Digital Networks, epistemologies reticular ad the crisis of social Anthropomorphism

Abstract

The onset of digital networks has set itself – theoretically speaking – as an opportunity for an analysis not only on the role communication plays in our society, but also on the transformation knowledge has gone through, and on the innovation dynamics of our contemporary world. From that viewpoint, this article puts forward a conceptual reflection as it advances an intricate perspective as an epistemological rupture. The origins of such rupture are rooted in a variety of fields of knowledge from the first half of the 20th century; and it has little by little set itself as a new way to explain the complexity whose concrete expression lies in the technological and communicative form. The spread of the intricate information architecture of a global intelligence shows the need for rethinking social anthropomorphism, and has become one of the hermeneutical challenges of our times.