Process of Abstraction and Nature

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From Neo-plastic Invariants to the Exclusive Variety of the Age of Electronics: The Process of Abstraction and Nature
The Electronic Age is a time of discursiveness of forms of knowledge, the problematization of knowledge, rather than their fixation in definitive, conclusive terms. To understand this, it is sufficient to consider the thought of Pierre Lévy, one of the most important contemporary scholars of the new electronic technologies, when he states that “virtualizing” any entity consists of discovering a general problematic to which it relates, shifting the entity in the direction of this question, thus “redefining” the initial activity as a response to a specific request, an answer to a precise question.