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Philosopher · Publisher · Writer

Andrea Colamedici

I study how reality is constructed. Sometimes I construct it myself, to see if anyone notices.

Co-founder of Tlon; as Jianwei Xun, author of Hypnocracy and Prompt Thinking.

Rome, 1987 President of GenIA, AI Hub at AANT Philosophical Director, Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo

Upcoming

2026

January 22

AI Festival · The Beyond-Subject

Plenary speech on hybrid agency in the age of autonomous intelligences. The Jianwei Xun experiment and the double game of consciousness.

Milan, Bocconi

February

Prompt Thinking

Publication of English (Polity Press) and Spanish (Rosameron) editions

International

February 19

Konkoly Observatory · Seminar

Tlon at the Hungarian astronomical research institute. Philosophy meets astrophysics.

Budapest

Late February

Book Launch: Prompt Thinking

International edition presentation

New York

March

AI and International Politics

Conference on artificial intelligence in international relations

Oslo

March

Cognitive Dangers of AI

Conference on the risks of artificial intelligence for thought

Madrid

March 23

Ipnocrazia · Teatro Carcano

Jianwei Xun interviewed by Maura Gancitano and Andrea Colamedici

Milan

April

The Assault on Illusion

Speech at Arts Centre Santa Mònica

Barcelona

Spring

Tsinghua University

International competition on writing and artificial intelligence

China

Recent

January 2026

Santiago, Chile

Congreso Futuro

January 13–14, 2026

Cumbre de la Filosofía

Panel on AI and the future of human consciousness with José María Lassalle, Dominique Lestel, Renata Salecl, Shigeru Taguchi, Maurizio Ferraris, and Ingrid Guardiola.

Hipnocracia · First speech in Spanish

Lecture on algorithmic trance, perceptive sovereignty, and the philosophical performance behind the Jianwei Xun experiment.

These shoes are not mine

Robbed twenty minutes before the panel, I turned the disruption into demonstration: thinking without a net, fragility as the thought finding its way.

Field Note

Santiago de Chile · January 14, 2026

These Shoes Are Not Mine

What I learned from being robbed twenty minutes before a dialogue with six philosophers at Congreso Futuro. Fragility became the thought finding its way.

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Diagnosis

Hypnocracy

Trump, Musk and the New Architecture of Reality

In 2024 I invented a Chinese philosopher named Jianwei Xun. Le Monde, El País and Libération reviewed his book. When the hoax was revealed, it demonstrated the thesis: we live in a regime that operates directly on consciousness. Co-written with Claude and ChatGPT as critical interlocutors.

The experiment

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El País Le Monde Libération Corriere della Sera La Stampa

Prompt Thinking

Method

If Hypnocracy is the diagnosis, Prompt Thinking is the navigation method. Coming February 2026 from Polity Press (English) and Rosameron (Spanish), the book proposes a new discipline: the art of formulating questions that generate thought, not just answers.

From Socratic maieutics to contemporary prompt engineering, the text traverses the history of philosophy to show how every great tradition of thought has been, at its core, a technology for generating thought through the right formulation of questions. Taught at IED Rome and 24Ore Business School. Practiced daily.

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The thread connecting this work is a question: how do we think in the age of algorithmic trance?

Biography

I am a philosopher, publisher and writer. In 2014 I founded Tlon together with Maura Gancitano: a cultural project that manifests through festivals and events, a publishing house, two bookstores, and online and offline outreach, mixing high and low culture, analyzing the needs and meanings of our time, and connecting the academic world with popular culture.

I teach Prompt Thinking at IED Rome and 24Ore Business School, and Borges y la Inteligencia Artificial at Universidad del Sur in Buenos Aires. I am president of GenIA, an interdisciplinary hub on artificial intelligence at AANT — Academy of Arts and New Technologies in Rome. In 2024–2025 I held a research fellowship at the University of Foggia on artificial intelligence and systems of thought.

Together with Maura Gancitano I am philosophical director of the Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo in Piacenza and the Carnival of Putignano. I have given TEDx talks on the philosophy of artificial intelligence (TEDxRoma) and the relationship between art and AI (TEDxBarletta).

My approach to artificial intelligence is not observational but dialogical. I work with AI systems, not just about them. This is how Hypnocracy was written. This is how I think.

There is an experiment in progress. When the time comes, you will see it.

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