Tecnoactivism. The political experience of Riereta.net

This Thesis's summary explores the political and epistemological proposal that emerges from Free Software development made from Riereta.net. From the ethnography of this project, we analyse its contributions to knowledge production and to social studies of science and technology. This allows us...

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Veröffentlicht in:Athenea digital 2011-01, Vol.11 (1), p.297-311
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Sprache:eng ; spa
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Zusammenfassung:This Thesis's summary explores the political and epistemological proposal that emerges from Free Software development made from Riereta.net. From the ethnography of this project, we analyse its contributions to knowledge production and to social studies of science and technology. This allows us to define the experience as a 'techno-epistemic workshop' in which new forms of organization, objects and epistemic practices coexist with other traditional ones, such as typical of laboratories and other technoscientific institutions. Its description as "technoactivist" reveals its critical and politicizing potential in the field of technology and knowledge production. In a second moment, we explore its political potential in the light of Social Movements' Theories and other ones related to political philosophy. In conclusion, the experience of Riereta offers us new ways of understanding the collective political action, its objects and agents. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1578-8946
1578-8946
DOI:10.5565/rev/athenea.840