Pandemia e Infodemia. Informazione, conoscenza, automazione.

This article aims to explore the connection between the conflicts in information policies occurring during the present pandemic situation and the potential abuse of automation technologies in the processing of information. From a historical point of view, the connection between an effective elaboration of information and the development of automation technologies has been devised by authors such as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon and Alan Turing, at the very beginning of the modern theory of information. This seemed to be justified by historical circumstances that are still quoted in order to discipline and “militarise” the spreading of information during the pandemic. By taking reference to…

Recensione a Yuk Hui, Cosmotecnica. La questione della tecnologia in Cina, ed. it. a cura di S. Baranzoni, Nero, Roma 2021, pp. 287

L’esperienza raddoppiata. L’individuazione della memoria nell’era della transizione digitale.

This contribution aims to reflect about the question of technology in Bernard Stiegler’s thought starting from a consideration about the original concepts of this branch in the twentieth-century philosophical thought with Gilbert Simondon and Martin Heidegger as founding fathers. A reflection halfway between metaphysics and politics to rethink the conditions of current state of existence and the possibilities in the future of overthrowing the hyper-industrial capitalist society.