Sky Tg24, Vite – The art of the possible: tomorrow Alessandro Baricco will host

Alessandro Baricco is the protagonist of the second episode of the second cycle of “Lives – The art of possible”, broadcast on Sky TG24 Thursday 10 June at 8.45 pm, on Sky Arte on Friday, 11 June at 7.15 pm and available On Demand. The meeting with the famous writer and founder of the Scuola Holden is an opportunity to talk, among other things, about his work, his relationship with the digital age, young people (“they are often right”) and sport (“I have no nostalgia for that of the past”) going through the creative process of writing and its intimate correlation with the mind of the human being. Starting from his latest work ‘What we were looking for’, which wants to be “a reflection on the pandemic”, the writer and intellectual asks himself “what is written about our history in our apparent destiny which is much more, contrary to what it looks like, the result of a series of choices. So a possible question is why did we get into this situation, and in that way? ”. But the result is still that of “having paid a very high price in terms of non-life”. Reasoning, instead, on the digital revolution and looking at where he himself comes from culturally, Baricco defines himself as “an unfortunate product of the 1900s, already as a boy, in fact, I thought it was a world full of rigidity from school, to university, to newspapers “While it judges” the digital revolution a process of true liberation, it has undermined the privileges that were secular, has undermined the role of all priests and mediators, not eliminating them but subjecting them to a much higher control, has multiplied the possibilities of people, perhaps even too much so that many of us are even stunned ”. But he continues to see “immense benefits more than costs, for many – he says – even annoying, especially for the elite”. The digital age we are experiencing – in his opinion – “has called into question everything, from the primary school teacher, to the prime minister, to the doctor”. It is about “collective, audacious, crazy processes that when we study looking at the 1700s we judge them wonderful, while today we are afraid of them. The intellectual who points his feet today is like the intellectual of the eighteenth century who points his feet against the Enlightenment ”. He also refutes the idea that digital civilization is artificial (“it is much more natural than the other, because it is much more similar to how our mind works”) and compared to the fact that digitization has killed writing is clear: “I don’t think that there have been humans who have written more than the current ones. We even write on phones. It is absolutely not a civilization that has put writing out of the game. “Edited and created by the director of Sky TG24 Giuseppe De Bellis,” Lives – The art of the possible “is a cycle of ten interviews – the one with Alessandro Baricco is the second of the second cycle – dedicated to success and the ability to achieve it. A professional and personal portrait of great Italians who have distinguished themselves in their field: from industry to cinema, from science to style to art and literature, becoming known all over the world. The interviews will also become part of the Comcast Group news syndication and may also be broadcast on NBC.