Tempi della lettura. Media, pensiero, accelerazione

[Autom. eng. transl.] The book reflects on the theme of reading in the current socio-cultural context, marked by the protagonism of digital and social media. Loss of understanding of meanings, speed and superficiality, fragmentation due to formats and mobility, are all elements that are already changing the practices of reading, sparking debate between those who invite us to interpret this as a symptom of the change underway and those who are concerned about the possible loss of the heritage of experiences that tradition has always associated with the act of reading. Analysis, which uses the tools of educational research and the philosophy of culture in dialogue with the acquisitions of neuroscience, finds the key question to be addressed and resolved in the problem of time. Too accelerated times, functional to activate only equally fast thoughts and an immediate decision-making are not functional to the activation of the inner processes that have always given value to reading. Hence the need to recover the value of slowness in a perspective that is not only linked to reading but more generally to the rhythms, forms and, ultimately, to the meaning of life in late modernity.