Alessandro Baricco returns to the MAXXI in Rome and confronts the journalist Federico Rampini on a topic more relevant than ever: the technological revolution that is changing the lives of all of us, not only for the new tools we have available but for all the social and "mental" transformations. No more borders, no more elites, no more priestly, political, intellectual castes. Even one of the concepts dearest to analog man, the truth, suddenly becomes blurred, mobile, unstable.
The starting point for the debate, which will also be attended by the president of the MAXXI Foundation Giovanna Melandri, the director of MAXXI Arte Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and the journalist of Repubblica Gregorio Botta, is Baricco's latest book, entitled The Game and published by Einaudi, in which all the issues related to the Internet and digital age are translated into games to be won in a hypothetical game for adults-children.
Baricco also recalls that the digital revolution in Italy is 50 years old: in 1969 the University of Pisa established the first degree course in computer science in Italy. “What is to be expected in the future is a time of great chaos and violence, as in all insurrections there is a moment of grotesque inequality, prevarication, suffering of the civil body and we are undoubtedly already experiencing this”, the author recently commented.
The appointment is for Saturday 30 March at 18,30: admission is free while seats last, 10 seats are reserved for myMAXXI card holders, by writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it within the day before the event.
