La filosofia al tempo dei nuovi media. Sini e la “ripratica” della scrittura

The media theorist F. Kittler maintains that philosophers are the actors of a media oblivion that leads them to pay no attention to their own practice: starting from this idea, the contribution states that the figure of Carlo Sini instead represents an exception that is both important and still neglected in the contemporary mediological landscape. After providing a brief reconstruction of the fundamental tenets of the thought of philosophical practice carried out by Sini, underlining its radicality and coherence (§ 2), I place his elaboration in the broader context of current mediological reflections, which claim or even complain that thought and knowledge are expressions of writing habits (§ 3). Then, I make a comparison between these lines of research and Sini’s genealogical thought, also emphasising the alternative writing practices experimented by the Italian philosopher, and I conclude by stating that Sini’s philosophy is an absolutely original and decisive interlocutor to investigate the outlines of possible new forms of writing – philosophical but not only (§ 4).