Technologies of the Self

  • Lecture by Italian philosopher Federico Campagna 

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    Lecture by Italian philosopher Federico Campagna

    Technologies Otherwise Lecture Series


    How can we revise our understanding of technology by examining its interaction with the self? Can we understand and live according to fundamentally different technological realities that currently exist, but have been overshadowed by the imperative of profit-making technological innovation as an ultimate solution to the crises we face?

    On the 7th of November, we will host the second lecture as a part of our Lecture Series trajectory. On Thursday evening, Federico Campagna, Italian philosopher and author of "Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality" (Bloomsbury, 2018), will introduce to us two philosophical ways of understanding technology through the self. The philosopher will guide us through the Western idea of technology as a means to individuate ourselves and the contrasting Indian philosophical tradition, which stands against individuation. We will question the Western idea which suggests technology creates an objective truth. At the same time, we will not reject technology but will attempt to recognise the narrative that is present in our technological reality.

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    Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher and writer based in London. He has a PhD from the Royal College of Art (London), with a thesis on Metaphysics and Metaethics in the Design of Strategy Video Games, an MSc and a BSc in Economics and Management of the Arts from Bocconi University, Milan, and an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths University, London. He spent over twenty years in Milan, where he was active in the anarchist/autonomist networks and co-founded the street-poetry collective Eveline. ​Alongside teaching at the Architectural Association (UK), ECAL (Lausanne), and Warburg Institute (UK), he works as rights director at the UK/US radical publisher Verso, and as senior editor at the Italian philosophy publisher Timeo, which he co-founded.

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