The epistemic updates of Miltonian thought

Abstract

When dealing with epistemology, roughly speaking, we are referring to thinking of systemic and coherent thinking about a conception of the world, that is, we glimpse “philosophically”, an explanatory unity of phenomena, clearly including geographical events; socio-spatial. In this sense, Geographer Milton Santos sought, throughout his work, and taking into account the diverse historical moments, the referred explanatory unit, through the constant mutations of technical phenomena, under the aegis of the various economic and social formations, which shaped and shape the numerous socio-spatial or territorial configurations. It was in this light that, in the late eighties and early nineties, I carried out my master's dissertation, whose name is alluded to in thetitle of this essay. Therefore, for the sake of a better understanding, the aforementioned author in numerous of his works, in particular "The Nature of Space: Technique and Time: Reason and Emotion" (which had not yet been published at the time of the dissertation), but which can be very well fitted into this essay, it deals with four time / spatial frames, shaped by technique: The pre-technical period, the technical period, the technical-scientific period and the informational technical-scientific period. Following this script, I will select some passages of my dissertation, showing the operability of these theoretical / conceptual conceptions and, above all, reaffirming the epistemic character of a thinker who bequeathed a work that remains current to the unveiling of the numerous socio-spatial phenomena in the midst of. this increasingly “perverse” globalization.