Communication as a transdisciplinary: Avatars of theory

We try to demonstrate that to understand Communication as a transdisciplinary space does not resolve its epistemological status. The praise of the trans is typical of our times as postmodern and attached to the mix of genders. This is the base for the pretens of being “transdisciplinar” that is usua...

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Autor: Follari, Roberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad ORT Uruguay
Repositorio:RAD
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:rad.ort.edu.uy:20.500.11968/4812
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/inmediaciones-de-la-comunicacion/article/view/3380
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11968/4812
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Communication
epistemology
transdiscipline
posmodernity
Cultural Studies
Comunicación
epistemología
transdisciplina
posmodernidad
Estudios Culturales
Comunicação
epistemologia
pós-modernidade
Estudos Culturais
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Sumario:We try to demonstrate that to understand Communication as a transdisciplinary space does not resolve its epistemological status. The praise of the trans is typical of our times as postmodern and attached to the mix of genders. This is the base for the pretens of being “transdisciplinar” that is usually ascribed to Communication research. Such ascription responds to the difficulties for stablishing the epistemological status of Communication, given that it lacks its own theoretical object, and refers to contributions made from other disciplines. But in these cases there is usually no theory about transdiscipline, and about its relationship with the disciplinary and the multidisciplinary. Thus, the presence of other disciplines in the formation of one of them (Communication) is confused with the transdisciplinary condition, which is the consequent to the previous formation of the intervening disciplines, and which implies levels of inter/theoretical integration that do not occur between the disciplines present in Communication. An additional problem is that in the name of transdisciplinarity no limits are proposed to the topics that Communication may take on, which entails important epistemic and ideological inconveniences.