{"id":828,"date":"2026-10-14T06:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/?post_type=fm_episode&#038;p=828"},"modified":"2026-10-14T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:52:16","slug":"io-e-tu-quando-laltro-smette-di-essere-qualcosa-e-torna-a-essere-qualcuno","status":"publish","type":"fm_episode","link":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/puntata\/io-e-tu-quando-laltro-smette-di-essere-qualcosa-e-torna-a-essere-qualcuno\/","title":{"rendered":"I and Thou \u2013 When the other person stops being a thing and becomes someone again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Client. User. Follower. Contact. Audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are words we use all the time to help us organise the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what happens when, in our eyes, a person becomes nothing more than the function they perform?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martin Buber, in&nbsp;<em>I and Thou<\/em>, leads us towards a distinction that seems simple but is profoundly important: we can encounter what is before us as an&nbsp;<strong>It<\/strong>, something we observe, use or classify, or we can enter into a relationship with a&nbsp;<strong>Thou<\/strong>, someone we can never entirely reduce to what we know about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the age of profiles, algorithms and screen-mediated relationships, this question becomes even more urgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because we can know a great deal about someone without ever having truly encountered them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode of&nbsp;<strong>Tra pagine e legami<\/strong>&nbsp;we therefore pause to consider a very simple question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>when I look at someone else, who do I really see?<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliente. Utente. Follower. Contatto. Pubblico. Sono parole che utilizziamo continuamente e che ci aiutano a organizzare il mondo. Ma cosa accade quando una persona comincia a coincidere, ai nostri occhi, con la funzione che svolge? Martin Buber, in&nbsp;Io e Tu, ci conduce dentro una distinzione apparentemente semplice e profondissima: possiamo incontrare ci\u00f2 che abbiamo davanti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":829,"template":"","class_list":["post-828","fm_episode","type-fm_episode","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fm_episode\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fm_episode"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fm_episode"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fm_episode\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fm_episode\/828\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}