"The ‘modernity’ through the image of food and digestion.” This is the task and the agenda of the physiological and psychological genealogy clearly identified by Nietzsche in a fragment of the autumn of 1888 and uncompromising pursued in all his work. Diagnosis is implacable and made possible by a widespread use of gastrological metaphor, applied to all fields of experience and language by a reckless writing of history. As Valéry and Péguy also illustrate, the experience of contemporary men is in fact poor and sick, characterized by a radical duplicity and a contradiction without synthesis. Not only things, as Marx also shows analysing the goods as the new hieroglyphs marking the saturated space of the metropolis, but also man is double, and his embodied, deeply physiological economy too. His hungry stomach is twofold, because it takes everything but does not nourish at all, it cries of various and heterogeneous excitements, not of real food to be absorbed and transformed, in short it lives by an instant without past or future. The opposite of this logic of illness and insensitivity for too many sensations and sensational choc, and the reverse of this oblivion for too much rapidity, is an extreme being anti- or even pre-modern. In modern times, the training of a genuine clinic criticism about prejudices and supposed self-knowledge involves a regression and an alteration of own historical identities, believes and values. Finally, as Benjamin and Warburg revealed, criticism is like to become again animal and interpretation is like to regain the slowness and melancholy of endless chewing, as a dog or a cow.

El vientre de los modernos. Psicología, fisiologia y filologia de la consciencia historíca

FIMIANI, Filippo
2017-01-01

Abstract

"The ‘modernity’ through the image of food and digestion.” This is the task and the agenda of the physiological and psychological genealogy clearly identified by Nietzsche in a fragment of the autumn of 1888 and uncompromising pursued in all his work. Diagnosis is implacable and made possible by a widespread use of gastrological metaphor, applied to all fields of experience and language by a reckless writing of history. As Valéry and Péguy also illustrate, the experience of contemporary men is in fact poor and sick, characterized by a radical duplicity and a contradiction without synthesis. Not only things, as Marx also shows analysing the goods as the new hieroglyphs marking the saturated space of the metropolis, but also man is double, and his embodied, deeply physiological economy too. His hungry stomach is twofold, because it takes everything but does not nourish at all, it cries of various and heterogeneous excitements, not of real food to be absorbed and transformed, in short it lives by an instant without past or future. The opposite of this logic of illness and insensitivity for too many sensations and sensational choc, and the reverse of this oblivion for too much rapidity, is an extreme being anti- or even pre-modern. In modern times, the training of a genuine clinic criticism about prejudices and supposed self-knowledge involves a regression and an alteration of own historical identities, believes and values. Finally, as Benjamin and Warburg revealed, criticism is like to become again animal and interpretation is like to regain the slowness and melancholy of endless chewing, as a dog or a cow.
2017
“La ‘modernidad’ a través de la imagen de la comida y la digestión”. Ésta es la tarea y el programa de la genealogía fisiológica y psicológica identificada con claridad por Nietzsche en un fragmento del otoño de 1888 y firmemente perseguida en toda su obra. El diagnóstico es implacable y es posible por un uso extendido de la metáfora gastronómica, aplicada a todos los campos de la experiencia y el lenguaje por una escritura temeraria de la historia. Como Valéry y Péguy también lo ilustran, la experiencia de los hombres contemporáneos es pobre y enferma y se caracteriza por una duplicidad radical y una contradicción sin síntesis. No sólo las cosas, como además lo muestra en sus análisis sobre las mercancías como nuevos jeroglíficos que marcan el espacio saturado de la metrópolis, sino también el hombre es doble, así como su corporizada y profundamente fisiológica economía. Su estómago hambriento tiene dos caras, porque todo lo toma pero no nutre en absoluto; vocifera acerca de entusiasmos varios y heterogéneos, no sobre un verdadero alimento para ser absorbido y transformado. En resumen, vive por un instante sin pasado ni futuro. El opuesto de esta lógica de la enfermedad y la insensibilidad en busca de muchas sensaciones y shocks sensacionales, y el reverso de este olvido por rapidez excesiva, es un ser anti- o incluso premoderno en extremo. En los tiempos modernos, el entrenamiento de un criticismo genuino acerca de los prejuicios y el supuesto auto-conocimiento implican una regresión y una alteración de las propias identidades históricas, las creencias y los valores. Finalmente, como Benjamin y Warburg lo revelaron, el criticismo es como tornarse otra vez animal y la interpretación es como recuperar la lentitud y la melancolía de un eterno masticar, al igual que un perro o una vaca.
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