The utopia of the transdiscipline

A critical reflection from the divice of M. Foucault

Abstract

The ways in which a device tends to unfold reveals two forms, by way of non-uniform or parallel linearities, aspects of visibility and invisibility, that is: elements that in the warp of the processes of format in fields of scientific knowledge that they appeal to the epistemological, theoretical and methodological principles emanating from the position of the transdisciplinary, can be named and others whose categorization demands the analytical / investigative exercise. The notion of a device that is recovered from the theoretical approaches of Michael Foucault, allows to transfer a critical-reflexive analysis about science or about the scientific phenomenon regarding the pollution of information and the generation of knowledge, in relation to the dissemination of the disciplinary frontiers as one of the pillars that the exercise arisen from the philosophy of science should seek in contemporary times. Thus, the meta-investigation of new fields of study, such as that of Regional Studies, whose epistemological appeal points to a utopia of transdicipline, will allow to critically visualize the scope, risks and commitments that the processes of format in a field in construction will tend to the generation of diffuse knowledge. In this sense, the present paper seeks to show some critical and analytical elements in the face of the adventure of “thinking about the building of knowledge from trans-disciplinarity”; starting initially from the explanation of the concept of the device, to continue with the presentation of visible and non-visible elements whose intricate relationships in the processes of format will have to concentrate on the notion of epistemic communities from which transdiciplinarity will seek its legitimacy and legitimacy .