Episode 134: On Federico Campagna's 'Technic and Magic'
In Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality, the philosopher Federico Campagna argues that we moderns have exhausted the reality system we devised at the dawn of our age, a system he calls Technic. Technic has one goal: to reduce all things to language by naming, tagging, measuring, and quantifying them, by turning every parcel of the physical and psychic universe into a "unit" defined by its position in the system. The result has been an erasure of the mere "suchness" of things, the singularity of things simply existing as they are. To replace a worldview that is now revealing its endemic nihilism, Campagna proposes Magic, a way of seeing that reestablishes a balance between the measurable and the ineffable. JF and Phil discuss Campagna's magisterial performance in this episode.
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SHOW NOTES
\n\nFederico Campagna, Technic and Magic
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\nPlotinus, Neoplatonist philosopher
\nFrancis Bacon, Irish artist
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\nWilliam S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
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\nNorthrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism