Techno-aesthetic Thinking. Technicity and Symbolism in the Body
This paper investigates the reciprocal implications between aesthetics and technics, to show how technicity, as a cultural and symbolic attitude, is constitutively rooted in the aesthetic dimension of human experience. The analysis conducted aims to bring into focus the originarity of technicity in...
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| description | This paper investigates the reciprocal implications between aesthetics and technics, to show how technicity, as a cultural and symbolic attitude, is constitutively rooted in the aesthetic dimension of human experience. The analysis conducted aims to bring into focus the originarity of technicity in the development of the living body, understood in its inseparable connection with the mind, as junction between the sensible and the symbolic, the organic and the cultural, the perceptive and the expressive. I address this question through a parallel analysis of Simondon’s groundbreaking reflection on technics and the less explored account of technics in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. If the latter inscribes our attitude towards technics in the motricity and symbolism inherent to the living body, the former ascribes to aesthetics a form of thinking, thus playing a fundamental role in our relationship to the technical dimension. Despite the differences in their approach to technics, I combine their theoretical perspectives to encompass their internal limits and to outline possible convergences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7958c2c7d4b14123824888d3d779be3f2022-12-22T00:10:04ZengFirenze University PressAisthesis2035-84662019-06-0112110.13128/Aisthesis-25623Techno-aesthetic Thinking. Technicity and Symbolism in the BodyAnna Caterina Dalmasso0Centre Prospéro. Langage, image et connaissance, Université Saint-Louis – BruxellesThis paper investigates the reciprocal implications between aesthetics and technics, to show how technicity, as a cultural and symbolic attitude, is constitutively rooted in the aesthetic dimension of human experience. The analysis conducted aims to bring into focus the originarity of technicity in the development of the living body, understood in its inseparable connection with the mind, as junction between the sensible and the symbolic, the organic and the cultural, the perceptive and the expressive. I address this question through a parallel analysis of Simondon’s groundbreaking reflection on technics and the less explored account of technics in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. If the latter inscribes our attitude towards technics in the motricity and symbolism inherent to the living body, the former ascribes to aesthetics a form of thinking, thus playing a fundamental role in our relationship to the technical dimension. Despite the differences in their approach to technics, I combine their theoretical perspectives to encompass their internal limits and to outline possible convergences.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/1012Technicstechno-aestheticsaesthetic thinkingMerleau-Ponty |
| spellingShingle | Anna Caterina Dalmasso Techno-aesthetic Thinking. Technicity and Symbolism in the Body Aisthesis Technics techno-aesthetics aesthetic thinking Merleau-Ponty |
| title | Techno-aesthetic Thinking. Technicity and Symbolism in the Body |
| title_full | Techno-aesthetic Thinking. Technicity and Symbolism in the Body |
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| title_short | Techno-aesthetic Thinking. Technicity and Symbolism in the Body |
| title_sort | techno aesthetic thinking technicity and symbolism in the body |
| topic | Technics techno-aesthetics aesthetic thinking Merleau-Ponty |
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