INFORMATION VS. SENSE ANALYSIS AND PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION OF FRIEDRICH KITTLER'S PROPOSAL FOR THE RENEWAL OF THE SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES

This work critically analyzes Kittler's proposal to renew the social and human aspects through a media-oriented reflection. For this, such proposal is placed in the debate, driven by the medial turn in Media Philosophy, about the relevance (or not) of the transcendentalist approach to the media. At first, the Kittlerian approach is presented in general terms as a transcendentalist approach. In a second moment, the Kittlerian strategy consisting of eliminating the notion of meaning is reconstructed and analyzed to concentrate, instead, on the notion of information.