Persona, comunità, strategie identitarie

The volume presents the multidisciplinary approach to the topics of identity, person and community pursued in the 2019 research project at Department of Humanities of Palermo Universit

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 authors such as Gilbert Simondon and Bernard Stiegler, on the contrary, it may be shown that automation cannot by itself guarantee the most appropriate diffusion and sharing of information during a global crisis, whereas, according to these authors, a certain margin of indetermination – freedom and concreteness – must be implemented in any automatic process to let a machine, even the most algorythmic one, work properly and rightly serve the cause of its users

ONTOLOGY IN DIALOGUE

In its first section the volume contains contributions dealing with the debate between the German philosopher Markus Gabriel and some scholars in Palermo who discussed the fundaments of his ontology. In the next sections are gathered essays on critical ontology in the modern age, essays on intersubjectivity in social ontology and on ontology of arts and aesthetics