Extra Gender Perspective: Beyond Humankind Cultural Narcissism, a draft proposal
Facing an incredible technological acceleration, cultural cybernation’s effects drive humankind in an attempt to define an act to set himself. As a matter of fact, from one side computational acceleration brings primary complex feedback forms, art explored generativity principles, and we are waiting for the singularity. From another side the exploitation, the predation, the irresponsible management of the natural resources drive humankind in a new ecological Pentecost. Today, as said by George Gessert “We need the fellowship of the animals and plants in order to became ourselves”.i
Humankind’s poetical acknowledge was to set himself as narcissistic ‘subject’, this has drove humankind to see image of the self as mere reflection and not to gather the intimate relationship between the self and the Nature. Humankind becomes a being that bargains his identity between his natural dimension and his technological dimension, his tekné; this bargain is a cybernetic process generating a never ending dialectical strain. It’s a new integrated Ego that brings together different confines and psychological edges. Throughout the pragmatical experience of the conceptual Artwork – Is There Love in The Technoetic Narcissus? – produced by the Parco d’Arte Vivente -PAV- di Torino, a new concept of Human Cultural Narcissism is speculated in an enquiry open to various brilliant minds
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