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Postilla anti-hermetica = Anti-hermetic Postscript
No full textIn 1987 Carlo Formenti wrote an essay dedicated to Prometheus and Hermes. In that book Formenti has been analysing the character of Prometheus the Titan as the symbol of the working class and its intellectuals. In that phase, few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the crisis of the traditional revolutionary myths led the author to recognise a new symbol in Hermes, sensitive to a post-ideological attitude and ready to interpret the new egalitarian myths born with the internet. Today Formenti comes back to the issue and describes a further drastic disenchant
Non esistono saperi non agonici = There is no knowledge without agonism
No full textThere is no knowledge without agony. In 1986 Formenti wrote Prometheus and Hermes, in which the sunset of the Titan – as the icon of the emancipation of the nineteenth-twentieth century’s working class – has been put in relation with the crisis of the Fordist industry and the workers’ achievements. The rise of Hermes has been differently associated with the development of new communication technologies and their positive effects. Afterwards, Formenti reshaped such hopes. In this note, the author rethinks about this metaphor and the relationship between Prometheus and Hermes. He argues that the figure of Hermes as a messenger of the new world presented by the French philosopher, Michel Serres, is opposite to his idea. Serres has no intention of giving conflicting meanings to Hermes. According to Formenti, the choice of putting communication (but not production and industrialism) at the heart of his philosophical thinking is the result of an ethical concept tending to exclude the conflict from the horizon of knowledge
Semiothisa lopez-formenti (macho dorsal)
No full textParatipo macho de Semiothisa lopez-formenti Beutelspacher, 198
Ale Formenti: Fresh Teen Trash
No full textArticle on contemporary Italian photographer and artist Alessandro Formenti
Semiothisa lopez-formenti (macho ventral)
No full textParatipo macho de Semiothisa lopez-formenti Beutelspacher, 198
Semiothisa lopez-formenti (etiquetas de macho)
No full textEtiquetas de paratipo macho de Semiothisa lopez-formenti Beutelspacher, 198
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