Festivalfilosofia changes the usual looks of Modena, Carpi and Sassuolo for three days, setting up open, communal and widespread places, where education and conversation can happen. During this edition, the keynote lectures of leading figures of both Italian and international cultural scenario will focus on the keyword person. This term refers to fundamental topics within the philosophical discussion and to crucial experiences of the contemporary condition.
The works eligible for this mention will have the machines as main topic, which can be interpreted in many different ways. For instance, it can be referred to the topic of technology and the relationship with thought and ethics, to the future (dysthopic or not), to the relationship between man and robot, to the impact on individuals’ daily life and on society, to machines’ ability to think and to reason, to the changes of production process bound to manual and intellectual work (like the intervention in the world of information), to the changes in social relationships determined by revolutions in knowledge.
