Mechane

Mechane n. 9 (2025), "Tecnica e cultura"

Roberto Revello, "Una tecno-estasi. Tecnicità, magia e simbolismo analogico in Simondon"

https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/mechane/article/view/5368/4150

Abstract: The essay explores the relationship between technology, culture, and symbolism in the thought of Gilbert Simondon, highlighting how technology is not alien to the human, but rather an inventive moment of the imago, rooted in the original magical relation between organism and environment. Against the stereotyped opposition between culture and technology, Simondon proposes an ontogenetic and symbolic vision of technicity, where the analogy between technology and sacredness reveals a shared network structure and a common symbolic function. By contextualizing the meaning of magic, the essay advances the hypothesis that Simondon harbors the utopia of a regulating unity capable of restoring soul and beauty to our diverse ways of being in the world without being able to foresee what now unfolds: the crisis of analogical symbolism.

Mechane n. 9 (2025), "Tecnica e cultura"

Aldo Pisano, "Does the AI need a genealogy? The 'PAIA' model and the question concerning technology for the AI regulation"

https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/mechane/article/view/5365/4147

Abstract: This paper explores AI’s role through the lens of philosophical anthropology, examining its impact on cultural spaces and values. Technology, as Arnold Gehlen argues, is integral to human evolution, shaping culture as a ‘second nature’. Ivan Illich’s concept of the critical threshold warns that beyond certain limits, technology distorts rather than supports human and cultural systems. To avoid alarmism, AI should be understood within this continuum of technological development, familiarizing society with its potential without overlooking risks. The PAIA model (Pervasiveness, Auton-omy, Invisibility, Adaptivity) provides a framework to assess these risks, ensuring AI does not replace human agency but enhances cultural resilience. The paper will try to provide an example on how intelligent technologies could generate a culture of Distrust in Generative AI Era. Nevertheless, the main objective of this paper remains to show a possible non-catastrophic perspective of a coliving culture between humans and AI.