Produção Nacional
The baffling concept of technical mediation in Bruno Latour
2015; School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v9i1p167-185
ISSN1982-8160
AutoresLúcia Santaella, Tarcísio Cardoso,
Tópico(s)Education and Digital Technologies
ResumoThis article seeks to contribute to the discussion of Bruno Latour’s and others’ actornetwork theory (ANT), in the hope that it will shed new light on theories of the social, theories of networks, and to interdisciplinary studies, especially regarding technique and its relation to communication and culture. For this, the concept of technical mediation will be explained in its relation with the notions of translation, actant, flat anthology, and sociotechnical assemblage. Thus a theoretical construct is developed which is antagonistic to the old dichotomies that radiate from a laggard Cartesianism which even today remain under the most varied, often unrecognized forms
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