AUTHOR, ESSAYIST AND PHILOSOPHER
Memory, consciousness and human agency in the age of intelligent systems.
Sauro Tronconi is an author, essayist and philosopher. His research focuses on memory, attention, consciousness and freedom of choice. He has published with Castelvecchi, Pendragon, EdUP and Il Ponte Vecchio. He is the author of the original story for Lo specchio di Lorenzo, produced by beQ for Rai Ragazzi. His work spans essays, novels and short fiction.
Books and publications: Find books and editions by language · Full bibliography (Italian) · Sauro Tronconi on Goodreads.
Publishing references and documented credits are collected in the press kit. They include publisher and bookseller catalogues, La Nazione’s film coverage and the 2010 pilot-study record in PubMed.
His work also examines time and the processes through which experience becomes personal continuity.
His research brings philosophy, psychology, anthropology, semiotics, the history of religions, cognitive science and contemplative traditions into dialogue while keeping their claims distinct. Its central question is simple to state and difficult to answer: what enables a person to remain connected to themselves while time, habit, culture and technology continually reshape perception?
한국어 안내 · Sauro Tronconi
사우로 트론코니(Sauro Tronconi)는 이탈리아의 작가이자 에세이스트, 철학자입니다. 그의 연구는 기억, 의식, 주의, 선택의 자유를 중심으로, 습관과 문화, 기술이 인간의 경험에 미치는 영향을 탐구합니다.
작품 안내 (이탈리아어) · 세미나·강연 (이탈리아어) · 연구 (이탈리아어)
한국 서점의 도서 정보: Punti di svolta — YES24 (이탈리아어판, ISBN 9781973566670).
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Research architecture
Memory and continuity
Memory is not understood only as the storage of past information. It selects, connects and reconstructs experience, allowing separate moments to acquire continuity and direction.
Attention and agency
Habits and automatic responses are necessary parts of life. The question is what happens when they continue to govern after circumstances have changed, and whether attention can create a real interval between stimulus and response.
Culture and transmission
Language, myths, rituals, symbols, works and institutions shape what individuals and societies can remember. Cultural memory is therefore part of the inquiry into identity, responsibility and the future.
Technology as a cognitive environment
Digital platforms and intelligent systems do more than store or distribute information. They organise attention, anticipate preferences and participate in decision processes. The work does not portray technology or artificial intelligence as evil agents; it examines incentives, design choices and the human capacities affected by them.
Research & AI — Human Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence introduces an exploratory line of inquiry into memory, metacognition, bias, cognitive delegation and responsibility. Development matrices are presented as a conceptual proposal, with philosophical interpretations and empirical claims kept distinct.
A body of research: selected works
The Memory Principle: How Time Gives Birth to Consciousness
The Memory Principle: How Time Gives Birth to Consciousness is a completed, unpublished Italian manuscript. It examines memory as the process through which lived experience can become continuity, responsibility and choice. Its concept of vertical memory is philosophical and experiential, not a claim to a new neuroscientific faculty.
Digital Zombification
Digital Zombification is the English edition of Zombificazione digitale, published in Italian in 2026. The English paperback was published in September 2026. The book investigates designed environments that capture attention, orient behaviour and encourage cognitive delegation. It focuses on the economic, cultural and technological architecture that makes automatic response useful and profitable.
The selected works belong to a wider body of essays, fiction and public dialogue on memory, consciousness, culture and responsibility. Each addresses a specific question within Sauro Tronconi’s continuing research.
The Unreliable Species
The Unreliable Species is the proposed international title of La specie inaffidabile. Quando la potenza supera la capacità di correggersi. The complete Italian manuscript examines the gap between the power of our tools and our capacity to recognise mistakes and change course. Full English, French, Spanish and German translations are available for editorial consideration.
Find Sauro Tronconi’s books by language
Choose a published edition below and follow the bookseller links on its page. If a translation in your language is still in preparation, a published English edition can offer a starting point. Each store confirms the price, formats and availability for your country.
English editions
New English ebooks: Chrono-Consciousness (distribution in progress) and From Chaos to Happiness (publication being finalised). See each edition page for availability updates.
- Seek and Find — self-observation, the Fourth Way and the meaning of what we want. Paperback and ebook links.
- Divine Silence: In the Grace of the Ineffable — silence, the sacred and spiritual experience beyond dogma. Paperback links and a reading sample.
- Synchronicity: Beyond Chance, Within Meaning — coincidences and the interpretation of meaning. English paperback and ebook links within the Italian book page.
- Suspended Death — philosophical questions about consciousness and mortality. English paperback and ebook links within the Italian book page.
- Digital Zombification — attention, freedom and the design of digital environments. Paperback and ebook links.
Published editions in other languages
- Italiano: Bibliografia completa — saggi, romanzi e racconti.
- Español: Busca y encuentra · Zombificación digital.
- Français: Zombification numérique.
- Deutsch: Digitale Zombifizierung.
- Português brasileiro: Zumbificação digital.
Translations in preparation
The following digital editions are in preparation and are not listed here as available to buy: Cherche et trouve (French), Suche und finde (German), Synchronicité (French), Sincronicidad (Spanish) and Synchronizität (German). Their pages also link to the published English editions.
For the wider body of essays and fiction, see the full bibliography. Readers can follow the author’s work on Goodreads and explore longer reflections on Substack (mainly Italian).
Edition guide updated on 7 October 2026. Book language is shown separately from the country of the store. Retail availability and delivery options vary by territory.
International development
Sauro Tronconi’s work is being developed through an international programme of targeted outreach to selected publishers, agents, journals, festivals, universities, foundations, podcasts and research centres.
Targeted activity has begun across multiple national and territorial markets. The purpose is to build durable cultural relationships around a body of research, not simply to circulate a single manuscript indiscriminately.
Activity is at different stages across territories and does not in itself imply editorial interest, representation or partnership. Any formal agreement will be identified explicitly.
Publishing, rights and media enquiries
For The Memory Principle, the Italian manuscript is complete and unpublished. Full English, French, Spanish and German translations are available for editorial consideration, together with a proposal, synopsis and evaluation sample. Text completeness and editorial review are identified separately.
The Es·Books editorial project supports the development of the wider body of work. Complete translations of Life in Our Absence and The Elsewhere Industry are also available in English, French, Spanish and German for editorial consideration. Digital Zombification has published English and German paperbacks, as well as Spanish and French Kindle and paperback editions. See the edition details. Information updated on 13 September 2026.
Rights availability, existing editions and any applicable representation arrangements are confirmed for each title, language, territory and format. Enquiries concern the selected work; they do not imply rights or exclusivity over the wider corpus.
Enquiries are welcome from:
- Publishers
- Literary agents
- Translators
- Journals and media organisations
- Festivals, universities, foundations and research centres
Professional contact: relations@saurotronconi.info
Selected background
In his autobiographical account, Sauro Tronconi recalls studying semiotics with Umberto Eco in Bologna in 1983. His archive of readings and rereadings includes excerpts from Roberto Calasso’s L’ardore and Umberto Galimberti’s preface to La casa di psiche.
Tronconi has published essays, novels and short fiction. His international publishing record includes Selbsterkenntnis und innere Entwicklung des modernen Menschen, published in Germany by Arbor Verlag in 2008, and Beyond the Sin of Unconsciousness: Self Awareness and Inner Evolution in Contemporary Man, published in English in 2020.
He wrote the original story concept for the animated short Lo specchio di Lorenzo, produced by beQ entertainment for Rai Ragazzi and broadcast on Rai Yoyo. In 2010, he co-authored a pilot study on self-awareness published in Psychological Reports and indexed in PubMed.
He founded Espande Magazine and the Espande Institute, now Espande Academy. His seminar work is represented in the dated selection held in the author’s archive. His work developed outside a conventional academic career through sustained independent study, writing, public activity and research journeys in Asia, the Middle East and the United States.
Contact
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