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11 – Chapter III: Advancing Back to the Foundations

The most crucial, determining and, ultimately, most personal and “secret” phase takes place right at the beginning of the story, the moment in which we go from first aspiring to then planning and finally deciding to start this adventure, not more as a dream, an eccentric passion, or a means of expressing one’s personality, but as a real, paid, daily “job”

10 – Entropy or Resistance: “Apocalypse Postponed?”

The old contrast between “apocalyptic and integrated”, treated by Umberto Eco in one of his well-known essays from the 1960s, proves to be completely unproductive and inadequate in the face of current challenges, not even capable of describing the situation in a critical framework. We cannot even passively wait for the phenomenon to consume itself and end by itself, as has happened in many other historical occasions, because too many creative resources could be definitively lost, destined for forced obsolescence. Never before has the fate of our future been more in our hands.