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Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche ("Automata, virtual reality and ants") proposes an analysis of the complexity of the war phenomenon through three different approaches: in the microphysics of the individual action, in simulated reality and in a metaphor with the biological environment. The investigation into the nature of the interactions between man and machine presents the attempt to dominate the Clausewitzian uncertainty of the battle through an automated, post-human system. This seems to be resolved in the Omega Point, which the theologian de Chardin had identified as a point of escape from entropy and from the disorder of reality. There is neither a scientific solution, nor a theological fate. Intelligence is shared through the semantics of the satellite, of the drone and through the information passing from machine to machine. While the warriors will act as a swarm, by sharing a huge amount of data, each one of them on the exocrine glands of the machine, St. Basil was right when he warned that whoever claims to speak on the nature of things (and therefore on war) should first of be able to speak of the nature of the ant.

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Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche ("Automata, virtual reality and ants") proposes an analysis of the complexity of the war phenomenon through three different approaches: in the microphysics of the individual action, in simulated reality and in a metaphor with the biological environment. The investigation into the nature of the interactions between man and machine presents the attempt to dominate the Clausewitzian uncertainty of the battle through an automated, post-human system. This seems to be resolved in the Omega Point, which the theologian de Chardin had identified as a point of escape from entropy and from the disorder of reality. There is neither a scientific solution, nor a theological fate. Intelligence is shared through the semantics of the satellite, of the drone and through the information passing from machine to machine. While the warriors will act as a swarm, by sharing a huge amount of data, each one of them on the exocrine glands of the machine, St. Basil was right when he warned that whoever claims to speak on the nature of things (and therefore on war) should first of be able to speak of the nature of the ant.

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The volume collects the proceedings of the conference "Firenze e la lingua italiana tra nazione ed Europa" (Florence and the Italian language between nation and Europe), which was held from on May 27 and 28 2004 in the Aula Magna of the University of Florence and the Accademia della Crusca. As known, Florence played a central role in the process of national linguistic unification and thanks to its international vocation the city has promoted the spread and knowledge of the Italian language and culture all over Europe and in the world. Beyond any celebratory enthusiasm, the conference has been an occasion of open discussion on the cultural identity of the city in the contemporary context, through a critical reflection on its history (in particular on some significant moments of the Florentine culture between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) and on its linguistic primacy. La possibilità dell'uso di armi nucleari da parte di Israele è stata definita "opzione Sansone", poiché tale eventualità non avrebbe portato altro che la morte con tutti i moderni filistei, cioè i nemici dello Stato. Se invece si interpretano con le lenti della storia delle relazioni internazionali le circostanze e gli avvenimenti che segnarono la conquista dell'opzione nucleare da parte di Israele, essa diviene un elemento della costruzione del Medio Oriente postbellico, ovvero un passaggio di quella Guerra Fredda mediorientale che tanto ebbe a determinare il confronto fra le superpotenze. Grazie a fonti d'archivio finora inedite e ad un'attenta revisione bibliografica, l'autore rintraccia nel decennio 1953-1963 la costruzione di un ordine mediorientale statunitense, realizzato a scapito del nazionalismo arabo e dell'influenza sovietica, anche grazie all'intervento di Washington sull'opzione nucleare israeliana.

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Nuclear warfare --- Peace --- Guerre nucléaire --- Paix

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Engines of war --- Engines of war --- Military art and science --- Siege warfare --- Siege warfare --- History --- History --- History --- Apollodorus,