The political power comes into your brain

What does it mean if I say Biopolitics? According to the famous philosopher Michel Foucault, biopolitics is a “power that exerts a positive influence on life, that endeavours to administer, optimize, and multiply it, subjecting it to precise controls and comprehensive regulations” (Michele Foucault, The Will to Knowledge). The functioning of political power is always related […]

Could Homo Digitalis make a political action?

It was 1895 when Gustav Le Bon, in the famous book called The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind claimed: “The age we are about to enter will in truth be the Era Of Crowds”. Le Bon saw the increase of the power of masses and the weakness of the Parliaments representatives that become only […]

La necessità di una Filosofia del Digitale

Articolo pubblicato per Gli Stati Generali Qualche settimana fa il CEO dell’azienda in cui lavoro mi manda un articolo dal titolo “Amore per la sapienza nell’era della trasformazione digitale”. Inizio a leggerlo e la parte di me un po’ sopita dello studioso di filosofia si risveglia in preda al pathos e all’eccitazione. Si parla di futuro […]