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AbstractIn this article, we analyze science diplomacy, for the first time, as a new type of political tool that can influence and nurture the functioning of presidential diplomacy. We conduct this analysis in the context of the global crisis produced by COVID‐19, considering the struggle to obtain both vaccines and the technology to develop them. We discuss the Russian‐Argentine relationship during the pandemic emergency in the Southern Cone. This case provides a valuable framework to make valid recommendations to incorporate and coordinate science diplomacy actions concerning presidential diplomacy.

En el presente trabajo analizamos la noción de Política Orientada por Misión, un instrumento fomentado desde sectores académicos y políticos asociados a la corriente keynesiana/neoschumpeteriana de la economía política. Este instrumento, en consonancia con el espíritu de la mencionada corriente, establece la importancia del Estado guiando la innovación científica y tecnológica con objetivos claros. En este trabajo caracterizamos esta propuesta y analizamos las condiciones de viabilidad para la aplicación de dicho instrumento en nuestro país.

AbstractJacques Lafitte occupies an odd place in the philosophy of technology. He was a French engineer who made a significant and conceptually innovative contribution to this field, yet his influence has been elusive and largely ignored until relatively recently. Many of Lafitte's ideas find echoes in the work of later philosophers (particularly Gilbert Simondon), yet, notably in the case of Simondon, apparently without any direct line of influence. Lafitte placed the machine at the centre of his thinking about technology and articulated various layers of analysis around it; for example, he considered machines in the broader context of an artificial world or "mechanosphere", which encompassed certain aspects of philosophical anthropology (namely, how to think the human in the context of human–machine relations, in the context of socio-political organizations). In this work we seek to reconstruct Lafitte's ideas and briefly trace some of their later impact. We identify three dimensions (or theses) in Lafitte's analysis: epistemological, ontological and anthropological. We argue that the most remarkable fact about Lafitte's thought is the way it inaugurates, and anticipates, the approach of later currents, not just in the "French tradition", who also made an effort to integrate machine theory into broader philosophical, anthropological and political aspects, in terms that echo Lafitte's. In particular, we will focus on Gilbert Simondon and cybernetics.

AbstractWe examine the question of material agency as raised in material engagement theory (MET). Insofar as MET tends to highlight the causal roles played by extra-bodily material flows in human practices, the term "material agency" does not sufficiently distinguish cases in which these flows are part of an agentive engagement from cases in which they are not. We propose an operational criterion to effect such a distinction. We claim this criterion is organizational, i.e., systemic, and not causal. In the enactive account, agency requires three organizational conditions: self-individuation, interactional asymmetry, and normativity. These conditions can have organic, sensorimotor, and sociomaterial realizations. The dance of human productive practices is indeed spread between brains, bodies, and the world, as MET claims, but it is distributed in an organized manner that involves constraints and norms at various scales. We put forward a relational and non-anthropocentric perspective toward an enactive approach to productive practices. We discuss some aspects of agentive ensembles rendered more intelligible by our proposal, including incorporation, soft assembly and non-decomposability, and the grounding of teleology normative processes at multiple scales. In this manner, we seek to continue the dialog between MET and enactive theory, beginning with the view that a situated system must realize certain minimal organizational conditions to be called anagent.