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The critique of essentialist critique of cyberculture
Author(s) -
André Lemos
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
matrizes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1982-8160
pISSN - 1982-2073
DOI - 10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v9i1p29-51
Subject(s) - cyberculture , essentialism , epistemology , argument (complex analysis) , vision , pessimism , criticism , perspective (graphical) , sociology , digital culture , critical theory , the internet , philosophy , political science , computer science , media studies , law , anthropology , biochemistry , chemistry , artificial intelligence , world wide web
The objective of this paper is to analyze the critical perspective of cyberculture from the discussion on the essence of technology. The article revisits the classic discussion about the essence of technology and updates it from the visions of the new critics of digital culture. The central argument is that traditional critical perspective (fundamentalist or pessimistic) fails to address the phenomena of digital culture by essentialist bias. It proposes an analysis of cyberculture by Actor-Network Theory (ART) since a focused view, stucked to the constituent networks of technical phenomenon, and attached to social associations may offer a solution to the empirical failure of criticism.

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