Anderson Antonio Pedroso
Anderson Antonio Pedroso currently serves as the Rector and Principal Professor (Department of Arts and Design) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He holds a PhD in Art History and a master's degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from Sorbonne University, Paris. With degrees in philosophy and theology. he researches pedagogical issues surrounding aesthetic perception (ecology of attention) and modern and contemporary imaging devices (archaeology of media) – particularly in the field of studies on the relationship between Art History and Design.
Articles of Anderson Antonio Pedroso
Flusser e o Design Por Trás de Todos os Valores
This article proposes a philosophical reading of the notion of design in the work of Vilém Flusser, highlighting his critique of the modern separation between art and technique. Far from defining design as a stable or professional disciplinary field, Flusser understands it as a way of thinking that highlights the artificiality of the world and destabilizes the claims of objectivity in Western epistemology. Instead of asking what design is, the author invites us to inquire how it materializes and leads us to act. Design, then, rather than just a project, becomes a device capable of trickery, a practice of symbolic, ethical, and political creation that transforms the world into a fictional surface that is continuously (re)designed.
Vilém Flusser et Abraham Moles: le fond et la forme d’une « affinité combative »
The central role that Abraham Moles played in Vilém Flusser's thought during the first years after his return to Europe in 1972 is indisputable. Certain personal coincidences are striking: they were born in the same year 1920, and they died six months apart (respectively in November 1991 and in May 1992). From a theoretical point of view, the affinities between the two friends are also remarkable: if the interest in the phenomenon of cybernetics connected them, it is the aesthetics of communication open to phenomenology that allowed them a fruitful exchange.
But there is a third element, more formal and less known: their paradoxical Jewishness. The reference to the Golem myth, which appears as the background of their cybernetic thoughts, seems to refer to the Judaic substratum that animated their method of study involving heated discussions.
Thus, after some biographical data, these three elements provide the general outline of the article: the cybernetic approach, the phenomenological method, and the Talmudic practice. The goal is to show how the relationship between Vilém Flusser and Abraham Moles shows that, beyond intellectual gestures, in which they sought, in a perpetual effort, to regroup (the law of “elective affinities”), real “combative affinities” remain, resisting the entropy of the world and eternal oblivion.