Ours is not an era of global knowledge which undermines and mortifies local knowledge and the participation and involvement of citizens in the government of public goods. On the contrary, the idea of rationality is increasingly been thought of as a sort of patchwork, the result of an operation of «sewing» between local and circumscribed rationality spaces which must be put in reciprocal communication through the availability of a common language and a shared background. It is not by chance that a model of «connective intelligence» is emerging, whose main goal is the identification of distributive or common knowledge and the analysis and translation underway of modalities and courses, through which each of them acquires the capacity to reason about one’s own knowledge and viewpoints, but also those of others. The concept of citizenship must therefore be rethought in the light of these developments. only subscribers can see the full article