"From time immemorial, humans have been making deals, consuming goods, cultivating interests, thereby manifesting specific forms of life. Now these ways of life are automatically transformed into data," explains Maurizio Ferraris. "Webfare, a form of digital welfare, seeks to initiate a Copernican revolution that places need instead of merit at the center of society."
"Webfare: Digital Equity" takes a fascinating look at the future of the welfare system in the 21st century and argues that consumption and production should be seen as two sides of the same reality. It recognizes the new value created by the web and aims to harness it for the benefit of all. The book promises to be an important contribution to the debate on the impact of digitalization on society.
Maurizio Ferraris is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he directs the LabOnt - Centre for Ontology. He has worked in the fields of aesthetics, hermeneutics and social ontology, and his name is associated with the theory of documentarity and contemporary New Realism. His publications include “History of Hermeneutics” (Humanities Press, 1996); “A Taste for the Secret” (with Jacques Derrida - Blackwell, 2001); “Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces” (Fordham UP, 2012) and “Goodbye Kant!” (SUNY UP, 2013).