the first European festival on creativity

2015 Programme

Event #37

Stefano Moriggi, Marco Pesatori

The starry sky above us

The event has been moved from Chiostro di San Francesco to Canale Lunense

It isn’t every day that an astrologer and a science philosopher decide to exchange ideas. Each observes the world through different eyes, and questions it with his own tools. Yet when they meet, beneath the vault of the sky, they find the questions they are both tackling are the great mysteries that have forever stirred the human spirit. Starting from Kant’s famous four questions: what can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? What is man? In a conference-performance touching upon Marsilio Ficino and John Cage, and ranging from Heraclitus to Tzara, the most irreverent of astrologers will reveal in which way his job is actually to “make wrong predictions”, while the inflexible epistemologist suggests that, without the stars, morals are little more than a sermon.

Stefano Moriggi is a historian and a science philosopher. He studies theories and models regarding rationality, American pragmatism, as well as the relationship between cultural evolution and the evolution of machines, with a particular focus on the development of technology-augmented teaching models. His latest book is Connessi. Beati quelli che sapranno pensare con le macchine (San Paolo, 2014).

Marco Pesatori

is a graduate in History of art criticism. During the 80s, he collaborated with illustrious periodicals such as Alfabeta and la Gola. Considered one of the most important contemporary astrology experts, he combines technical know-how with an elegant style of writing and frequent overlaps into the fields of psychoanalysis and art. His latest book is Urano e la cerimonia del tè (Feltrinelli, 2014).

2015 Programme

Event #37

Stefano Moriggi, Marco Pesatori

The starry sky above us

Augustus: the political ethics of a republican monarch

The secret ingredient of life

An act of humanity to be performed

Anna Bonaiuto reads Elena Ferrante

A slow story

The historian's responsibility. Gaetano Salvemini: from Socialist interventionism to anti-Fascism

Beyond the boundaries of Babel

Kids and school: what, how and where are they learning

How the sense of Us is born: from We-go to Ego

Generation 2.0

We're the Africans

In my name

Gender-based violence: Perpetrators, victims and models of intervention.

The mountain and silence

In praise of the best student in class

Mothers

Mothers

The space we live in is nothing but an extension of our minds

Mathematics, algorithms and freedom

Mathematics, algorithms and freedom

Oedipus’ eyes and Plato’s complex

Oedipus’ eyes and Plato’s complex

Can books change the world?

LA LA LA. When there is no answer

The historian’s responsibility. Marc Bloch: from the Sorbonne to the Gestapo prisons

Returning to the garden

Laziness, fatigue, and our constant running

Knowing ourselves and knowing others: a different way of being responsible

“Borderline” kids meet the adult world

A painting for freedom

Cruciverba volant (unbuckle your seatbelts)

Magic acts of vision

Theatres of memory between enchantment and utopia

Our careers as readers

The aviator’s tale

Into the wild