Micro-level signification has relative autonomy because encounters are never fully determined

Evidence

These devices thus affect both the diverse character of the dimensions of co-presence and also their structure so that, depending on the choices that govern their technical architecture, they produce new forms of experience: experiences of damaged presences, blind presences, non-reciprocal co-presences, etc. These transform the forms of co-presence by rendering certain configurations not only possible but necessary or else impossible—configurations that were not so in the immediate past. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 954 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Micro-level symbolic encounters carry relative autonomy from the social structure; Full autonomy of social levels cannot capture a social formation’s complex unity; Tele-technologies make non-reciprocal forms of co-presence possible, necessary, or impossible — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 954 (+1 more)

Related

• Micro-level symbolic encounters carry relative autonomy from the social structure (similarity 0.80)
• Tele-technologies make non-reciprocal forms of co-presence possible, necessary, or impossible (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Situations are structurally biased toward dominant definitions but never fully determined by them. #corroborates (0.85)
• Full autonomy of social levels cannot capture a social formation’s complex unity #corroborates (0.70)
• Tele-technologies make non-reciprocal forms of co-presence possible, necessary, or impossible #qualifies (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 954