Después de los estudios sociales de ciencia y tecnología: Recomponiendo lo psicológico ante la bifurcación de la naturaleza

Abstract

This article presents a theoretical inquiry into the ways in which we can understand the psychological and experience, considering the challenges posed to these notions by science and technology studies (STS). STS have developed a form of critique that rejects the 'bifurcation of nature', that is to say, the divide of the world between primary qualities -the material world, reality itself-, and secondary qualities -human affairs and experiences. Following questions that emerged during an empirical research about frequent attender's "experiences of being a patient", I argue that the critique of the bifurcation of nature assumes notions of the psychological and human experience that positions them as a dead end. I claim that process philosophy allows us to refute this simplification, articulating the psychological as a flux of co-affectation of the human and the world, where experience is not separated from nature.