Mechane

Mechane n. 9 (2025), "Tecnica e cultura"

Salvatore Spina, "Mito tecnicizzato, macchina mitologica e cultura di destra. Attraversamenti nel pensiero di Furio Jesi"

https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/mechane/article/view/5367/4149

Abstract: In this paper I will analyze the relationship among technicalised myth, mythological machine and Right-Wing Culture in Furio Jesi’s Thought. The first part of the paper is dedicated to a short analysis of Germania segreta. The aim of this enquire is to underline the difference between “genuine myth” and “technicalised myth”, that Jesi borrows from Kerényi’s works. The second part aims to explore the gnoseological model of the ‘mythological machine’, that permits Jesi to overcome the difference proposed by Kerényi and to promote his specific theory of myth and mythology. At the end of the paper I will connect the notion of the mythological machine to the idea of Right-Wing Culture. The aim is to show how the gnoseological model of the mythological machine finds in the analysis of the Right-Wing Culture a special proving ground.

Mechane n. 9 (2025), "Tecnica e cultura"

Alberto Giovanni Biuso, Tecnica e transumanesimo nel capitalismo dello spettacolo

https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/mechane/article/view/5364/4146

Abstract: The paper outlines, in the first part, the constant presence of technique and technologies from the Homeric Iliad to the society of the spectacle. It then shows the never neutral but always political dimension of this development up to the contemporary dominion of the digital, the virtual and the transhuman. Finally, it discusses the latter, starting from the phylogenetic and at the same time historical archaism of prostheses, of their consubstantial nature with respect to that of the body, of the fact that from the beginning human corporeality is an inseparable whole of nature, culture and technique. The dreams of the transhumanist visionaries must therefore be understood, explained and deconstructed starting from a materialistic and temporal metaphysics.

È online il nono numero di Mechane, dedicato a Tecnica e cultura:

https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/mechane/issue/view/302

Essays:

Valeria Pinto, "Quel genere di macchine che possono esplodere". Apocalissi della tecnica e integrazione della cultura;

Gianluca Solla, Scrivere per immagini. La tecnica del segno tra preistoria e cinema;

Marco Russo, Allevare uomini. Sulla "seconda natura" in Kant;

Alberto Giovanni Biuso, Tecnica e transumanesimo nel capitalismo dello spettacolo;

Aldo Pisano, Does the AI need a genealogy? The 'PAIA' model and the question concerning technology for the ai regulation.

Readings:

Fiorella Giaculli, Asservimento e liberazione. Nietzsche e la consacrazione della cultura;

Salvatore Spina, Mito tecnicizzato, macchina mitologica e cultura di destra. Attraversamenti nel pensiero di Furio Jesi;

Roberto Revello, Una tecno-estasi. Tecnicità, magia e simbolismo analogico in Simondon.