Leonardo Caffo Tea Falco
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[01/23/19, 08:24:06] Tea Falco created the group “DISCOURSE ON INSTAGRAM” [01/23/19, 08:24:06] Tea Falco added you [01/23/19, 08:24:17] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [01/23/19, 08:24:21] Tea Falco: We’ve forgotten how to climb trees, we just don’t do it anymore. We’ve forgotten how to jump, because we’re afraid of falling. Oh, you wretched, ridiculous man, with an iPhone in hand, tactile thumbs and 8 fingers clutching a shiny talisman. WE ARE THE ALIENS, where are the animals? I want to express myself, without pretending. If I like you, I want to tell you to your face. ‘Love is doing what you like with who you like,’ says the DALAI LAMA. It’s so simple; we invented love, marriages, without jumping on things anymore, without talking anymore.
[01/23/19, 08:24:58] Leonardo Caffo: Have you read “Binary System Disorders?” [01/23/19, 08:25:06] Leonardo Caffo: By Valerio Magrelli? [01/23/19, 08:25:29] Tea Falco: No, I don’t read, because I have an attention deficit.[01/23/19, 08:26:08] Leonardo Caffo: [Image attached] [01/23/19, 08:26:13] Leonardo Caffo: Not with this. [01/23/19, 08:26:16] Leonardo Caffo: Few words. [01/23/19, 08:26:24] Leonardo Caffo: But perfect for what you’re doing.[01/23/19, 08:26:36] Tea Falco: ❤️ beautiful [01/23/19, 08:26:49] Tea Falco: We can start a bit already. [01/23/19, 08:27:15] Tea Falco: I’m studying the phenomenon of ADHA ADD, attention deficit, a lot. [01/23/19, 08:27:19] Leonardo Caffo: Give me your email. [01/23/19, 08:27:20] Tea Falco: Dyslexia. [01/23/19, 08:27:22] Leonardo Caffo: I’ll send you the PDF. [01/23/19, 08:27:25] Leonardo Caffo: Of the book. [01/23/19, 08:27:42] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [01/23/19, 08:29:01] Tea Falco: Some scientists think ADHD is a listening problem. [01/23/19, 08:29:23] Tea Falco: In Italy, no one talks about it. [01/23/19, 08:29:51] Leonardo Caffo: [Image attached] [01/23/19, 08:29:54] Leonardo Caffo: Perhaps. [01/23/19, 08:30:29] Leonardo Caffo: Today perhaps they are digital sirens.[01/23/19, 08:30:40] Leonardo Caffo: You think you’re looking at the phone. [01/23/19, 08:30:46] Leonardo Caffo:But it’s looking at you. [01/23/19, 08:30:47] Tea Falco: Instagram is watching us. [01/23/19, 08:30:56] Tea Falco: We are globalizing. [01/23/19, 08:31:15] Tea Falco: The whole world is the same. [01/23/19, 08:31:45] Leonardo Caffo:Yes, but there’s a world that isn’t in the world. [01/23/19, 08:31:48] Tea Falco: Trap music became famous all over the world, even though the language was different. [01/23/19, 08:32:10] Tea Falco: Because America is colonizing us.[01/23/19, 08:32:11] Leonardo Caffo: In Cuba, for example. There’s no internet. Only paid squares where everyone is hunched over because internet returns, but for a fee. [01/23/19, 08:32:20] Leonardo Caffo: So the public becomes private. [01/23/19, 08:32:23] Leonardo Caffo: And vice versa. [01/23/19, 08:32:33] Leonardo Caffo: There’s something we’re not grasping. [01/23/19, 08:32:41] Tea Falco: In Cuba, you can have internet at home now, dear.[01/23/19, 08:32:56] Tea Falco: ‘Dear.’ [01/23/19, 08:33:15] Tea Falco: It changed recently, but the embargo is still there; I hope it doesn’t change. [01/23/19, 08:33:18] Leonardo Caffo: Only if you pay for it, more than a salary. Can you pay to be alien? [01/23/19, 08:33:44] Leonardo Caffo: If it weren’t a listening problem… [01/23/19, 08:33:49] Leonardo Caffo: But a problem of solitude, I mean? [01/23/19, 08:34:08] Tea Falco: You pay to be alone. [01/23/19, 08:34:29] Tea Falco: Anyway, I needed to finish the discussion about hemispheres. [01/23/19, 08:34:43] Leonardo Caffo: Me, on the plane, forced to disconnect. Except on expensive intercontinental flights, I mean. Please, hemispheres. [01/23/19, 08:34:49] Leonardo Caffo: Excuse me. [01/23/19, 08:34:59] Tea Falco: I wanted to say that the deficit starts from the image. [01/23/19, 08:35:11] Tea Falco: And that more and more people will develop it. [01/23/19, 08:36:50] Tea Falco:(Then I wanted to talk about another time, that the person next to you is your mirror) – that’s a memo. [01/23/19, 08:38:19] Leonardo Caffo: Wittgenstein: “There is no true a priori image.” Facts are images of the world. The point is how we select facts, and thus how we derive value from them. [01/23/19, 08:38:47] Leonardo Caffo: If that’s true then. (The mirror contains memories.) [01/23/19, 09:10:56] Tea Falco: There are scientists who assert that attention deficit is a problem related to listening, meaning those who have it hear more from the left ear. We have two hemispheres, a right and a left. I believe that the more developed hemisphere in dogs is the right hemisphere (the instinct hemisphere) because they are more instinctive. So I think that those who, like me, suffer from ADHD HEAR MORE FROM THE LEFT EAR, so they listen with the instinctive right hemisphere, the one that sees an image without judging it, looks at the shape of the image, listens to the form of the voice, the musicality of words, feels a person more than listening to them, like a dog does when it knows very well if it has a dog in front of it that wants to bite or play. But one must know THE LEFT HEMISPHERE to understand what is slowly distancing us from the word. THOSE WHO LISTEN WITH THE RIGHT EAR, hence the left hemisphere, listen more to words, are more concentrated, rational, give quick, analytical answers. It’s interesting to know that each of us can have a dominant left ear and a dominant right eye, or left-left or right-right. There are people whom I consider lucky who hear equally from both ears, and this, in my opinion, is a gift. I also have a dominant left eye, so I’m screwed. And that’s why I have attention problems, because I can’t concentrate on words that arise from the comprehension of the right ear, left hemisphere, and when I read it’s the same thing, superhuman effort. But there are techniques to re-educate listening, you know? In the future, therefore, more and more people will have ADHD attention deficit because we are bombarded with images of all kinds, SPEAKING LESS AND LESS AND LOOKING MORE AND MORE AT IMAGES, THE SHAPE OF OUR BRAIN WILL CHANGE, because if you don’t use a hemisphere, the brain areas used for words will be replaced to understand images more. And so we will have many difficulties relating, already among young people there are. THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE WILL TAKE OVER. We, like dogs barking at emoticons, will no longer listen to the person in front of us; our mind will be too full to formulate words. We will no longer know how to look into eyes, how will we communicate with a person in reality? There will no longer be time for the other, but only for us here and now without others.
[01/23/19, 09:11:53] Tea Falco: You, dear, will be one of the last to listen with your right. [01/23/19, 09:12:09] Tea Falco: But I think your dominant eye is your left. [01/23/19, 09:13:55] Leonardo Caffo: But what happens if you’re deaf in one ear? [01/23/19, 09:14:09] Leonardo Caffo: Extra apostrophe. I may have lost hearing. [01/23/19, 09:14:10] Tea Falco: hahahahahaha [01/23/19, 09:14:39] Leonardo Caffo: You know I have a deficit too? [01/23/19, 09:14:56] Tea Falco: No, I hear slightly less from my right, but very slightly. But it’s a matter of dominance. [01/23/19, 09:15:05] Tea Falco: Meaning attention. [01/23/19, 09:15:12] Tea Falco: What deficit? [01/23/19, 09:15:39] Leonardo Caffo: I can’t cry. [01/23/19, 09:15:47] Leonardo Caffo: I think this also comes from Instagram. [01/23/19, 09:16:36] Tea Falco:Never? [01/23/19, 09:15:55] Leonardo Caffo: I think about crying and I don’t cry. [01/23/19, 09:16:06] Leonardo Caffo: Help me cry. [01/23/19, 09:17:00] Tea Falco: Well, I think it’s because you see and hear from the right. [01/23/19, 09:17:40] Tea Falco: No, I don’t know, I’m just hypothesizing. [01/23/19, 09:18:15] Tea Falco: I’m overdoing it with theories. [01/23/19, 09:18:33] Tea Falco: Maybe I should have been a scientist. [01/23/19, 09:18:46] Leonardo Caffo: I think it’s because speed has anesthetized me. [01/23/19, 09:18:46] Tea Falco: I DON’T BELIEVE YOU CAN’T CRY.[01/23/19, 09:18:57] Leonardo Caffo: Sadness demands slowness. [01/23/19, 09:19:01] Leonardo Caffo: We’ve lost this. [01/23/19, 09:19:08] Leonardo Caffo: The luxury of being fragile. [01/23/19, 09:19:16] Leonardo Caffo: We only expose beauty. [01/23/19, 09:19:28] Leonardo Caffo: Sometimes the beauty of fragility but never the fragility itself.[01/23/19, 09:19:36] Tea Falco: 🤣 [01/23/19, 09:20:06] Tea Falco: Exactly, we’re all happy on Instagram. [01/23/19, 09:20:21] Tea Falco: But in our homes, rain falls from the streetlights. [01/23/19, 09:21:39] Leonardo Caffo: Umbrella. Close social media or learn to be a new humanity? [01/23/19, 09:21:48] Leonardo Caffo: We look at new things with old categories. [01/23/19, 09:22:05] Leonardo Caffo: We rage about ethics. [01/23/19, 09:22:08] Leonardo Caffo: [Image attached] [01/23/19, 09:22:17] Leonardo Caffo: The problem is the perspective. [01/23/19, 09:23:48] Tea Falco:Perception. Yes, but if we don’t talk about optics, no one will know what it was like before the ‘image civilization without words.’ [01/23/19, 09:24:37] Tea Falco: I think we’ll get tired of incommunicability. [01/23/19, 09:24:56] Tea Falco:We’ll get tired of the filter. [01/23/19, 09:25:13] Leonardo Caffo: And isn’t what you see already too transparent?[01/23/19, 09:25:18] Tea Falco: We are animals; animals jump. [01/23/19, 09:25:40] Tea Falco: I mean. [01/23/19, 09:26:28] Leonardo Caffo: Without pretense, are you sure reality would be better? [01/23/19, 09:26:38] Leonardo Caffo: We know nothing of the world. [01/23/19, 09:26:42] Leonardo Caffo: Only of our world. [01/23/19, 09:26:49] Leonardo Caffo: We make images of facts. [01/23/19, 09:26:59] Leonardo Caffo: Instagram is perhaps just its application. [01/23/19, 09:28:41] Tea Falco: We know nothing of the universe and multi-universes and we don’t know what’s beyond infinity, but surely God cannot be an iPhone. [01/23/19, 09:29:12] Tea Falco: God is the perception of perception to infinity. [01/23/19, 09:29:29] Tea Falco: Like all of us. [01/23/19, 09:29:43] Leonardo Caffo: You know, Tea. What if God is us? [01/23/19, 09:29:51] Leonardo Caffo: The absolute is therefore… [01/23/19, 09:30:01] Leonardo Caffo: In this chat as in the petals of a flower. [01/23/19, 09:30:16] Tea Falco: Absolutely 🤣 [01/23/19, 09:30:56] Leonardo Caffo: [Image attached] [01/23/19, 09:30:58] Tea Falco: We remain in the eyes of others, even in the eyes looking at an iPhone. [01/23/19, 09:31:02] Leonardo Caffo: It’s just expired. [01/23/19, 09:34:38] Tea Falco:Like a certain type of monkey that simultaneously learns to peel a banana all over the world, that type of human will also understand that science today explains God very well, with D apostrophe I. [01/23/19, 09:35:23] Leonardo Caffo: O-God. [01/23/19, 09:35:40] Tea Falco: I-God. [01/23/19, 09:35:56] Tea Falco: What do you mean by O-God?
[01/23/19, 09:39:48] Tea Falco: I think 30 percent of the population will leave social media, this intelligent monkey type that wants to live more than to see others live. The rest will perhaps build the new era, where this book will be set aside, someone might find it for 3 imaginary dollars (electronic currency) in some vintage market (euros won’t even exist in Italy anymore). [01/23/19, 09:43:08] Leonardo Caffo: The future is the past. There’s more truth in a caress than in the cure for mortality. [01/23/19, 09:43:11] Leonardo Caffo: See you tomorrow. [01/23/19, 09:48:47] Tea Falco: The future is the past because we will return to how we were at the beginning, primitive simian men, but immobile with a dazzling pre-death light. [01/23/19, 09:54:08] Tea Falco: The future is past because by knowing our past we can predict our future like seers, because what we are is information, and everything around us has something to do with us, as if we had created it, but no, it’s our perception. But our brain is intelligent, it’s a computer that already knows everything, and if I order something to my brain it takes me there. How beautiful it would be to buy roses – I magically take two steps without thinking about it anymore and I see a flower shop displaying beautiful roses. And our brains are all connected, even to the florist. The roses were already inside me. I was a rose. [01/23/19, 09:55:43] Leonardo Caffo: I think the house of the future is a hut. [01/23/19, 09:55:47] Leonardo Caffo: Not a skyscraper. [01/23/19, 09:55:56] Tea Falco: You told me you’re on a train; please ask what the people next to you are doing. What you were thinking before getting on the train today is connected, and it’s definitely connected to what you’ll do after getting off the train. [01/23/19, 09:56:17] Leonardo Caffo: I was thinking about movement. [01/23/19, 09:56:17] Tea Falco: Yes, a farmhouse, I’d say. [01/23/19, 09:56:25] Leonardo Caffo: Next to me are some kids. [01/23/19, 09:56:28] Leonardo Caffo: They’re going to school.[01/23/19, 09:56:31] Leonardo Caffo: They’re commuters. [01/23/19, 09:56:43] Leonardo Caffo: The problem is they’re moving but they don’t know why. [01/23/19, 09:56:46] Leonardo Caffo: Do you know? [01/23/19, 09:56:50] Leonardo Caffo: Do I know? [01/23/19, 09:56:56] Tea Falco: ahaha [01/23/19, 09:57:03] Tea Falco: Moving in what sense? [01/23/19, 09:57:48] Tea Falco: I’m smoking my last cigarette of the day; I’ll quit. [01/23/19, 10:00:05] Leonardo Caffo: Second to last. [01/23/19, 10:00:13] Leonardo Caffo: The problem is always the second to last. [01/23/19, 10:00:45] Tea Falco: What does it mean that they’re moving? [01/23/19, 10:00:58] Tea Falco: The second to last day.[01/23/19, 10:01:41] Tea Falco: Do you feel like you’re at school? [01/23/19, 10:01:57] Leonardo Caffo: I am at school.[01/23/19, 10:02:19] Tea Falco: ! [01/23/19, 10:03:17] Leonardo Caffo: That they don’t have a space. [01/23/19, 10:03:20] Leonardo Caffo: But a trajectory. [01/23/19, 10:06:05] Tea Falco: As if they were controlled? Do you feel that way too? [01/23/19, 10:09:42] Leonardo Caffo: Of course. [01/23/19, 10:09:48] Leonardo Caffo: Are you free?[01/23/19, 10:11:40] Tea Falco: Free from free will, like a referee. [01/23/19, 10:12:12] Tea Falco: God paid me.[01/23/19, 10:12:27] Leonardo Caffo: If God exists, can He conceive of something He cannot control? He is omnipotent. So if yes, because He is, then there will be something He cannot do: and He will no longer be so. [01/23/19, 10:12:36] Leonardo Caffo: Do you understand the gravity? [01/23/19, 10:17:07] Tea Falco: If God existed, there would be no gravity. [01/23/19, 10:18:44] Leonardo Caffo: And so, with a dubious premise, anything is possible. Even Instagram. [01/24/19, 08:56:39] Leonardo Caffo: I thought about it: every image expresses a tyrant. [01/29/19, 10:09:07] Tea Falco: Because tyrants trap us. [01/29/19, 10:09:42] Tea Falco: ? There’s a time when I had to leave again after discovering everything from the future; I had to return to the past with more consciousness. Go back to natural wines. But in the future, like in Los Angeles, people will meet with apps in places of common interest for gatherings. In the future, we will chew pills endlessly, but we will become our own doctors. There will be shops that only sell alkalized water, and we will eat meat that tastes like meat but is actually plants, like the Impossible Meat. In the future, there will be flying men, forget electric scooters, who will fly over electric cars. In the future, farmers will be the new rich, and there will be clinics to find silence with oneself, without internet, and places to eat good earth products like only my grandfather used to make. In the future, I hope we will be able to look each other in the eyes and recognize beautiful people, those who then walk with you for life. [01/29/19, 10:11:30] Leonardo Caffo: In philosophy, I defended the idea that there is more truth in a caress (past) than in the pages of a social network (future). Knowledge is already there; what we need to know is ignorance. [01/29/19, 10:17:06] Tea Falco: Exactly, for years we have ignored the transformation we have undergone since the advent of phones until today. [01/29/19, 10:17:33] Tea Falco: It was easier to talk without phones.[01/29/19, 10:17:39] Tea Falco: And especially without Instagram. [01/29/19, 10:17:48] Tea Falco: Today we need a filter. [01/29/19, 10:18:14] Tea Falco: All my friends say that the first time they want to sleep with someone, they have to get drunk first. [01/29/19, 10:18:38] Tea Falco: To have a filter, then, what we’re used to having by now. [01/29/19, 10:18:42] Tea Falco: To have. [01/29/19, 10:18:43] Leonardo Caffo: Of course, they have to remove the superstructure.[01/29/19, 10:19:05] Leonardo Caffo: Retreat from specialized life to animal life. [01/29/19, 10:19:09] Tea Falco: We must relearn to listen, to love. [01/29/19, 10:19:14] Leonardo Caffo: Become life. [01/29/19, 10:19:16] Leonardo Caffo: Pure. [01/29/19, 10:19:47] Tea Falco: The true language of love is silence, because in silence I cannot say who I am or what I do, but just be. [01/29/19, 10:19:53] Tea Falco: In silence I cannot lie. [01/29/19, 10:20:23] Leonardo Caffo: Provided it’s not experienced as absence. [01/29/19, 10:20:25] Leonardo Caffo: But as fullness. [01/29/19, 10:20:35] Leonardo Caffo: Not just being quiet but precisely silence. [01/29/19, 10:21:16] Tea Falco: But what we’ll do at first is not talk, and in that non-speaking, we’ll try to talk and become imbeciles, super sensitive to judgment, almost premature ejaculators of words. [01/29/19, 10:22:08] Tea Falco: In silence without internet for 12 days, we will meet people, and without speaking we will have to communicate with them. [01/29/19, 10:22:26] Tea Falco: Without knowing anything about them. [01/29/19, 10:22:35] Leonardo Caffo: Language and communication are two different things, after all. [01/29/19, 10:22:54] Leonardo Caffo: Once I was at a party of a famous artist who insisted everyone be silent and communicate in other ways. [01/29/19, 10:23:02] Leonardo Caffo: We talked without our voices. [01/29/19, 10:23:33] Tea Falco: I was at that party too, I don’t believe it. [01/29/19, 10:23:41] Tea Falco: Cattelan? [01/29/19, 10:23:57] Tea Falco: But I think it was another party; he must have had more than one. [01/29/19, 10:24:06] Tea Falco: It was beautiful, right? [01/29/19, 10:24:12] Tea Falco: I float well in non-verbal language, I feel. [01/29/19, 10:24:33] Tea Falco: And in the end it was me, I really talked about myself, without masks. [01/29/19, 10:24:48] Tea Falco: Mute, we are all the same. [01/29/19, 11:22:22] Leonardo Caffo: Yes, without the human-life word, life remains. [01/29/19, 18:13:55] Tea Falco: I’m thinking about the book titles (philosophical treatise or discourse on Instagram and social media, what will happen in 10 years). [01/29/19, 18:15:21] Tea Falco: HOW TO OVERCOME DEPRESSION BY DELETING YOURSELF FROM INSTAGRAM. [01/29/19, 18:15:34] Leonardo Caffo: More radical. [01/29/19, 18:15:44] Tea Falco: Something like that. [01/29/19, 18:15:54] Leonardo Caffo: DELETING YOURSELF. [01/29/19, 18:16:09] Leonardo Caffo: What remains beyond images? [01/29/19, 18:16:25] Tea Falco: Poetic. [01/29/19, 18:17:16] Tea Falco: INSTAGRAM POP DEPRESSION and in small print ‘what remains of images’ a discourse on social media.[01/29/19, 18:17:57] Tea Falco: I think it needs a title that makes people say, “Damn, I’m depressed.” [01/29/19, 18:18:03] Tea Falco: Maybe it’s Instagram. [01/29/19, 18:18:07] Tea Falco: Which is true, by the way. [01/29/19, 18:18:10] Leonardo Caffo: Think of it full of images. [01/29/19, 18:18:28] Leonardo Caffo: Instagramzepam.[01/29/19, 18:18:40] Tea Falco: Bomb. [01/29/19, 18:19:02] Leonardo Caffo: Ultimately, it’s both a cure and a cause of depression. [01/29/19, 18:19:31] Tea Falco: Cool. [01/30/19, 08:51:06] Tea Falco: Los Angeles – Today I WAS a beautiful WOMAN, then I became a Man with a mustache. As a woman, I no longer smoke. I LIKE TO KNOW the human soul through DRESSING UP. I’m interested in the human brain, the stars, and the nature of men. At twenty, I wore different colored shoes because I wanted people to come and ask me ‘why?’ and start talking to me. THAT’S WHY WE DRESS EXTRAVAGANTLY, because we want to communicate with others: WE USE CLOTHES as a dating app. Even being a Woman or a man is a costume. WE ARE ALL THE SAME IF WE DON’T SPEAK. WHEN WE START to speak, we disguise ourselves, so clothes are certainly connected to words, to action. It’s a mediation. I WANT TO SPEND A WEEK WITHOUT SPEAKING to re-educate myself like a child, to rediscover my being before the costume. WE HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO CLIMB TREES, we no longer do it. We have forgotten how to JUMP, we are afraid of falling. Oh, wretched and ridiculous man/woman, with an iPhone in hand, your tactile thumbs and 8 fingers embrace a glittering talisman, not a fragrant body. [01/30/19, 10:27:59] Leonardo Caffo: Yes, but it’s not enough not to have an iPhone to love, Tea. The risk is that our discussion will reach its opposite: that loving without digital is enough to truly love. What if the categories themselves have changed, so to speak? [01/30/19, 11:08:46]
Leonardo Caffo: I also WISH I COULD SPEND A WEEK WITHOUT THINKING. [01/30/19, 11:08:52] Leonardo Caffo: Do we think through words or images? [01/30/19, 11:09:05] Leonardo Caffo: If I talk to myself inside, someone is talking to me, technically me to myself. [01/30/19, 11:09:09] Leonardo Caffo: How do you turn all that off? [01/30/19, 19:10:42] Tea Falco: Thought cannot stop, in my opinion, induced thought can stop. That’s why one shouldn’t speak and should observe to be reborn and relearn. But we are machines, that’s why we created other machines; we must reprogram ourselves, and even when I dream, dreams are nothing but programs instilled during the day to allow you to face the new day at your best. Like the opposite of traumas, when traumas are nothing but negative dreams experienced during the day. [01/31/19, 09:41:01] Leonardo Caffo: I’m not sure about the machine. We don’t have programmed responses to external stimuli, and we are plastic. Inside us there is everything and nothing; perhaps a discussion about Instagram is a discussion about human nature. Are we suitable to live or not? [01/31/19, 09:50:06] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [01/31/19, 09:54:22] Leonardo Caffo: Is awareness enough? [01/31/19, 09:56:30] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [01/31/19, 09:58:28] Leonardo Caffo: Because you are a machine without a proofreader. [01/31/19, 09:59:50] Leonardo Caffo:[Image attached] [01/31/19, 10:05:55] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [01/31/19, 10:06:11] Leonardo Caffo:Why not? [01/31/19, 10:06:16] Leonardo Caffo: They are what make you human. [01/31/19, 10:06:22] Leonardo Caffo: Dear machine. [01/31/19, 10:06:30] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [01/31/19, 10:06:46] Leonardo Caffo: Do you deserve them? [01/31/19, 10:07:06] Leonardo Caffo: Oh anyway, maybe we’ll invent a new language.[01/31/19, 10:07:14] Leonardo Caffo: Raspberries are applause. [01/31/19, 10:07:42] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [01/31/19, 10:08:12] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [01/31/19, 10:08:43] Leonardo Caffo: So we’re against Instagram but in favor of what people think of you when you speak? [01/31/19, 10:08:50] Leonardo Caffo: Are you a word now? [01/31/19, 10:09:00] Tea Falco: We are machines if we are not conscious of being so. [01/31/19, 10:09:00] Leonardo Caffo: Eliminator. [01/31/19, 10:09:14] Leonardo Caffo: Consciousness. [01/31/19, 10:09:45] Leonardo Caffo: Do you know what distinguishes a machine from a living being? [01/31/19, 10:09:54] Leonardo Caffo: Technically, I mean. [01/31/19, 10:10:05] Leonardo Caffo: It’s called “singularity.” [01/31/19, 10:10:20] Leonardo Caffo: The idea that we are exemplars, they are prototypes. [01/31/19, 10:10:24] Leonardo Caffo: Do I make sense? [01/31/19, 10:10:30] Tea Falco: That we are unique. [01/31/19, 10:10:41] Leonardo Caffo: An exemplar belongs to a type but is not the type. [01/31/19, 10:10:49] Leonardo Caffo: A prototype is. [01/31/19, 10:11:12] Leonardo Caffo: Now we need to understand if Instagram and similar things make us replaceable. [01/31/19, 10:11:17] Leonardo Caffo: I’ll give you an example. [01/31/19, 10:11:42] Leonardo Caffo: If you and I swapped Instagram accounts for a week, would people notice the difference? [01/31/19, 10:11:49] Leonardo Caffo: Is there a style behind the machine?[01/31/19, 10:12:12] Leonardo Caffo: And what kind of violation would we be talking about? [01/31/19, 10:12:16] Leonardo Caffo: Of identity? [01/31/19, 10:12:19] Leonardo Caffo: Of consciousness? [01/31/19, 10:12:24] Leonardo Caffo: Of archive? [01/31/19, 10:13:32] Tea Falco: There is a style if the viewer knows your style, but style can be emulated if there is no signifier. [01/31/19, 10:14:25] Tea Falco: Violation of identity, of image, and of immanation.[01/31/19, 10:14:31] Tea Falco: Imagination. [01/31/19, 10:15:27] Tea Falco: But our brain is a machine. [01/31/19, 10:15:56] Leonardo Caffo: Are you sure I could emulate you? [01/31/19, 10:16:36] Tea Falco: Yes, because mirror neurons exist, and in nature animals do it; it’s called isopraxism. [01/31/19, 10:16:54] Tea Falco: They do it to defend themselves, or out of empathy. [01/31/19, 10:17:00] Tea Falco: Mimicry. [01/31/19, 10:17:29] Leonardo Caffo: Mirror neurons imply visual contact. [01/31/19, 10:17:31] Leonardo Caffo: Mimicry. [01/31/19, 10:17:39] Leonardo Caffo:Knowledge of the observed action. [01/31/19, 10:17:49] Leonardo Caffo: You might be able to imitate me. [01/31/19, 10:17:54] Leonardo Caffo: I have a protocol. [01/31/19, 10:18:04] Leonardo Caffo: I’m a professor. [01/31/19, 10:18:14] Leonardo Caffo: But how do I imitate an artist? [01/31/19, 10:18:28] Tea Falco: 😭 [01/31/19, 10:18:56] Tea Falco: You have to see with your left eye. [01/31/19, 10:20:02] Tea Falco: If we are animals, and you were an animal, you couldn’t be a professor. [01/31/19, 10:21:08] Tea Falco: I’m saying that instinct makes us emulate, reason makes us judge.
[01/31/19, 10:21:29] Leonardo Caffo: Wait, let’s not get lost. [01/31/19, 10:21:37] Leonardo Caffo:What do you want to recover, instinct or reason? [01/31/19, 10:21:57] Tea Falco: Recover in what sense? [01/31/19, 10:22:07] Leonardo Caffo: What did Instagram make you lose? [01/31/19, 10:22:17] Tea Falco: The human animal is a machine that has a protocol. [01/31/19, 10:22:32] Tea Falco: That it chose and that was induced. [01/31/19, 10:22:40] Tea Falco: But that has free will. [01/31/19, 10:23:05] Leonardo Caffo: You take that for granted. [01/31/19, 10:23:07] Leonardo Caffo: It’s not certain. [01/31/19, 10:23:11] Tea Falco: WITH INSTAGRAM, THERE IS NO MORE INSTINCT. [01/31/19, 10:23:27] Tea Falco: PROFESSOR. [01/31/19, 10:23:29] Leonardo Caffo: What do you miss about acting on instinct? [01/31/19, 10:23:33] Leonardo Caffo: Instinct? [01/31/19, 10:23:35] Leonardo Caffo: Artist?[01/31/19, 10:23:36] Leonardo Caffo: ? [01/31/19, 10:24:07] Tea Falco: I WAS AN ARTIST, now perhaps a stone or a miracle. [01/31/19, 10:24:18] Tea Falco: I miss the truth. [01/31/19, 10:24:32] Leonardo Caffo: Explain. [01/31/19, 10:24:38] Leonardo Caffo: Explain yourself better. [01/31/19, 10:24:39] Leonardo Caffo: Better. [01/31/19, 10:24:43] Leonardo Caffo: What truth? [01/31/19, 10:25:05] Leonardo Caffo: Can we say, according to your thesis, that alcohol is the opposite of Instagram? [01/31/19, 10:28:23] Leonardo Caffo: Wait, to be precise. [01/31/19, 10:28:29] Leonardo Caffo: Can we say that what inhibits… [01/31/19, 10:28:41] Leonardo Caffo: Is problematic? [01/31/19, 10:31:07] Tea Falco: In social contact, we are losing dead moments. They no longer exist: there’s the phone. If there are two people and two objects between them, the two people will be distracted by the objects, and they won’t enter into mimesis, they won’t empathize, they won’t feel each other, they won’t love each other, they won’t look each other in the eyes, and without looking each other in the eyes, without loving each other, there’s no more knowledge, no more instinct. Mere formal form. Alcohol is the object that goes hand in hand with Instagram. [01/31/19, 10:31:26] Leonardo Caffo: Okay, so the drama is the screen. [01/31/19, 10:31:33] Leonardo Caffo: What interposes and superimposes. [01/31/19, 10:31:49] Leonardo Caffo: In part, I understand, but for example, what are we doing now? [01/31/19, 10:31:53] Leonardo Caffo: How do I know you’re you? [01/31/19, 10:32:31] Tea Falco: 🥦 [01/31/19, 10:32:49] Tea Falco: You can’t know. [01/31/19, 10:33:11] Tea Falco: If you want, call me, but it’s 1:30 AM here. [01/31/19, 10:33:19] Leonardo Caffo: 🌽 [01/31/19, 10:33:34] Leonardo Caffo: So, Tea. [01/31/19, 10:33:43] Leonardo Caffo: Let’s try this. [01/31/19, 10:33:58] Leonardo Caffo: Tell me three things about yourself that you could never share on Instagram. [01/31/19, 10:34:13] Leonardo Caffo: Let’s prove that there’s still a boundary between man and machine. [01/31/19, 10:36:01] Tea Falco:That’s difficult. [01/31/19, 10:36:28] Leonardo Caffo: Exactly. [01/31/19, 10:39:05] Tea Falco: You don’t see my soul.[01/31/19, 10:40:04] Tea Falco: Without a body, without a voice, without skin, without a soul, we are just words without style. [01/31/19, 10:40:17] Leonardo Caffo: You see, though, we can’t. [01/31/19, 10:40:28] Leonardo Caffo: Three things about you, not obvious, that you couldn’t put into the machine. [01/31/19, 10:42:07] Tea Falco: I can tell you, but we won’t put them in the book. [01/31/19, 10:42:12] Tea Falco: 🤣 [01/31/19, 10:42:21] Leonardo Caffo: Then the book is Instagram. [01/31/19, 10:42:47] Tea Falco: With that sentence, I’ve shown you that I’m afraid, and machines don’t have fear. [01/31/19, 10:42:53] Tea Falco: 😎 [01/31/19, 10:52:10] Leonardo Caffo: But shouldn’t you overcome fear if you want to defeat machines? [01/31/19, 11:02:30] Tea Falco: I don’t want to tell a machine my truth. [01/31/19, 11:04:32] Leonardo Caffo: To another machine. [01/31/19, 11:21:32] Tea Falco: Exactly. [01/31/19, 11:47:07] Leonardo Caffo: I need to think. [02/03/19, 11:13:03] Leonardo Caffo: [Image attached] [02/03/19, 11:13:19] Leonardo Caffo: Something is moving everywhere. [02/03/19, 11:13:30] Leonardo Caffo: But asking me for a thesis against Instagram on Instagram. [02/03/19, 11:13:37] Leonardo Caffo: Won’t that be a little paradoxical? [02/03/19, 11:13:40] Leonardo Caffo: Like us two, I mean. [02/03/19, 20:24:48] Tea Falco: Instagram is where everything happens. It is the virtual world par excellence where aesthetics, your mask, your character meet, and no one shows their true essence, because it is impossible to show it; it will always be reinterpreted in the eyes of the reader. And in real life, that character is always sought after, creating insecurity if we can no longer interpret it, if we are not at our physical best, putting filters on Instagram thinking of being young again, seeking lost youth in the virtual world, thinking of being young in life for a short time. This path leads to self-non-acceptance, to a continuous search for self and external validation, to mass egocentrism, where the other no longer exists, only the mask. [03/02/19, 20:26:44] Tea Falco: Where is my soul? You know Leonardo, I think we should talk soon before continuing to write, at least to know if I’m really writing to you and not to your mask.
[03/02/19, 20:34:15] Leonardo Caffo: Shall we try to meet up? [03/02/19, 21:11:47] Tea Falco: Where will you be from the 11th to the 18th? [03/02/19, 21:13:54] Leonardo Caffo: Milan, Catania, Rome. [04/02/19, 06:55:04] Tea Falco: I’m in Catania those days. [04/02/19, 06:55:06] Tea Falco: Let’s meet up. [04/02/19, 08:08:45] Leonardo Caffo: Will we live up to Instagram? [04/02/19, 09:57:47] Tea Falco: We’re too short. [06/02/19, 09:05:08] Leonardo Caffo: Are we sure that then one doesn’t meet and risks saying nothing? [06/02/19, 09:05:18] Leonardo Caffo: This reality-after-fantasy thing is disappointing. [06/02/19, 09:05:24] Leonardo Caffo: Think about Tinder. [06/02/19, 09:05:46] Leonardo Caffo: It’s sold as a system for hooking up, but it’s clearly a system for imagining. [06/02/19, 09:06:25] Leonardo Caffo: There’s nothing interesting in meeting a stranger who needs an app to hook up; the interesting thing is understanding why we should care about doing it. [06/02/19, 09:06:33] Leonardo Caffo: Instagram, in my opinion, is a system of expectations. [06/02/19, 09:06:37] Leonardo Caffo: Not discoveries. [06/02/19, 09:08:12] Leonardo Caffo: Us too, aren’t we here just because we expect people that perhaps neither of us is, are, will be? [17/02/19, 00:06:16] Leonardo Caffo: <attachment: 00000342-PHOTO-2019-02-17-00-06-15.jpg> [22/02/19, 01:33:39] Tea Falco: Instagram is a system for imagining, but you imagine the character you see. When you take a photo and put it on Instagram, you’re not putting your essence, but your ego in some way, the masks you want to show. So when you meet that person, you expect them to be that character. I believe I’m better in real life than on Instagram; I feel more ‘humble.’ [22/02/19, 01:36:24] Tea Falco: I’ve used Tinder or other dating apps. I used them when I lived abroad. It’s terrible because everyone is really serious; it seems like they have no sense of humor. Is everyone smiling on Tinder? Have you noticed? But smiling doesn’t mean having a sense of humor. I’ve never met anyone interesting on Tinder; it’s difficult. It’s already difficult in real life. [22/02/19, 01:37:06] Tea Falco: (We’re not just talking about Instagram, but social media in general.) [22/02/19, 01:38:02] Tea Falco: Social media is made to prolong the wait, it’s true, but the wait that 90 percent of the time can be disappointing, because you expect the character you don’t find. [22/02/19, 01:39:16] Tea Falco: I prefer you in person and in Sicily, Leonardo, in front of an almond granita. [22/02/19, 01:43:10] Tea Falco: Now I’m in Paris, wow, people here are different, they’re closed, they’re afraid to look each other in the eye. In Los Angeles, at least you find someone who casually looks up from their computer and looks at you and smiles, and maybe you start a beautiful conversation that will end and you’ll never see each other again, but in Paris, it’s rare to find someone who smiles even fake, they avoid eye contact, why are they afraid? Damn, we’re a community, what are they afraid of? I try to smile at everyone but no one gives me a glance. But I keep doing it even if my heart breaks. [22/02/19, 01:43:28] Tea Falco: With every unrequited smile. [22/02/19, 01:48:49] Tea Falco: I hope I don’t conform. In Los Angeles, this app is about to come out where you can make friends in a bar. So from the app, you go to a bar, you choose it, and from the bar, you see the people using the app! Isn’t that crazy? But in Paris, I swear people could easily do it, since I feel they’re even afraid of their own shadow. I hope Italians don’t become like that. This iPhone burden of mine that I now use almost even to poop, if they ever invent an app for pooping, it can’t separate from me. RATHER, I detach from my phone when I’m in Sicily, dear Leonardo, even though everyone in Sicily now uses Instagram, people there smile at you and are all pure and friendly. I think Sicilians will never change. I think social media will only affect the Sicilian’s attention span, not their friendliness. [22/02/19, 01:51:05] Tea Falco: Of course, to learn, an individual must travel and experience places, which are then the people you meet and the ideas transformed into things that people create. This exchange, for me, is the meaning of life. Understanding how the world works, and how it began, the world. [22/02/19, 01:55:02] Tea Falco: What if we lived without Instagram? What if we lived without phones? Could we live? I think I would have to completely change my life; I could limit it but not change it. Damn SMS, damn “are you there” chats, damn blessed technology. Thanks to Uber, I travel easily in all the cities I go to, but I also use the subway, but imagine the pain in the ass of the subway at night without Uber, or thanks to Enjoy I have a car, in every city. Without a phone, I wouldn’t have these things. But the more we use the phone, the more we are sucked into it, and without realizing it, more and more with our heads, further down. Without looking to see if the other person passing by is the man or woman of your life. [22/02/19, 09:23:02] Leonardo Caffo: I turned on the radio, I’m in Turin now, and they’re talking about a rich entrepreneur who offers 100,000 euros to anyone who doesn’t use social media for a year. It seems, incredible isn’t it, Tea?, that no one responded. I’ve never used Tinder or similar, but ultimately every social media is a Tinder in my opinion: we’re alone, we seek company, but precisely because we’re projections of characters, as you rightly say, we then remain disappointed. So yes, expectations are often disappointing when they are fulfilled but never when they remain expectations: a thesis, in passing – social media is the world with which we make our life form, which waits, stable and perennial. Waiting, without ever living, is the human essence: it’s Penelope waiting for Odysseus, the form of love, not his arrival with Argo waiting for him. Of course, Tea, I also prefer you in person: with the scent of orange blossoms and Sicily as a backdrop, but neither you nor I can stand still: you criticize Paris but you need it, just as I need my cities and my planes, trains and stress. The point is to understand how much social media has modified our deep life to the point of exhaustion: even reality, like social media, like reality TV, has become a way to move without knowing where to go: everything is waiting, nothing from relationships to jobs is stable. We are, if we are anything, NOMADS. If I’m right, then our essence is connected to that phone from which you don’t separate yourself so radically that you can no longer unhook it: we no longer look at the other person passing by because we are always waiting for another imagined person, a missed encounter, but which perhaps we must miss. I’m no longer afraid of this: thanks to social media we found each other, got to know each other better, saw a book presentation in a gym and drank wine pretending to understand something. They don’t feel real but perhaps they give us that, social media: now I can wait for us to have a granita, knowing that we’ll have it seriously. Or not? [22/02/19, 09:56:24] Tea Falco: The point is that one must be aware of the potential and dangers of the bionic arm ‘2 life’. One must observe oneself and never internalize the action. Observe oneself as Gurdjieff proposed, so as to truly be conscious of it. But this doesn’t mean we aren’t truly ugly when we use our phones. The iPhone is the antithesis of aesthetic beauty. [22/02/19, 14:17:43] Leonardo Caffo: And what is beauty then? [22/02/19, 16:13:44] Tea Falco: I wrote “coscienza” again without the “i”. [22/02/19, 16:16:44] Tea Falco: Well, here we get entangled in a discussion that has lasted for centuries, no philosopher has managed to define it, do you want me to succeed? Let’s say then that ‘for me’ it’s the antithesis of beauty. 😜 [22/02/19, 16:53:01] Leonardo Caffo: Wait. But I believe, Tea, that we should understand why we are surrounded by beauty but then we seek this antithesis. What do you think about the possibility of redefining a canon in that sense? I would like to truly live the life I talk about living for one day, to ask myself, wasn’t there more reality in the absence of projection? You live the life you talk about: you seem to me like a person who is what she appears to be. A coherent form. [22/02/19, 18:26:17] Tea Falco: I think we just need to be conscious; being conscious means having the ability to choose whether to use your phone or look up and look at life. The choice also implies an aesthetic taste, so with a phone, one person might see themselves as ugly and another might not. I think even your seeing me as coherent is a point of view, your choice to see me that way. So we’re talking about perception. In the end, all misunderstandings, debates, discussions, like this one, are made from points of view. Like the eternal dilemma between returning to nature or technological evolution. IF IT WERE UP TO ME, I would educate men not to have an ego, I would abolish money, we would all be equal like bees collaborating inside cells and ants in single file, like pollinating insects, like dolphins running on the water. Instead, we wanted to create the ego, and the mirror, forgetting our natural essence. But I am not Marx. [22/02/19, 18:26:17] Tea Falco: Not only seeing oneself as ugly, but also, I think, everything that distances us from nature is not necessarily negative, but nature must not be forgotten for this, it must be sought in small things, and honored, we must therefore remember that we are animals that reflect more than other animals. Essence with consciousness. [22/02/19, 19:10:32] Leonardo Caffo: That seems like a good point: choice. In fact, it’s true, we could choose, but it’s also true, as you say, that it’s a fictitious choice: it pulls you out. Deleuze said that every machine expresses a type of tyrant; what tyrant does the social media machine express? Does it truly express one? You talk about this ego thing, and that’s valid: but we must distinguish it from the self—in my opinion. It’s one thing to have an ego and another to have a self. Social media is in a strange relationship with both: in fact, it contributes to creating the self, it organizes it—it spreads it, furnishes it, gives it an aesthetic form. Whereas the ego, it grinds it down: I see you with many followers, I try to emulate you, I can’t, I get depressed and suffer. You, on the contrary, are pursued by this image, you are followed by it: the more you have, perhaps the more you must have (I imagine, wrongly). So, to be dolphins on the water, we should reset everything, return to the living’s zero point—create huts, inhabit them, live in them. Instead, we are on castles in the air, distant, metaphorical, often fake. You are not Marx, of course, but I am not Freud. What keeps me from abandoning everything, social media and sociality, and running on the water? Perhaps there’s a dimension of sacredness in social media that we are not considering: we are in a church, the church of life—our crosses are the representations and the point of view that matters is when we sit down to pray. Only then is essence consciousness: everything holds together. [22/02/19, 19:13:44] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [22/02/19, 19:13:51] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [22/02/19, 19:14:07] Leonardo Caffo: You deleted this message. [22/02/19, 19:19:20] Tea Falco: This message was deleted. [04/03/19, 22:19:52] Tea Falco: Today is one of those days when I’d delete my Instagram profile but that’s not enough, I’d delete the entire internet world, I’d go out on the street and hug people. [04/03/19, 22:20:48] Tea Falco: Dear Leonardo, we are heading towards a harmful world, I no longer agree. It will be the era of loneliness. [05/03/19, 01:05:51] Leonardo Caffo: I’m quite sad, Tea. [05/03/19, 01:06:02] Leonardo Caffo: Lately I’ve really missed someone I loved. [05/03/19, 01:06:12] Leonardo Caffo: Perhaps sometimes sadness makes us human. [05/03/19, 01:06:17] Leonardo Caffo: And off Instagram. [15/03/19, 00:30:38] Tea Falco: Hi anti-speciesist, so are you vegetarian then? For non-violence, I mean… [15/03/19, 07:31:22] Leonardo Caffo: Yes, Tea. [15/03/19, 08:01:30] Tea Falco: Good. [26/03/19, 12:20:18] Leonardo Caffo: Have you noticed that since we’ve been seeing each other more, we write less? We use Instagram less? If this isn’t proof that real life and fictional life keep their distance, what is? [26/03/19, 14:28:14] Tea Falco: I can tell you that in my opinion all this Instagram agony will end? At least I’m deleting my account soon. And I think many people will too. But anyway, you know, it’s the summer air, when the good seasons start, new resolutions and the sun is the antithesis of technology. [26/03/19, 14:29:35] Leonardo Caffo: Yet perhaps, without Instagram, this dialogue of ours wouldn’t even exist. I also have new resolutions; perhaps it makes sense to think of the evil we flee as an unexpected good. [26/03/19, 14:33:34] Tea Falco: I don’t know, I just wish we wouldn’t end up like horses, you know, horses with blinkers? It would be terrible to discover that one of the most beautiful people in my life walked the same path as me at the same time but I didn’t notice because I was busy replying on WhatsApp. [26/03/19, 19:31:09] Tea Falco: You know I have an app that reminds me to drink water? [26/03/19, 19:31:16] Tea Falco: Do you know what this means? [26/03/19, 19:31:30] Tea Falco: 20 more touches a day. [26/03/19, 19:31:44] Tea Falco: I also have an app to study French. [26/03/19, 19:32:08] Tea Falco: A fake app for games for dyslexics. [26/03/19, 19:33:03] Tea Falco: And an app to meet people in Paris with your same interests. Like the other day I met a group of philosophers who were talking about racism and insulting each other. [26/03/19, 19:33:15] Tea Falco: Because they had different views. [26/03/19, 19:34:23] Tea Falco: It was surreal. Angry, they fought for the supremacy of their point of view to explain where racism started, and the answer was right in front of their eyes. [26/03/19, 19:35:07] Tea Falco: I also have an app that finds me a dog sitter all over Italy in emergencies if I have to leave. [26/03/19, 19:35:34] Tea Falco: I have 2 car-sharing apps; you could say I don’t have a car and I travel everywhere in Italy like this. [26/03/19, 19:35:57] Tea Falco: HAVE YOU SEEN HOW MANY TIMES I USE MY PHONE AND I CAN’T DO WITHOUT IT ANYMORE? [26/03/19, 19:36:19] Tea Falco: Not to mention all the times I use maps to get around. [26/03/19, 19:36:38] Tea Falco: And what apps do you use? [26/03/19, 19:39:12] Leonardo Caffo: One to get around, one to book, one to live, and some that remind me that the people I loved now have other lives. Technology too often offers advantages by bringing sadness. [06/04/19, 05:50:05] Tea Falco: Even if the iPhone has become an extension of our arm, even if we’ll stay in our homes more and more, even if the relationship between me and another person will always be mediated by the third wheel, the need for contact will always make people meet, and perhaps only true relationships will be built and sought after, similar people will seek each other out and love each other more because they will feel alone and with the desire to love each other, perhaps some will even build communities, where they live with and without phones. Or perhaps in the future people will dance in front of the mirror. [06/04/19, 05:54:19] Tea Falco: I admire old people, who just sit in bars without a coffee, without a book, with a chair and a table, doing nothing and seeming to observe nothing. [08/04/19, 15:19:51] Leonardo Caffo: Yes, Tea, but many functions, I thought today, are outside of us. Think about mental life, memory. We remember with Siri, or with the “you have a new memory” function, where memory comes to us. Of course, admire the elderly, but precisely they are old: here we are trying to build something oriented towards the future. As you may know, I’ve thought of a humanity that in the future is more similar to the past, but is it feasible? I mean, let’s be clear, is it really? Obviously, we can survive anything, including the end of technology, but what if we tried to live with it, rethinking the relationship we have with what binds us, as you often say? I don’t know if the desire to love is lacking, or rather the desire to really do so: it’s as if we talk about everything and do nothing anymore. Sex, love, friendship: when do we truly live what we talk about, Tea? To do nothing, to observe nothing, one must be trained for a humanity without ends and only with means. Whose paradoxical purpose is the essence of purpose. Do I make sense? [24/04/19, 18:37:44] Tea Falco: The future grows from me, I don’t create it yet I create it. The clouds help us, they make us ruminate, think. And when the sun finally comes out, like a rebirth, like the first time, like a child being born and seeing the light. I appreciate the sun and I look for it when it’s high and I move, I follow it. People’s faces change, mine too. The body expands, the dry land floods. In the sun, with all my eyes, I look for people and even objects seem to look for other objects in the sun. [24/04/19, 21:51:11] Leonardo Caffo: You know, in the end, I believe we’ve almost freed ourselves together? I don’t know from what, perhaps from images, and now we’re just structures. Structures free from the representations that both of us, before becoming such good friends, had imposed on ourselves. Maybe it was all already there, before and after Instagram, but we didn’t want to see it. [29/04/19, 01:26:52] Tea Falco: Yes, and I’m freeing myself more and more. I prefer dreams when you’re sleeping; at least we’re sleeping and not wasting time. I’m listening to an interview with Zuckerberg. [29/04/19, 01:26:52] Tea Falco: And Yuval Noah Harari. [29/04/19, 01:26:52] Tea Falco: They are talking about the future. [29/04/19, 01:26:52] Tea Falco: With the internet. [29/04/19, 01:26:53] Tea Falco: Zuckerberg was a nerd incapable of communicating in real life and invented Facebook because he was only able to communicate through a filter. [29/04/19, 01:26:53] Tea Falco: 10 years later. [29/04/19, 01:26:53] Tea Falco: Like God. [29/04/19, 01:26:53] Tea Falco: He created in his own image and likeness. [29/04/19, 01:26:54] Tea Falco: People who are having relationship problems because they have the same fear as him. [29/04/19, 01:28:28] Tea Falco: Because they are distancing themselves from their animalistic nature. [29/04/19, 07:42:17] Leonardo Caffo: Also from their image. There’s nothing but one’s own mythology, creating it and living it. Instead, now we are all without personal myth and legend, hanging on to someone else’s: without memory, without past, immersed in an eternal present where what matters is not so much sociopathy but sociomania. I only exist if I have x likes +1, where the sum refers to the previous time. By doing so, we are truly no longer animals or organic: we are in an always unreachable elsewhere. What will you do when you’re free? [07/05/19, 22:05:11] Tea Falco: Tea Falco’s security code has changed. [12/05/19, 18:18:15] Tea Falco: Hi Paolo, Sunday thoughts: ‘HANDS EMBRACE TOO QUICKLY AND DON’T ENJOY THE PASSAGE.’ In brushing past others, we don’t truly touch each other. MY HAND CLASPS YOUR HAND, in formality I want to go outside the form, but not formless. Where are the lovers clinging to street corners, out of norm. The foolish ones, yes, they touch each other. IN THE NEXT LIFE I wish I were foolish and born in a village of 1000 inhabitants: leave the house, know everyone and greet them, spread myself onto them, as if to unite to form a third person. NOW THAT WE ARE ALL TOGETHER, 1000 formless foolish inhabitants, let’s not shake hands but go to the square to do STRETCHING with the elders to unblock our bodies from many years of inactivity. ‘Leave those briscola cards and come prevent your osteoporosis problems. No, stretching is really useful, stop thinking that what you don’t understand is ridiculous, Michele. Even briscola isn’t ridiculous, you’re out of shape, without form, without cards, without time and without age.’ – I hold his hands with BOTH MY HANDS and then put them on his FACE OR ON HIS NOSE, I TOUCH his EARS and hair follicles. Then I do this with everyone and go home. I DRESS ELEGANTLY and go down to the square again and now that I have many heads and many hands it takes me less time to hug everyone and celebrate life. [12/05/19, 18:26:06] Leonardo Caffo: What is a simple life, Tea? You are asking yourself this. You are also answering yourself. A life beyond its description, beyond the norm’s grip on the concept. A life that lives, whose only job and specialization is life itself, being without being bound to any variable value. The village, the town, the small number of inhabitants, are all signs of a symbol: living without worrying about knowing you are alive. The world of those who are present to themselves, that is, the analog and not the digital world: the world of life, Tea, “only he who lives in the present lives eternally,” said Wittgenstein: your way, my way, our way of being present is to celebrate life by ceasing to detach yourself from it. Everything, EVERYTHING, here. The absolute was in the bar downstairs. Touch whoever and whatever you want, you are just changing your brain with touch: you are becoming animal, plant, mineral: you are learning to be in the world. You too, like me. [12/05/19, 18:50:16] Tea Falco: Wow. [12/05/19, 18:50:18] Tea Falco: ❤️ [12/05/19, 18:50:37] Tea Falco: I think this is a beautiful conclusion. [20/05/19, 00:31:19] Tea Falco: Everything has changed since we started using phones. Before, we talked more; in the future, we will talk less. [20/05/19, 00:37:34] Tea Falco: In 10 years, everything has changed and will change more and more. Every time I use my phone, I replace my language neurons with neurons that use another type of language; my brain is changing. Since I was 13, so 20 years ago, a new me was born who, by using the phone, uses a new language. This new me will become less and less connected to the real me because it’s a shock to go from one reality to another, as if we were going from one language to another. You have to get used to it again. That’s why we started drinking more and more, and we can no longer communicate without drinking. Because of damn phones. [20/05/19, 00:38:37] Tea Falco: I mean, it will only get worse if we don’t wake up, it will really become like that. [10/06/19, 11:30:22] Tea Falco: Tea Falco’s security code has changed. [04/08/19, 14:48:18] Tea Falco: I deleted my account a week ago, actually I just deleted the app. I told my followers I wouldn’t be on for a month. Just for the summer. I’m in Greece, technology hasn’t fully entered here yet, less than in Sicily. Dear Leonardo, I’ve thought a lot and I think they should prohibit phone use for more than 1 hour a day. WhatsApp half an hour. And we need to go back to calling our friends. No one does it anymore; dedicating time to friends means calling them. With voice messages, direct confrontation is lost. I don’t feel alive with a filter. I don’t want to be filtered, but without barriers, I feel like I’m at the zoo. They are domesticating us, more and more in silence. Tables of people who have nothing left to say because they’re used to talking with a filter. Take away the filter and you don’t know what to say anymore, so you need to drink to have something to say. [04/08/19, 15:08:04] Tea Falco: When you get used to doing something, it becomes mechanical and becomes a habit. It’s like programming our brain with a program, programming few words, preferring to write to our distant friends than close ones. So we are increasingly distant. So I believe that usage should be limited as before for WhatsApp and Instagram.
