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It can be inferred that an information-

communicational production, in this 

research argued by the regime of 

visibility concept, is an intellectual 

capital form of expression and control. 

Therefore, technical objects in the 

humanities assumes the rhetorical 

paper known as digital humanities. 

Challenges of scientific communication and dilemmas of an 

information-communicational consumer society: regimes of visibility 

in the communication domain, technical objects and control devices 

Patricia Pui Yue Lee, PhD Student1,2; Ricardo Medeiros Pimenta, PhD1,2 

1IBICT –  Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, 2UFRJ – Federal 

University of Rio de Janeiro / Faculty of Information Science 

INTRODUCTION DISCUSSION 

RESULTS 

Figure 1. Timeline with authors who discuss society and its control devices, the process of "individuation" and technical objects . 

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The challenges of scientific 

communication in the era of 

digital humanities are 

discussed facing the 

cognitive awakening of the 

public who consumes the 

information available in 

written, sound, visual and 

audiovisual productions. 

It is assumed that the 

information-

communicational 

productions, both in their 

form and in their content, 

are appropriate to a 

consumer society whose 

access to information is 

translated into entertainment 

and the merchandise to be 

acquired. 

In fact, these productions 

are linked to an information 

system that has been set 

side by side with the 

capitalism domain. Thus, 

the study consists of 

qualitative bibliographical 

analysis of authors who 

discuss society and its 

control devices, the process 

of "individuation" and 

technical objects. 

Finally, the study makes 

final considerations about 

written, sound, visual and 

audiovisual productions by 

comparing them with 

technical objects. 

This research built an timeline with 

academic authors and their 

contributions which collaborates to 

analyze and explain how technical 

objects artificially incorporate, firstly, as 

supporting instruments to human history 

(Otlet, 1934) and physical memory (Bush, 

1945), as extensions of the human body 

(McLuhan, 1951, 2011), as facilities to life 

routine and, lately, as modes of behavior 

(Simondon, 1958) and as unhealthy control 

devices (Deleuze, 1992; Stiegler, 1994). 

(1) Scientific Communication 

(2) Consumer Society 

(3) Regimes of Visibility 

(4) Technical Objects/Control Devices 

(5)  Digital Humanities 

The study consists of qualitative 

bibliographical timeline analysis of 

academic authors who discuss society 

of control and its devices, such as: (1) 

Paul Otlet (1919; 1934); (2) Vannevar 

Bush (1945); (3) Marshall McLuhan 

(1951; 1964); (4) Gilbert Simondon 

(1958); (5) Gilles Deleuze (1968); e (6) 

Bernard Stiegler (1994). 

 

Among this reflexive objective we will also 

consider inquiring the role of technological 

and digital devices that configure as 

processes of "concretization" experienced 

by what Simondon (2005) calls technical 

objects and what we cogitate as material 

evidence of technological increment by the 

human in an era more and more 

accelerated and dystrophic by digital 

devices and its solutions. 

The theme of this research is the 

challenges of information science from 

a socio-cultural and philosophical 

perspective for the consumption of 

information in its various forms of 

visibility. Following socioeconomic 

transformations, productions – such as 

written, sound, visual and audiovisual – 

act as part of one power and knowledge 

regime that promotes not only control of 

information by aesthetic visual solutions 

(with the aim to communicate) but 

surveillance in many levels including to 

serve the market.  

As main research issue, there is the 

assumption that  the real image of 

society is quite different from the one 

transmitted. Such disparity is due to the 

control and accumulation of 

informational capital through its control 

devices, artifacts and technical objects 

which act in the maintenance of social, 

political and economic power. 

It is justified by the emergence of  

several technology innovations in order 

to support the society of control.  The  

control device  environment is a kind of 

"network", crossed and circumscribed 

by fields of force constantly in action 

either by the idea of ​​the Deleuzian 

"capture machine" (1990). 

Therefore, as a research objective, 

this contribution consists of qualitative 

bibliographical analysis that could help 

us to think about digital humanities role 

in the scenario above presented. 

1. BUSH, Vannevar. As we may think. Atlantic 

Monthly, v.176, 1, p.101-108, 1945.  

2. DELEUZE, Gilles. Os intelectuais e o poder 

(com Michel Foucault) In _________. A ilha 

deserta: e outros textos. São Paulo: Iluminuras, 

2006. p. 265-273. 

3. DELEUZE, Gilles. Capitalismo e esquizofrenia 

(com Félix Guattari) In _________. A ilha 

deserta: e outros textos. São Paulo: Iluminuras, 

2006. p. 295-305. 

4. DELEUZE, Gilles. ¿Que és un dispositivo? In: 

_________. Michel Foucault, filósofo. Barcelona: 

Gedisa, 1990. p. 155-161. 

5. DELEUZE, Gilles. Post-scriptum sobre as 

sociedades de controle In 

_________.Conversações. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. 

34, 1992. p. 219-226. 

6. MCLUHAN, Marshall. Understanding media: the 

extensions of man. Berkeley, CA: Gingko Press, 

2011. 

7. MCLUHAN, Marshall. Os meios de comunicação 

como extensões do homem (understanding 

media), 10ª edição. São Paulo: Editora Cultrix, 

1995. 

8. OTLET, Paul. L’organisation des travaux 

scientifiques. In:  ASSOCIATION FRANÇAISE 

POUR L’AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES. 

Conférences faites en 1919-1921. Paris: 

Association Française pour L’Avancement des 

Sciences, 1919. p. 13-50. (Conferénce de M. 

Otlet). 

9. OTLET, Paul. Traité de documentation: le livre 

sur le livre. Thèorie et pratique. Liège, Centre de 

Lecture Publique de La Communauté Française 

de Belgique, 1934, pp. 223-233.  

10.OTLET, Paul. Traité de documentation: le livre 

sur le livre – théorie et pratique, 1 vol. Liège, 

Centre de Lecture Publique de la Communauté 

Française de Belgique, 1989. 432p. 

11.SIMONDON, Gilbert. 2005. Introduction. In: 

L'individuation à la lumière des notions de forme 

et d'information. Paris: Édition Jérôme Millon, p. 

23-36 [1958]. 

12.STIEGLER, Bernard. Technics and Time, 1: – 

The Fault of Epimetheus, Stanford, California: 

the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford 

Junior University, 1998, p. 21-276. 

13.STIEGLER, Bernard. The writting screen. 

[Unpublished], Disponível em: 

https://www.academia.edu/17374065/Bernard_St

iegler_The_Writing_Screen_2015_. 2015. 

Patricia Pui Yue Lee 

IBICT/ ECO/ UFRJ 

Email:  

patricialohlee@gmail.com 

Phone:  +55 21 99530-2523 

Website: 

http://www.ppgci.ufrj.br/pt/ 

Paul Otlet (1868-1944) Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) 

Bernard Stiegler (1952- ) Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989) 

1919 1934 1945 1951 1958/64 

1958 1968 1994 2018