ROME - Six years after Umberto Eco's death, on February 19, 2016, the Communication Festival celebrates his noble father with a special publication: the podcast version of "Tu, Lei, la memoria e insulto", the latest lecture that Eco should have held in Camogli in September 2015, which could not be held due to a weather alert.
The podcast, read and interpreted by the writer friend Roberto Cotroneo, is available for free online, on the occasion of the anniversary, at the page http://www.framecultura.it/umberto-eco/, as well as on all the main platforms for I listen.
The reflections proposed by Eco in his text, which he was unable to present in public, start from the intrusiveness of the You and the disappearance of the You in daily communication practices, to get to discuss the fading of temporal depth and, ultimately , of the loss of the meaning and value of memory.
With depths and insights dedicated to writing in fine handwriting as opposed to the use of smartphones, or to the despicable practices of foul language and insult that go hand in hand with preferring chat activities on the web to in-depth ones.
Semiologist, philosopher, academic, bibliophile, essayist and novelist, extraordinarily capable of instructing, educating and inspiring, Umberto Eco born in Alessandria on January 5, 1932, would have turned ninety in 2022.
Creator with Danco Singer and Rosangela Bonsignorio, of the Communication Festival in Camogli which returns for the ninth edition, dedicated to the theme of Freedom, from 8 to 11 September 2022, Eco is remembered with this original and unpublished podcased to preserve and disseminate part of the his priceless legacy through a fragment of his thought.
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