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Lectures

Federico Campagna
Cosmogonies: Technic and Magic

02 April
19:30 — 21:00
Е6 Vintage Hall

Federico Campagna
Cosmogonies: Technic and Magic

Winzavod Philosopy club will hold a lecture together with an Italian philosopher Federico Campagna on April 2. The PhD candidate at Royal College of Art in London will speak about the notions, which might be opposed to the axioms that structure the world we know.

In his speech, Federico Campagna will reveal metaphysical principles, which underline our system of reality. In other words, the philosopher will speak about modern cosmology preceded by cosmogony, which explains the way the world has become exactly what it is. Federico Campagna suggests that we should consider the world as opposed to such cosmogonic forces as Technic and Magic, two hyperobjects, the presence of which can be seen only by the trace that they leave in the world.

Co-curator of Winzavod Philosophy Club Andrey Schental: “ Art and philosophy are often understood as providers of policy ideas, as they expand boundaries of imagination and utopian horizons of the future. When reality itself seems to follow a performative slogan of Margaret Thatcher “There can be no Alternative", we should not forget other slogans, for instance, the one dated by half a century ago, " Be realistic — demand impossible!". We did not want the lecture cycle "New cosmologies" to be limited solely to the description of holistic systems, the main idea was to offer scenarios for overcoming crisis. Federico Campagna seems to be against defeatism and melancholia and suggests an alternative way of resisting to modern cosmology. He calls it Magic, a cosmogonic force that sets a different system of reality”.

Lecture "Cosmogony: Technic and Magic" will be tha final one in the cycle "New cosmologies", dedicated to the return of "big theories" and "great narratives".

About the speaker:
Federico Campagna — Italian philosopher, anarchist, author of Technic and Magic: the reconstruction of reality (2018) and the Last Night: antiwork, atheism, adventure (2013), in which he develops ideas of antitrust. For several years he has been collaborating with a legendary Italian theorist and writer Franco "Bifo" Berardi. For the first time Campagna was a speaker at Winzavod Philosophy club in 2016.