The art of truth : remarks made between political and legal discourse.

In 1873, Nietzsche claimed that a generally and uniformly valid designation is invented for things. This designation has normative force: as a matter of fact, the «linguistic» legislation dominating the practice of language establishes the first laws of truth (On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense). In other words, for Nietzsche the artificial nature of truth, given the artificial nature of language itself, was out of discussion. In this paper, I approach the contemporary debate on post-truth by juxtaposing it with the idea of «artificial» or «conventional» truth typical of legal discourse and by showing the aporia behind each search for truth. In order to do so, I focus on the specific nature of «legal» truth and I invite to consider the centrality of the performative force of truth-making procedures – crucial for lawyers and legal practice – in order to underline the importance played by technology in the construction of truth also in the political discourse.En 1873, Nietzsche afirmó que, para las cosas, se ha inventado una designación válida general y uniforme. Esta designación tiene fuerza normativa: de hecho, la legislación «lingüística» que domina la práctica del lenguaje establece las primeras leyes de la verdad (Sobre verdad y mentira en sentido extramoral). En otras palabras, para Nietzsche, la naturaleza artificial de la verdad, dada la naturaleza artificial del lenguaje mismo, estaba fuera de discusión. En este artículo, abordo el debate contemporáneo sobre la posverdad yuxtaponiéndolo a la idea de verdad “artificial” o “convencional” típica del discurso legal y mostrando la aporía detrás de cada búsqueda de la verdad. Para hacerlo, me centraré en la naturaleza específica de verdad “legal” y propongo considerar la centralidad de la fuerza performativa de los procedimientos de creación de la verdad –crucial para los abogados y la práctica legal– para subrayar la importancia que la tecnología juega en la construcción de la verdad también en el discurso político

For the Record - Media as Nomoi

Scena. We are experiencing an explosion of recording (Ferraris 2015), which generates a proliferation of ontological and epistemological dimensions. For instance, our life here and now and our life in the datasphere (what we buy, when and why we were at the hospital, when we travel and with whom, etc.) today constitute two parallel dimensions intersecting and reciprocally defining each other (Floridi 2014). There is one Dr. AC buying milk, standing in front of a supermarket fridge on that date in that place, and there is one Dr. AC inhabiting the web through her publications, her visiting fellowships, and in the organisation of events, plus there is a patient, a mother, a daughter, etc. (the list made by John Searle is usually pretty long and contains all the functions we can have in the social world): the more that is recorded, the more can be traced back, and the more what we appear to be depends on how easily a datum can be found, iterated, re-interpreted. Technology, more than ever, is permanently producing and filling in a universal - almost infinite - archive, where information, transactions, communications (emails, telephone conversations, chats), intentions, mistakes and various other forms of human existence and traceability are contained

Sensing the nation's law historical inquiries into the aesthetics of democratic legitimacy : introduction

We are said to live in an age of democratic legitimacy. The rightfulness of a political and legal order is meant to reside in a widespread belief in the rightfulness of democracy. Contemporary democratic legitimacy is tied, among other things, to consent, to representation, to the identity of ruler and ruled, and, of course, to legality and the legal forms through which democracy is structured. The nation, its unity, and whatever democratic legitimacy its form of rule enjoys, become tangible and emerges as much in shared taste, in the pre-supposition and generation of aesthetic con-sensus, as in the formation or execution of a common will or the inculcation or reasoning of a common reason. This introduction presents the ten chapters of the edited volume, each of which engages with the intersection of aesthetics and law, and, more specifically with the question of how the nation – and its (fundamental) law – are ‘sensed’ by way of various aesthetic forms

Per esempio

Analogia, paradigma ed esemplarità condividono un’origine comune e suggestiva. Aristotele usa il termine “paradigma” per descrivere ciò che in seguito la tradizione filosofica ha chiamato “analogia”. Questi tre dispositivi argomentativi sono da collocare nello spazio intermedio fra pratica e teoria nel diritto. In questo articolo discuto il fatto che si possa stabilire definitivamente se essi dimostrino la prevalenza della teoria sulla pratica o viceversa –il che richiama il dibattito diffuso nel contesto del realismo giuridico americano sulla questione se il diritto consista in esperienza (practice) o in logica. La tesi conclusiva é che sia pressoché impossibile stabilire l’origine della paradigmaticità

Two Questions on the Ontology of Money

This dialogue reflects and synthesized the content of a recent publication (Einaudi, 2018) entitled Il denaro e i suoi inganni (by John R. Searle and Maurizio Ferraris, ed. by Angela Condello). The two philosophers present their perspectives on the ontology of money, which are different and yet interestingly intertwined. On the one hand, Searle returns on the crucial function of intentionality in the construction of social reality: it is intentionality that gives value to banknotes. On the other hand, Ferraris responds with his theory of documentality, that today – with bitcoins and blockchains – must be defined as “documediality”. Money emerges as the paradigmatic social object, which we should observe as a meaningful symbol of contemporary societies

Dies Irae

What does it mean to judge when there is no general and universal norm to define what is right and what is wrong? Can laws be absent and is law always necessary? This is the first publication of an English translation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s acclaimed consideration of the law’s most pervasive principles in the context of actual systems and contemporary institutions, power, norms, laws. In a world where it is clearly impossible to imagine the realization of an ideal of justice that corresponds to every person’s ideal of justice, Nancy probes the limits of legal normativity starting from this problem. Moreover, the question is asked: how can legal normativity be legitimized? A legal order based on performativity and formal validity is questionable and forces below that of juridical normativity are at the heart of Dies Irae’s critical inquiry. This leads inevitably to the processes of inclusion and exclusion that characterize contemporary juridical systems and those issues of identity, hostility and self-representation so central to contemporary European and global political and legal debates