Oltre il paradigma. Smart City Ontologia ed epistemologia dell'intelligenza urbana

This article examines the concept of smart city in order to understand its philosophical implications. These implications, which concern urban ontology and urban epistemology, will be investigated by retracing the set of metaphors that innervate this model and understanding how these have changed in the contemporary technological context. Moreover, two conceptual sources of smartness will be analysed: the modernist architectural-urban space and the theory of cybernetic action which were respectively criticized by Henri Lefebvre and Hans Jonas. The article aims to contribute to the construction of a different relationship between technology and politics in smart urbanism and to promote a plural and articulated idea of urban intelligence.