C’era una volta il corpo
Presentation of the book by Walter Siti in a conversation with Marco Antonio Bazzocchi
In his new book, published by Feltrinelli, Walter Siti questions the relationship between the human body and artificiality in an age of unprecedented technological acceleration. From cave paintings to classical canons, from the body as a production and reproduction to today’s dialogue between physicality and artificial intelligence. At a time in history when the very concept of the “human body” seems close to evaporation it is necessary to ask: does it still make sense to talk about the body under our common definition of it? An original work between an essay and a pamphlet, which explores critical reflections, that can sometimes be provocative, but never ordinary.
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Walter Siti, essayist, novelist and television author, is one of the most relevant and award-winning writers in intellectual and literary scene. He is the editor of the complete works of Pier Paolo Pasolini for Mondadori’s “I Meridiani”.
He has published the critically and publicly acclaimed novels Troppi paradisi, Il contagio, Resistere non serve a niente (Premio Strega 2013), Bruciare tutto, La natura è innocente and the equally debated essays and pamphlets Il realismo è l’impossibile, Pagare o non pagare, Contro l’impegno. He is a television critic for “La Stampa” and his cultural articles appear in numerous other newspapers and magazines.
Marco Antonio Bazzocchi is a literary critic, essayist and university lecturer of Contemporary Italian Literature and Literature of the Romantic Age at the University of Bologna.
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