"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

Consigli di lettura: la società della trasparenza

Byung-Chul Han è un filosofo tedesco contemporaneo nato in Corea, la cui opera esplora la trasformazione della soggettività, del potere e delle relazioni sociali nelle società tardo-moderne e digitali . Ho già parlato di due sue opere: Nello Sciame (qui), che si concentra in particolare sugli effetti della comunicazione digitale sulla percezione, la politica e la vita relazionale, e La Salvezza del Bello (qui), un saggio di estetica attraverso le lenti di ciò che è considerato liscio e ruvido, pornografico o erotico, digitale e fisico.

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Oggi vi consiglio La società della trasparenza, un altro dei suoi testi fondamentali, in cui dalle prime pagine parla di “inferno dell’uguale”, di feticizzazione e totalizzazione della trasparenza tramite la riduzione di azioni a ciò che può essere misurato, tassato e controllato. Quando parliamo di KPI e di misurazione del soggettivo, dell’emozionale, dell’incommensurabile, Byung-Chul Han sta camminando accanto a noi.

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Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures

You might say that this is a historical novel about two pioneer women hunting for fossils on the famed beach of Lyme, one of them being paleontology legend Mary Anning and the other being the less famous fossil hunter and collector Elizabeth Philpot.You’d be wrong,

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Cixin Liu’s Hold Up the Sky

This is a really splendid collection of stories, some shorter than other, and I wouldn’t have collected them this way: you have proper sci-fi stories and fairy tales, stories about science (with very little fiction), a story on coal mines and a war tale. But,

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The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there’s a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession

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