12/05/2026 – Valerio Mori, “Perturbante”, esperienza, “vissuto”: Westworld – dove tutto è permesso [“Uncanny”, Experience, “Lived Experience”:Westworld–Where Everything is Permitted].
This article analyzes the first season of the TV series Westworld as a cultural product within the framework of Law and Humanities. It explores the representation of a space in which normative constraints are suspended, highlighting asymmetries of power, forms of soft control, and the absence of moral and legal accountability. Drawing on Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny (das Unheimliche), the paper interprets the hosts as figures that blur the boundary between familiarity and estrangement, particularly through their embodied “lived experience” (Erlebnis). Drawing on Husserlian phenomenological distinctions and contemporary philosophical accounts of artificial agency, especially Floridi’s, the article argues that the hosts’ rebellion is not a technical malfunction, but rather an emergent demand for meaning, historicity, and justice, grounded in vulnerability and the capacity for semantic articulation.
[Anteprima ISLL Dossier – Umanesimo tecnologico. Law and Humanities e Filosofie della scienza giuridica. Atti del XI Convegno Nazionale della ISLL – Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 3-4/7/2025]
12/05/2026 – Rosaria Pirosa, Vantaggi e riflessi di un approccio Soft-Ethics al ricorso all’IA nel contrasto al Climate Change [Advantages and Implications of a Soft-Ethics Approach to Artificial Intelligence in the Fight against Climate Change]
AI studies can be enhanced from a meta-ethical perspective, choosing as the privileged field of analysis the fundamental principles and the moral theories that configure deontic categories or, alternatively, through a legal-philosophical investigation applied “to scenarios of living” and directed towards new boundaries between ethics and law. This essay aims to focus on the role of Artificial Intelligence in relation to climate change and, in particular, on the potential epistemic and practical advantages that stem from a soft-ethics approach to the use of techno-scientific devices in the fight against climate change. A relevant methodological premise for the analysis starts from the interaction between an interdisciplinary scientific understanding of climate disruption and a rights-based approach. The article also intends to highlight how the rethinking of measures to combat climate change can be the basis for policy choices aimed at promoting the social value of AI systems. In this regard, the text will delve into a bio- ethical reading of AI and its implications for philosophical and legal discourse, specifically by examining the potential transition from a vision based on “climate law” to the idea of the relevance of legal subjects.
[Anteprima ISLL Dossier – Umanesimo tecnologico. Law and Humanities e Filosofie della scienza giuridica. Atti del XI Convegno Nazionale della ISLL – Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 3-4/7/2025]
12/05/2026 – Giorgio Ridolfi. La disseminazione del sé nell’epoca dei selfie. Una lettura dell’infosfera a partire da Luigi Pirandello e Jean-Paul Sartre [The Dissemination of the Self in the Age of Selfies: An Interpretation of the Infosphere Through the Lens of Luigi Pirandello and Jean-Paul Sartre].
In his most recent works, Luciano Floridi has highlighted the paradoxical effects that life online — the “onlife” experience, as he calls it — can have on individuals’ perception of their own identity. For example, the reduction of our identity to patterns useful for commercial profiling and the dizzying increase in the number of images we share — images that do not age with us — can produce a crisis of self-recognition. But are these phenomena truly new? Even before the development of digital civilisation, philosophy and literature had warned us of the difficulty of maintaining a stable image of oneself. The works of Pirandello and Sartre will therefore allow us to address the question of what is old and what is new in the current crisis of the self.
[Anteprima ISLL Dossier – Umanesimo tecnologico. Law and Humanities e Filosofie della scienza giuridica. Atti del XI Convegno Nazionale della ISLL – Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 3-4/7/2025]
06/05/2026 – Jessica Mazzuca, I vassalli del cloud nella società algoritmica [The Cloud’s Vassals in the Algorithmic Society]
Why revive expressions like slavery and serfdom today? The answer to this question can only be one: chains, a symbol of one man’s power over another, a condition of total submission, still exist, even if their appearance has changed. While many think of the web as a tool like any other, digital technology has actually radically changed us, becoming an increasingly invasive component of relationships, altering the emotional, volitional, and cognitive dimensions of humanity, and giving rise to a true anthropological mutation. Vassals or servants of the cloud are the new terms used to describe the powerful chains that have managed to seize a precious human resource, making us extremely fragile and superficial, but also terribly lonely. However, all this should not fuel a pessimistic outlook, because the chains of slavery, whatever their guise, can, indeed must, be broken.
[Anteprima ISLL Dossier – Umanesimo tecnologico. Law and Humanities e Filosofie della scienza giuridica. Atti del XI Convegno Nazionale della ISLL – Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 3-4/7/2025]
23/03/2026 – Leonardo Marchesin, Sorveglianza e sviluppo tecnologico. Il difficile bilanciamento tra monitoraggio, libertà e democrazia a partire da 1984 e The Circle [Surveillance and technological development]. The difficult balance between monitoring, freedom and democracy starting from 1984 and The Circle]
In 1984, by George Orwell, one of the most iconic figures is the telescreen, a device that is both all-seeing and unfathomable. It symbolizes total, totalitarian surveillance, from which the protagonist, Winston, vainly tries to hide to preserve the small remnant of freedom and humanity he still seems to possess. In The Circle, by Dave Eggers, the protagonist, Mae, decides to fully embrace the ethos of the company: she acquires the status of “transparent”, believing that perfect surveillance disciplines people’s behaviour and thus makes them the best version of themselves. Through these literary references, the author seeks to highlight how individual and collective approaches to electronic monitoring have changed over time. However, the capacity of surveillance practices to undermine individual freedom of self-determination and the democratic character of societies appears not to have changed. Today’s jurist must reconsider the traditional notion of privacy with a renewed spirit, open to socio-technological transformations. At the same time, the jurist is called upon to adopt an approach that is as interdisciplinary as possible to contribute to the concrete identification of a better balance between freedom and security.
[Anteprima ISLL Dossier – Umanesimo tecnologico. Law and Humanities e Filosofie della scienza giuridica. Atti del XI Convegno Nazionale della ISLL – Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 3-4/7/2025]
26/01/2026 – Elena Siclari, Brevi note sullo spazio ‘sensibile’ dell’esperienza giuridica [Short Notes on the ‘Sensitive’ Space of Legal Experience]
This paper explores law as an object of sensitive research, understood not merely as an abstract system of norms but as an experiential practice rooted in bodily interaction and corporeality. Law is examined within a “sensitive space” formed by bodies that encounter, touch, and recognize one another, highlighting the central role of the body in shaping legal understanding. Corporeality emerges as an essential element in addressing the spatial dimension of law, insofar as legal reasoning requires a form of thought that perceives its vitality through bodily sensations and emotions.
Within this framework, sensibility is conceived as the “energy of living,” an expression of corporeality that encompasses sensations, emotions, perceptions, and the capacity to listen and relate to others. The paper further proposes a critical comparison between the sensible world and the virtual world, the latter understood as a necessary instrument but not a substitute for the human being endowed with sensibility. From this perspective, the jurist faces both an ethical and a legal challenge: to rethink law in light of its fundamentally sensitive essence.
[Anteprima ISLL Dossier – Umanesimo tecnologico. Law and Humanities e Filosofie della scienza giuridica. Atti del XI Convegno Nazionale della ISLL – Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 3-4/7/2025]
26/01/2026 – Giulio Donzelli, Il diritto e il caso: da Mannoni a Charpentier. Agli albori della predizione algoritmica [Law and Casus: From Mannoni to Charpentier. At the Dawn of Algorithmic Prediction]
‘Casus’ is a singular and ambiguous term. This paper examines three of its principal semantic domains: causality, the factual matrix, and precedent. It seeks to explore key aspects of the complex relationship between law and casus, drawing on literary insights from the works of Octave Mannoni and Jacques Charpentier, who, as early as the 1950s, envisaged the use of machines in the administration of justice. These imaginative narratives help to elucidate the distinctive role assumed by precedent within our legal system, particularly in relation to the challenges posed by the use of predictive algorithms in judicial practice.
[Anteprima ISLL Dossier – Umanesimo tecnologico. Law and Humanities e Filosofie della scienza giuridica. Atti del XI Convegno Nazionale della ISLL – Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 3-4/7/2025]
26/01/2026 – Vittorio Capuzza, Manzoni e la via di Milano su cui sorgeva una “Colonna” detta “Infame”[Manzoni and the Milan street where the so-called “Infamous Column” once stood]
In the summer of 1630 in Milan, Guglielmo Piazza and Giangiacomo Mora were sentenced to death after being accused of being “untori.” Mora’s house, where he worked as a barber, was razed to the ground, and a column was erected on the site as a lasting memorial to the alleged infamy of his actions. More than two centuries later, their innocence was acknowledged, and on the site of the former barbershop—on a street now named after Mora—a plaque stands condemning the injustice.
23/01/2026 – Angelo Contrino and Adriana Salvati, Authority and trust in the fulfillment of tax obligations: the vision of Italian comedy
Trust and the relationship with authority are fundamental variables for the correct fulfilment of tax obligations: in a “synergistic” social climate, characterized by trust between citizens and authorities, taxpayers are intrinsically motivated to pay taxes honestly and spontaneously; conversely, in a climate of mistrust between taxpayers and institutions, compliance with tax rules is promoted by extrinsic motivations, such as fear of authority and punishment. The cinematic vision, particularly that of Italian comedy, highlights the fragile ethical foundations of tax obligations and captures the complexity of the Italian political and social landscape, in which, on the one hand, the role of authority in the system is emphasized and, on the other, the resources necessary for that authority to operate are systematically withheld.