Papers by Andrea Di Filippo
From Phidias to Vitruvius, the image in ancient art does not imitate reality: it transcends it. G... more From Phidias to Vitruvius, the image in ancient art does not imitate reality: it transcends it. Greece and Rome define the canon, proportion, and the idea of eternity in the image. 17 chapters on Winckelmann, Pliny the Elder, Plato and Aristotle to analyze the birth of the Western gaze on art, between marble, bronze and symmetry. The study concludes with a post-2026 projection: in a utopian scenario the image becomes truly eternal through digital media; in a dystopian scenario it loses its myth and dissolves into deepfakes and visual saturation. Ancient art provides the critical tools to read the present.
The year 2026 closes the modern parabola and opens the post-human crisis. Dystopia is no longer e... more The year 2026 closes the modern parabola and opens the post-human crisis. Dystopia is no longer epistemological: it is ontological. Dispersed Dasein, surveilled freedom, hyperreality, delegated judgment, banned idleness, exploited Earth, denied hybrid describe a subject evicted from its own world. This paper builds a post-2026 utopia in 15 chapters applying Heidegger, Foucault, Baudrillard, Arendt, Byung-Chul Han, Latour, Haraway. Fixed structure per author: 2026 diagnosis, key concept, utopian rule, practical application. Each subchapter = 666 words. Thesis: the future is not to be invented, but re-inhabited. From “I scroll, therefore I am” to “I inhabit, I care, I think, I stay: therefore we are”.
The year 2026 presents a peculiar dystopia: not technological, but epistemological. Delegated sub... more The year 2026 presents a peculiar dystopia: not technological, but epistemological. Delegated subject, illusory freedom, profiled tabula rasa, algorithmic certainty, reason reduced to calculation, betrayed natural freedom, history reduced to trend describe a world where modern philosophy has been reversed. This paper builds a post-2026 utopia chapter by chapter, using the arc Descartes → Spinoza → Locke → Hume → Kant → Rousseau → Hegel. Fixed structure for each author: contemporary dystopian diagnosis, original key concept, future utopian rule, practical example. The path shows that the future does not need to be invented from scratch, but re-founded through methodical doubt, understanding of necessity, free experience, humility of induction, autonomy of reason, pact of freedom, spirit becoming history. The goal is to move from the delegated subject to the founding subject.
The year 2026 presents a peculiar dystopia: not technological, but anthropological. Emptied inter... more The year 2026 presents a peculiar dystopia: not technological, but anthropological. Emptied interiority, fragmented time, fear of doubt, sick soul, faith-reason war and chaos without order describe a world where medieval philosophy has been reversed. This paper builds a post-2026 utopia chapter by chapter, using the arc Plato → Plotinus → Augustine → Boethius → Anselm → Avicenna → Averroes → Thomas Aquinas → Duns Scotus. Fixed structure for each author: contemporary dystopian diagnosis, original key concept, future utopian rule, practical example. The path shows that the future does not need to be invented from scratch, but remembered and straightened through faith seeking understanding, inner freedom, harmony between reason and revelation, care of the soul. The goal is to move from the scattered subject to the integrated subject.
The year 2026 presents a peculiar dystopia: not technological, but philosophical. Infinite feeds,... more The year 2026 presents a peculiar dystopia: not technological, but philosophical. Infinite feeds, epistemic crisis, burnout from overstimulation, and an exhausted subject describe a world where ancient philosophy has been reversed. This paper builds a post-2026 utopia chapter by chapter, using the full spectrum of ancient thought. Fixed structure for each author: contemporary dystopian diagnosis, original key concept, future utopian rule, practical example. From Heraclitus to Zeno of Citium, the path shows that the future does not need to be invented from scratch, but remembered and straightened. The goal is to move from the subject drowned in the flow to the virtuous subject who navigates it.
The TV series Sleepy Hollow 2013-2017 reinterprets the biblical Apocalypse through a sound design... more The TV series Sleepy Hollow 2013-2017 reinterprets the biblical Apocalypse through a sound design that becomes a narrative and philosophical element itself. This study analyzes how sounds associated with demons, the Four Horsemen, and Moloch translate the primordial fears of the Book of Revelation into psychoanalytic terms. Using tools from horror studies, philosophy of the event, and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the paper demonstrates that sound in Sleepy Hollow is not mere accompaniment but a “5th Horseman” that makes the invisible audible. The sonic evolution from Season 1 to 4 reflects the shift from biblical horror to historical and identity horror, with special attention to infrasound and profaned sacred music.
This paper analyzes the transformation of wealth from a state-centered to a private-dominated mod... more This paper analyzes the transformation of wealth from a state-centered to a private-dominated model between 1859 and 2026. Starting from the Battle of Magenta and the birth of the modern nation-state, it reconstructs the historical-philosophical path that led from the Keynesian interventionist state of the post-WWII period to the 1980s privatizations and the contemporary digital economy. Through historical, philosophical, and psychological perspectives, it shows how each phase redefined not only economic mechanisms, but also individual identity and the relationship with power. The analysis concludes with the EU AI Act 2024, identifying data and algorithms as the new frontier of wealth, and raising questions about the future role of the state in the age of artificial intelligence.
This paper examines the historical transition from the state-wealth paradigm, typical of the colo... more This paper examines the historical transition from the state-wealth paradigm, typical of the colonial age and the first half of the 20th century, to the private-wealth paradigm that characterizes the contemporary globalized economy. Starting from the post-WWII Italian constitutional context and the debate on the legitimacy of the 1948 Constitution, the study explores the political, social, and ethical implications of this shift. It also considers the role of political power in the digital age, the impact of artificial intelligence, and institutional communication toward new generations. The aim is to provide a neutral analytical framework, avoiding ideological positions.
This paper analyzes the evolution of Italian public law in the 1999-2002 period through three axe... more This paper analyzes the evolution of Italian public law in the 1999-2002 period through three axes: crisis of legal language and legislative simplification, affirmation of informal administration post-Bassanini, legitimation of armed interventions for humanitarian purposes between Kosovo 1999 and post-9/11 doctrine. The thesis is that 1999-2002 represents a “constituent triennium” in material terms: Law 59/1997 and Bassanini decrees redesign PA, Constitutional Law 3/2001 reforms Title V, 9/11/2001 reopens the security vs freedom theme. Through doctrinal analysis, Constitutional Court case law and EU references, it is shown how these years close 20th-century public law and open 21st-century public law. Conclusion: 1999-2002 is the phase in which public law becomes law of relation and emergency.
Petronilla Paolini Massimi embodies the creative tension between norm and freedom that characteri... more Petronilla Paolini Massimi embodies the creative tension between norm and freedom that characterizes late 17th century Roman Arcadia. As a member of the Accademia dell’Arcadia under the pastoral name of Ireninda Cimeria, her poetry stands at the intersection of Baroque heritage and the emerging Arcadian aesthetics. This essay interprets her work as a philosophical-artistic act: the sonnet form becomes a space for thought, metrical measure a tool to question time, female identity and the relationship with the divine. Through textual analysis of the poems collected in Rime, 1690, it is shown how Paolini Massimi turns rule into expressive resource, building an autonomous voice within a male canon. Her poetry thus testifies how formal limitation can generate conceptual depth and emotional authenticity, making her a relevant figure today, also in light of the plaque inaugurated in Tagliacozzo on June 2, 2026.
This paper analyzes the contribution of Ferdinando Galiani, Umberto Ricci and Carlo
Tapia to the... more This paper analyzes the contribution of Ferdinando Galiani, Umberto Ricci and Carlo
Tapia to the philosophy and economic education in Abruzzo, focusing on the period
2000-2026. Through the category of liminality, it explores how the three Abruzzese
authors address the relationship between scarcity, saving and abundance. Galiani
theorizes value in lack, Ricci saving as an educational discipline, Tapia abundance as
an ethical-political problem. The paper demonstrates the relevance of Abruzzese
economic thought to interpret the tensions between need and consumption in the
contemporary economy and to ground economic education paths based on the
concept of threshold and limit.
This paper analyzes the contribution of Ferdinando Galiani, Umberto Ricci and Carlo Tapia to the ... more This paper analyzes the contribution of Ferdinando Galiani, Umberto Ricci and Carlo Tapia to the philosophy and economic education in Abruzzo, focusing on the period 2000-2026. Through the category of liminality, it explores how the three Abruzzese authors address the relationship between scarcity, saving and abundance. Galiani theorizes value in lack, Ricci saving as an educational discipline, Tapia abundance as an ethical-political problem. The paper demonstrates the relevance of Abruzzese economic thought to interpret the tensions between need and consumption in the contemporary economy and to ground economic education paths based on the concept of threshold and limit.
The Backrooms phenomenon is pure weird horror. It is not fear of the monster, it is fear of the c... more The Backrooms phenomenon is pure weird horror. It is not fear of the monster, it is fear of the collapse of meaning. Through Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Deleuze, Guattari, Lovecraft, The King in Yellow, The Room and Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, this paper reads the Backrooms as alchemy: yellow carpet + neon light + repetition = derealization. Liminal space becomes a laboratory where the Ego loses its center. The Überwindung of the wall is the breaking of the anthropocentric limit in space and time. The conclusion is alchemical: terror arises when architecture stops being a shell and becomes a mirror of the unconscious.
The Backrooms phenomenon is pure weird horror. It is not fear of the monster, it is fear of the c... more The Backrooms phenomenon is pure weird horror. It is not fear of the monster, it is fear of the collapse of meaning. Through Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Deleuze, Guattari, Lovecraft, The King in Yellow, The Room and Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, this paper reads the Backrooms as alchemy: yellow carpet + neon light + repetition = derealization. Liminal space becomes a laboratory where the Ego loses its center. The Überwindung of the wall is the breaking of the anthropocentric limit in space and time. The conclusion is alchemical: terror arises when architecture stops being a shell and becomes a mirror of the unconscious.
This paper offers a comparative analysis of Valentano, in Lazio, and Tagliacozzo, in Abruzzo. The... more This paper offers a comparative analysis of Valentano, in Lazio, and Tagliacozzo, in Abruzzo. The study examines three dimensions: geopolitical location and territorial dynamics, forms of internal politics in small municipalities, social philosophy and community identity. A final chapter focuses on artistic heritage and points of interest in the surrounding areas. The aim is to highlight similarities and differences between a lakeside center in northern Lazio and an Apennine town in the Marsica region.
The period 2010-2026 marks a rupture in the post-Cold War international legal order. This paper a... more The period 2010-2026 marks a rupture in the post-Cold War international legal order. This paper analyzes the transformation of international law through historical, political-philosophical, and psychoanalytic lenses. The thesis is that international law today functions as a device for processing global trauma, oscillating between fragmentation and attempts at constitutionalization.
This paper examines the evolution of the relationship between reform, revolution, and democratic ... more This paper examines the evolution of the relationship between reform, revolution, and democratic method in Italy from Unification to 2026. Through Antonio Giolitti’s thought and the contemporary debate on the right to political existence, it reconstructs how the tension between radical change and gradual transformation has shaped the Risorgimento, Fascism, the Republic, and the 21st-century crisis. The analysis highlights the shift from a democracy of formal legitimation to one of substantial guarantee, showing that the unresolved dilemma of 1957 is now the challenge of making the power to count in collective decisions effective.
This essay examines the semantic evolution and social function of five terms—lackey, servant of t... more This essay examines the semantic evolution and social function of five terms—lackey, servant of the clergy, misogynist, pederast, asexual—from the late Middle Ages to the 21st century. Using the history of language and social history, it shows how these insults and categories have changed meaning in relation to transformations in the relationship between religious and secular power, in conceptions of gender, and in sexual norms. The aim is to reconstruct the role of insult as an indicator of symbolic conflict, maintaining a descriptive and comparative approach.
This essay examines the technological shift from paper maps to artificial intelligence as a trans... more This essay examines the technological shift from paper maps to artificial intelligence as a transformation that is cognitive and relational, not merely instrumental. Starting from a personal experience of navigating to a rural location, it explores how technological delegation of orientation has eroded spatial memory and decision-making autonomy. The text then extends to communication: the widespread use of digital interfaces and generative AI is producing a gradual atrophy of face-to-face confrontation skills, conflict management, and social context reading. A model of intentional limits on AI use is proposed, based on role, time, and space, to preserve autonomous thought and human communication. The central thesis is that without intentional boundaries, the speed offered by technology translates into a life perceived as accelerated and empty.
The vampire is the most ductile emblem of the modern Western imaginary. Born as a local response ... more The vampire is the most ductile emblem of the modern Western imaginary. Born as a local response to unexplained deaths in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the vampire has evolved into a global myth reflecting each era’s anxieties and desires. This paper traces the evolution of the vampire from Gioseffe Davanzati’s Dissertazione sopra i Vampiri (1789) to 2026 audiovisual productions, through literature, cinema, television, and digital culture. Using an interdisciplinary approach combining horror history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies, it argues that the vampire functions as a mirror of society’s “restrained passions”: from Enlightenment control over superstition, to Victorian sexual repression, to contemporary existential anxiety and digital consumption. The study concludes that the vampire myth’s resilience lies in its capacity to remain an empty container, continuously filled by its historical-cultural context.
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Papers by Andrea Di Filippo
Tapia to the philosophy and economic education in Abruzzo, focusing on the period
2000-2026. Through the category of liminality, it explores how the three Abruzzese
authors address the relationship between scarcity, saving and abundance. Galiani
theorizes value in lack, Ricci saving as an educational discipline, Tapia abundance as
an ethical-political problem. The paper demonstrates the relevance of Abruzzese
economic thought to interpret the tensions between need and consumption in the
contemporary economy and to ground economic education paths based on the
concept of threshold and limit.