We
have been reported that in the coming days, two of our new papers will be
published in both Brazilian and Chilean journals of Social Sciences. The first
of them is titled Subjectivity and
Subjetifiers in European Union Technologies of Bioecurity, and here I am go
to make and advance for all of you.
To
this paper, we worked with some Spanish online-press news that pointing forward
virus, bacteria, outbreaks or pandemics. Our aim was to describe some ideas in
an Actor-Network Theory sense, where we can understand this news as a mediator-technology
in the Latour theory. Hence, using some extracts of this news, we can
illustrate the idea of subjectifier and scenario.
We
understand subjectifiers as an element that offers to subject the possibility
of a connexion with a reflective effect. A subjectifier is a portion of
knowledge, ideas, images; that allow the person define itself. For the idea of
scenario, we defined it as an element defined by having an affect attached to
it. In this sense, throughout the paper we expose some illustrative examples
about these concepts with the press-news, following the case of study methodology’
tradition. A scenario is the outcome of the connection of several
subjectifiers, offering an affection with which to assess and complete the
reflective exercise offered by subjectifiers.
As
conclusion, we point out that biosecurity is not only to protect the population
against some diverse biohazards, but referring to discourses, practices,
images, laws, protocols, etc.
Finally,
in order to understand the relation between biosecurity and subjectivity is necessary
to use the technology-as-mediator concept. This deal is not about a narrative
creation and an internalization of it later; but a connections issue, linked to
mobile elements.
References:
Latour, B. (1999). Pandora’s Hope,
London: Harvard University Press.
Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social, New York:
Oxford University Press.
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