Qatipana from optics to data visualization
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https://doi.org/10.22370/margenes.2022.15.22.3287Keywords:
interfaces, visualization, data, materiality, organologAbstract
This essay focuses on the anthropological and philosophical analysis of the medial work Qatipana (2021-2022). From the reflection of this work, the configurations that arise and agency are analyzed, in a mutual ontogenesis between the devices known as interfaces and the users that relate to them, for this particular case, through an aesthetic and organological process (Stiegler, 2020).
This distinction is important because it is what allows us to attend to our own pharmacological situation, from which we have been evolving together with the technical-aesthetic devices (interfaces). Similarly, this acceleration also produced by digital information contributes to the externalization of the users' cognitive apparatus, precisely because it exceeds the limits of their cognition. If to this we add the amplification capacity that the informational content of algorithms has (and its transforming potential), the scenario becomes even more conflictive: the information and its dissemination are so wide and diverse that a cognitive capacity such as that of the human being cannot fully synthesize it, generating an active externalism, assuming that the human organism is linked with an external entity in a two-way interaction, thus creating a coupled system that can be seen as a cognitive system in its own right (Clark & Chalmes, 1998) in his psychic apparatus, which we call an agency of organic-technical-digital assemblages.
In this sense, the Qatipana work advocates a shift from thinking of new media as a set of discrete objects to understanding media, old and new, in terms of the interconnected and dynamic processes of mediation. It also describes what is at stake in this shift from thinking of technological media solely as things within our grasp and also to acknowledging our entanglement with these media on both a sociocultural and biological level. This argument will lead us to ask the following question: if the media cannot be completely externalized from the issues or "users", then how could "we" engage with "them" differently? We must also consider the political and ethical implications of such commitments.
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