Abstract

FOLLARI, ROBERTO. Communication as a transdisciplinary: avatars of theory. Inmediac. Comun [online]. 2023, vol.18, n.1, pp.27-41.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 1510-5091.  https://doi.org/10.18861/ic.2023.18.1.3380.

We try to demonstrate that to understand Communication as a transdisciplinary space does not resolve its epistemological status. The praise of the trans is typical of our times as postmodern and attached to the mix of genders. This is the base for the pretens of being “transdisciplinar” that is usually ascribed to Communication research. Such ascription responds to the difficulties for stablishing the epistemological status of Communication, given that it lacks its own theoretical object, and refers to contributions made from other disciplines. But in these cases there is usually no theory about transdiscipline, and about its relationship with the disciplinary and the multidisciplinary. Thus, the presence of other disciplines in the formation of one of them (Communication) is confused with the transdisciplinary condition, which is the consequent to the previous formation of the intervening disciplines, and which implies levels of inter/theoretical integration that do not occur between the disciplines present in Communication. An additional problem is that in the name of transdisciplinarity no limits are proposed to the topics that Communication may take on, which entails important epistemic and ideological inconveniences.

Keywords : Communication; epistemology; transdiscipline; posmodernity; Cultural Studies.

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