Organ and Machinery Projections in Florensky’s Philosophy and Vertov’s Cinematography

Abstract

My article is dedicated to the Kapp’s theory of organ projections in the first half of the XX century in Russia. I research that the philosopher P. Florensky and the filmmaker Dziga Vertov made the changes to this theory and linked it with the definition of machinery projections purposes and limits. Florensky’s has a goal to analyze new sides of life in an organism by machinery projections. The method of it is the made by a man transference of the functions and contours of technology to an organism. A man thinks about the specificity of an organism and does not allow thinking about it as only less qualitatively working mecha­nism. Vertov has a goal to observe disadvantages of a human organism and reject them via creating of a new man by machinery projections. According to Vertov’s purpose the technology presents an organism as a mechanism via the algorithm of observing and designing. I explain how these conceptions may be useful for researching in the field of bioinformatics and biomedical engineering.