“New Habits in Mind: In Search of a Graphic Philosophy” (GraPhil) takes its starting point from the acknowledgement of i) a social fact and ii) a disciplinary need: i) our informational world is more and more transforming our ways not only of communicating knowledge, but also of designing and producing it; ii) even philosophy should rethink and reorient its own practice accordingly to such a condition. Thus, the main challenge of the project is to reveal, address, and start to fill a gap both in the philosophical discourse and in the philosophical practice. GraPhil will face the question “is it possible to read and produce philosophical works and knowledge not only textually, namely through written words?”. It will give a two-fold answer: a theoretical one and a practical one. On the one hand, it will propose a new theoretical framework to re-interpret the nature of the production of philosophical knowledge through anthropological lens, based on the idea that philosophers suffer the bias of “the myth of written words” in their practices, and thus they have to understand and transform their deepest habits of thought. On the other hand, it will test directly the possibility of overcoming such a bias in a more effective and specific way, which entails the concrete production of philosophy through comics (thus not simply of comics on philosophy, and similar). Consequently, GraPhil will be innovative not only for its contents and results, but also for its methodology, for two main reasons. The first is that it envisages creating a peculiar hub for a genuine co-work and co-research, which will host not only philosophy researchers and students (disciplinarity), not only simply also nonphilosophy academic researches and students (interdisciplinarity), but even also non-academic professionals, scholars, experts, students, and users. The second is that it will address the question of a new ethics for new media not just by operating a reflection “on” ethics, but by practically experimenting a new different habit of thought.
