Paolo Totaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 252958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Totaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Totaro |
| SIGNATURE | TOTARO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal de Alagoas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5098-5600 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Biological Recursion and Digital Systems
The theory of numbers, the theory of computation and well-known biological and neurological studies on cognition and consciousness all indicate the concept of recursion as their common denominator. Mathematical recursion owes its meaning and properties to a dual relationship between its results, which always constitute a sequence, and the operator that generated them, which is instead invariant. This article proposes that this duality in recursio…
Consumo e Subjetividade
Buscaremos, nesse artigo, realizar uma discussão bibliográfica, amparada em estudos empíricos. Procuraremos compreender na literatura atual, em que medida o consumo pode atuar tanto como força socialmente integradora, quanto como uma estratégia de diferenciação. No primeiro caso, o consumo parece reforçar as tendências em procurar uma cultura de comunidade mediante uma simbologia específica, como no “neotribalismo” ou na “performatividade” dos gr…
The duality of social self-categorization in consumption
“Consumer culture” theories frequently claim that people use symbols of consumption to socially self-categorize and satisfy their needs for assimilation or differentiation. Through two empirical quantitative studies, we argue that self-categorization operates according to a duality overlooked by these theories. On one hand, self-categorization can be understood as the assimilation of the “I” into a normatively well-characterized group, a self-cat…
Algorithms and the Practical World
This article is both a comment on Neyland's 'On organizing algorithms' and a supplementary note to our 'The concept of algorithm as an interpretative key of modern rationality'. In the first part we discuss the concepts of algorithm and recursive function from a different perspective from that of our previous article. Our cultural reference for these concepts is once again computability theory. We give additional arguments in support of the idea …
The Concept of Algorithm as an Interpretative Key of Modern Rationality
According to Ernst Cassirer, the transition from the concept of substance to that of mathematical function as a guide of knowledge coincided with the end of ancient and the beginning of modern theoretical thought. In the first part of this article we argue that a similar transition has also taken place in the practical sphere, where mathematical function occurs in one of its specific forms, which is that of the algorithm concept. In the second pa…
Misticismo do cálculo e a ascese consumista
A cultura do cálculo engendra duas formas de individualização: 1) o isolamento do indivíduo como "peça" nos processos formalizados (nos repetitivos ciclos do consumo e na lógica organizacional da burocracia), o qual coloca a consciência numa condição de heteronomia; 2) a liberdade do homem decorrente da possibilidade de controlar a natureza física e social, que desenvolve uma condição de autonomia da consciência. Na última vertente, o cálculo aca…
The Concept of Algorithm as an Interpretative Key of Modern Rationality
According to Ernst Cassirer, the transition from the concept of substance to that of mathematical function as a guide of knowledge coincided with the end of ancient and the beginning of modern theoretical thought. In the first part of this article we argue that a similar transition has also taken place in the practical sphere, where mathematical function occurs in one of its specific forms, which is that of the algorithm concept. In the second pa…
Algorithms and the Practical World
This article is both a comment on Neyland's 'On organizing algorithms' and a supplementary note to our 'The concept of algorithm as an interpretative key of modern rationality'. In the first part we discuss the concepts of algorithm and recursive function from a different perspective from that of our previous article. Our cultural reference for these concepts is once again computability theory. We give additional arguments in support of the idea …
The duality of social self-categorization in consumption
“Consumer culture” theories frequently claim that people use symbols of consumption to socially self-categorize and satisfy their needs for assimilation or differentiation. Through two empirical quantitative studies, we argue that self-categorization operates according to a duality overlooked by these theories. On one hand, self-categorization can be understood as the assimilation of the “I” into a normatively well-characterized group, a self-cat…
Misticismo do cálculo e a ascese consumista
A cultura do cálculo engendra duas formas de individualização: 1) o isolamento do indivíduo como "peça" nos processos formalizados (nos repetitivos ciclos do consumo e na lógica organizacional da burocracia), o qual coloca a consciência numa condição de heteronomia; 2) a liberdade do homem decorrente da possibilidade de controlar a natureza física e social, que desenvolve uma condição de autonomia da consciência. Na última vertente, o cálculo aca…
Misticismo do cálculo e a ascese consumista
A cultura do cálculo engendra duas formas de individualização: 1) o isolamento do indivíduo como "peça" nos processos formalizados (nos repetitivos ciclos do consumo e na lógica organizacional da burocracia), o qual coloca a consciência numa condição de heteronomia; 2) a liberdade do homem decorrente da possibilidade de controlar a natureza física e social, que desenvolve uma condição de autonomia da consciência. Na última vertente, o cálculo aca…
The Concept of Algorithm as an Interpretative Key of Modern Rationality
According to Ernst Cassirer, the transition from the concept of substance to that of mathematical function as a guide of knowledge coincided with the end of ancient and the beginning of modern theoretical thought. In the first part of this article we argue that a similar transition has also taken place in the practical sphere, where mathematical function occurs in one of its specific forms, which is that of the algorithm concept. In the second pa…
Algorithms and the Practical World
This article is both a comment on Neyland's 'On organizing algorithms' and a supplementary note to our 'The concept of algorithm as an interpretative key of modern rationality'. In the first part we discuss the concepts of algorithm and recursive function from a different perspective from that of our previous article. Our cultural reference for these concepts is once again computability theory. We give additional arguments in support of the idea …
The duality of social self-categorization in consumption
“Consumer culture” theories frequently claim that people use symbols of consumption to socially self-categorize and satisfy their needs for assimilation or differentiation. Through two empirical quantitative studies, we argue that self-categorization operates according to a duality overlooked by these theories. On one hand, self-categorization can be understood as the assimilation of the “I” into a normatively well-characterized group, a self-cat…
Consumo e Subjetividade
Buscaremos, nesse artigo, realizar uma discussão bibliográfica, amparada em estudos empíricos. Procuraremos compreender na literatura atual, em que medida o consumo pode atuar tanto como força socialmente integradora, quanto como uma estratégia de diferenciação. No primeiro caso, o consumo parece reforçar as tendências em procurar uma cultura de comunidade mediante uma simbologia específica, como no “neotribalismo” ou na “performatividade” dos gr…
Biological Recursion and Digital Systems
The theory of numbers, the theory of computation and well-known biological and neurological studies on cognition and consciousness all indicate the concept of recursion as their common denominator. Mathematical recursion owes its meaning and properties to a dual relationship between its results, which always constitute a sequence, and the operator that generated them, which is instead invariant. This article proposes that this duality in recursio…
Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Algorithm (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Function (biology (2 works)