LA SCRITTURA, IL CERVELLO, E L’ERA DIGITALE

What are the effects of electronic technology on writing, literature, educational practices and on the development of the nervous system? This book deals with these and other issues from multiple points of view, based on philosophy, the orientations of literary criticism, neuroscience, and the ties between the school system and the social values produced by the logic of economics and the materialistic culture. Current anthropological changes are examined taking into consideration the interiorisation of new technologies and the marginalization of the alphabet and its humanistic culture to peripheral areas. As far as education is concerned, the book underscores the importance of cognitive weakening, the decline of analytical skills, and the deterioration of conceptual and performative competences. In light of the increasing cultural impoverishment, this book promotes an engaged literature, aiming at inviting the new generation to resist and to develop critical thinking about technologies and social constructions of individual and collective identities.