The concept of art in all its diverse cultural realms. São Paulo Art Biennial and Casa da Cor as proposals for thinking the aesthetic. Engagement and dialogue with artists and poets. Reflections on design.
2. Aspects of Automation
Automation from the human perspective. The functionary and the dilemmas of technique. From instrument to apparatus. Programmed culture. To calculate and compute. Artificial Intelligence.
3. Dialogue, Discourse, and the Other in Communication
Information creation, transmission, and storage. Discourse and dialogue as communicative models. Telematics. The other in communication. Communication and intersubjectivity.
4. On Space
The ladder of abstraction. From subject to project. The three catastrophes and the prevailing winds of information. Public and private space. New ways to think about social environments. Things and non-things. Immaterial culture. Virtual space.
5. Between statelessness and patriotism / Groundlessness
Certificate of groundlessness. Judaism as a condition. Absurdity and engagement.
6. Philosophy and the Brazilian Intelligenzia
Brazilian nature. The Brazilian Institute of Philosophy. Pedagogical experiences. The meetings on the terrace. Art, poetry, philosophy, and anthropophagy in Flusser’s dialogues.
7. Image and Imagination
Traditional images and technical images. Imagination and technical imagination. Homo ludens. Communication codes. Image critique and interpretation. The creation of alternative worlds.
8. Models Change
Cultural scenarios and models. Aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological models. Prehistoric, historical, and post-historic communication. On doubt. On game. On freedom.
9. Nature, Culture, Waste
Culture, nature, and waste. The consumption and philosophy of waste. Archeological sciences for an understanding of culture.
10. Does writing have a future?
Language and reality. Philosophy of language. The gesture of writing.
