Seven topics to understand new materialism

Abstract

This text is a response to the article “Neomaterialismo e Antropológicas” (Galáxia, n. 45) written as a critic paper to the article “Epistemologia da comunicação, neomaterialismo e cultura digital” (Galáxia, n. 43). Our main understanding is that part of the criticisms of neomaterialism and the concept of anthropocentrism have their genesis in the ignorance of the premises that guide the material turn in the social sciences. In this sense, without entering into unnecessary pole-mics about the divergences and deficiencies of both articles under debate, we seek to indicate in a pedagogical way seven points for understanding the new materialism proposals in communication studies.