2014 Programme
Event #30
Errico Buonanno, Chiara Valerio
My Children, Imaginary Marxists
Is it possible to understand, describe and manage what is real through calculation and mathematical objectivity? And what happens when in a person’s life certain variables arise, variables such as love, dream, poetry, chaos, in other words, all that is human, all that is real? After having dealt with these themes in their novels, Errico Buonanno and Chiara Valerio, sensitive and lucid intellectuals in their analysis of the mechanisms that regulate the contemporary, discuss the consequences of the current collapse in a vision that has encouraged the previous generations, the vision of “scientific” utopias and exasperated rationality. But they also discuss an eternal problem: is reality what we see, what we can count, what we can enumerate? Or is the invisible ready to botch up all our calculations?
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/was born in Rome in 1979. He has published essays and novels, including: Piccola serenata notturna (Marsilio 2003, Premio Calvino), Sarà vero (Einaudi, 2009), L’eternità stanca (Laterza, 2012) and Lotta di classe al terzo piano (Rizzoli, 2014). Radio and television author for Radio 2 and Canale 5, in 2014 he has produced the web series I ragazzi degli anni ’90 for Corriere.it. He contributes to the culture pages of Corriere della Sera.
has a doctorate in Maths from Federico II University of Naples. She lives in Rome. She has written novels and short stories, including La gioia piccola d’esser quasi salvi (nottetempo, 2009) and Almanacco del giorno prima (Einaudi, 2014). She is an editor at Nuovi Argomenti and writes for La Domenica del Sole 24 Ore and Amica. She curates Ad alta voce on Radio 3 and collaborates on the television program Pane quotidiano. Her novel Storia umana della matematica (Einaudi) will be released at the end of August.
Event #20
Paolo Cornaglia Ferraris, Marcello Massimini
The Secret of the Consciousness and its Measurement