Homo Laborans and Homo Faber
Homo Laborans sails in the sea of “making things” where work is an end in itself, and is dictated by the needs imposed by technology. Subjected to technology or pleasantly attracted by it, we are ‘Animal laborans’, as Arendt would say, being enslaved to the tasks we are immersed in by the will of technology. Our doing is comparable to the manual work of past industrial revolutions. Think, for example, of the smartest machines, which can alert their human handlers when they will need maintenance, or the cyborg, bionics and computer prosthesis, which give the human body the characteristics of the machine. Assisted by technology, in the sea of “producing thoughts” the Homo Faber navigates, whose mind always finds inspiration that leads him to make discoveries. Here, among the various characters, stand out the figures of poets, philosophers, sculptors, painters, dancers, playwrights, filmmakers, video artists, documentarians, artists of sound and performance, and historians. In this scenario technology and humanism do not meet. Technology guides the hand of those who have to do concrete, material things. Humanism shifts attention from the hand to the head from which innovative thoughts arise.
Notes:
Folksonomies: two cultures
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Recombining Hand and Head