Wellington Lima Amorim
Wellington Lima Amorim is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, where he is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 2003), a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS, 2005), and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC, 2009). His academic trajectory also includes postdoctoral research in Philosophy and interdisciplinary research activities in higher education. His research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary philosophy, particularly Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, the philosophy of technology, political philosophy, ethics, contingency, modernity, subjectivity, and social critique. His publications address philosophical problems concerning dialectics, technology, hermeneutics, contingency, freedom, and contemporary forms of subjectivity. Selected publications include: “Contingency and Freedom: From the Greeks to Hegelian Logic” (Revista Húmus, 2011); “The End of Philosophy in Modernity with the Emergence of Heideggerian Hermeneutics” (Pensando, 2013); “The Construction of the Hegelian System: From Spinoza to Kant” (Prometeus, 2017); “Reflection as Retroactivity: Notes on Hegel’s Philosophy through the Lens of Slavoj Žižek” (Revista Húmus, 2019); “Happiness and Blessedness in Spinoza”. (Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2022) “Absolutely Absolute: Difference and Ought-to-Be” (Profanações, 2023). He is also the author of the book Immundus: The Extraordinary Decadence of the West.
Articles of Wellington Lima Amorim
A inteligência artificial como ficção teratológica. Imagem, imaginação técnicae criação em Vilém Flusser
This article examines generative artificial intelligence through Vilém Flusser's philosophy of language, imagination, and technics, proposing to understand it as teratological fiction. In contrast to approaches centered on machine autonomy or the possibility of artificial consciousness, it argues that generative AI should be interpreted as a modality of technical imagination produced through the objectification of human imagination in technical apparatuses. Methodologically, the study combines a historical reconstruction of the development of technics with an analysis of Flusser's concepts of Language, translation, imagination, apparatus, and freedom, while engaging with Monster Studies to provide a philosophical account of monstrosity. It argues that artificial intelligence does not generate original meanings but probabilistically reorganizes linguistic translations accumulated within culture, remaining dependent on human interpretation to acquire significance. Fritz Lang's Maschinenmensch in Metropolis (1927) is interpreted as the paradigmatic philosophical image of this condition, condensing the tensions between creation, fascination, alterity, and freedom that characterize modern technical artifacts. The article concludes that the monstrosity attributed to artificial intelligence is not an intrinsic property of computational systems but a cultural experience arising from the objectification of human imagination in technical devices. Its principal contribution is to shift the philosophical debate on artificial intelligence from the question of intelligence to that of technical imagination, proposing the concept of teratological fiction as a conceptual framework for understanding the contemporary relationship between technics, culture, and human freedom.