L’immaginario tecnologico. Un’analisi sociologica della cosmologia contemporanea

Abstract

From the point of view of the phenomenological sociology of knowledge, is really interesting to analyse relationship between collective imagery and the increasing growth of the technical universe: social existence in the Western world–in our time–is in fact embedded in the “myth of information” (Pecchinenda, 2009). This concept derives its cognitive and normative power from its peculiar genesis: the symbolic roots of this process lie in the moral mission of the early modern science, inspired– consciously or unconsciously–by the ethos of Judeo-Christian paradigm. The “myth of information” incorporates these ancient heritage in the flow of contemporary cosmology using the rhetoric of “transparency” (Breton, 1996): this peculiar rhetoric seems to announce daily the final unmasking of the mechanisms that rule the world.