Where are you? A heideggerian analysis of the mobile phone
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Este paper investiga os contornos essenciais do fenómeno sobre o qual assentam os actuais desenvolvimentos na comunicação móvel: o telemóvel. Assim, pretende-se responder à pergunta: o que é, enquanto tal, um telemóvel? O paper apresenta uma descrição fenomenológica do telemóvel, contextualizada por dois dos trabalhos de Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), tentando apontar o modo como no-mundo o telemóvel é o que é. Assentando a análise na ontologia de Heidegger apresentada em Ser e Tempo (Heidegger 1962 [1927]), propomos, neste artigo, que o telemóvel só se nos mostrará tal qual ele é desde que acedido no-mundo onde os telemóveis já são o que são. Esta análise é complementada por uma exploração de uma outra noção Heideggeriana, a de Ge-stell (Heidegger 1977) como essência da tecnologia moderna, visando desta forma obter uma melhor compreensão do envolvimento humano com os telemóveis. Neste contexto ontológico, a nossa investigação aponta as noções de ser-com, de juntar e de timing como contornos essenciais do telemóvel. Estas ideias, por sua vez, sugerem as noções mais fundas de momento e de descorporização como essenciais no fenómeno do telemóvel.
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