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Isolario
Maps of visible and invisibles islands and archipelagos
with Graziano Martignoni
Isolario
Maps of visible and invisibles islands and archipelagos
Hi,
I get vertigo when I browse the net,
even if it seems that the web
is the mirror of life!
Yes, it really seems to me
that it's the mirror of life.
What do you think?
There have been many ways
and many attempts
to speak about man
and his daily condition
along the 20th century.
Many ways which have somehow
tried to define
his restlessness,
basically his loss of center,
of centrality,
but in the meantime
also a boost if we like
which Western man had known from navigation,
from traveling.
Let's think at the travels
which science is offering us,
at the journey, yes that journey,
and of science fiction which has animated
the literature of the first 20-30 years
of the past century.
Among these metaphors
try to describe Man
in his daily life,
that I call the man in situation,
the condition of man in situation,
one that I really like
and that reminds us
to the idea of navigation
and also to the idea of the islands
that we are trying to cross,
that is the seasickness.
It's like if the contemporary man
suffers of seasickness.
There is a condition which,
how to say, the fluctuation
of things which until a moment before,
seemed stable,
stable was his body,
stable was the perception that he had of himself,
stable was, how to say,
the rituality that governed the time
and the space of his daily life,
stable where his values
and all this in a big story,
in a long discussion capable of,
somehow
to give a collective meaning
to these, how to say, identities,
or to these links of identity.
Now all this,
has progressively
and maybe we have to remember
the warning
by the great philosopher Nietzsche
when he used to say that God is dead.
What did he mean?
Maybe the reference, besides to God,
was to the condition
of the identity of man from
that death or with that death
was put in crisis and in discussion.
And starting from there,
men stays in his body,
men stays in time, in space,
he stays inside his daily life and,
let's say it in a simple way,
he stays in his daily life
with the sort of condition of the traveler
who somehow doesn't really
know well where to go,
so something that takes us to the idea,
which we will maybe go back to,
of nomadism.
But in this condition of anguish,
of distress,
which sometimes is psychic
and sometimes of the body
sometimes of human relations,
I would call the condition of seasickness.
Naturally this condition of seasickness
can become and is probably
the most dangerous thing,
if you want, can become a natural condition.
Hölderlin, the great poet,
used to say that there is nothing worse
than somebody who feels bad
and does not realize it,
of whom is in a condition of,
how to say, of instability
but considers it something
absolutely normal.
This kind of instable navigation,
maybe sometimes without a goal,
this seasickness in many
of his daily life conditions,
believe is a way which let us think
what is the statute,
the condition of the man
who lives his daily live
in this beginning of the third millennium.
Isolario
Maps of visible and invisibles islands and archipelagos