“In June 2011, in Naples, at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, I met a young German colleague, Markus Gabriel, who was planning an international conference on the fundamental character of contemporary philosophy. Markus asked me what, in my opinion, would be an appropriate title for the conference, and I replied: New Realism.”

Maurizio Ferraris, Manifesto of New Realism (2012)

Fifteen years later, hope has become reality. New Realism has given rise to one of the most influential philosophical debates of the 21st century. Today, its protagonists, together with a new generation of philosophers, return to the scene of the crime in Naples to discuss one of its most ambitious legacies: Webfare, the project of a digital welfare state.

Program

Day 1 – July 10th

9.30 – Opening remarks: Petar Bojanić (University of Belgrade)

9.40-10.20 – Jocelyn Benoist (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Does use still make a difference at the age of AI?

10.20-11.00 – Carola Barbero (University of Turin), Beyond the Opaque Mirror

11.00-11.30 – Coffee Break

11.30-12.10 – Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin), Il mondo è tutto ciò che resta. Una metafisica per il XXI secolo [The World Is Everything That Lasts: A Metaphysics for the Twenty-First Century]

12.10-12.50 – André Charrak (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Qu’y a-t-il de mondial dans le web? [What Makes the Web Worldwide?]

12.50-13-30 – Niki Young (University of Malta), Hysteresis, Webfare, and the Ultratrascendental

13.30-14.30 – Lunch

14.30-15.10 – Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn), È troppo tardi? Riflessioni neorealiste sul caro ricordo che serbo dell’Avvocato Marotta [Is It Too Late? Neorealist Reflections on My Fond Memory of Advocate Marotta]

15.10-15.50 – Ana Ilievska (American University of Beirut – Mediterraneo), Kazantzakis, Camus, Today

15.50-16.30 – Garance Benoit (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Digital Utopias and the Crisis of Political Hope: What Cozy Games Tell Us About Contemporary Reality

16.30-17.00 – Coffee break

17.00-17.40 – Jens Rometsch (University of Bonn), The Web, AI and the death of the author

17.40-18.20 – Pauldin Lawrence (Polytechnic University of Turin), Theory of Documentality and Digital Public Infrastructures

18.20-19.00 – Charles Bodon (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Web Without World: How Disconnections Make Things Real

Day 2 – July 11th

9.30-10.10 – Giulio Sacco (Polytechnic University of Turin), Virtual Companions, Real Grief: Mourning in the Age of AI

10.10-10.50 – Jan Voosholz (University of Bonn), Mansplaining as a Term from the Web: Defining Epistemic Hijacking

10.50-11.20 – Coffee break

11.20-12.00 – Jimmy Hernandez Marcelo (University of Salamanca), From Social to Digital: Toward a Digital Documentality

12.00-13.00 – Roundtable: Maurizio Ferraris, Markus Gabriel, Jocelyn Benoist, Tania Cerquitelli, Carola Barbero, Raffaella Scarpa, Ana Ilievska, Niki Young, Jimmy Hernandez Marcelo.

Organizing Committee: Maurizio Ferraris, Jocelyn Benoist, Markus Gabriel, Tania Cerquitelli, Giulio Sacco, Jimmy Hernandez Marcelo, Pauldin Lawrence, Costanza Penna, Arturo Barina, Giulia Beltritti