Marcos Beccari
Marcos Beccari holds a PhD in Philosophy of Education from the University of São Paulo (USP), is an associate Professor in the Department of Design at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and affiliated faculty collaborator in the Graduate Program in Education at USP. He is also a researcher at DEMO — Design and Fiction Laboratory at ESDI/UERJ, and at Lab_Arte — Experimental Laboratory of Art, Education and Culture at FE-USP. His work engages in dialogue with Nietzsche, Foucault, Flusser, and Preciado across the fields of Education, Art, and Design.
Articles of Marcos Beccari
From Sound to Sign: Writing as Worldmaking in Vilém Flusser and Walter J. Ong
Writing changes the world. Or so thought scholars Vilém Flusser and Walter J. Ong in the second half of the 20th century. This paper explores the ontological and epistemological consequences of the written word according to the complementary views of these two authors. The pre-eminence of language for the constitution of reality was a stance assumed by Vilém Flusser already in his first book (1963) and later developed throughout his career. In his view, linear thought as we know it now became possible as a result of the technology of writing. Flusser’s reading deeply resonates with the Ong’s study of the transition from oral to literate cultures, as the latter posits that the written record allowed for a reformulation of thinking itself, an opening of the possibilities we know today. Although they wrote in different contexts, the questions they tackle and the conclusions they reach have profound similarities. For comparison, this study relies mainly on ideas found mainly in two seminal publications: Língua e Realidade [Language and Reality] by Vilém Flusser, and Orality and Literacy: the technologizing of the word, by Walter J. Ong.
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