Lorenzo De Stefano

Only a catastrophe could save us. Being-towards-death in the era of the ecological crisis The aim of this essay is to develop a theoretical background to approach the problem of climate change, starting from the question of death as theorized by Heidegger in his masterpiece Being and Time. In order to do that, I start from the concept of the Anthropocene in relation with the problem of human and natural history and introducing the Heideggerian concept of history as epiphenomenon of temporal structure of the Dasein. On this basis, the being-toward-death, the as exposed in the abovementioned work, will help to provide a hermeneutic criterion to approach an ethic of the catastrophe.

FROM CYBERNETICS TO DATAISM. SOME NOTES ON THE OBSOLESCENCE OF THEORY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA The dataism is the new frontier of technological era, where the being is converted in quantity. The so called Big Data are, in this scenario, the new oil, the principal source for the extraction of value and information. The possibility to process a huge amount of information in order to describe, analyse and predict a phenomenon, has made even the theory obsolete. In addiction Big data are also closely tied to the development of the Arificial intelligence, of which they are the “blood”. The present paper aims at focusing the nexus between Big Data and Artificial intelligence and between the digital turn and the cybernetics from a critical perspective on technology, rooted in the philosophical anthropology.