ABSTRACT
Objective:
This is a debate about the ethical and onto-epistemological effects of the concept of tautism (neologism between tautology and autism), elaborated by Lucien Sfez in the scope of Information Theory, as a criticism of the so-called confusional communication, where disinformation and the end of communication would be its immediate products. Without disregarding the legitimacy, relevance and timeliness of the problem presented by Sfez, the article reflects on the appropriation of the term autism for the construction of metaphors, based on temporal and contextual definitions of the spectrum, a domain still under development. Based on critical informational and language studies, it is argued that the Western hegemonic Aristotelian principle of non-contradiction strengthens the use of the Greek prefix -autos in the institution of autistic identity as an individual alien to reality, consequently, a non-subject endowed with logos , opening a gap for ableist and epistemic representations of the evaluated population, their knowledge and practices.
Methods:
Basic, descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, bibliography and hermeneutic analysis. The theoretical-methodological route examines Lucien Sfez's concepts of tautism and confusional communication, in opposition to Barbara Cassin's sophistic reading of language.
Results:
Based on critical informational and language studies, it is argued that the Western hegemonic Aristotelian principle of non-contradiction strengthens the use of the Greek prefix -autos in the institution of autistic identity as an individual alien to reality, consequently, a non-subject endowed with logos, opening a gap for empowering and epistemic representations of the assessed population, their knowledge and practices.
Conclusions:
As information scientists, we check the terminological footprints that do not reflect the universal, but point to historicity. The ontological gesture of exclusion founds tautism, whose negative metaphorology safeguards a legitimate problem: the physical, mental and political effects emerging from the digitization of activities and processes, captured and managed by companies and governments with their own interests. Although Sfez develops a critical argument towards communication as a symbolic and ideological form, he reinforces an autonomous technical rationality in the figure of Frankenstein.
KEYWORDS:
Information Representation; Autistic Spectrum Disorder; Tautism; Information Theories; Informational justice