Rubrica a contenuti liberi prodotti da Roberto Masiero, tradotti in inglese dalla redazione
It’s what never fails to come back: it is the origin which always reappears at the same time different and equal to itself; it is the order that cannot forget chaos; it is what, precisely […]
Without any doubts, there has been in some time and in some place someone who tried to represent something by posing the problem of how much the representation actually corresponded to the thing represented. At […]
Bauhaus 2.0 “We will establish a new European Bauhaus, a space for co-creation in which architects, artists, students, engineers and designers can work together. “These are the words used by the president of the European […]
Let’s try to venture a fragment of interpretation, without any presumption and without the pretense of being able to understand much around a very complex phenomenon such as the recent elections in the United States […]
In the disintermediation between industrial and digital, faults and gates inevitably open-up. Walking through them is dangerous, but also inevitable. If someone decide not to, someone else will. It is the space of pirates, subjects […]
When a change of state occurs between one system and another, what happens is a disintermediation between the constituent elements of the system. The glue between the parts in play dissolves. Since time, we have […]
It all started from a mistake I suggest you a subject: the West and its culture arise from a mistake which forces it to constantly wander (perhaps, someone, while wandering, will take a hint). This […]
In our social system, work undoubtedly determines both economic and social values. In fact, according to Max Weber ethics of the work, one of the foundations of society, is the origin of capitalism, that is, […]
The Plumber of the Year 2020 Yesterday I called a plumber for boiler control (the cold is coming). A gentleman in a suit and tie showed up with an executive briefcase. He really looked like […]
The sacred in philosophy Even the sacred never fails to return, even in philosophy. Even when you think you have put it into the scales, as with ideologically secular imposition, it always finds the way […]
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 […]