ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
A guide to over twenty years of articles, reflections and research materials.
The archive collects texts written in different periods and contexts. The reading paths allow a question to be followed through articles, essays and stories, keeping the different forms of writing recognisable. Recommended readings offer a starting point; recent articles document developments in each theme.
Go to a theme: Memory and consciousness · Attention and automatic patterns · Technology and the cognitive environment · Consciousness and freedom of choice · The human future · Fiction and symbols
Memory and consciousness
Memory, time, identity and the continuity of conscious experience.
As a starting point, Dare un seguito all’esperienza connects what we live through with the possibility of understanding it and guiding our choices. Tempo, dipendenza e identificazione relates this question to the quality of everyday time.
To follow the relationship between remembering, time and identity, explore Il principio della memoria.
The relationship between lived time and consciousness is also explored in Crono Coscienza, a philosophical and speculative essay.
Recent articles on this theme
Attention and automatic patterns
Fragmentation, habits and automatic processes that guide behaviour.
Il tempo libero che non lasciamo libero observes the desire to fill every interval. In L’invidia, la nuova epidemia senza vaccini, automatic patterns are questioned in relationships and judgements of others.
This theme runs through Zombificazione digitale and the journey of self-knowledge in Cerca Trova.
Recent articles on this theme
Technology and the cognitive environment
Digital technology, algorithms, artificial intelligence, cognitive delegation and the attention economy.
As a starting point, L’uomo delegante offers a philosophical and cultural reading of the relationship between tools and skills. Its interpretative status is stated in the article; the reading path continues through delegation, attention and responsibility.
The Research & AI page presents research on memory, metacognition and responsibility in our relationship with intelligent systems.
Recent articles on this theme
Consciousness and freedom of choice
Conditioning, responsibility, presence and the possibility of choice.
Il dono del silenzio introduces the theme of presence in everyday life. Reflection on self-knowledge also develops through seminars and lectures, in the forms documented for each activity.
The research on consciousness and freedom of choice connects these articles with questions about conditioning, presence and responsibility.
The possibility of guiding our choices, alongside the weight of beliefs and habitual reactions, is central to Creare il destino.
Recent articles on this theme
The human future
Social change, contemporary crises and the development of human capacities alongside intelligent systems.
As a starting point, Saper fare non significa saper fermarsi connects decisions, the power to intervene and responsibility for consequences. This question opens a dialogue on the conditions in which people and institutions can correct their conduct.
In the Es·Books publishing programme, La specie inaffidabile, La vita in nostra assenza and L’industria dell’altrove develop different aspects of these questions.
Recent articles on this theme
Fiction and symbols
In stories, questions take shape through characters, images, gestures and situations. Il silenzio del musico offers a first encounter with this writing: the relationship between giving and demanding unfolds over the course of the narrative. The Fiction and symbolic writing section provides a path through further works. Il dono del silenzio offers a related reading on silence.
Readings across the archive
These texts lead from reflection on silence to connected life, from lived time to the practice of attention, while keeping the dates and context of each publication recognisable.
- Silence and connected life: Il dono del silenzio and La solitudine è un lusso raro.
- Lived time and attention: Tempo, dipendenza e identificazione.
- Listening and giving in fiction: Il silenzio del musico.
Chronological archive
Each reading path presents a selection of readings and the most recent articles on its theme. The complete archive preserves all texts in publication order.
The bibliography, seminars and lectures and Sauro Tronconi’s podcast offer ways to continue through books, research activities and listening.