Geolier and the grammars of recognition. An analysis of the contemporary youth imagination.
I have long been interested in understanding how collective imaginaries are formed. Why do millions of people end up sharing the same symbols, the sam...
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"Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world.
I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul."
Stopping as an act of freedom. Because we read less and less, we scroll more and more and we risk running out of time to understand.
How the attention economy is changing adults and children — and what future it prepares for our ability to thinkIn the previous article on the topic w...
AI × WATER — Smarter networks. Less water losses
I am sharing a recent publication dedicated to SWANP-AI, the system developed by my research group together with the university spin-off MedHydro srl...
#AI #5 After Keynes. A reflection before the short story.
In the previous article we revisited one of John Maynard Keynes' most fascinating intuitions. In the essay Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildre...
#AI#4 What will we do with the freed-up time (and Keynes's prophecy)
In 1930 John Maynard Keynes published a short essay destined to become one of the most famous economic prophecies of the twentieth century: Economic ...
Social Dilemma. Tristan Harris, notifications and the Center for Humane Technology
A few years ago I read an article dedicated to a former Google employee who had left the company because he no longer shared the way digital platform...
#AI#3. Borges, AI and the Library of the Possible. Probability, possibility and creativity in the era of generative AI
There is a recurring objection against Artificial Intelligence: it cannot be truly creative, because it only moves among ideas already produced by h...
#Corsari Notes
For some time now I've been wondering if it still makes sense to keep a blog alive.Maybe yes. Perhaps precisely because today it seems a bit retro.Th...
AI#2 The tsunami and circumstantial trials: the Garlasco case as an example of probabilistic analysis
I am not passionate about trials celebrated on TV or in the press, nor about the transformation of private pain into public spectacle. Condivido il se...
#IISE (Italian Institute for European Studies)
"Understand us. We are not like an ordinary world.We have our madness, we live in another dimension and we don't have time for things that have no sou...
AI#1 - The Tsunami
This story is about a beach, but it's actually about us. The wave of artificial intelligence is coming. Some will ignore it. Some will be overwhelmed....
Nostalgia for the Future #1
“There is a time that comes before time: that of possibilities” (from NDF, 2027).After the suspended parenthesis of the Pandemic, between wars that ha...
#10 Things to do before easing the COVID-19 Lockdown
#10 Things to do before easing the COVID-19 Lockdown # Draft plan B # The highest mountain In the last few hours, and almost three weeks after th...
The song of Figaro in the mask of Darth Vader
The invitation to return to Valencia for a series of lessons arrives as unexpectedly as hoped, because the thought of returning to the city of Ca...
Harry Potter's eyes in the prime minister
That England wasn't just London, you had already understood at sixteen when, on a splendid yet bitter study holiday with most of our high school ...
Thessaly. The sweet madness of Hurricane Zorba
A place to heal wounds. The sky is overcast in Greece. It's cold on Mount Pelion. It rains at the end of September. Further north, it could s...
#apuntiperilSUD: 5 themes for the Master Plan of SOUTHERN Italy
Dear director The his article published on CheFuturo, a few hours after the spread of Svimez 2015 report on the South, it sounded like a charge ...
Journey to Hellas to rediscover oneself and lost harmony
In the silence of Delphi – walking among the ruins of the temple of Apollo, gathering almonds in the gymnasium and measuring with slow steps t...
#6 Tips for young people, students and startuppers (but not only) to be more competitive in the job market
Educating the mental, social and behavioral faculties of an individual is the other activity, in addition to that of teaching knowledge, that tea...
sparks. Venice2015. punto … e si continua!
The second edition of Scintille 2015 of the National Engineers Council, which rewards innovative ideas in Italian engineering and beyond, ended i...
That's why we flood
Professor, you are a hydraulic engineer, you teach at the Second University of Naples and you know well the flooding problems of the area north...
Startupper: the engineer's fourth way
What can the Government, the University and the Order of Engineers do to help young aspiring entrepreneurs. Fifty, perhaps forty years ago, choos...
Travel notes. In the fall, the soul of the Big Apple.
The muscles. Twenty years ago it was the verticality and centripetal force of the Big Apple that captivated me. I felt the muscles of the city...
HUB spa. The revolution of the three "Cs" at Next of the Republic of Innovators.
Good morning everyone and thanks to Repubblica and Riccardo Luna for inviting us to Next in Naples. We are here representing the 70 founders of H...
Why the PANDORA project
Desire for redemption and determination. These are the reasons for the participation in the Pandora project for the Land of Fires by Armando Di ...
Open letter from the former councilor for land reclamation: «The tender for the incinerator must be blocked»
Distinguished Minister of the Environment, Andrea Orlando, President of the Campania Region, Stefano Caldoro, Regional Councilor for the Environ...
HUBspa: a private incubator in the land of Gomorrah for legality, development, social and economic innovation
Italy urgently needs social and economic innovation. The South has an even more pressing need. It is now common knowledge that one of the bigg...
CANADA & CALIFORNIA: in Gulliver's Country
We are on a ferry approaching Vancouver Island (at the westernmost point of Canada) for whale watching. I feel dizzy from a distance compared to...
Things can change: a brief contribution to the political debate
The editorial team asked me for a intervention on the second issue of the new editorial season of Abbiabbè per make a contribution to the pol...
A turning point in the environmental policies of the territory
The environmental aggression of municipal territory began many years ago and depended on choices institutional and criminal factors. The first o...
The Water Concordat of the City of Giugliano in Campania
A challenge of legality and justice. First of all I would like to say that the New Municipal Water Regulation, or if you prefer the so-called "...
Interview after 200 days from the appointment of Councilor
Q.: Councillor, we can take stock of the initiatives and projects completed or started after the first 200 days from the appointment of the...
Space nomads
With the adjective holistic we indicate the property that a system has of not being traceable to the sum of its parts, in other words that the ev...
OPEN SPACES
Last year I was in America, specifically in New York. I landed...
Shame for Liternum
The article Of Scipio's helmet published in La Repubblica last August 26, the last stage of Paolo Rumiz's journey in the footsteps of Hannibal...
Greeting speech on the occasion of the visit of the President of the Campania Region to the Italian Institute for European Studies
Thank you Mr Mayor, good evening everyone and thank you for attending. First of all, President Bassolino, I offer you the welcome and gree...
Uqbar and surroundings. A magazine for the territory.
Uqbar and surroundings Sometimes the signs on a geographical map tell us about cities better than the pages of a book: to those who observe a m...
The valley of the temples
All visitors to the “valley of the temples of Agrigento”, in Sicily, are struck by a double sensation, in fact, arrived on site, they are immed...
Inauguration speech of the Italian Institute for European Studies foundation
Good evening everyone my friends from the Institute they reserved the task of giving thanks this evening for me. We'll meet again later...
Beyond honesty
In the same way as chemical synapses in our brain, which materialize sensations, ideas and events of our lives, as well as the alleys, walls and r...
Uqbar: the feeling of living in a prolonged dream.
(letter to a friend) Dear C. one of the things that I just can't stand is thinking that I wasn't clear in a speech, and perhaps that even...
The expected politics
In ours countries, in recent years, the slogan has become increasingly fashionable "play a normal policy administration"; slogan that summarizes ...
Transforming a void into a full simply by crossing it
We have often written that ours is a journey, a journey through ideas materialized in cities and peoples: so how can we forget the nomads and their...
Venus posing
"The tourist is the one who thinks about returning home from the moment he arrives, whereas a traveler may not even return at all". These are the...