La cultura del falso. Inganni, illusioni e fake news

Abstract

The gravity of fake news, in its various forms, has taken on such significant dimensions that it has become a recurring object of discussion in various scientific, cultural and political environments. A particularly complex picture is thus outlined in which the increasingly decisive imposition of the culture of counterfeiting within our more or less recent contemporaneity clearly emerges. Max Frisch wrote Andorra in 1961 as a play about fear and anti-Semitism. The result was a much more complex and timeless work on the power of the gaze of others on us and the strength of prejudices. The aim of this study is to try to undermine these monosignic and monomorphic forms to reveal their danger.