From separation to co-constitution. Encounters between materiality, visibility objects and disciplines

The weakening of the modern divide between objects, artefacts, human and no-human actors raises issues having to do with the encounter among materiality, visuality, ways of doing, within transdisciplinary contexts. The article explores different concepts (such as Knorr Cetina´s epistemic objects) that reformulate the status of objects, images, and practices from the ideas of co-constitution and relationality. The term aesthetic regime (Rancière) is used in order to understand a new economy of deregulated encounter between differences and perspectives. Interdisciplinary initiatives among artists, theoreticians, anthropologists, entrepreneurs, scientists, within cooperative platforms are usually anchored in conceptions of creativity dependent on notions of human agency, property ideologies, and individual authorship. The article calls into question the efficacy of such encounters if they are not able to consider the changes in knowledge conditions involved in a regime within which articulations among human and no-human entities, materials, materiality, images, bodies, and artefacts are multiplied. The article invites to reflect on new modes of knowledge production and reception from the renewed demands of estrangement and de-universalization that encounters between cultural, disciplinary, even ontological differences pose.