The books of dialogue

Counter-communication. Surviving Artificial Intelligence
by Guido Bosticco and Giovanni Battista Magnoli Bocchi, Franco Angeli, 2025.
“This is not a manual. You will not find scenarios, strategies, regulatory frameworks, sociological analyses, nor handbooks for aspiring professionals or lists of trade tricks. The book simply aims to be an exercise in thought, against the grain of communication and, at the same time, a tool of communication, precisely insofar as it is an exercise in thought. It seeks to reflect on the basic concepts of communication: true and false, credible and not credible, effective and ineffective; to think about what is changing in society: politics, journalism, business, finance, marketing, institutional communication, the crisis of traditional media; to analyse the dominant dynamics: social media, artificial intelligence, framing, storytelling, political correctness, on-demand information” (from the authors’ introduction).

Guide to Middle Eastern Politics
by Rosita Di Peri and Francesco Mazzucotelli, Mondadori Università.
The volume fills a gap in Italian-language publishing, offering a concise yet methodologically solid tool to better understand the complexity of political processes in the Middle East. Addressed both to university students and to those seeking a compact and accessible reference, this book illustrates the key nodes of contemporary political history and thought in the Middle East. The intertwining of different disciplinary fields is the lens used to deepen knowledge of the Middle Eastern area, avoiding excessive simplifications: a synthetic tool on the political theories that have most influenced the intellectual debate and the events of a region that is central to the balances and tensions of the world.

Aurora Antonucci
NP November 2025