Laymert Garcia dos Santos

• Abstract

  This research proposal aims to examine the crisis of State public patterns of social regulation in contemporary Brazil brought by the introduction of a "freedom maximizing" market economy in a context marked by historically rooted social and political inequalities. At the same time, it addresses current conflicting views on the nature of events and actions that aim to answer that crisis t…

  Citizenship and Democracy: thinking through a disrupted political realm, AP.TEM

• Reticulation and Data Flow: the social gears of the machinery of data production and transmission., BP.DR
• Internet, Copyright and Control Architectures: new strategies of inclusion and repression of the music industry., BP.DR

• Abstract

  This project intends to investigate the techno-scientific transformations, their direction and their current or probable effects, from the sphere of the language and particularly from the study of the metaphor or the analogical language position in these transformations. In spite of the current point of view supported by the mass media that the future of high technology would essentially …

  Body without metaphors or metaphors without body: the future of human being between art and technology-science, BP.DR

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• Abstract

  This project aims to conquer a scholarship to make a research internship at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). The objectives of the project are closely linked to the research I have been developing under the title: "The techno-social assemblages of the megamachine of data flow". During the internship I intend to conduct both empirical and theoretical work. The first one…

  Invention and standardization: the mobile broadband network construction, BE.EP.DR
• Exploring positive intersections between contemporary art and traditional knowledge: the Amazon opera, BE.PQ