L’utopia della trasparenza nella poesia italiana contemporanea

Abstract

The metaphor of transparency is crucial to the relations between contemporary Italian poetry and digital culture. The essay highlights the influence of WikiLeaks on literature and contextualizes within poetry criticism the debate on the open access to sensitive data. Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 investigate the dystopian implications of a transparent society as represented in poetry. Finally, the paper suggests to overcome the opposition between utopia and dystopia of transaprency, in order to point out the entanglement of different metaphors, outcomes and the history of glass as a catalyst for a specific European rhetorics.

Keywords

• poesia contemporanea
• distopia
• trasparenza
• wikileaks
• vetro