Collection TRANSformacije, book number 15
Collection editor: Janez Janša
© Maska, Ljubljana, 2004
224 pages, 170 x 240 mm
ISBN 961-91078-7-X
This book was published in Slovenian.
Bojana Kunst: Dangerous connections – Body, philosophy and relationship to the artificial
The introduction to the book Dangerous Connection: Body, Philosophy and Relationshhip to the Artificial, highlights the contemporary belief in the entropy and obsoleteness of the body. Guiding us through the entropic continuity of the physical, the author enables us to respond to the problem of contemporary post-human body, and at the same time, become aware the old problems which arise in full visibility today.
With the body’s constitution deeply marked by the artificial, the author attempts to highlight artificiality as one of the fundamental ways of our connection to and mediation of the world, as well as one of the basic aids of the modern philosophical disconnection.
Collection TRANSformacije, book number 15
Collection editor: Janez Janša
© Maska, Ljubljana, 2004
224 pages, 170 x 240 mm
ISBN 961-91078-7-X
This book was published in Slovenian.
Three central chapters
The thesis contains three central chapters. The first one, The Disconnection, deals with the philosophy of Rene Descartes, which established the bases of the modern relation between the physical and the artificial. Establishing the disconnection and then attempting to differentiate, however, a philosopher is faced with the omnipresent, complex character of the connection.
Its complexity and articulation are dealt with in the second chapter, The Connection. Interpreting early modern anatomical specimens and Baroque curiosities collections, the author focuses upon the representation of the dystopic field of the in-between, with the dangerous connection of undistinguishable, hybrid and monstrous creatures threatening to ultimately disconnect us from the rationality itself.
The third chapter, Dangerous Connection, is a leap into contemporarity, shedding light upon our perspective of the relationship between the organic and the technological. It deals with the contemporary change in physical representation, with the body disclosed as the field of the in-between.
Kazalo
RAZVEZAVA
Zaprimo oči: Descartes
Zvijačnost umetnega
Proteza kot spektakel
Strategija simulacije: Zamislite si svet
Znanstvena konstrukcija zunanjosti
Gledališče notranjosti
Virtualna telesa
Moderni topos umetnega
Sklep: Rahli alarm v naših čutih
POVEZAVA
Zbirke kuriozitet: Obsesivna zunanjost
Naturalija artificialija
Mesto monstruoznega
Anatomski primerek
Umetni primerek
Telo kot izguba
Mojster povezav: Leibniz
Sklep: Orkester nesličnih povezav
NEVARNE POVEZAVE
Žensko telo: Meso in kultura
Mikavnost mesa
Blago
Monstrumi: Strateške subjektivnosti
Simptomi tehnološkega telesa
Sklep: Odgocornost do kompleksnosti
About author
Bojana Kunst is Philosopher and Contemporary Art Theorist. She graduated in 1994 from Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts. She began to work as a young researcher in year 1996 at the Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy – Aesthetics. With the young researcher grant from the The Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia she completed in the year 1998 her Master Degree from Philosophy with the thesis The Problem of the Body in Theatre, Impossible Body. In the year 2002 she completed and defended her Ph. D. dissertation with the title Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Between Organic and Technological, Aesthetics of the Body and the Art of Postmodernism. She has the Ph. D. from philosophy – aesthetics.
Knjiga v javnosti
Maruša Perat: Bojana Kunst: Nevarne povezave – telo, filozofija in razmerje do umetnega
Družboslovne razprave XXI / 2005
Ali človeško telo, ki se ni spremenilo že stoletja in nas omejuje, izgublja bitko z modernimi tehnologijami? Gre že za skoraj tradicionalni spopad med naravnim in umetnim, ki pa po mnenju avtorice verjetno ni bil nikoli bolj aktualen kot je sedaj, še posebej s sodobno biopolitiko telesa.