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Zusatztext We are on the bridge between worlds: Federico Campagna shows us how we might remake the cartographies of the next. The ‘end of the world’, as seen through the prophetic attitude, becomes not apocalypse, but apocatastasis: a joyful restoration. Campagna offers the cosmic trip for our collective transformation, inadvertently becoming a prophet for our time. Prophetic Culture is the foundational book for the day after tomorrow. Informationen zum Autor Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London, UK. He is the author of Technic and Magic: the reconstruction of reality (2018) and The Last Night: anti-work, atheism, adventure (2013). He works as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in the Hague, the Netherlands. Vorwort Explores what kind of culture would emerge if we embraced an alternative understanding of reality and put key ontological concepts at the heart of our existence. Zusammenfassung Selected as one of The Tablet ’s Books of the Year 2021 Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the range of what it is possible to think and to do in the course of a life. Cosmological stories, however, are fragile things. As soon as they lose their ring of truth and their significance for living, the worlds that they brought into existence disintegrate. New and alien worlds emerge from their ruins.Federico Campagna explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality, and the fading of the cosmological story that belonged to the civilisation of Westernised Modernity. How are we to face the challenge of leaving a fertile cultural legacy to those who will come after the end of our future? How can we help the creation of new worlds out of the ruins of our own? Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Time - Prologue: Jons the Squire- A Great Future Behind You- The Afterlife of Civilisations- Westernised Modernity Chapter 2: Otherworlds - Prologue: Anamorphosis- Aesthetics and Annihilation- A Chance to Lie- Archaic Adolescents- Tetrapharmakon Chapter 3: Prophetic Culture - Prologue: The Enigma- Stuttering- The Grotesque- The Prophet as a Position- Apocatastasis- A Memory of Having Forgotten- Prophecy as Therapy of Worlding Cosmography - 0 / 15 – Scheintür- 1 – The Island of Factso 14 – Consciousness- 2 – Mundus Imaginalis- 3 – The Worldo 13 – Angel- 4 – The Point-Island of the Ineffable- 5 – The Dreamo 12 – God- 6 – The Sleeping Gods- 7 – Beingo 11 – Grammar- 8 – Non-Beingo 10 – Death- 9 – Non-relationality Afterword: Sensuous Prophecy, by Franco Berardi ‘Bifo’BibliographyIndex...
