“Play”, “Game” e i giochi Pandemici

“Play”, “Game” and the Pandemic Games · 10 years ago, Franco Ferrarotti, when writing the preface of the first issue of Academicus, described my decision to publish the journal in hard copy as an extremely courageous act, taken in the vortex of the era of digital communications. A reference to the profound sensation of the scent of a letter’s paper, which took at least 2 days to arrive at the destination. A call to move from the oneiric and ephemeral construct and consumption of existence on-line, to the real one, made of comparisons on what we are or rather we are able to give face to face. The need for new communications, starting from the individual to go up to that of our present day societies, up to now made up of exchanges of economic and financial flows, which have overturned the conditioning and social development mechanism, influencing individualism as the last episode of a series of cause-effect connections. The necessity for a new series of «play» and «game», hoping for new convergences and stable forms of organization, like a new uniform at a global level, is evident. Some reflections in the moment in which the World has proclaimed and accepted the Pandemic of t he Corona Virus, are here given.