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Palabra Clave
Print version ISSN 0122-8285On-line version ISSN 2027-534X
Abstract
JOSGRILBERG, Fabio B.. Locus Digital: A Place Among many Others. Palabra Clave [online]. 2012, vol.15, n.1, pp.10-25. ISSN 0122-8285.
The current technical period articulates social relations and technical objects with a rationality of its own. Based on the ideas put forth by Milton Santos, Michel de Certeau and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this article reflects on the dialectic relationship between technical determinations and the daily practices of the subjects. The concept of digital locus is emphasized as a place organized by strategies that mobilize digital information and communication systems, all supported by a unique distributed network infrastructure. In the digital locus, citizens are subject to a variety of pressures, but also reinvent life by creating spaces. Reflection on the dialectic relationship between the digital locus and the reinvention of spaces is intended to avoid both relativism in understanding daily practices as well as technological determinism.
Keywords : ICT; phenomenology; everyday.