Dinosauri, demoni, operai. Una storia culturale del sottosuolo tra scienza e letteratura (2020)
Nel corso dell'Ottocento le discipline del mondo sotterraneo, come la geologia e la paleontologia, conoscono radicali cambi di paradigma. Il sottosuolo, con il suo retaggio simbolico e culturale, diviene il punto d'incontro tra un pensiero scientifico in lotta per presentare un mondo razionale da un lato e, dall'altro, un insieme d'interpretazioni appartenenti a teorie già sconfitte o a paradigmi ancora discussi. In particolare la geologia, fondata sul confronto e la datazione degli strati, afferma che la Terra ha nel sottosuolo una storia misurabile la cui durata, nei decenni seguenti, si dilata sempre di più. Più si discende il vortice della stratigrafia, più ci si avvicina a mondi antidiluviani percorsi da spaventose creature come i dinosauri oppure segnati da civiltà perdute. Questa discesa espone l'essere umano a tre incontri: con l'alterità naturale del passato; con un sentimento del soprannaturale che, nel secolo del positivismo, non è affatto scomparso; con le strutture sociali e produttive che hanno trasformato il sottosuolo in un immenso serbatoio di risorse industriali. Il libro esplora questa materia attraverso la lettura di quei racconti fantastici e fantascientifici che, esaltando o criticando le scienze, svolsero il compito senza precedenti di divulgarle e raccontarle. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… During the 19th century, the disciplines of the underground world, such as geology and paleontology, underwent radical paradigm changes. The subsoil, with its symbolic and cultural heritage, becomes the meeting point between a scientific thought struggling to present a rational world on the one hand, and a set of interpretations belonging to already defeated theories or paradigms, on the other. In particular, geology, based on the comparison and dating of rock layers, affirms that the Earth has a measurable history in the subsoil. The more you descend the vortex of stratigraphy, the closer you get to antediluvian worlds crossed by scary creatures such as dinosaurs or marked by lost civilizations. This descent exposes the human being to three encounters: with the natural otherness of the past; with a sentiment of the supernatural which, in the century of positivism, has by no means disappeared; with the social and productive structures that have transformed the subsoil into an immense reservoir of industrial resources. The book explores this subject through the reading of those fantastic and science fiction stories which, by extolling or criticizing the sciences, carried out the unprecedented task of disclosing and recounting them.]
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