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Das ontologische Debakel oder was heißt: Es gibt Medien?

Author(s): Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid

Abstract

The current turn to new ontologies in media and cultural studies is accompanied by an effort to base ontology on pragmatics and thus to dissolve it in practices, processes and acts. Such attempts, however, run the risk that pragmatism turns into functionalism and the ontological question is answered in functional terms. This danger is evident in the concept of an ‘operative ontology,’ which was already used in computer science as early as the 1990s in the context of the automation of stored knowledge. By going back to Willard Van Quine’s notion of an ontological debacle, this paper asks about the opportunities that lie in the ontological crisis for a media philosophical approach beyond a functionalist and thus technical solution.

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Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid: Das ontologische Debakel oder was heißt: Es gibt Medien?. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 8 (2017), Nr. 2, S. 157-167. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18676.
@ARTICLE{Deuber-Mankowsky2017,
 author = {Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid},
 title = {Das ontologische Debakel oder was heißt: Es gibt Medien?},
 year = 2017,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18676}",
 volume = 8,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 2,
 pages = {157--167},
}
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