Desclassification in knowledge organization: a post-epistemological essay

Authors

  • Antonio GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ

Keywords:

Classification, Digital network, Epistemology, Hermeneutics

Abstract

The contents of the digital network stem from different forms, logics and cultures of knowledge. Once on the Net, however, they
are all submitted to unifying formats and logics provided by digital technology itself. A technology is, first of all, the product of
a given culture. Every culture and identity classifies and names all kinds of material and symbolic objects. Nowadays, the West is
the one culture that has taken upon itself the task of global classification supported by its own digital networks. Classification is
an epistemological tool provided by modern rationality whose internal structures and modes of inference are derived from
metonymic, dichotomic and analogical reductions of the diversity of current worlds. In this paper, a kind of practical Hermeneutics, called “declassification”, is introduced and proposed as the route to a knowledge which overcomes organizational epistemology.
Declassification is an open system that installs logical pluralism in the core of understanding and enunciation processes through
meta-cognitive tools.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

APEL , O. La transformación de la filosofía. Madrid: Taurus, 1985.

BHABHA, H.K. The location of culture. New York: Routledge, 1994.

CAPURRO, R. Hermeneutics and the phenomenon of information. In: Mitcham, C. (Ed.). Metaphysics, epistemology and technology: research in philosophy and technology. New York: Elsevier, 2000. v.19, p.79-85.

COSTA , N.C.A. O conhecimento cientifico. São Paulo: Discurso, 1997.

DELEUZE, G.; GUATTARI, F. Mil mesetas: capitalismo y esquizofrenia. Valencia: Pretextos, 1994.

ECO, H. Kant y el ornitorrinco. Barcelona: Lumen, 1999.

ELSTER, J. Ulises y las sirenas: estudios sobre racionalidad e irracionalidad. México: FCE, 1989.

FOUCAULT, M. Microfísica del poder. Madrid: Las Ediciones de la Piqueta, 1979.

GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ, A. La memoria subrogada: mediación, cultura y conciencia en la red digital. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2002a.

GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ, A. Knowledge Organization from a “Culture of the Border”: towards a transcultural ethics of mediation. In: López Huertas, M.J. (Ed.). Proceedings of the Seventh International Isko Conference: advances in knowledge organization. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2002b. v.8, p.516-522.

GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ, A. Fijaciones: estudios sobre tecnologías, culturas y políticas de la memoria. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2005.

GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ, A. Desclasificados: pluralismo lógico y violencia de la clasificación. Barcelona: Anthropos, 2007.

GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ, A. Dialéctica de la exomemoria. In: Valle, C., et al. (Ed.). Contrapuntos y entrelíneas sobre cultura, comunicación y discurso. Temuco, Valparaíso: Universidad de la Frontera, 2008a. p.232-260.

GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ, A. Outra memória é possível: estratégias descolonizadoras do arquivo mundial. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2008b.

GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ, A. La identidad excesiva. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2009.

GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ, A. Epistemología de la documentación. Barcelona: Stonberg, 2011.

HARDT, M.; NEGRI, A. Imperio. Barcelona: Paidós, 2002.

HEGEL, G.W.F. Fenomenología del espíritu. 7. reimp. Madrid: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000.

HORKHEIMER, M.; ADORNO, T. Dialéctica de la ilustración. Madrid: Trotta, 2006.

LEWIS, D. On the plurality of worlds. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

MIGNOLO, W. Historias locales, diseños globales: colonialidad, conocimiento subalterno y pensamiento fronterizo. Madrid: Akal, 2003.

MIGNOLO, W.; SCHIWY, F. Transculturation and the colonial difference: double translation. Información y Comunicación, n.4, p.6-28, 2007.

MORIN, E. Introducción al pensamiento complejo. Barcelona: Gedisa, 1996.

OLSON, H. Transgressive deconstructions feminist/postcolonial methodology for research in knowledge organisation. In: Frías, J.A.; Travieso, C. (Ed.). Tendencias en

organización del conocimiento/trends in knowledge organisation research. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 2003. p.731-740.

OLSON, H.; NIELSEN, J.; Dippie, S. Enciclopaedist rivalry, classificatory commonality, Illusory Universality. In: López Huertas, M.J. (Ed.). Proceedings of the Seventh International Isko Conference: advances in knowledge organization. Würzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2002. v.8, p.457-464.

PEÑA, L. Algunas aplicaciones filosóficas de lógicas multivalentes. Theoria, n.16-18, p.141-163, 1992. Disponible en: <http://www.sorites.org/lp/articles/logica/aplicaci.htm>.

RORTY, R. La filosofía y el espejo de la naturaleza. Madrid: Cátedra, 1983.

SANTOS, B.S. Introdução a uma ciencia pósmoderna. Rio de Janeiro: Graal, 1989.

SANTOS, B.S. El milenio huérfano. Madrid: Trotta, 2005.

SODRÉ, M. As estratégias sensíveis: afeto, política e mídia. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2006.

Published

2011-03-25

How to Cite

GARCÍA GUTIÉRREZ, A. . (2011). Desclassification in knowledge organization: a post-epistemological essay. Transinformação, 23(1). Retrieved from https://puccampinas.emnuvens.com.br/transinfo/article/view/6176

Issue

Section

ARTIGOS