La Ciberciudad: una visión de lo social y lo urbano desde la cibernética

• Main Author: Jesús Galindo Cáceres
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2008-12-01
• Series: Intexto
• Subjects: Cibercultura; Cibercidade; Cibernética
• Online Access: http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/4188

<p>Coming up from an observation over the contemporary social world and its layers of relations and combinations, this paper suggests the necessity of concepts and more complex standards for the conceptual organization than the few ones available so far. One of those concepts is Cyberculture, and some of those new standards for the conceptual organization are the Cybernetics, the Systemics and the Communicology. This proposition&rsquo;s main view point is that an understanding of the Cyberculture settled over the computers and Internet images is not enough, the power of the word exists when it recalls an idea built on our best contemporary scientific sights. And that is the instance in which the body of the text is developed. Cyberculture is a concept that combines reflexivity, complexity, constructivity and creation. Besides, the best place for its application is the elemental form of our social life ecology, the city; which from the point of view of Cyberculture will turn to a Cybercity, along with all that implicates in thinking, communictations and action overlapping and building the complexity.</p>