Concetto, pagina e schermo. Sull'esteriorizzazione della mente filosofica

The paper is part of a larger project that aims to define a philosophy of new media. It starts stressing the exigence of an introverted philosophy of the exteriorization which investigates how the philosophical mind could or should re-exteriorize itself through new media (§ 0). To this end, after having defined information machines as ‘braintech’ or extensions of the logos (§ 1), I address the negative impact that they would appear to have on philosophical mind (§ 2), and discuss the paradigmatic case of ‘philosophical Luddism’ with respect to the exteriorizations of thought: ‘Socrates VS The Alphabet’ (§ 3). Then, I make explicit the urge for a ‘decoupling’ between philosophical mind and alphabetical externalization (§ 4), in light of the stimuli coming from the new conceptual images (§ 5). Finally, I examine the philosophical consideration of cinematographic thought, a ‘case study’ of how philosophers struggle to shake off the forma mentis attached to alphabetic writing (§ 6).