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Human-AI Political Symbiosis: Rethinking Democracy in the Age of Digital Technologies
No full textThis paper explores how AI-powered digital technologies impact democratic processes by shaping citizens’ epistemic and moral capacities, with a particular focus on the threats posed by misinformation, deepfakes, and overreliance on AI tools. Traditional approaches like education and regulation have been insufficient in addressing these challenges. The paper proposes a paradigm shift, advocating for human-AI political symbiosis as a way to mitigate the harms of digital technologies and improve the epistemic and moral qualities of democratic decision-making. This symbiosis entails a cooperative relationship between humans and AI, where both partners augment each other’s capacities to navigate a distorted epistemic environment. The concept is introduced through two forms: “weak” symbiosis, where AI is a useful tool for achieving specific democratic goals, and “strong” symbiosis, where humans and AI are mutually dependent for democratic survival and flourishing. The paper concludes by examining how this new framework can better address the complex, evolving challenges posed by AI in democratic settings, emphasizing that deeper cooperation between AI and human agents is key to preserving democracy
Water as a Framework for Resilience: Designing Territories for the Ecological Transition
No full textThe research aims to contribute to the definition of new planning paradigms aimed at fostering ecological transition and achieving climate neutrality. It focuses on the relationship between territorial resilience and water management, which—shifting from a risk factor to a design framework—serves to redefine the interconnections among settlements, infrastructures, and landscapes. Through this perspective, the study promotes a circular, self-sufficient, and resilient territorial model. The investigation is applied to the territories of the Lower Plain of Friuli Venezia Giulia, with the objective of attaining climate neutrality at both urban and regional scales.La ricerca si propone di contribuire alla definizione di nuovi paradigmi di pianificazione volti a favorire la transizione ecologica e il raggiungimento della neutralità climatica. Si concentra sulla relazione tra resilienza territoriale e gestione delle acque, che – passando da fattore di rischio a quadro progettuale – contribuisce a ridefinire le interconnessioni tra insediamenti, infrastrutture e paesaggi. In questa prospettiva, lo studio promuove un modello territoriale circolare, autosufficiente e resiliente. L'indagine si applica ai territori della Bassa Pianura del Friuli Venezia Giulia, con l'obiettivo di raggiungere la neutralità climatica sia a scala urbana che regionale
Sulle tracce delle comunità etniche e religiose rifondatrici di Trieste
No full textL’articolo prende lo spunto da una ricerca iniziata dall’autrice agli inizi del 2000, e continuata successivamente, raccogliendo le “voci” dei rappresentanti delle diverse “comunità storiche”, cominciate ad affluire nella città di Trieste dall’inizio del 1700. Tali comunità erano rappresentate da appartenenti a Confessione di lingua tedesca di religione cattolica, ad Evangelici di confessione augu¬stana, ad Elvetici e Valdesi, a Inglesi, a Metodisti, ad Ortodossi greci e serbi, a Dalmati, ad Ebrei, ad Armeni, e in più a recenti arrivi da altri paesi asiatici, africani, ecc. Ne emerge il ritratto di una società composita, culturalmente variegata e complessa, multietnica, multilingue e multireligiosa, che, per quan¬to fortemente condizionata dalle vicende storiche che l’hanno coinvolta, e spesso “travolta”, si è rivelata e si rivela capace di gestire le diversità coniugando interessi economici e aperture culturali.This article stems from research begun by the author early in 2000. It subsequent¬ly continued with the collection of voices representing the various “historic communities” which began to settle in Trieste in the early 18th century. They comprised German-speaking Catholics, Evangelical Lutherans, Helvetic and Waldensian Evangelicals, English Anglicans, Methodists, Orthodox Greeks and Serbs, Dalmatians, Jews and Armenians, supplemented by more recent arriv¬als from Asia and Africa. The resulting picture is of a composite society, variegated and complex, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious. Despite the major historical events which have in¬fluenced and often overwhelmed it, the city has proved able to manage diversity, combining economic interests with cultural openness
“Other communisms”: a new historiographic category?
No full textThis article offers a historiographic as well as methodological reflection on the “other communisms” in Italy, or rather the dissident and minority tendencies that developed within and outside the Italian Communist Party during the twentieth century. Starting from an examination of historiography, which has long privileged the study of “orthodox” (majority) communism, the authors argue for the need for an inclusive approach aimed at integrating dissident currents into the broader history of communism. Moreover, the article proposes several research paths for investigating the history of these “other” communists and provides a comparison with the case of French historiography. In this way, the authors seek to demonstrate that the study of these formations is indispensable for a comprehensive understanding of the crises, debates, and evolutions not only of communism, but also of the Italian and European workers’movement throughout the twentieth century, due to the role played by these groups in the internal debate of the workers’movement, the originality of their critiques of the communist party line, and also their attempts to elaborate political alternatives to the dominant communist model promoted by a part of these tendencies.Questo articolo propone una riflessione storiografica e metodologica sugli “altri comunismi” italiani, vale adire le tendenze dissidenti e minoritarie sviluppatesi dentro e fuori dal Partito Comunista Italiano nel Novecento. Partendo da una disamina della storiografia, che ha a lungo privilegiato lo studio del comunismo “ortodosso”, cioè maggioritario, si sostiene la necessità di un approccio inclusivo volto a integrare le correnti dissidenti nella storia del comunismo nel suo complesso. L’articolo, inoltre, suggerisce diversi percorsi di ricerca per indagare la storia degli “altri” comunisti e presenta una comparazione col caso della storiografia francese. Si intende così dimostrare come lo studio di tali realtà sia imprescindibile per una comprensione complessiva delle crisi, dei dibattiti e delle evoluzioni non solo del comunismo, ma anche del movimento operaio italiano ed europeo nel Novecento, dato il ruolo di queste formazioni nel dibattito interno al movimento operaio e l’originalità delle loro critiche alla linea del partito comunista, nonché i tentativi di elaborare alternative politiche al modello comunista dominante promossi da alcune di queste tendenze
Raoul Pupo, Italianità adriatica. Le origini, il 1945, la catastrofe, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2025
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Lo stato delle prigioni e le vie per uscirne. Repliche e considerazioni
No full textAnswering his correspondents, the Author divides his reply into two parts: the first dedicated to the descriptive level, the other to the normative level. Under the first profile, the Author recalls the constitutive ambivalence of the modern penal system between law and revenge and the value of the symbolic capital of the penal system in the context of neoliberalism, the contemporary forms of passive democracy and the affirmation of populist ideologies, actors and political proposals. In the second part, the Author hopes for the refoundation of the system of execution of sentences starting from the recognition of all the fundamental rights of convicted persons in the perspective of the abolition of the prison institution
La tutela del patrimonio culturale di Mogadiscio nell’intreccio complesso fra competizione politica e identità clanica
No full textNel complesso contesto socio-politico somalo, gli edifici storici ubicati prin¬cipalmente a Mogadiscio e nelle città costiere – come Merca, Brava e Chisimaio –, sono stati sovente oggetto di distruzione e sembrerebbe che, anche per il futuro, siano destinati a costituire potenziali elementi di conflitto tra i vari clan. Sul fronte del patrimonio si affaccia dunque un secolare problema culturale collegato soprattutto alle differenze fra tradizione no¬madica di alcuni clan, più inclini alla conservazione di conoscenze collegate con il paesaggio, con i fattori naturali, i materiali locali e le vocazioni del territorio (patrimonio immateriale), e tradizione di sedentarietàdi altri clan, decisamente più propensi nei confronti della tutela dell’ambiente urbano e dei suoi edifici monumentali (patrimonio costruito). Impossibile, se non anacronistico, far prevalere l’una o l’altra tendenza dal momento che l’unica strada percorribile – anche in funzione di un’ipotesi di pacificazione tra le varie fazioni politiche che esercitano attualmente il potere –, resta quella di mettere in dialogo le varie istanze che caratterizzano tali tradizioni al fine di costruire un capitale culturale comune da trasmettere ai somali di domani.In the complex socio-political context of Somalia, historic buildings, primarily located in Mogadishu and coastal cities such as Merca, Brava, and Kismayo, have frequent¬ly been destroyed and appear destined to become potential sources of conflict between the various clans in the future. On the heritage front, therefore, a centuries-old cultural problem arises, primarily linked to the differences between the nomadic traditions of some clans, more inclined to preserve knowledge related to the landscape, natural factors, local materials, and the local vocations (intangible heritage), and the sedentary traditions of other clans, decidedly more inclined to protect the urban environment and its monumental buildings (built heritage). It’s impossible, if not anachronistic, to allow one trend to prevail over the other, since the only viable path — even with a view to achieving peace between the various political factions currently in power — is to establish a dialogue between the various demands that charac¬terize these traditions in order to build a common cultural capital to pass on to the Somalis of tomorrow
Cognitive processes in sight interpreting/translation: a systematic literature review
No full textThis systematic literature review examines the cognitive processes involved in sight interpreting/translation (SIT). Following the PRISMA approach, we review the findings of 49 publications identified through a comprehensive search strategy. The analysis shows that the comprehension processes involved in SIT appear to differ from those in reading for other purposes. It also highlights that three specific cognitive features may increase the processing demands of the task: resisting visual interference, dealing with memory requirements, and managing coordination between the processes at hand. The review then addresses the effects of training and professional experience. Drawing on these results, we critically discuss three key gaps in our current understanding of cognitive processing in SIT. They relate to the precise nature of the underlying comprehension processes, the cognitive constraints, and the development of competence. On this basis, we propose directions for future researc
Organizzazione corsi e rilascio open badge nell’ambito del programma internazionale intensivo blended (BIP) Erasmus+: “Intercomprehension between Germanic/Romance languages”, accordo tra Università europee”
No full textThe CLA UniFi has been organizing Intercomprehension courses since the 2020/2021 academic year as a new language learning methodology that allows you to quickly learn to understand multiple foreign languages of the same linguistic family and thus promote an ancestral way of communication in which two people can communicate by speaking their own language. The CLA offers a Course in Intercomprehension between Romance languages and a Course in Intercomprehension between Germanic languages. From 2023 in June the courses are offered as part of the Erasmus + international blended intensive program (BIP): “Intercomprehension between Germanic / Romance languages”, a multilateral agreement with European Universities; these are intensive summer courses, lasting 30 hours, of which 27 in person + 3 hours online before the start. The intervention traces the process of preparing the necessary documentation, the relationships with the International Mobility Office of UniFI and with the partner Universities (10 in 2024), the organization of cultural activities during the stay, up to the issuing of open badges