The friction of mediation. For a critique of technologically mediated world-relations

João Tziminadis

doi:10.15448/2178-5694.2026.1.48820

Autores

João Tziminadis Universidade de Erfurt, Turíngia, Alemanha https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8181-3748

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/2178-5694.2026.1.48820

Palavras-chave:

Filosofia da tecnologia, Teoria Crítica, Hartmut Rosa, Mediação tecnológica, Relações-mundo.

Resumo

Embora estudos contemporâneos e a filosofia da tecnologia tenham esclarecido a tecnicidade constitutiva do humano, muitas vezes deixam de lado questões relacionadas à formação social moderna e à alienação. Por outro lado, diagnósticos teórico-críticos da modernidade tendem a tratar a tecnologia principalmente como razão instrumental. Este ensaio explora programaticamente a tensão entre a abordagem relacional que a pós-fenomenologia adota em relação à mediação tecnológica e a crítica da modernidade de Hartmut Rosa. Introduzindo o conceito de fricção como descontinuidade constitutiva nas relações-mundo tecnicamente mediadas, o ensaio argumenta que a dinâmica escalonante da modernidade reduz fricções a obstáculos a serem superados. Destacando a fricção da mediação, o ensaio esboça uma crítica das relações-mundo tecnologicamente mediadas orientada à reabilitação do potencial vinculante e transformador da fricção.

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Biografia do Autor

João Tziminadis, Universidade de Erfurt, Turíngia, Alemanha

João Tziminadis é pesquisador de pós-doutorado no Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universidade de Erfurt, Turíngia, Alemanha, e possui doutorado pela mesma instituição. Também possui mestrado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp), Araraquara, SP, Brasil.

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