Faced with the current pandemic situation, many thinkers examined not only the relationship between the political dimension and the present health emergency, and the related social and economic transformations, but also and above all the changes in the construction of identity and the self-perception that it has determined and will continue to determine. Giorgio Agamben and Byung-Chul Han, although starting from different analyses (disciplinary society / performance society), agree on the return and on the tightening of devices that limit personal (...) freedoms. The provocative question from which we are starting is whether neoliberalism really wants a pandemic. The answer is particularly complex and is divided into three passages: the first part, in fact, is critically confronted with Agamben’s reflection; the second part starts from the analysis of Byung-Chul Han’s thought, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses; in the last part, the fallout from the point of view of identity processes is discussed above all through a critical analysis of the paradigms of resilience and victimization. (shrink)

Living with the Robots. A Conversation about social Robotics This interview aims at focusing some aspects of an intriguing discipline known as social Robotics. In particular, we try to get familiar with concepts and philosophical frameworks which deal with this new human enterprise. Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano will help us to get in contact with a scenario in which emotions, reason and ethics will be partially revised by a somehow different perspective about human-robot interaction and sociality.