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Antropologia del virtuale in Pierre Lévy Giulio Lizzi<br />

ILpAntropologia<br />

del virtuale in Pierre Lévy<br />

Giulio Lizzi<br />

Anthropology of the Virtual<br />

in Pierre Lévy’s thought<br />

Giulio Lizzi<br />

Abstract<br />

Despazialisation and detemporalisation - the main aspects of the virtualisation process - tend<br />

to re-create new time and space coor<strong>di</strong>nates in the internet <strong>di</strong>orama. On one hand, a technical action<br />

- based on the <strong>di</strong>alectics between possible and real - take place when man use an instrument<br />

for good or evil purposes; on the other hand, a virtual action - based on the <strong>di</strong>alectics between vir-<br />

tual and actual - take place when man is immersed a virtual environment (such as the internet)<br />

created by the instrument itself. The anthropology of the virtual aims to understand what does it<br />

mean to learn and cooperate in the new time and space coor<strong>di</strong>nates of the internet. Cyberspace is<br />

an opportunity or a risk for human capability to experience the reality? P. Lévy answers that it is an<br />

opportunity, but he seems not to consider two issues at least. On one hand, human experience in<br />

the cyberspace can sensibly change, depen<strong>di</strong>ng on the way the <strong>di</strong>fferent virtual environments have<br />

been structured and organized; on the other hand, as Lévy considers the internet as an actualisa-<br />

tion o the “anthropological space of knowledge”, the gnoseological subject gains a main role in the<br />

stage, while other important aspects of the human person - such as feelings - seem to remain silent.<br />

Keywords: Lévy; Virtual; Anthropology<br />

***<br />

Nel romanzo Le città invisibili 1 , Italo Calvino narra <strong>di</strong> Eudossìa, una città fantastica<br />

la cui struttura interna è racchiusa da un antico tappeto, che ne rappresenta, attraverso fili,<br />

trame e <strong>di</strong>segni, l'intima composizione. <strong>Il</strong> tappeto, inteso come oggetto teorico, è detentore<br />

dell'essenza <strong>di</strong> Eudossìa, e per mezzo <strong>di</strong> esso la città esprime la propria struttura profonda.<br />

1 Calvino I., Le città invisibili, Mondadori, Milano 2002, pp. 97-98.<br />

<strong>Il</strong> <strong>pensare</strong> - <strong>Rivista</strong> <strong>di</strong> <strong>Filosofia</strong> ◆ www.il<strong>pensare</strong>.it ◆ Anno I, n. 1, gen/<strong>di</strong>c 2012<br />

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