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it begins by saying that I have been invited
here at this evening from mattia cotoni col
which I could only exchange
only at a distance in a correspondence without
having been able to personally know and
so I dedicate this to him
presentation then the technique is from
always in my opinion a mediation of the
human with nature and society and how
all social constructions e
crossed by contradictions
bifurcation conflicts now I would like
focus mainly on a period
that in a period of transition between
let’s say the industrial era and what
I called cognitive capitalism that is
the current era that is based on the
knowledge economy and ten
years when two big ones emerged
technologies that changed
subjectivity and are the internet and the
mobile telephony but let’s do one first
jump in time and let’s go to berkeley
coveted, that is, the great university
Californian in the middle of the years
at the turn of the 60s and 70s
and here two phenomena emerge
apparently unrelated they are from
one side in research laboratories
student researchers professors
develop from a system
open source operating system unix which is then a
progenitor of him of linux
the network protocols that are still there
today those that make it work
internet and on the other side always those
university emerges this protest
against the Vietnam war for me that
I was that student of the Polytechnic
in Milan in computer science at the beginning
of IT has seemed to me it is
it seemed like there was a connection
between these two events
which in fact was a generation that from
one side which should be expressed to something
a protest against the war that then
spreads all over the world and on the other
he was looking for ways of communication
horizontal non-hierarchical
hence here is born of rebirth
that movement which then on one side the
hacker movement and on the other hand it is
also the construction of free software
that changes the ethics rules of the
production and, for example, the autonomy of the
I work with technical creativity and
values become free
circulation of information
they become values that are opposed to
what was the old ethics
Protestant capitalist of the time
weber jana who said that the profit
it was a divine grace of which not
it was necessary to use the fruits and therefore
in this sense I think it has been there
a historical passage also of the
social production and today the free ones
software that has determined a new one
jurisdiction that that of the four
freedom to use copy
change spread was
fundamental
but big projects are not
completely uniform for example in the
great linux project that is at the base
of the internet dl there is a like
say a team that formed by
salaried to 80 percent salaried of
big multinationals while wikipedia
it is much less linked to values
commercial and financial now let’s see
on subjectivities
the phone is in my opinion the telephony
mobile to jump to each other
great revolution in telephony
mobile is one of the biggest
technological revolutions over time in
sense that it was lightning and 20 30 years
almost all humans have this
individual medium that does not require
particular knowledge to be
used and therefore under a certain point
of sight is also a device that
serves to decorate biological life and
in this sense that loved to be medium
the word which is a confluence of
biopolitics hypermedia the whole this
this cloud and then here we see at
clouds this cloud that surrounds us with
all technical mobile devices
the internet of objects with which
we enter a continuous interaction that
and multisensory that creates one
integration almost a symbiosis of the
our bodies with the globe and signed
overall global electronic network and
this has changed subjectivities
surely it makes new ideas circulate
ideas pass through this cloud
however it also serves in certain cases as
form of social subjection as
form of machine enslavement
see for example how this has
the attention has been changed
difficulties the millennials but of all
what is the difficulty of di
concentrate that there is today
look at these tools and these
applications can become something
of compulsive to push us to a
pay desires in consumerism
look at how you bring on your hand of vice
it is an expression that was founded
a few years ago to say that the
worker must bring his
device and its ability to
use it at work, see how
this has also become a norm in the
precarious jobs like di cyclists
food now to huber drivers
but let’s move on to neuro-capitalism that
neuro capitalism elevating a moment
is that jose is the strategy for me
partly born in silicon valley of
develop algorithms
and applications that have the ability to
manipulate human neuroplasticity
and then this is adopted by all of us or
almost like a kind of servitude
voluntary because they are very objects
interesting and attractive though it is in
reality in my opinion
here we are in one in algorithms as he says
the same zuckerberg the founder of
facebook that tells us that in practice
they develop components and
artificial intelligence to control
all the meaning of what passes
on Facebook
about a third of dangerous messages
are identified by these
components of artificial intelligence e
for zuckerberg
the end is how to say
fight global terrorism or
even prevent problems first
that happen but this seems to me
a dystopia as in the old film of
spielberg minority report
and we personally criticize the fact
that the head of a private company is
arrogate this right
then to move on the side quickly
on the side of philosophy, here you are combining
they are two big trends that use the
technology in place humanism to
central figure is the cyborg that
should according to the carriers of this
philosophy as rosi braidotti for
example should be the figure that
manages to change
the era of the anthropocene that is the epoch in
which we are influencing on
on the ecological balance of the
of the ecosystem in a negative way
that we know
so I’m talking to taranto and you know
what do I mean?
on the other hand , transhumanism instead
it is one is a more philosophical movement
linked to silicon valley which he sees in the
technology something to prolong high
at the limit also in defined terms the
human life ie to practice for example
these technological visions of the mind
uploading ie the copy of the mind
beyond the body and in France in the
country where I live this was a lot
criticized psychologists and psychiatrists say
that any vision in which man
becomes immortal almighty harbinger of
serious technologies of serious sorry of
serious diseases
the spirit of the common and what a little
I also mentioned in talking about the
movement to that of these new values
but above all it is the spirit that is
capable of using the technologies in
an optic that is alternative for
compared to commodification respect
to privatization that are values
quite dominant today in my opinion e
I mention only two
two examples but I could begin to mention
already one of the examples was given to me
right here with the radio no border in
which technologies are used in
different perspective
or in the field of schering
economy that actually today
dominated by large mega machines
of the world platforms there is a
movement they try to use
these applications as in a form
as an instrument of the common in a form
different
or even bitcoin technology
which is also very ambivalent because
used as a currency for speculation
technology
there are coin experiments of the municipality
there are experiments and management of the
common goods
so they are openings and hopes that
they can exist thanks to
Robotic intelligence technology well
we have discussed a theme that is
much the topic that robotization
I think it was also mentioned
before robotization is
advancing both from the point of view of the
also the iphone production
not to mention them in c.da are produced
more and more through robots e
both in services designed for example at
logistics and therefore to all the machines
that transport is missing
they will work more or less
automatically
all this leads many to say that the
vision that shows us tomorrow
in the tomorrow the same full employment
salaried that there was for example in the
after World War II it is not possible
and brings out the speech about income
universal to which this refers
poster that came out during the
referendum on this subject that is held
which was obtained in switzerland
same mark zuckerberg
he told us that he too agrees
on universal income to the point that
some have told him it’s okay if you are
agree on universal income then
begins to give members to those who
participate in facebook since it extracts
of the value from facebook 80 euros per month
I did not invent it, so this is it
how to say in this in this sense there
they are both movements and realities
use of technologies in one sense
different and end with
a quote from a review that is there
been on my book that in response to a
article that was published in a newspaper
national that said all is well
these economic practices
widespread social viral are many
interesting but without a strategy
politics we will not change things but not
we will create a real relationship with
the world ecology to return to a
different balance and someone else has
answered by saying that yes, it is true, however
all these practices are those that
they create lupus the base where they ferment
resistances that oppose the increase
of entropy and resist this
definitive defeat that seems to be
threaten us thanks
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