Entre comunicologias

Abstract

This research is about Vilém Flusser's communicology. In order to know how communicology presents itself as a cognitive, ethical and aesthetic construction of communication, this study aims to identify the conceptual roots of Flusser's communicology thought. The more important aim and approach of this research is to verify how those roots are related, how they establish some contact points which may allow tracing Flusser’s episteme of communication. In this sense, we seek to map the concepts that build Vilém Flusser’s communicology which set in motion constructions and deconstructions of communication itself. This choice for communicology research, of course, does not attempt to tell us what communication is but rather is concerned with the belief that we can be allowed to consider another point of view about communication. The main impression I derive is that we may consider communication prior to the culture itself. This is to say, that communication can bring to light and engender other cultural configurations. The analysis of the empirical object will be Vilém Flusser's published work, as well as archaeological method developed by Foucault (2008) and Agamben (2010), to be able to understand how communicology expands and inverts the idea of communication as a mere transmission of culture. The main propose of this research is to introduce other questions about communication and communicology which might previously have escaped notice