Ovi Symposium Part I: 6 June - 21 November 2013 On the Nature of Art within Modernity & the Envisioning of a New Humanism Participants: Dr Alessandra Abis, Dr Maria Buccolo, Ms Abigail George, Mr Nikos Laios, Dr Lawrence Nannery, Dr Ernesto Paolozzi, Dr Emanuel Paparella, Mr Edwin Rywalt and Dr Michael Vena An Ovi Magazine Books Publication C 2014 Ovi Project Publication - All material is copyright of Ovi magazine & the writer Ovi books are available in Ovi magazine pages and they are for free. If somebody tries to sell you an Ovi book please contact us immediately. For details, contact: [email protected] No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the writer or the above publisher of this book. Ovi Symposium: On the Nature of Art within Modernity and the Envisioning of a New Humanism Thirteen Bi-weekly Sessions: 6 June - 21 November 2013 An Ovi Magazine Books Publication C 2015 Ovi Project Publication - All material is copyright of Ovi magazine & the writer Ovi books are available in Ovi magazine pages and they are for free. If somebody tries to sell you an Ovi book please contact us immediately. For details, contact: [email protected] No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the writer or the above publisher of this book. Ovi Symposium: On the Nature of Art within Modernity and the Envisioning of a New Humanism Participants: Dr Alessandra Abis, Dr Maria Buccolo, Ms Abigail George, Mr Nikos Laios, Dr Lawrence Nannery, Dr Ernesto Paolozzi, Dr Emanuel Paparella, Mr Edwin Rywalt and Dr Michael Vena Ovi Symposium: On the Nature of Art within Modernity and the Envisioning of a New Humanism Thirteen Bi-weekly Sessions: 6 June - 21 November 2013 Overall View of the Table of Content Introductory Note by the Ovi Editor Thanos Kalamidas………………………… p. 9 Meeting One: “On the Origins of the Ovi Symposium and its Envisioned Goals. An Introduction by its coordinator Emanuel L. Paparella .................................p. 23 Meeting Two .................................................................................................... p. 33 Meeting Three…………………………………………………...............................p. 51 Meeting Four………………………………………………….................................p. 71 Meeting Five…………………………………………............................................p. 89 Meeting Six………………………………….........................................................p. 113 Meeting Seven……………………………………................................................p. 129 Meeting Eight…………………………….............................................................p. 145 Meeting Nine………………………………….......................................................p. 165 Meeting Ten…………………………………………………………….....................p. 191 Meeting Eleven……………………………………................................................p. 233 Meeting Twelve……………………………...........................................................p. 259 Meeting Thirteen………………………................................................................p. 283 Introductory Note Organizing an online symposium that happens beyond linear time is a huge and challenging project. What you see every second Thursday in Ovi magazine is just a glimpse of what really happens in the background. Most of us have lived the experience of a symposium and it was all concluded in a few days with the ex- change of opinions and ideas - occasional disagreements - on certain subjects. Now imagine a symposium where time is not an issue. Time is an important element in those symposiums because limits the evolution of those opinions, ideas and disagreement. A symposium where this exchange can expand in time, or better ignore time. Then the exchange becomes an alive and breathing entity that evaluates with its participants. This is what made the Ovi Symposium unique and it was the first time happening in an online magazine. Somehow Ovi magazine made history. And it all happened thanks to Dr Emmanuel Paparella. Establishing the fundamentals of a symposium with philosophical roots, finding the subthemes that would provoke and invite participants and readers and then putting them all together in a virtual room - the pages of Ovi magazine – is a huge and extremely demanding work and it all happened thanks - again - to Dr Emanuel Paparella. In linear time the Ovi Symposium is in its 54th meeting, more than two years exchange of thoughts, ideas and opinions. And it continues strong beyond time. This is the first book of the Ovi Symposium. The first in a series of book that will cover the whole project. It covers the first thirteen meetings and includes subthemes like poetry, cinema, architecture, aesthetics, democracy, contemporary world. All of them under the title: “A Philosophical Conversation on the Nature of Art within Modernity and the Envisioning of a New Humanism” Dr Emanuel Paparella made this conversation possible. A big thank you, is also in order to the participants of the Ovi Symposium: Dr Alessandra Abis, Dr Maria Buccolo, Ms Abigail George, Mr Nikos Laios, Dr Law- rence Nannery, Dr Ernesto Paolozzi, Dr Emanuel Paparella, Mr Edwin Rywalt and Dr Michael Vena. Thanos Kalamidas Ovi Chief Editor List of all the Scholars who have contributed and participated in the Sympoium in its First Year (in alphabetical order) Alessandra Abis is a graduate of the Department of Foreign and Clas- sical Languages and Literatures at the University of Bari. She, with her husband Arcangelo, founded the Adriani Teatro in 1992 in Italy. She has performed in Greek-Latin plays, among others: “Voyage in the Greek World” (Andromaca), “Miles Gloriosus” (Plauto), “The Last Temptation of Socrates (from Plato’s Ione Minor). Also from the Commedia dell’Arte: “Harlequin Doctor Flyer,” and “Without Makeup” (Chechov), “Four Portraits of Mothers,” Lady Madness (Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly). Maria Buccolo teaches theater at the University of Roma Tre in Rome, Italy. She is a graduate of the University of Bari and has participated in various projects aiming at establishing cultural bridges among nations and people, one of which is the Project for the Integration of Immigrants via the theater “Leonardo da Vinci Transfert Multilaterale dell’Innovazi- one” with the participation of four EU nations: France, Italy. Belgium and Rοmania). Abigail George is a South African activist for human rights, a feminist, writer and poet. She has received writing grants from the National Arts Council, Centre for the Book, and ECPACC (Eastern Cape Provincial Arts and Culture Council). She is not purely devoted to poetry but to pursuing writing fulltime. She has written two volumes of poetry, and her latest book is titled Winter in Johannesburg. Storytelling for her has al- ways been a phenomenal way of communicating and making a connection with other people. All About My Mother (a collection of short stories) was published by Ovi maga- zine in July 2012. Nikos Laios is a poet, artist, lover of philosophy and student of the hu- man condition, currently writing poetry and producing art; he is also a sculptor, a photographer, widely read in the humanities. He hails from the highlands of Epirus in Greece; greatly influenced by the poetic traditions which have been passed down from his poet ancestor on his maternal side from the island of Cephalonia. He currently resides in North Sydney Australia, is an autodidact and a passionate ‘renaissance’ man, has always been a practical philosopher, throwing himself into the hard questions that life has to offer in search of elusive gems of wisdom. Lawrence Nannery has studied at Boston College, Columbia University and at The New School for Social Research where he obtained his Ph.D. He founded The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal and authored The Esoteric Composition of Kafka’s Corpus. Devising Nihilistic Literature, 2 vols. Mellen Press. Ernesto Paolozzi teaches history of contemporary philosophy at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples. A Croce scholar and an expert on historicism, he has written widely and published several books, especially on aesthetics and liberalism vis a vis science. His book Bene- detto Croce: The Philosophy of History and the Duty of Freedom was printed as an e-book in Ovi magazine in June 2013. Emanuel Paparella has a Ph.D. in Italian Humanism with a dissertation on Giambattista Vico from Yale University. He currently teaches philoso- phy at Barry University and Broward College in Florida, USA. One of his books is titled Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of G. Vico, Mellen Press. His latest e-book Aesthetic Theories of Great Western Philosophers was printed in Ovi magazine in June 2013. Edwin Rywalt is a computer specialist living in Pennsylvania with his fam- ily. He is a talented and accomplished pianist with a college education from Columbia University and a life---long scholarly interest in the nex- us between science, technology, and the liberal arts. Beginning in May 2014 he will be offering pro bono services to the Ovi Symposium with typo correction editing and other useful suggestions aiming at improving the overall format of the twice a month section of Ovi magazine. Perhaps in the future, if his commitments allow it, he may decide to join the Symposium’s ongoing