Fear, much more than hope, is what characterizes the postcoronial world we are entering after two years of pandemic. As the Antivax movement shows, this fear has much less to do with the disease than with a widespread sense of irrelevance, whereby humanity feels it is being progressively replaced by machines. In fact, the Web is neither a spying machine nor a machine for social surveillance. Instead, it is a machine for recording human behavior and capitalizing on it via advertising, profiling, and, increasingly, automation. Automating means teaching a machine to behave like a human. And those who wrongly fear being spied on by their devices are in fact (since they keep using them) contributing to the creation of the machines that will eventually make them useless in their role as homo faber. Above all, this increases the enormous surplus value gained by the platforms, which, unlike users, own the data the latter produce, and can invest, resell, and reuse them; with no risk of shortage, because data, unlike oil, can never run out and will be increasingly useful and abundant in an economy that is more and more about collecting and managing data. The creation of a Webfare system, i.E. Digital welfare, starts from this vision and proposes a solution that has not been pursued so far because it has not even been conceived. There can be no going back, nor is it desirable to do so. What is necessary is to make the main international political organizations aware of the need to shift legislative intervention from the protection of privacy to the taxation of the surplus value gained by platforms. But these processes take time and, above all, knowledge. Reducing time and increasing knowledge requires an intervention capable of both providing timely relief to the needs of humanity and generating the cognitive and conceptual apparatus to allow the political world to negotiate with platforms, going beyond simple taxation, so as to kickstart a virtuous circle that will restore hope where there is only fear. Although the Web economy corporations (unlike oil companies) no longer profit from the decomposition of dinosaurs that have been dead for millions of years, but from the activity of living humans, the latter are compared to dead dinosaurs whenever data is defined as the "new oil". Despite their role as data producers and recipients of services, users are thus excluded from sharing in the profits of this documedia capital (born from the intersection between the production of documents and the new media) - a capital that is much more performative than financial capital, because, in addition to advertising profits, it generates consumer profiling and process automation.We need to create a Webfare that would provide the social, economic, and cultural conditions for a transition from the homo faber of the last ten thousand years to the homo sapiens of the new economy, in which humans are not valued for their physical strength and executive patience, but for their intelligence, their culture, and their humanity.In this framework, we invite original proposals dealing with such issues, also in view of the labour transformations required by the energy transition and digital transformation.

• Knowledge in the humanities, especially in theoretical or political philosophy • Predisposition for interdisciplinary research• Research and information management• Self-management and interpersonal skills

The research activity will take place within the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences (DFE) of the University of Turin (UniTo), which is one of the largest and highest ranked universities in Italy. Awarded Excellence funding from the Italian Ministry of University, the DFE offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach in teaching and research. Academic staff members include prominent scholars in philosophy, education, semiotics, communication studies, and sociology. Key areas in these fields are studied with reference to both their historical development and influence on contemporary culture. The researcher will also have the opportunity to collaborate with research centres as Labont – Centre for Ontology (www.Labont.It), an interdepartmental research centre specialised in ontologies; and Scienza Nuova (http://www.Scienzanuovainstitute.Com), a research centre involving researchers from the University and Turin Polytechnic, which aims to develop researches with a strong interdisciplinary character in which the social transformations produced by digital technologies are addressed through collaboration between the humanities and technology.