Segretezza e trasparenza tra politica, arte, digitalizzazione. Dal segretario di lettere alla governamentalità algoritmica

Abstract

This volume collects contributions from teachers and students who participated in Political Philosophy for the master's degree program in Philosophy at the Department of Humanities at the University of Federico II and the collaborative lab that followed. The challenges and unprecedented problems to which democratic-constitutional systems are subjected are at the origin of the choice of the work program, which is dedicated to the themes of secrecy and democratic transparency. Indeed, in the various spheres of government and administration, the uses of secrecy and the quest for transparency and political visibility/measurability have become increasingly important. The course has therefore set itself the objective of illustrating the main historical and conceptual nuclei that, starting from reflections on the arts of government and through the analysis of the pathways of sovereignty, have come to define the founding elements of that constitutionalmeasure between secrecy and transparency that conditions contemporary democratic regimes, to trace the elements of tension that run through it. The hypothesis is that not only does the public governance of secrecy represent one of the main challenges of democracy, but that transparency also comes with the opacity typical of secrecy. In this sense, today, the lexicon and grammar of democratic politics are called into question and require an effort to rethink the measure that modernity has provided, but that our current situation seems to have put into crisis.