The Role of Technical Objects in the Knowledge Process

Culture and knowledge are articulated and marked by the interaction of man with Technical Objects (TO). The development of TO has reached such a potentiality and effectiveness that allow them to act as autonomous subjects. The essence of the technique is “showing” itself as a particular kind of causality, as “fate of a revealing”. An education that keeps pace with the evolution of TO presupposes their express “recognition” as “participant subjects” in the educational process and as “active subjects” in a no longer co-operative and subordinate role. In the man-TO dynamics none of them acts autonomously and then, as a result, the “Actants”, i.e. the agents of an action, entities capable of acting, whether they’re people, animals, objects or concepts, change their relationships according to the situational context in which they operate. The Actant is always the result of a network of relations that denote it. It follows that any Actant that is physically or virtually present in any educational, communicative and didactic dynamic, takes on a prominent and interchangeable role from time to time.