Marcos Beccari

A Philosophical Approach about User Experience Methodology

The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the possible contributions of the entitled Philosophy of Design to the processes involved in the User Experience methods. After a brief introduction on User Experience principles and methods, we will make a brief overview of the history of research in Design. Moving on we shall review some of the main precepts of Philosophy of Design and, finally, make evident the scientistic and pragmatic predominance of the User Experience methods.

Aisthesis: uma breve introdução à estética dos afetos

This article intends to present an introductory panorama of aesthetic studies from the bias of affections. In this sense, aesthetics is marked by human affections and not by correspondence with some criterion of beauty (consolidated vision in the fields of arts and design). Thus, we propose aesthetics as a larger study, which deals with issues that cover life as a whole and is based on concepts related to how we are affected significantly by the world. Such a vision begins with notions derived from the sophist thought, passes through Epicureanism and is developed in the philosophies of Baruch Spinoza, David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche. From this perspective, the aesthetic dimension is understood as crucial and unavoidable in our relationship with the world.

Prometeu contra Hermes: o lugar do design no imaginário contemporâneo

This article proposes a reflection on the contemporary imaginary, taking the design as a central vector and two mythical figures, Hermes and Prometeu, as main coordinates. First, we make some considerations about the theoretical bases that support the approach proposed here, and then we indicate the way in which the figures of Prometeu and Hermes lead much of the sociocultural dynamics. Next, we analyze the post-Promethean paradigm that Bruno Latour identifies from five connotations of the term design. We conclude, finally, that the myths of Hermes and Prometheus are implied in each other and that the design expresses, in the contemporary imaginary, this correlation.

Resenha de O Imaginário Trágico De Machado De Assis: elementos para uma pedagogia da escolha, de Rogério de Almeida

O livro resulta da pesquisa que Rogerio de Almeida iniciou em 2007 para investigar aspectos de uma filosofia tragica na obra de Machado de Assis. Por meio de tres frentes teoricas – (1) pecas literarias selecionadas e interpretacoes da critica machadiana, (2) antropologia do imaginario e (3) filosofia tragica –, o estudo culmina na proposicao, a partir da filosofia machadiana, de uma “pedagogia da escolha” orientada a ensinar o pensamento a desaprender seus referenciais de sentido. A relevância deste livro consiste em inaugurar uma interpretacao que reconhece e aprova o carater tragico-filosofico do imaginario de Machado de Assis, alem de indicar implicacoes para uma educacao pautada na desaprendizagem e na escolha.