424 research outputs found
The Green and The Blue: Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age
No full textThe Green and the Blue explores the opportunities presented by the digital age for combining green environmental policies with blue digital solutions to strengthen democracy, reform capitalism, and work toward a sustainable and equitable future. With an engaging and readable style, world-renowned philosopher Luciano Floridi lays out a timely and convincing case for embracing responsible practices to ensure a sustainable environment, a better democracy, and an equitable information society.
Drawing from his expertise in digital ethics and the philosophy of technology, Floridi offers fresh perspectives, innovative ideas, and bold strategies for improving political systems that emphasize the importance of cooperation, ethics, and long-term planning. Throughout the text, the author advocates for a political and economic framework of care that focuses on the quality of relations and processes rather than consumption and things. A groundbreaking call to action for individuals, policymakers, and technologists, The Green and the Blue: Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age:
Provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and well-rounded exploration of how to improve the present by designing good policies for the future
Features insightful analysis by the founder of the philosophy of information and one of the key interpreters of the digital revolution
Explains complex concepts to allow easy understanding and application of the ideas presented
Includes compelling thought experiments that challenge traditional notions of capitalism and politics
Encourages readers to think critically about the present and future of politics
Offering a new way of thinking about democracy, the environment, and technology, The Green and the Blue: Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age is a must-read for undergraduate and graduate students, practitioners, and general readers who are seeking positive and sustainable change in the world of politics
Il realismo dell’arte e il paradosso del retore muto
No full textThis paper analyses a group of anonymous skoptic epigrams on rhetoricians, AP 11.145, 11.149, 11.151, APl 318, illustrating how cleverly they manipulate the language and conventions of ekphrastic epigram for satiric purposes. It suggests that AP 11.149, APl 318 and AP 11.151 invite a linear reading, and were probably written by the same author; a possible chronological framework for the poems is also provided. An appendix deals with Palladas APl 317, which has usually been connected with the series, but could be of a different nature
SIMULAZIONE DELL’ADOZIONE DEI SISTEMI DI MUNGITURA AUTOMATICI NELLE AZIENDE ZOOTECNICHE DA LATTE: UN CONFRONTO TRA NOORD-HOLLAND (NL) ED EMILIA-ROMAGNA
No full textL’innovazione e l’adozione di nuove tecnologie sono due elementi centrali per le imprese e i processi di sviluppo del settore agricolo. L’obiettivo di questo paper è di sviluppare un modello farm household in grado di simulare l’adozione di Sistemi di Mungitura Automatica (SMA) da parte di aziende ad indirizzo zootecnico per la produzione di latte nelle regioni Emilia-Romagna (Italia) e Noord Holland (Paesi Bassi) quando la decisione sull’adozione è caratterizzata da situazioni di incertezza riguardo alle condizioni future (costo del lavoro, prezzo del latte e scelte di policy). Il modello simula la decisione di rimpiazzare un sistema di mungitura tradizionale con dei SMA utilizzando l’approccio real options (RO) che permette alle aziende di scegliere la tempistica migliore per effettuare l’investimento in presenza di irreversibilità della decisione e incertezza. I risultati mostrano che l’adozione di SMA è influenzata dalle incertezze di policy e dalle condizioni di mercato. L’effetto di questa incertezza è quello di ritardare la decisione sull’adozione della nuova tecnologia fino a quando gli agricoltori non hanno ottenuto sufficienti informazioni per ridurre il rischio associato a un’innovazione soggetta ad effetto lock in
Assessing the Impacts of Different Rural Development Policy Design Options on the Adaptation of Innovation in Bulgaria and Italy Case Study
No full textInnovation and new technology adoption represent two centrral elements for the enterprise and industry development process in agriculture. the objective of the paper is to provide an ex-ante analysis of the effectiveness of alternative policy design options concering the RDP measures intended o provide incentive for investment/innovation adoption in Bulgaria and Italy sace study. The research reported in this paper was funded by the EC within the project Assessing the multiple impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies on Rural Economies (CAP-IRE)
De Glaucia inmatura morte praevento. Riflessioni su Auson. ep. 53 Gr
No full textThis paper analyses Auson. ep. 53 Gr., an epitaph for the untimely death of a boy named Glaucias, which is inspired by poems in which Statius (Silv. II 1) and Martial (VI 28f.) lament the passing of Melior's favourite, Glaucias. It argues that the differences between Ausonius' treatment of the subject and that of his models are deliberately introduced by the author, who wishes to offer a peculiar variation on the theme of pederastic love at a time when attitudes towards pederasty had profoundly changed
Luciano Floridi and contemporary art practice
No full textThis article examines how the thinking of Luciano Floridi, especially his emphasis on information, could affect the way we approach art practice. It aims to situate art practice in relation to contemporary informational theories and suggests that the way we view contemporary art practice needs to move beyond existing theories. Key components to Floridi’s philosophy are introduced with relevance to art practice, followed by an analysis of these concepts with examples from the history of art. It is hoped that, by clarifying some of the more complex terms and concepts, readers will form a better understanding of the connections and potential synergy between art practice and the sciences of information, through the philosophy of Floridi
BRISEIDE ΑΕΚΟΥΣ ̓(Α). A PROPOSITO D I HOM. IL. 1, 348
No full textBased on the comparison with some parallel passages (Od. 2, 130; 20, 343, Hymn. Hom. Cer. 19 and 72, Sapph. fr. 94, 5 Voigt/Neri), in this contribution I suggest that ἀέκουσα, referring to Briseis in the famous scene of the abductio in the first book of the Iliad, can be interpreted as a sort of technical term to indicate the state of mind of a woman when she is removed from her family unit for (broadly speaking) nuptial purposes. The valorization of this textual detail allows us to fully appreciate the complexity of Briseis, in whose figure funerary and nuptial symbolism is inextricably linked. This is confirmed by the figurative tradition, where a similar ambiguity can be detected. In particular, I propose to recognize, in some of the visual transpositions of the abductio, the use of the funerary iconography of the farewell in order to represent the Homeric ἀέκουσα
A Defence of Informational Structural Realism
No full textThis is the revised version of an invited keynote lecture delivered at the 1st Australian Computing and Philosophy Conference (CAP@AU; the Australian National University in Canberra, 31 October – 2 November, 2003). The paper is divided into two parts. The first part defends an informational approach to structural realism. It does so in three steps. First, it is shown that, within the debate about structural realism (SR), epistemic (ESR) and ontic (OSR) structural realism are reconcilable. It follows that a version of OSR is defensible from a structuralist-friendly position. Second, it is argued that a version of OSR is also plausible, because not all relata (structured entities) are logically prior to relations (structures). Third, it is shown that a version of OSR is also applicable to both sub-observable (unobservable and instrumentally-only observable) and observable entities, by developing its ontology of structural objects in terms of informational objects. The outcome is informational structural realism, a version of OSR supporting the ontological commitment to a view of the world as the totality of informational objects dynamically interacting with each other. The paper has been discussed by several colleagues and, in the second half, ten objections that have been moved to the proposal are answered in order to clarify it further
Giacinto, il Discobolo di Mirone e lo sguardo di un sofista. Filostrato, Im. 1.24
No full textThe aim of the present paper is to show, through an analysis of Philostratus, Im. I 24 (Hyacinthus), how the author does not limit himself to explaining to his young audience the subjects of the paintings of his picture gallery, but also aims to educate their taste and to suggest judgement criteria, that do not only concern the visual dimension, but also the rhetoric and literary ones. In the case of Hyacinthus, Philostratus focuses on the most unlikely aspects of its myth; he then takes part in the critical debate about the limits of plastic arts, focusing, in particular, on Myron – the famous sculptor whose masterpiece, the Discobolus, is evoked, although not explicitly mentioned.
The analysis will also represent an occasion to focus on a particularly problematic textual passage, from which, in the past, it was believed it was possible to derive technical information to establish the rules for discus throw at the first modern Olympic games. The passage will provide an occasion to highlight how the nature itself of Philostratus’ work, that draws on the visual culture of his time and ‘ekphrastically’ elicits, through ἐνάργεια, vividness, the visual imagination of his audience, favoured a tendence to interpret Philostratus’ γραφαί based on images rather than on the text itself
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