Technopoiesis as Complex Dynamic Knowledge Construction. A Biopoetic explanation of the Creative Convolution of Human, Natural, and Technological Sciences.

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Published: 01-01-2017
Accepted: 12-01-2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v15i1.1034
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Technopoiesis, Biopoetics, Diagrammatics, Complexity, Creativity, Knowledge, Fiction
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Juani Guerra
(ES)
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1224-8324 (unauthenticated)
Svend Ostergaard
(DK)
Universidad de Aarhus

Abstract

In this paper, we describe technopoiesis as the complex dynamics between four levels of an all-encompassing knowledge configuration. The first level corresponds to the interaction with the environment, mediated by representations and material forms. The second level involves the representations, for instance representations of force, which determine the interaction with the environment. The third level involves the use of material forms in the interaction, for instance using a stick to get hold of a piece of fruit. The fourth level is the technological level as such. From a view of Biopoetics that primarily understands technopoiesis as a synergic and dissipative process based on emergence and feedback conditions, our main contribution in this study consists in a dynamicist description of how these four levels interact with each other. Higher levels emerge from the lower ones, in a complex but deterministic process, where lower levels are also constrained by the higher ones.

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2017): TECHNOPOÏESIS: TRANSMEDIA MYTHOLOGISATION AND THE UNITY OF KNOWEDGE

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Author Biographies

Juani Guerra, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Associate Professor of Department of Modern Languages (ULPGC) Director of the Interuniversity PhD Program (IUIBS)

Svend Ostergaard, Universidad de Aarhus

Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture - Director Master Cognitive Semiotics at Center for Semiotics

 

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Guerra, J., & Ostergaard, S. (2017). Technopoiesis as Complex Dynamic Knowledge Construction. A Biopoetic explanation of the Creative Convolution of Human, Natural, and Technological Sciences. Journal ICONO 14, 15(1), 235-255. https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v15i1.1034

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