Organ Projections: Russian Context

Abstract

It is proposed to consider «organ projections» idea which started the philosophy of technology in the light of historical and cultural existence of body-machine metaphors (special attention is paid to P.A. Florensky’s philosophy). The modern era demanded technical extension of man out into the world but the romanticism began thinking about returning a subject from his own extensions (otherness) among which in the XIX^th century important place was owned by machine technology. In the XX^th century with the advent of disproportionate technical extensions was raised a question of reverse technical effects on human being. In this connection it is interesting to watch the existence of body-machine metaphor in poetic discourse of the XX^th century which is considered on the material of Russian poetry. Although in the beginning of the XX^th century the «organ projections» idea did not find much support in recent years it acquires a new meaning (computer metaphor) and modern equivalents (the extensions of man idea by M. McLuhen). Actually in a field of technology the organ projections process becoming more conscious (bioengineering, bio-cybernetics, nanotechnology).