Papers by Gianpaolo Cherchi
Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee, 2019
Adorno's negative dialectics wants to free the thought from the dictates of the system, taking po... more Adorno's negative dialectics wants to free the thought from the dictates of the system, taking position against the illusion to grasp the essence of reality by logic. Against that false idea of totality, Adorno devises a philosophy of fragment, a logic of disgregation that presupposes a different concept of totality: a fragmented, scattered and conflicting wholeness. The anti systematic thinking of Adorno is configured, however, as a systematic rejection of any systematic formulation: philosophy can at most claiming a pretension to truth by the practice of interpretation. A dialectic configuration of fragments of totality is at stake here: so, the arrangement of such fragments can both produce an image of reality endowed with meaning and also unfold through heterogeneous combinations that are not definitive, but always renewable from time to time. In Adorno's reflection are so expressed two different instances which are complementary at the same time: on the one hand it represents the critical and negative element against the system and its hybris, on the other hand it expresses the need of the thought to go beyond and overcome that fragmentation, showing how the need of unity of the system is a need of the thought in itself.
This article is conceived both as a reply and a summary of the arguments presented in the last is... more This article is conceived both as a reply and a summary of the arguments presented in the last issue of this journal (N. 12/13 2015). Through the concepts of Erfahrung and Erlebnis and the Walter Benjamin concepts of " aura " and " choc " and of " first " and " second " technique, the authors argue against the declarations of " poverty " and " death " of the possibility of experience apparently made by both Benjamin and, lately, Agamben. Following the history of the idea of experience to the present day, after the cases of the so called " Psychedelic Experience " and of the contemporary " UX " (User Experience in an electronic environment), the authors identify in Benjamin's work an ever-open possibility for experience, through the recurring process of choc and cyclical destruction and reconstruction of the " medium ". That process, defined by Benjamin as " innervation " , is apt to integrate new devices into the system of perception. Considering the language as the first technology, this process presents also a strong affinity with the first experience of language as described by Agamben.
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