Ammar Shawesh
The Last Human Book
What the Future Looks Like to Someone Born Without a State
Born in Damascus to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother, Ammar Shawesh left for Austria in 2011 to study, expecting to return. The war changed that. In Italy he built his adult life, his family and his work, and today he is an Italian citizen.
From that biography the book widens to war, politics, technology, memory, knowledge, work, responsibility and the Mediterranean. It is not a prediction. It is a reasoned testimony from 2026: what we see while everything accelerates, which risks we can recognise, which possibilities are worth keeping, and which questions must stay open.
If this book defends anything, it is not the human against technology. It defends the human within technology: the possibility of using it to become more capable without ceasing to be responsible for what we do.
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Italiano · 189 pages
L’Ultimo Libro Umano
Quello che vede del futuro chi è nato senza Stato
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The Last Human Book
What the Future Looks Like to Someone Born Without a State
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First edition: Bergamo, 2026
Inside the book
- Movement I
Outside the Frame
Being born without a promise, documents and persons, migration, citizenship, work and cooperation.
- Movement II
The Fracture
Legitimacy, power without faces, fear, propaganda, precarious economies, civilians, media, climate and borders.
- Movement III
The Threshold
Acceleration, technology, memory outside us, artificial intelligence, who owns the infrastructure of knowledge, education after the answer.
- Movement IV
The Unsacrificeable
Dignity and the body, responsibility and judgement, care and community, memory, truth and dissent, limits and future generations.
- Movement V
The Forms
Collaboration as infrastructure, work that cares and lasts, territories and institutions of memory, governable technology, the Mediterranean.
Also in the book
- The Pact of the Unsacrificeable
- The Human Test
- Glossary and essential references
Written openly with the help of artificial intelligence, as the author explains in a dedicated note: experiences, theses and every final editorial decision are his.
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