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Abstract

Never in history has so much been written. Novels, short stories, even poetry, are experiencing an unsuspected and perhaps unhoped-for flowering: but it is also and perhaps above all in the field of knowledge that the growth is incredible. In all the variegated and increasingly fragmented fields of knowledge, be it the so-called STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine) or HASS (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences), the most evident feature of academic production is in fact now its constant, exponential, unstoppable quantitative increase. Research production has transformed, becoming increasingly atomised, measurable, neo-liberal, surfable and iterative: but also original?