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Image and Copy in French Deconstruction of Platonism
2021
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between some contemporary Interpretations of Plato's Ontology and the Theory of Image-Copy connection developed in many Dialogues such as Sophist, Philebus, Timaeus and Republic. By examinating some of the most relevant criticisms to this Theory cast by french Philosophers such as Deleuze and Derrida and by retracing the roots of these criticisms to the common source of Nietzsche's and Heidegger's Thought, the paper argues a way to overcome the stiff opposition which is commonly held between these two fronts, thus trying to refine the hermeneutical approach to Plato which almost dominated the XX century.
The Role of the Philosophy of Technology in French-Language Studies of Video Games
2018
This chapter analyzes the role played by the philosophies of technology in the development of French-language studies devoted to video games. This intellectual tradition is well represented within the field, in a variety of forms which are characteristic of the main trends in the French-language philosophy of technology. The field of games studies allows comparing and contrasting these different approaches to a single object. I analyze the specificities of the French-language field, its theoretical options, and the role played by the philosophy of technology in its points of divergence from the dominant trends in game studies. Four studies located at the intersection between philosophy of t…
Dalla participatory culture all’utente riproduttivo. Partecipazione, informazione e valore nei processi di produzione capitalistica del Web (Prima pa…
2015
Il presente contributo costituisce la prima parte di un articolo più esteso che verrà pubblicato integralmente nei prossimi numeri di “EmergingSeries Journal”. In questa prima sezione, a partire da una breve panoramica sulle principali direzioni che orientano i cambiamenti dei grandi player del Web, si tenterà di avviare una riflessione sul ruolo dell‟utente partecipativo all‟interno dei processi di produzione capitalistica che animano le piattaforme online. In questa sede, ripercorrendo i tratti essenziali del consumo partecipativo così come definiti nell‟ambito della participatory culture, se ne metteranno in evidenza alcuni tratti problematici e si sosterrà che l‟analisi del rapporto tra…