Francesco Varanini

University of Udine | UNIUD · Department of History and Cultural Heritage Preservation

Nowadays, it seems every company is racing to become more and more digital. But what does it really mean to “be digital”? For some, it is a matter of technology. For others, being digital is a new way to be in touch with customers. For still others, it is a completely new way of conducting business. None of these definitions is wrong per se, but ea...

In this paper we make the point of the need to introduce a new concept, and the related term, to account for the dynamic nature of socio-technical systems and make this nature a primary concern of systems thinking to understand and intervene on this kind of systems: the cybork.

The paper begins with an exemplary case of the influence of information technology on literature: Minimalism. It is shown how literary minimalism, as well as the semiological and structuralist critique of the text, descends from Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication. It is then claimed that in this path the author seems to disappear, and t...

Ondate in successione. Per un barocco americano: Lezama Lima e l’avventura dell’immaginario (Nota a: Lezama Lima, Paradiso, a cura di C. Vitier, Colección Archivos, ALLCA, Madrid, 1988; trad. it. a cura di G. Felici, Torino, Einaudi, 1995)

Traducción de: Viaggio letterario in America Latina Incluye bibliografía e índice