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Paolo Furia
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Paolo Furia

È ricercatore in estetica all'Università di Torino

Areas of expertise

  • estetica
  • filosofia della tecnologia
  • corpo e tecnologia
  • cultura digitale
  • transumanesimo
  • intelligenza incarnata
  • Cina contemporanea
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Cultura

Soap operas and nostalgia

A clip of The Bold and the Beautiful in the feed, Stephanie slapping Brooke. Paolo Furia traces a path from Guiding Light back to Plautus and on to Big Brother: the stock types are the same, but we watched the trash in soaps knowing it was fiction.

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Filosofia

If you want to understand the technological future, look at China

China shows something the West still struggles to think: the digital doesn't erase streets, bodies and neighborhoods, it coexists with them

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