of the university community with the discussions in international spaces.