Cinquecento anni di rabbia. Rivolte e mezzi di comunicazione da Gutenberg a Capitol Hill (2024)
Francesco Filippi (Author)
Bollati Boringhieri
Physical Details: 240 pp.
Language: Italian
Nel Cinquecento, l’invenzione di Gutenberg– la stampa a caratteri mobili – fu il motore inconsapevole di una rivoluzione. La capillare diffusione di fogli stampati con la nuova tecnologia a basso prezzo portò chi non aveva mai avuto accesso al poterea prendere coscienza per la prima volta di istanze comuni. La rabbia sociale che ne esplose assunse una forma nuova e organizzata, da cui scaturì la Guerra dei contadini, alla fine repressa nel sangue nel 1525. Da allora il mondo non fu più come prima; da quel momento il potere iniziò a occuparsi dei mezzi di informazione per poterli imbrigliare e rendere innocui. Cinque secoli dopo – parliamo di noi –è accaduto qualcosa di molto simile. È il 6 gennaio 2021 quando il sogno della «più grande democrazia del mondo», incredibilmente, vacilla. Una folla inferocita, composta in maggioranza da uomini bianchi, dà l’assalto al Congresso degli Stati Uniti, a Capitol Hill. La rabbia popolare di quel giorno viene incanalata e organizzata dai social media. In entrambi i casi un nuovo mezzo di comunicazione, sfuggito ai filtri del potere, porta in superficie la rabbia di chi si sente escluso dalla narrazione dominante. In Cinquecento anni di rabbia Francesco Filippi discute una tesi affascinante: c’è uno stretto rapporto che intercorre tra le rivolte e i mezzi di comunicazione dal Cinquecento a oggi e senza dubbio quella a cui stiamo assistendo in questi anni è una rivoluzione, di cui noi siamo i protagonisti. Mai come ora abbiamo bisogno di fare un buon uso della storia per capire con maggiore profondità il mondo nel quale viviamo. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… In the sixteenth century, Gutenberg's invention – movable type printing – was the unwitting driving force of a revolution. The widespread diffusion of papers printed with the new low-cost technology led those who had never had access to power to become aware of common demands for the first time. The social anger that exploded took on a new and organized form, from which the Peasants' War arose, finally bloodily repressed in 1525. From then on the world was no longer the same as before; from that moment the power began to deal with the media in order to harness them and render them harmless. Five centuries later - let's talk about us - something very similar happened. It is January 6, 2021 when the dream of the "largest democracy in the world", incredibly, falters. An angry mob, mostly made up of white men, attacks the United States Congress on Capitol Hill. The popular anger of that day is channeled and organized by social media. In both cases, a new means of communication, which has escaped the filters of power, brings to the surface the anger of those who feel excluded from the dominant narrative. In Five Hundred Years of Anger Francesco Filippi discusses a fascinating thesis: there is a close relationship between the revolts and the means of communication from the sixteenth century to today and without a doubt what we are witnessing in recent years is a revolution, of which we are the protagonists. Never before have we needed to make good use of history to understand the world in which we live in greater depth.]
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