Note sulla Transizione

Abstract

The term transition takes on various meanings. 1 Act of passing | Passage between two conditions, two epochs, two modes of life, two situations: experiencing a period of - 2 (mus.) Passage between one tone or mode and another. 3 (phys.) Passage, spontaneous or provoked, of a system from one state to another. Today the word is widely used in various aspects of knowledge and, in general, of the human condition precisely because of its generic meaning of passage. Think, for example, of the ‘energy transition’ in which there is basically a change from a model of energy production that has its history in the exploitation of non-renewable fossil fuels to renewable sources with a view to consumption efficiency; and, of the ‘digital transition’ that streamlines and makes the production mode of companies but also the way citizens operate in order to make life smarter. This has been happening for many years; just think of the daily use of home banking, and even before that of the ATM, which literally wiped-out jobs in banks, private strongholds of the geo-political system. Epochal passages that have changed ways of life, or rather constructed new practices, leaving those who have the weight of their history on their shoulders standing on the sidelines. The disciplines of representation have constantly ‘lived through’ the moments of transition from one cultural condition to another until the gallows of sudden technological advancement.