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The End of the Database Era: How AI Is Freeing Us from 60 Years of Data Obsession
For sixty years we have lived under the dictatorship of the database . Every aspect of our digital existence has been shaped, deformed,...


Digital Unconscious: How AI Reveals Our Hidden Aesthetic Desires
Last night, the YouTube algorithm introduced me to a song that perfectly described a feeling I didn't even know I had. A melancholy...


Neurolinguistic Programming, Interpersonal Communication, and AI
The Birth of NLP: Modeling Human Excellence In the 1970s, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from the ingenuity of Richard...


Ada Lovelace: Genius, Gossip, and the Rebellious Poetess of Artificial Intelligence
In the gallery of minds that have shaped our technological era, few figures shine with the controversial and fascinating intensity of Ada...


The Canvas: Anatomy of a Universal Metaphor
The Primordial Language of Weaving When human hands began to weave the first threads, more than just a material support was born: one of...


The Obligation of Truth: An Investigation into the Function of Art from Plato to Artificial Intelligence
Must art express truth ? This question, as simple in its formulation as it is profound in its implications, spans the entire history of...


VAT on Art: A Simplified Explanation (More or Less)
The news is significant: on Friday, June 20, 2025, it was finally announced that VAT on art will decrease from 22% to 5% . However, among...


Art as Strategy: How Brands Seduce Consumers on the Cultural Field
From simple patronage to a sophisticated marketing lever, contemporary art has become a fundamental asset in the toolkit of the most...


The End of Learning As We Know It: Just-in-Time Learning
In 1975, a Toyota engineer named Taiichi Ohno looked at his factory's warehouses, full of unused components, and asked a question that...


Artificial Intelligence and Human Freedom: Beyond Cacciari's Dystopia
On October 8, 2024, during the Festival del Presente promoted by Pandora magazine, the philosopher Massimo Cacciari delivered a master...


Can AI Recommend Beauty and Convey Pathos?
The art world is now engaging with a new critical figure, one that is at once a curator and a consultant. We are talking about Artificial...


Artificial Intelligence in Conflicts: A Reconsideration of Human Intervention in Military Decisions
The Presidential Statement and the Ethical Debate In his speech for the 164th anniversary of the establishment of the Italian Army, the...


Claude Shannon: The Multidisciplinary Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence
When we talk about Artificial Intelligence , the name that immediately comes to mind is Alan Turing , universally recognized as one of...


Why Do Artists Earn So Little?
Observing the art market, one encounters works whose value can reach astronomical figures. At the same time, many talented artists...


At the Crossroads Between Art and Anthropology: When the Artist Becomes an Ethnographer and Art Meets Life
When Jimmy Nelson published Before They Pass Away (2013), his monumental photographic series dedicated to Indigenous peoples around...


Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and Generative Art: A New Perspective
Today we talk about a lesser-known but extremely important philosopher in the debate between art, aesthetics, and authorship. What would...


Algoretics: Custodian, not Master (pt 2)
Last August, I spoke about the story of Doctor Faust, who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge. But technique, which...


What is Art? An Answer from Japan, from Hokusai to the Present
If we were to ask, “What is art?” in the West, we would likely receive answers that seek clear, precise, and often universal definitions....


Theory Theory: She Doesn't Know What I Think I See (How We Construct Meaning in Art)
Have you ever found yourself standing in front of a contemporary artwork and thinking, “But what does it mean?” Or, on the contrary,...


Beyond Materialist Flattening: Theology in the Digital Age
The Angel of History and the Risk of a World Without Transcendence In his ninth thesis on the philosophy of history, Walter Benjamin ...
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