Indigenising Technology

Giovanbattista Tusa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Philosopher Giovanbattista Tusa in conversation with doctoral students in Fine Arts as part of the PhD Forum at the international conference Unframing Knowledge: Artistic Research Beyond Theory and Practice, organised by NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, within the framework of P+ARTS – Partnership for Artistic Research in Technology and Sustainability, a project funded by NextGenerationEU.

As Giovanbattista Tusa argued in his book Terra Cosmica: Traces of Georealism, reconfiguring our imagination means multiplying possible visions and imaginable futures, which is a crucial resource at a time when the scenarios of the Anthropocene increasingly resemble a status quo accepted with fatalistic resignation by philosophy and political theory. While there is a dark premonition in the twentieth century that inextricably links technology and the dehumanisation of thought, in the twenty-first century, technologies can move beyond the paradigm of mastery and understanding to become catalysts of non-knowledge and, therefore, of experimentation – of intelligences that inhabit spaces and times that cannot be mastered, that are not "ours".