Open AccessBodies Translating Bodies
Author(s) -
Alvise Mattozzi,
Laura Lucia Parolin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
science and technology studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2243-4690
DOI - 10.23987/sts.79694
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , agency (philosophy) , relation (database) , semiotics , actor–network theory , epistemology , reflection (computer programming) , computer science , sociology , aesthetics , art , philosophy , political science , law , database , programming language
STS and 'aesthetic studies' share an interest in artifacts and the aim to describe and analyse both artifacts and their agency. The present article contributes to such dialogue, first by reconstructing the relation between Actor-Network Theory and 'aesthetic studies' and then by proposing an analytical model enabling the description of 'aesthetic practices', by considering artifacts as bodies. Such model draws on Latour’s (2004) reflection about bodies, on Ingold’s (2007) one about materials and especially on Fontanille’s (2004) semiotics of the body. To illustrate the relevance of the model, the article offers a description-analysis of the development of a prototype of an electronic circuit designed for a data glove.