[Yasmin_an] Start yasmin discussion The newconcept of Humankind Cultural Narcissism from francesco monico

[roger malina]

dear colleagues

we will be starting a new discussion topic on yasmin next week=
it would be great if each of you could send a final comment to the
list in the next few days

thanks for your participation on this interesting topic !!

roger

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:49 PM, nina czegledy <czegledy at interlog.com> wrote:
> Dear Yasminers,
> we have the pleasure of announcing our next
> discussion topic by Francisco Monico, with respondents:
> Pier Luigi Capucci, Amos Bianchi, Natasha Vita-More
> and Roberto Marchesini.
> Lokking forward to the discussion and all your contributions.
> nina czegledy
>
>
>
> Discussion: The newconcept of Humankind Cultural Narcissism
>
> A-non-existing-concept: Humankind Cultural Narcissism, a re-discussion of
> anthropocentrism,
>
> The 'narcisistic' artwork is done in order to explore possibilities to
> generate a new cultural concept throughout an exhibit process and having the
> Yasmin discussion result as material for the same concept;
>
> A concept that has yet to be properly theorised. The term Narcissism derives
> from clinical description (Nacke, 1899). Anthropocentrism - is the tendency
> to consider the human being as the centre of the universe. Cultura, in
> Latin, means cultivation, referred to a person, it means education and
> manners,  it means civility and refinement. Humankind culture in this light
> seems to be a kind of Narcissistic neurosis in which the individual has
> little wiggle room and no way to escape. The individual is obliged to assume
> a model of the humankind ideal Ego as the goal of love itself. This Ego is
> anthropocentric, and love, when not aimed at the discovery of the other(s),
> risks becoming a suicidal weapon against self and society itself. Human,
> then, seems to be a kind of cultural 'primate' who suffers from the deep
> malaise that spreads beyond the individual sphere and ends up marking,
> through the death of communication between species and types of humanity,
> one of the limits of our current society. see:
> http://technoeticnarcissus.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-there-love-in-technoetic-narcissus.html
>
> - This new concepts would be create also around my 'narcisistic' artwork, as
> artist;
> - This artwork was done in order to explore possibilities to generate a new
> cultural concept throughout the exhibit process;
> - This artwork was exhibited aiming the Yasmin discussion result as material
> for the same new concept;
>
> as art process Is There Love in Technoetic Narcissus? was just exposed in
> Turin at Pav in the exhibit Diverse Forms Most Beautiful , from the 4 of
> February to the 15 of April,
> http://www.parcoartevivente.it/pav/index.php?lingua_sito=2 , after this
> dates the concept introduced and explored by the artwork would be elaborated
> in this discussion on Yasmine, shifting from video to texts and then too a
> book, the book will will be exposed in a new exhibit in Nowhere Gallery in
> Milan in June.
>
>
> Francesco Monico: both a technoetic researcher and artist, today mainly
> engaged in directing the Media Design & New Media Art Department at the
> NABA, in Milan, Italy. He's teaching Theory and Method of Mass Media at the
> same institution, as well play as director of the Planetary Collegium PhD
> M-Node [www.m-node.org]. His modus operandi is based on a combination of
> science, art, philosophy, and esoteric knowledge in which the artist
> recognises the paradoxical nature of knowledge and the contradictions
> inherent in formal epistemologies, and in his deep speculation his dealing
> with an hermeneutical approach. His methodology is a syncretic mixing
> critical theory and a pragmatic art approach. Among his artworks are The
> Artist Formerly Known as Vanda (i.e. Tafkav - 2007/10) [3] and Is There Love
> in The Technoetic Narcissus? (2008/10) [4],
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Monico
>
> Discussant:
> Pier Luigi Capucci: <plc at noemalab.org> the provost of Italian studies on
> technologies and new media;
> Amos Bianchi: <amos.bianchi at naba.it> a critical thinker, philosopher with a
> dynamic experience on higher education on art;
>
> Natasha Vita-More: <nvitamore at austin.rr.com> a media artist/designer and
> theorist known for designing "Primo Posthuman.
> Roberto Marchesini: <qbioetic at tin.it>, philosopher and biologist, author of
> the zooantropology manifesto.
>
>
>
> Francesco Monico
> 19.04.10 milano
>



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