Repensar los dispositivos. Entonación, documentación, distribución, resistencia y desvío en prácticas simbólicas mediatizadas a principios del siglo XXI

• Main Author: Loreto Alonso Atienza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editorial Delirio 2013-11-01
• Series: Caracteres: Estudios Culturales y Críticos de la Esfera Digital
• Subjects: device; technological convergence; crowdsourcing; tactical media; symbolic practices
• Online Access: http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol2n2noviembre2013/repensar-los-dispositivos/

This article raises some issues regarding symbolic practices, understood as devices. The approach to these ways of doing is set from the understanding of the term “device” beyond the “electronic devices” als structures of power, knowledge and control. The text begins with a reflection on the term “device” from philosophical interpretations from Michel Foucault to Jean-Louis Déotte, to Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben. The questions are approached through contemporary examples of current symbolic practices, in which we include both artistic and media tactics procedures. We distinguish five issues: The vital process documentation (documentation devices), the expressive possibilities of the media devices (intonation devices), the means of conveyance network (distribution devices), transformations around the idea of creativity in mass production (resistance devices) and active modes of diversion that seem to invite the rapid exchange of signs that occurs (diversion devices).