Abstract
The objective of this text is to analyze the act of reading intertwined with Lacan's concepts of the gaze and objet petit a. The text is divided into three parts. The first part presents Lacan's ideas about object a, the gaze and the search for that object. The second attempts to show that the so-called new technologies are associated with a kind of active lethargy, which implies the dangerous occurrence of a discard culture embodied in the memory cards of those devices. The third part discusses, based on the ideas presented in preceding sections, how reading can take place in the classroom through the use of new or old luminosities.
Keywords:
search; new luminosities; reading