Roberto Marchesini Knihy

Focusing on the relationship between technology and the biosphere, this book explores posthumanism as a vital framework for understanding the complexities of the twenty-first century. It examines new forms of citizenship and identity while distinguishing posthumanism from other contemporary theories. Through its analysis, the text aims to clarify the foundational elements that define posthumanism, making it an essential resource for those interested in the evolving interplay between humanity and technology.

Focusing on the integration of humanities and life sciences, this book addresses the need for a unified approach to tackle contemporary social issues. It explores the implications of recent findings in behavioral sciences, advocating for a "critical ethology" that challenges traditional dichotomies between nature and culture, as well as human and animal distinctions. The authors critique speciesism and determinism, emphasizing the necessity for an education system that fosters interdisciplinary skills essential for addressing modern societal complexities and encouraging critical self-reflection in humanity.

This book presents a new way to understand human–animal interactions. Offering a profound discussion of topics such as human identity, our relationship with animals and the environment, and our culture, the author channels the vibrant Italian traditions of humanism, materialism, and speculative philosophy. The research presents a dialogue between the humanities and the natural sciences. It challenges the separation and oppression of animals with a post-humanism steeped in the traditions of the Italian Renaissance. Readers discover a vision of the human as a species informed by an intertwining with animals. The human being is not constructed by an onto-poetic process, but rather by close relations with otherness. The human system is increasingly unstable and, therefore, more hybrid. The argument it presents interests scholars, thinkers, and researchers. It also appeals to anyone who wants to delve into the deep animal–human bond and its philosophical, cultural, political instances. The author is a veterinarian, ethologist, and philosopher. He uses cognitive science, zooanthropology, and philosophy to engage in a series of empirical, theoretical, and practice-based engagements with animal life. In the process, he argues that animals are key to human identity and culture at all levels.

Roberto Marchesini presents a timely proposal within post-human philosophy in order to overcome the centuries-long separation between human beings, non-human animals and technology. This book highlights the inspiring nature of the relationship with non-human beings - what Marchesini calls "Epiphany"--And how its enhancement can open new existential dimensions. Technology is also reinterpreted, no longer as a performative tool, but as a virus that infiltrates the human dimension and changes its predicates. Technopoietic events are not just the product of human intelligence, but they arise from an epiphany (a becoming alterity), thus positioning technology well within the ontological and somatic dimension of human beings. This book lays the foundations for a new and non-anthropocentric Humanism, which is able to recognize the essential role that non-human alterities have had throughout our history

In recent years, the word 'virus' has lost its biological perimeter of reference to acquire a much broader - could say 'paradigmatic' - meaning. This Element aims to shed light on how virality has become the most powerful metaphor available to describe very different phenomena.

Tra i tanti fenomeni emergenti di questi ultimi anni c’è sicuramente la crisi dell’uomo, inteso come maschio. È debole, stanco, demotivato, passivo, solo. E triste. Alcuni uomini sono depressi, insicuri, ansiosi; sperimentano un senso di inadeguatezza sia in famiglia che sul lavoro, che con gli altri uomini. Hanno una scarsa autostima e poca fiducia in sé e nelle proprie capacità; si sentono timidi, paurosi, deboli. Le ricerche dicono che aumenta l’impotenza maschile, l’ansia da prestazione sessuale, l’infertilità maschile e rilevano persino una graduale riduzione del desiderio sessuale e del livello di testosterone, l’ormone maschile. È una crisi di virilità. Intesa come disponibilità a rischiare la vita per salvarla, per salvare l’onore (cioè la dignità umana), per la fedeltà ai propri valori; intesa come assertività, coraggio, fortezza. La crisi della virilità è per l’uomo una crisi d’identità: egli non sa più chi è, come è, come dovrebbe essere e come lo vogliono gli altri. Ci prova, ad accontentare tutti, ma non funziona: sembra che nessuno sia contento di lui. E questo lo fa soffrire. È una crisi inedita nella storia dell’umanità. Non è mai accaduto che così tante persone restassero senza risposta davanti agli interrogativi: «Chi sono? Qual è il mio ruolo? Qual è il mio posto nel mondo?».