Roberto Diodato Boeken

Exploring the intersection of traditional aesthetics and modern technology, this work examines how virtual bodies challenge and redefine established artistic concepts. It delves into the implications of digital representation, inviting readers to reconsider their understanding of beauty, identity, and presence in the context of an increasingly virtual world. Through a critical lens, it addresses the transformative effects of technology on perception and artistic expression.

Focusing on the concept of systems, this book explores the nature of relations as intrinsic structures, arguing that identity and existence depend on these relations rather than on individual elements. It distinguishes between "relations" and "relational properties," emphasizing that understanding relations does not require viewing them merely as causal links. The investigation is enriched by examples such as images, artworks, and virtual bodies, which exemplify their systemic characteristics and deepen the comprehension of relational ontology.

The itineraries traced by this book investigate the ontological and metaphysical sense of aesthetic experience. This latter is here understood as the primary experience through which our whole existence as human beings is endowed with the world and can manifest itself. Readers will find two different yet convergent intentions. The first, exquisitely concerned with ontology and aesthetics, develops Merleau-Ponty's theory on flesh as element in the direction of an ontology of virtuality. its main aim is to fully grasp a new entity surfacing on the background of being, which is, property speaking, neither living nor artificial. The second mainly concerned with aesthetics and metaphysics, pinpoints entities' power of being within the aesthetic-linguistic experience of deixis while accounting for the work of the aesthetic logos as a condition of possibility for metaempirical inferences.