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- A catarse do fogo: a simbologia do fogo nos ecrãs da televisãoPublication . Ilharco, FernandoCentrando-se nos distúrbios de Novembro de 2005 em Paris, durante os quais foram queimados milhares de automóveis, este artigo propõe uma análise fenomenológica e semiótica do fogo nos ecrãs da televisão. Porque na terceira ordem de simulacro (Baudrillard, 2004/1981) o fogo na televisão é apenas informação, questionamo-nos sobre o que nos informam as chamas no ecrã? Hoje o fogo é tanto o símbolo que sempre foi, como um media para uma hiper-realidade ecranizada, contextualizada pela abundância de bens e pelo universo dos telemóveis, da MTV, da Internet e da publicidade. Neste artigo utilizamos algumas das noções desenvolvidas por Jean Baudrillard, como a troca simbólica e a sua interpretação de potlatch, e a concepção da catástrofe como defesa, para tentar mostrar como os fogos nos ecrãs da televisão são, simultaneamente, causa e consequência do regime hiper-real em que vivemos, bem como uma troca simbólica paradoxal que re-alimenta o enquadramento hiper-real da sociedade hiper-real do século xxi.
- Não se pode não comunicarPublication . Ilharco, Fernando
- Screens of fire: surviving the end of the worldPublication . Ilharco, FernandoThe growing of complexity inevitably leads to catastrophe; this is evident enough. Human beings have for long adapted to a chaotic world: language, culture, science and technology are developments appropriately described under this perspective. Either by simplification or by understanding, the complexity of a world already there is reduced. The path of digital screens, however, might embody a new strategy for surviving: substitution, protection, that is, screening. Human life nowadays happens behind the screens. All philosophies and social theories fundamentally, explicitly or implicitly, deal with the question of death, referred Schopenhauer; and digital screens too. TV, computer, mobile phone screens are focal points of human attention. In the semiotic contemporary culture of abundance, the complexity of the world is back as a message. Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, warned us in the 1980’s: “The CNN will broadcast live the end of the world.” The dominant red color of the CNN logo and indeed of TV images is an attractor that captures attention, an evocation of the epical fires that wrote History. For long red means attention, fire, change, accident. The deeper message of TV, of live TV and Internet, is the final catastrophe that complexity leads to. The digital screen is a showcase of catastrophes. Staring at the images, watching the screens, the viewers are outside the real world. Living in screened cultural landscape, watching the catastrophes, viewers are separated, protected, excluded by the screens. The screen is the distinction that draws contemporary times. This side of screens (where we talk and write papers), men experience the feeling of the survivor, living while others are dying. Immersed in a hiper-real world, a reality made of images, immateriality and change, the screen-watcher is drawn into the final paradoxical show: the end of the world, and surviving it.
- Where are you? A heideggerian analysis of the mobile phonePublication . Ilharco, FernandoThis paper is an attempt at clarifying the essential contours of the phenomenon that grounds the developments in contemporary mobile communication: the mobile phone. In so doing our investigation intends to answer the question of what a mobile phone is as such. The paper presents a description of the mobile phone and its contextualisation within some of the works of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), seeking to uncover the essential mode in which a mobile phone is what it is. Grounding our analysis on the ontology of Heidegger’s Being and Time (Heidegger 1962), we claim that the mobile phone will only show itself as what it is in its being in-the-world where mobile phones are what they are. This analysis is complemented by an exploration of the relevance of another of Heidegger’s notions, that of Ge-stell (Heidegger 1977) as the essence of modern technology, for the understanding of human involvement with mobile phones. Against this ontological background, our analysis points out being-with, bringing together and timing as the essential contours of the mobile phone, all of these suggesting the deeper notions of actual situation and of disembodiment.