Marcos Beccari
Marcos Beccari has a PhD in Philosophy of Education from USP. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Design Department at UFPR [Federal University of Parana] and a collaborating professor in the Graduate Program in Education at the University of São Paolo. He is a researcher at DEMO, -- the Design Fiction Laboratory -- of ESDI/UERJ [Industrial Design College, Rio de Janeiro] and Lab_Arte -- Experimental Laboratory of Art Education Culture at the University of São Paolo. His work engages with Nietzsche, Foucault, Flusser and Preciado in the fields of Education, Art, and Design.
Articles of Marcos Beccari
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.
From Sound to Sign: Writing as Worldmaking in Vilém Flusser and Walter J. Ong
Writing changes the world. Or so thought scholars Vilém Flusser and Walter J. Ong in the second half of the 20th century. This paper explores the ontological and epistemological consequences of the written word according to the complementary views of these two authors. The pre-eminence of language for the constitution of reality was a stance assumed by Vilém Flusser already in his first book (1963) and later developed throughout his career. In his view, linear thought as we know it now became possible as a result of the technology of writing. Flusser’s reading deeply resonates with the Ong’s study of the transition from oral to literate cultures, as the latter posits that the written record allowed for a reformulation of thinking itself, an opening of the possibilities we know today. Although they wrote in different contexts, the questions they tackle and the conclusions they reach have profound similarities. For comparison, this study relies mainly on ideas found mainly in two seminal publications: Língua e Realidade [Language and Reality] by Vilém Flusser, and Orality and Literacy: the technologizing of the word, by Walter J. Ong.