The Synesthetic Age and Its Transgressions: Technosphere as Art?

Abstract

The article questions metaphysics and its traditional „foundation” of the idea of art as mimesis and representation, showing that with the advent of the technosphere as a synthesis of computation, planning and construction, cybernetics was realized in the very immanence of life. This also leads to the rule of technoscientific research into life itself, starting from the combination of genes and information that „produces” artificial reality. The fundamental concept that prevails in modernity becomes synthetic production, aesthetics, and art no longer have their autonomy, but become a synesthetic complex in which changes constantly occur in the very „essence” of the creative process of thought and action. With the disappearance of man as the creator of the artistic world, a multitude of possibilities for synesthetic metamorphoses of life that have already become artificial life arise. When philosophy is realized in cybernetics, the age of technoscience arises, and when art is realized in the becoming-machine of thought, this same age becomes the age of the aestheticization of life.