List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction Part One: Metaphysics 1 Realism and Sublimation: Ferraris on Desire by Graham Harman 2 Why is There Something Rather than Nothing? Recording, Hysteresis, and Emergence by Erica Onnis Part Two: Memory 3 Memory and Its Traces by Carola Barbero 4 Footprints and Traces: The Perspective of Cognitive Sciences by Alessia Dorigoni and Paolo Legrenzi Part Three: Life 5 Traces of the Living by Elena Casetta 6 Archiving Humanity: Towards a Novel Thinking of Doc-History. In the Traces of Maurizio Ferraris by Joseph Cohen Part Four: Friendship 7 Friendship versus Autonomy: Can There Be Too Much of a Good Thing? by Anna Marmodoro 8 Poetics of Friendship - Derrida, Adami, Ferraris by Jolán Orban Part Five: Documents 9 The Analytic/Continental Divide by Barry Smith 10 Docu-mental Capital by Jocelyn Benoist Part Six: Art 11 Music as an Art of Trace by Alessandro Arbo 12 Automatic Sweethearts and Other Empathetic Robots. The dark powers of "aesthetic disinterest" by Pietro Montani Part Seven: Technology 13 Ferraris on Privacy by Vera Tripodi 14 Webfare: How to Solve the Welfare State Crisis through the Conceptualization of Traces by Valeria Martino 15 Ferraris: Instructions for Use. How the Encounter with Documentality Changed My Practice as an Architect and Professor by Giovanni Durbiano Part Eight: Imagination and Interpretation 16 Imagination and Interpretation: How the Human Mind Builds Reality in the Age of AI by Alessandra Jacomuzzi 17 Trace and Institution. Remarks on Doc-Humanity by Alfredo Ferrarin Part Nine: Future 18 From Will to Reason: A Critical Overview of Ferraris's Thought by Tiziana Andina 19 Traces of the Future by Giuliano Torrengo.