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Friday, April 22, 2016

Alessandro Baricco: simplificación y conocimiento de la realidad

¿Que relación puede tener un mapa del metro, un poema de Dante, y Emmanuell Kant? Bueno, puede arguirse que Kant tiene que ver con todo; pero ¿con un mapa del metro?. En una reciente conferencia en el Tecnológico de Monterrey, México, el escritor italiano Alessandro Baricco estableció esa curiosa conexión...

"The kind of person called for by the present situation is one capable of breaking through the boundaries of culture and history, which have so far limited human growth. A person not indelibly marked by the tattooings of his tribe or restricted by the taboos of his totem: not sewed up for life in the stiff clothes of his caste and calling or encased in vocational armour he cannot remove even when it endangers his life. A person not kept by his religious dietary restrictions from sharing spiritual bard that other men have found nourishing; and finally, not prevented by his ideological spectacles from ever getting more than a glimpse of the world as it shows itself to men with other ideological spectacles, or as it discloses itself to those who may, with increasing frequency, be able without glasses to achieve normal vision..." (Lewis Mumford. The Transformations of Man. 1956)