La dataesfera como hiperobjeto: hacia una crítica de sus implicaciones ontoepistémicas.
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Palabras clave: dataesfera, hiperobjeto, crítica, ontología, epistemología
THE DATASPHERE AS A HYPEROBJECT: CRITIQUING ITS ONTO-EPISTEMIC IMPLICATIONS
Abstract
This article explores the datasphere as a hyperobject that reshapes the ontological and epistemological conditions of experience in the digital age. It examines how techno-informatic environments transform subjectivation, sociability, and knowledge production through large-scale data collection and analysis. Two main approaches are contrasted: digital positivism, which privileges correlation and prediction without causal explanation; and Critical Data Studies, which interrogate the presumed neutrality of data by emphasizing their situatedness and embedded power relations. The article ultimately proposes a critical renewal grounded in non-anthropocentric ontologies —such as object-oriented ontology, new materialism, and assemblage theory— which decenter the human subject and conceptualize agency as distributed across sociotechnical networks. These frameworks allow us to approach the datasphere as a hyperobject: a vast, diffuse, and entangled entity whose scale and complexity overwhelm conventional modes of representation. From this perspective, the article calls for an overhaul of social science categories to address phenomena that fundamentally reshape the nexus between knowledge, technology, and the world.
Key words: datasphere, hyperobjet, critique, ontology, epistemology
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