Algorithm

EDITORIALE / Igor Pelgreffi, Massimiliano Badino, Ubaldo Fadini / Algorithm: Genealogy, Theory, Critique  The paper presents the scientific setting of the...

CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Simone Pinna, Marco Giunti / The work of Alan Turing (1936) set a milestone for the foundation...

CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Javier Toscano / Computing does not only imply a logical interaction with and through machines, but also...

CONTRIBUTI / 3 / François Levin / Producing the unknown. Artificial intelligence in the light of the ambivalences of Leibnizian rationalism  This...

INTERVISTE / 1 / Luciano Floridi / Luciano Floridi tackles the topic of the algorithm and the ethical and theoretical challenges it entails, starting from a survey of some of his ideas, including the concepts of Fourth revolution, of Infosphere...

CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Massimiliano Carli, Vittorio Lubrano / Dialectics of the algorithm. For acritical theory  The article aims to analyze the logical process of the algorithm considered as a «cultural machine», according to Finn, instead of an automatic mechanism...

CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Alberto Giustiniano / From cognition to communication. Epistemology of algorithms according to systems theory  The present contribution aims at questioning the reasons why the level reached by the processes of digitization of information stimulates interpreters to hypothesize that...

ARTICOLI / 1 / Massimiliano Badino / Algorithms are everywhere: they watch us, they give us advice, sometimes they take autonomous decisions. They are agents mediating between reality and us by virtue of their capability to treat huge amounts of data...

CONTRIBUTI / 6 / Filippo Pianca / Beyond the algorithm. Ethical issues and anthropological transformations  By adopting a descriptive-reconstructive and linguistic-theoretical approach, the widespread link between algorithms and ethics will initially be highlighted. Recalling the meaning of the term algorithm, it...

CONTRIBUTI / 7 / Marianna Capasso / Online Platforms and Political Polarization. Some insights from the Spinozian theory of the Affects Online platforms have radically changed how information is spread, and have often been considered as a space for targeted and...

ARTICOLI / 2 / Igor Pelgreffi / The article explores the relationship between algorithms, machine learning and artificial empathy. The pivotal problem is whether and how artificial learning of emotions by artificial agents, guided by algorithms, is possible. The first question...

CONTRIBUTI / 8 / Francesca Sunseri / Living Algorithms. Between Shannon and Simondon  Almost a century after Turing’s machine was theorised, a formal definition of what an algorithm is has still not been found by scholars. The reasons given are...

INTERVISTE / 2 / Andrew Feenberg / Andrew Feenberg, one of the greatest living philosophers of technology, addresses the question of the algorithm starting from a comparison with some of his typical topics, in particular his vision of technology as a...

CONTRIBUTI / 9 / Marco Dal Pozzolo / Governing behavior. The behaviorist roots of digital capitalism  The economy of digital capitalism is based on extraction, profiling and manipulation of behaviour. The logic of this system is not entirely new: it is...

CONTRIBUTI / 10 / Otello Palmini / Beyond the Smart City paradigm. Ontology and epistemology of urban intelligence  This article examines the concept of smart city in order to understand its philosophical implications. These implications, which concern urban ontology and urban...

CONTRIBUTI / 11 / Vincenzo Pallara / The algorithm in the textures of immaterial labor  This paper discusses the meaning of the algorithm with regard to the current relations of social production, especially its functioning within the capital-labor relationship. Initially, in...

ARTICOLI / 3 / Roberto Ciccarelli / Becoming class. For a critique of the extractivist paradigm applied to digital capitalism  The article aims to investigate the historical reasons and the theoretical-cultural framework underlying the usual intellectual attitudes with which the theme...