Homo Modernus, Tractatus Philosophicus

If in a parallel universe Ludwig Wittgenstein and Marshall McLuhan had married, their robot child would have created something like this animation. We hope you will enjoy it.

Homo Modernus is a literary-design project by Claudio Molinari Dassatti and Iñigo Orduña.

· Direction: Iñigo Orduña and Claudio Molinari
· Animation and postproduction: Iñigo Orduña
· Translation: Ivan Bergquist
· Narration: Sally Blips

From an original text by Claudio Molinari.

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[1TheSocraticMethod1]

Hmmmmm... this is a very interesting position/philosophy. Heavy Continental influence, eh. Have you read Adorno and Horkheimer? Marcuse? I'm curious, by whom do you feel you are most influenced?

If I may, I have another question: I would love to hear the positive project of your philosophy. You have expressed a fascinating critical theory here; what do you think man must/should do to regain his freedom?

Thanks for the video! Good luck! :)

[Homomodernus]

Thank you so much for your comment. I'd say my main influence is aesthetics more than philosophy, but I do admire clean cut logc as a way of conveying ideas, and perhaps music which is the basis for poetry. As for the positive side... well... I'd have to think about that. Thanks again for your stimulating questions. Maybe that is the only positive side of the data deluge: not to get caught in 'communication' and engage in dialogue. Claudio Molinari Dassatti

[1TheSocraticMethod1]

Thanks for your response! If you are interested in aesthetics, you should definitely give Theodor W. Adorno a read.

Here are a few resources you might find interesting:

plato.stanford.edu/entries/ado rno/ (by way of introduction)

The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture, ed. J. M. Bernstein, London: Routledge, 1991.

Essays on Music: Theodor W. Adorno, ed. R. D. Leppert, trans. S. H. Gillespie et al., Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Best,

SM.

[Homomodernus]

I surely will, SM. Adorno seems to pop up around me time and again. What is it that you do?

C. 

[coldgettindumb]

thoroughly enjoyed this! and don't mind the elitists and babies on here talking nonsense!

[Homomodernus]

thanks man!

[Natural High Penguin]

Our evey comment might be a rapproachment to the kind of Homo Modernus we pretend we don't want to be.

Nevertheless, I can't stop myself from saying how right this sounds to me.

Trapped in the "self-reflekting loop".

[kotap0]

This could be HALs girlfriend expressing her perception :)

Very well done.

[Aristo07]

From Argentina, thanks. I think it's a destiny for humanity, inevitable. And that ontological void begins to emerge. A new kind of humanity begins, step by step.

Thanks

[Jordan Mandel]

But the opposite might be true for a Homo modernus, or it might just be the perception of a Homo modernus.

[Jordan Mandel]

In my experience, the numbing of the self is what leads to neuroticism.

[name policy]

LOVE the veed-yo...20 years ago my work was in re/analysis of subject/object...things appear to have grown a little more 'stylish' in the interim

[Jupiter Entertainment]

1:16

[Liberty NC]

This has enlightened me :O

[chima chibi]

Brilliant. Some really clever people out there. Thank you for sharing this.

[Cat Raper]

the fuck is this? you shut in nerd fucks should get outside somtime and get laid.