How dare you?

Reflections on the legacy we are leaving behind 4 – 30 November 2020

“Knowledge that cannot change behaviours is useless. But knowledge that is able to do so quickly sees its ability to grip things fade away. The more data we collect and the deeper our understanding of history, the faster history changes its course, and correspondingly, our knowledge becomes obsolete”​

Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s words are the inspiration behind the series of meetings entitled How dare you? (from Greta Thunberg’s quote that will remain in history, just like Martin Luther King Jr’s I have a dream).
Three meetings to reflect with the philosophers Maura Gancitano and Andrea Colamedici on the legacy we are leaving ourselves and how technology changes how we understand ourselves, others and the world in which we live.
Philosophy is put to the test in the playing fields of the outside world and our inner worlds, in the open streets of the city and in the daily dynamics of life. In a society like ours where knowledge exponentially increases, and with it the complexity and uncertainty of living, the accumulation of knowledge inevitably leads to epochal, rapid and unpredictable upheavals. 

The future of culture

• Wednesday 4 November 2020 at 18:30 - 20:00

How technology changes the way we understand ourselves. The profound changes we have witnessed over the past 30 years have made the "world" a place where life changes quality and colour, where anonymity and the multiplication of identities, knowledge and ubiquity, full freedom and total control are possible, where everyone can be “someone, no one and 100,000”.

The future of relationships

• Monday 16 November 2020 at 18:30 - 20:00

How technology changes the way we understand others. Every transformation of technologies brings with it a redefinition of humans, and consequently, of many of the concepts that we use to make sense of our being in the world, our history and our nature. We will explore the new social barriers being crossed.

The future of education

• Monday 30 November 2020 at 18:30 - 20:00

How technology changes the way we understand the world. Confirmation bias, anchoring, the heuristics of availability: these are all models our brain uses to understand others and the world, to systematise knowledge. How is technology changing our reference systems?