Autore
Nicosia, Enrico

Titolo
Sull’irrevocabile geograficità di ogni svolta politico-tecnologica. Trumpismo e long-termism tra territorializzazione e cognizione
Periodico
Reti, saperi, linguaggi
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 28 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 225 - Pagina finale: 239

In the article "Trumpism and Long-Termism. AI and Biopolitics of Extinction" (published in «Reti, saperi e linguaggi, Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences»), Antonino Pennisi and Alessandra Falzone (2025) reflect on the relationship between Long-Termism and Trumpism, identifying the latter as the potential and most decisive vehicle for the former’s realization. According to the authors, decisionism, determinism, and linguistic and factual violations of the Trumpian approach facilitate the rise of this new form of hyper-technological neocapitalism which, supported by researchers from various backgrounds and financed by transnational entrepreneurs, aims at a long-term regulation of biological-social reality enabled and supported by the use of artificial intelligence. Although the trajectories of Long-Termism are inspired by a partly forward-looking ethical-projectual framework, Pennisi and Falzone highlight profound epistemological and political-operational shortcomings: on one side, this recent techno-political movement rests on theoretical premises that are scarcely grounded in biological-evolutionary terms – the very terms that, according to the authors, especially in relation to corporeality, might jeopardise and destabilise the dream of artificial intelligence. On the other side, what is alarming is the way Trumpism is peculiarly appropriating Long-Termist assumptions, attempting to consolidate its grip and extend its reach in pursuit of its own aims: the impetuous and inconsistent manoeuvre, embodied primarily by the current President of the United States as its main interpreter and executor, risks transforming the ostensibly well-intentioned principles of Long-Termism into trajectories that yield very little that is solid or fruitful. This contribution seeks to integrate a reflection unfolding along the inextricable threshold where politics and technology intersect, beginning from a fundamental premise: both Trumpism and Long-Termism are phenomena that are not only pervasively diffused but also irrevocably situated. As collective scenario-concepts – participated in and intertwined – they take the form of a model with variable geography which, on the one hand, depends on the spaces and times in which it manifests itself and, on the other hand, modifies those coordinates in turn. In other words, Trumpism and Long-Termism must not only be territorialised but also contextualised in terms of their roots and scope. This operation – grounded in the interrelation between trans-scalarity and trans-mediality and oscillating between geo-political-economic and geo-cognitive themes – aims to reinforce the central thesis by developing some of its principal trajectories.



SICI: 2279-7777(2025)28:2<225:SGDOSP>2.0.ZU;2-P
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.12832/119456
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