Relacionalidades humano-artefactuales. Lecturas de otra filosofía de la técnica

FISCHETTI, NATALIA

Culture Machine

Radical Open Access Collective

Año: 2022 vol. 21

Every epistemology refers to ontology. Relational ontologiesquestion disciplinary knowledge and bet on multi-agentialoverlaps and entanglements between human beings and artifacts.This article interlinks some bets arising from a feminist,neomaterialist and posthumanist philosophy of technics, whichI regard as a dialogical compost for technoscience: I connectKaren Barad’s agential realism and its category of intra-actionwith Lucy Suchman’s notion of interdependence, JudyWajcman’s proposal of a technofeminist co-constitution withMaría Puig de la Bellacasa’s matters of care, and all, of course,with Donna Haraway’s response-ability. That is, I regard allthese bets as sympoietically intertwined, and generative of eachother. Far from being static, apparatuses reconfigure the worldgiven by Barad’s material-discursive intra-actions,performativities open to rearticulations, relationalities thatproduce phenomena in the dynamic agency of the world.Suchman aims to understand this mutual constitution of agencybetween humans and artifacts in their dynamic andinterdependent relationships, while identifying the differencesand particularities that distinguish the specific assemblages ofhumans and non-humans. Aware to these sociomaterialpractices, Wajcman sustains the mutual constitution of genderand technoscience from what she calls technofeminism. ForPuig de la Bellacasa, the interdependence between humans andartifacts is assumed from a commitment to care practicescoupled with the sociotechnical relationships of things, humanand non-human. Haraway exhorts us to response-ability inpractices attending to situated technological projects and theirpeople. In a relational material-semiotic world it is necessary tothink with situated relational categories. In any case, it is aboutfeminist epistemological policies committed to the present, ofintertwined configurations, affinities and articulations tocontinue with the problem of thinking about technoscience forother possible worlds.