2020 - Digital Anthropophagy and the Anthropophagic Re-Manifesto for the Digital Age - Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez

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In 2009 I started writing the essay Digital Anthropophagyiand its companion piece, the manifesto-poem Anthropophagic Re-Manifesto for the Digital Ageii.Being an artist from Brazil,I could not escape thecultural mystique of ‘Anthropophagy’.For those unfamiliar with the term, the etymologyhas a Greek origin dating back to the mythological Kronos(Saturn) eating his own son–‘Anthrōpophagia’: ‘Anthropos’= human being + ‘phagein’=to eat, i.e., an eating of a human. The words ‘Anthropophagy’and ‘Anthropophagus’weretransplanted by the European conquistadors in the late 1400s/early 1500s to the land massesrenamed ‘America’and ‘The Caribbean’at the onset of colonialism.Starting at this period, some native ethnicities of the ‘Amerindian’populations have been described as practitioners of ritual Anthropophagyand/orCannibalism. ‘Cannibalism’itself supposedly finding its root in a misspellingor ironic naming ‘Canib’iii–by Columbuswhen describing the Carib people of Antilles/Caribbean Islandsduring his navigational enterprises between 1492-1504. In 1928, Oswald de Andrade devouredBrazilian colonial history itselfwritingthe ‘Manifesto Antropófago’, an adjective form of the term, meaning a Manifesto thatpossessesthe agency to eat. The proposition of the Brazilian Moderns was to devour what comes from outside (‘First World’novelties), absorb their useful‘otherness’in order to output something uniquely Brazilian.Thus ‘Antropofagia’isappropriated and forever transformed in the1920s São Paulo into a Brazilian avantgarde. Antropofagia isconsidered by some critics to be perhaps the only true Brazilianartistic canon. Theconceptsof this cultural iconhaveinevitablyimpregnatedmyown artworks, especially in my condition of migrant since the age of 19, living in a constant state of becoming ‘other’somewhere.

Keywords: digital anthropophagy;anthropophagic Re-Manifesto for the digital age;manifesto antropófago; Oswald de Andrade;antropofagia;Brazilian modernism;digital age;colonisation;Vilém Flusser;Aílton Krenak; Bauhaus

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