Rubrica a contenuti liberi prodotti da Roberto Masiero, tradotti in inglese dalla redazione
Hegel and the Contradiction In a forthcoming text entitled Identity/Contradiction, Vladimiro Giacché writes: “In classical logic the identity/contradiction dichotomy sees a dominance of the first term which excludes contradiction. Between the eighteenth and the first […]
Big cities are emptying out. People, who can, are buying a house out of town. People, who cannot, are holing up into their home. More and more people do or are forced to work from […]
This announcement follows an explanation-introduction. To come up with what? Biopolitics. When everything changes (and everything has changed) the elements, which reconfigure civilization processes are reassembles, that is, the relationships between the subject, the subjects, […]
Paolo Zanenga, with whom I have been thinking about digital for years, points me to a passage of the 8thsong of the Odyssey, where Alcinoo asks for Ulysses’ name, homeland, city and tribe in order […]
Digital arrives from far away, as it happens with globalization. It is as if we had made a great journey from west to west, and if we had met friends on the road and first […]
I resume from the previous gleaning.The question is not whether the ancient Greeks had digital technologies or not, but whether they could think in a digital form, that is, whether they were more familiar with […]
I will say of a common saying which I really want to get rid of. By the way, I do not deny that this is the reason why I write these gleanings with pleasure, and […]
Entering a room in a friend’s house, during a sumptuous party, Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, sees a literary critic who had recently written negatively about her husband’s novel. Annoyedly the essayist invites her to […]
The digital and the counterintuitive way The more I insist in understanding digital, the more I happen to think in a counterintuitive way, and I feel as if it were something unnatural (damn it!). It […]
Digital identity: what is it? In my previous consideration, I have questioned the identity, especially digital identity: what is it?. You must say that in digital world the relationship A = A should not be […]
At this precise moment (16:04, 8 July 2020) the worldmeter indicates there are 7 796 654 730 (seven billion seven hundred and ninety-six million six hundred and fifty-four thousand seven hundred and thirty) inhabitants on […]
Continuum and discrete A distinction that may originate even from a certain interpretation of Genesis. Digital works for and in the discrete, while we have become accustomed to thinking in the continuum, if only because […]
These glean in, for and on the digital, in a conceptual, philosophical, social, economic and political key, derived from the belief that everything changes and we all use what has changed without managing to change […]
The digital dimension returns, reactivates, lives and recognizes the original (timeless) condition of the logos where truth is case by case, the discourse does not necessarily resolve into reason and doing can only recognize itself […]
I repeat, obsessively: when the mode of production changes everything changes. We are in the digital mode of production which however does not cancel the industrial one, rather it devours it. Hence, politics and policy […]
In this moment I cannot deal with anything other than what is put on the corner or, if we want, cornered. On the other hand, isn’t the corner the place of conflict? And don’t these […]
Today I would like to consider a figure that has been the basis of every discourse on morality and ethics developed by western culture: the metaphor of the ship and its helmsman. The helmsman is […]
Digital is by its nature kairetic. What is Kairòs? Better, who is the Kairòs? It is the personification of opportunity. The ancient Greeks represented it as a naked young ephebe being about to get up […]
Digital dimension works in the symbiosis between technology and biology. This symbiosis is characterized both by a timeless and universal dimension and by historically located modalities (be they random or not). The synthesis between technology […]
