Papers by Raffaella Sabra Palmisano
metabasis.it, 2022
The debate on the value and socio-political power of images is animated, in our times, by the gro... more The debate on the value and socio-political power of images is animated, in our times, by the growing importance of so-called influencers, youtubers, and various entertainment personalities. The analysis of images, from a political point of view, often tends to concretise and focus on issues related to propaganda. In this article the author aims to investigate the link between image productions as discourse productions – or 'truth games'– and subject productions. The specific case that will be analysed here is that of therapy culture, understood as a society that incites discourse on the – sentimentalised – narration of the intimate. Starting from the Foucauldian conceptualisation of the production of the subject through the production of discourse, an attempt is made to delineate the relationship between kitsch aesthetics and biopolitics. Michel Foucault's interpretation of biopower as dressage of the body brings us back to the possible relationship between aesthetics and biopolitics, as biopower is for Foucault indispensable to capitalist society, the society that for Gillo Dorfles produces kitsch.
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DADA Rivista di Antropologia post-globale, 2020
We are bodies, and we live constantly involved in the representation of corporeity. In contempora... more We are bodies, and we live constantly involved in the representation of corporeity. In contemporary society, this involvement is amplified by television, social networks, social media, representations of all kinds that remind us of corporeity. These representations of bodies testify to a continuous change of the bodies and of the conception of corporeity: a change that develops with socio-political (therefore cultural, economic, etc.) changes. But how “political” is the body of Man? How “political” is the language of the body? These are just some of the questions that arise from the very presence of countless images of the human body in every form and context. A body, influencing and influenced by the complex network of relationships built through what the author has termed “performative saying”, that is “the discourse of a knowledge, expression of the Weltanschauung of a certain society”. The body is therefore today more than ever itself a “political saying”, expression of the imaginary and
therefore the field of experimentation and continuous changes. These practices of modification – implemented not only for medical, legal, religious and above all political purposes, practices that range
from haircutting to amputation of limbs, through tattoos and scarification, etc. – can often be experienced by those who practice them as an approach to the reality of themselves in an attempt to “show what manifests itself from itself, as it manifests itself”. These practices also always characterize status transitions as well as manifest the will to be there and the very mode of this being there. Being inseparable from the historicity of those who practice them, these modifications have a political meaning in which the role of science cannot be ignored. The relationship between science, politics and body modifications is thus expressed, assuredly, in the corporeity of the cyborg and the mutant and in all the political imagery related to and as a result of them.
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Thought, word, hermeneutics and imaginary - understood as a social product suspended between the ... more Thought, word, hermeneutics and imaginary - understood as a social product suspended between the spiritual/virtual and real/material dimensions - which we categorize as "performative saying", construct, influence and modify in the individual, social and therefore political sense, the life of bodies. There are different concepts of corporeity, because each society has its own performative saying, and what unites the performative saying of each society is precisely what binds it to the body, and the power of the performative saying lies in its imaginative dimension that produces real effect, effects that act on the body intended as the foundation of politics. Considering that all social, economic, legal etc. practices are deeply influenced by the imaginary and performative saying that a society has about human body, the political meaning that this concept has in itself becomes clear: the scientific performative saying, the religious performative saying or the tribal one, ecc...
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DADA Rivista di Antropologia post-globale, 2016
The recent developments of war strategies, technologies and techniques seem to be related to a ne... more The recent developments of war strategies, technologies and techniques seem to be related to a new conception of war itself which is due to a mutated perception of human being. What kind of perception and how does this perception influence the conception and the experience of war, is here analyzed by attempting to redefine the subject-object dichotomy in relation to what can be called the "contemporary solipsismus". The relation between the dichotomy and solipsism is examined by linking Heidegger's and Castelli's philosophy and also related to Gutierrez philosophical and historical analysis about development and politics. The author firmly believes in the inseparability of thought and action and therefore of moral and action, and aims to demonstrate how the modifications of war strategies are related to the changes concerning the conception of human being, particularly to the conception of alterity and enemy. The author also examines what kind of hermeneutics of mo...
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metabasis, 2021
Homo homini noxius. Biopolitics of a state of exception.
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DADA RIvista di Antropologia post-globale, 2021
What are the roots of today's technocratic society? And what relationship-if any-is there between... more What are the roots of today's technocratic society? And what relationship-if any-is there between the thought that characterizes it and the body? Referring to Augusto Del Noce's analysis of Marxian materialism and of the consequences of the contradictions implicit in it, contradictions which are exasperated by what he defines as enlightenment reborn, we attempt to answer these questions keeping in mind the constant problem of solipsism. Starting from Del Noce's interpretation of Giovanni Gentile's actualism as a checkmate of the philosophy of becoming, the bases are laid for reflection on the thought-action relationship, a relationship already analyzed by Gentile in his writings on Karl Marx.
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Metabasis , 2019
In current language, the word "myth" is often used to indicate a primitive narrative construction... more In current language, the word "myth" is often used to indicate a primitive narrative construction that lacks realism and has no connection with the construction of social reality. There are numerous historical and sociological analyses that show how much the myth is instead a universal sociological mechanism active in all societies, from the so-called "primitive" societies to the post-modern ones. In order to better understand the link between social actors and myth and therefore between myth and social construction, or rather between myth and legitimation of power, it seems necessary to keep in mind, precisely because of the inseparability of myth from the social actor who creates and performs it, the specific anthropological context of myths. Detached from their performative context, myths would in fact be reduced to mere narratives. We believe that myth lives in the society that creates it and performs it and cannot be analyzed and detached from it, because we understand myth as a social construction but also as a constructor of society. It is therefore necessary to have an approach that also includes a more dialogical and dialectical analysis with the social actors of myth (intended as those who create and perform the myth and those who are influenced by it). Otherwise, there would be a risk of mutilating the myth of its reality. Myths in their social, political and economic contextualization prove to have precise meanings that should make any misunderstanding of interpretation improbable. This does not mean, however, that it is not possible to hermeneutically manipulate the behavioural and cognitive indications contained in the myth, manipulation that acts on social and therefore political action: the myth and its interpretation determine the political action of the narrators and listeners, being the myth an essential part of the constitutive process of social reality, and therefore of the legitimation of power.
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STUDIUM Rivista Bimestrale, 2015
The recent developments of the socio-cultural and political configurations concerning the concept... more The recent developments of the socio-cultural and political configurations concerning the concepts of “civilization” and “democracy” suggest the possibility of a recontextualized Blondelian perspective through a further theoretical analysis and the consequent ethical and historical application. As Blondel notices, the misleading hermeneutics of some political and cultural concepts could be ruinous, the recent and contemporary history demonstrates. Moreover, there’s a fault of morality and a lack of dialogue, underlines Scannone – one of the most reknowned specialist of Blondel’s philosophy –, due to an imposed and dogmatic hermeneutics that (according to Blondel) leads to an “egoistical indifference” and a “polite neutrality” throughout the international politics. Because of its actuality, Blondel’s political and moral philosophy could become the basis to a constructive criticism about the manipulated hermeneutics that originates and justifies wars.
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Metabasis, 2017
The recent developments of terrorism seem to be related to a conception of Alterity and body whic... more The recent developments of terrorism seem to be related to a conception of Alterity and body which is due to an hermeneutic of human being that the Author supposes to be originated by what can be called the " contemporary solipsismus ". The question of terrorism is here analyzed by attempting to define how the herme-neutic of the " contemporary solipsismus " acts and how it influences the conception and the experience of terrorism. Firmly believing in the inseparability of thought and action, the Author aims to demonstrate-by using some concepts of medical anthropology-how the perception and the experience of terrorism is related to the contemporary solipsismus and particularly to its conception of Alterity and body.
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Dada Rivista di antropologia post-globale, 2015
In the actual neo-colonialist configuration, there seems to be an imposed philosophical vision an... more In the actual neo-colonialist configuration, there seems to be an imposed philosophical vision and hermeneutic that is fundamental for the political and socio-economical neo-colonialist structure. The thought-action and hermeneutic-praxis bond is here analyzed from the philosophical stand point of Maurice Blondel and Juan Carlos Scannone in relation to the neo-colonialist sociocultural, political and economical configurations and strategies. The question of " development " and " civilisation " should be rediscussed in relation to financial economy and not anymore with an apparently moral will of changing the real economy of the colonized countries, since these concepts are the actual instruments of the financial economy. According to Scannone, from the exportation of " democracy " to the exploitation of the Other, a moral and historic-philosophical analysis seems to be needed today.
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Dada Rivista di Antropologia post-globale, 2016
The recent developments of war strategies, technologies and techniques seem to be related to a ne... more The recent developments of war strategies, technologies and techniques seem to be related to a new conception of war itself which is due to a mutated perception of human being. What kind of perception and how does this perception influence the conception and the experience of war, is here analyzed by attempting to redefine the subject-object dichotomy in relation to what can be called the " contemporary solipsismus ". The relation between the dichotomy and solipsism is examined by linking Heidegger's and Castelli's philosophy and also related to Gutierrez philosophical and historical analysis about development and politics. The author firmly believes in the inseparability of thought and action and therefore of moral and action, and aims to demonstrate how the modifications of war strategies are related to the changes concerning the conception of human being, particularly to the conception of alterity and enemy. The author also examines what kind of hermeneutics of morals is inscribed in this changes. The subject-object dichotomy is analyzed in the context of some contemporary war expressions, in order to define a concept of " solipsistic war " , which depends on a particular conception of human being and on a specific hermeneutics of moral.
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Books by Raffaella Sabra Palmisano
Mimesis, 2021
Dalla migrazione al bio-hacking, dalle società a lignaggi al capitalismo della sorveglianza, il c... more Dalla migrazione al bio-hacking, dalle società a lignaggi al capitalismo della sorveglianza, il corpo rivela molto della società in cui si trova. La narrazione politica della corporeità ci parla di corpi in divenire: modificati, internati, medicalizzati, vestiti, violati o mercificati. Il corpo non solo è narrato, ma dal corpo stesso scaturiscono delle narrazioni che ci dicono qualcosa riguardo la politicità del corpo dell'Uomo in quanto tellurico. Il corpo che costruisce ed è costruito politicamente, nella sua telluricità può essere compreso con il riferimento a Schmitt e Marx. L'analisi del rapporto tra telluricità e narrazioni porta infine ad affermare l'esserci come atto politico
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I libri di Emil, Bologna, 2021
Questo lavoro tenta di offrire una prima sintesi esplorativa del complesso e articolato, non di r... more Questo lavoro tenta di offrire una prima sintesi esplorativa del complesso e articolato, non di rado oscuro, pensiero di Enrico Castelli a partire da uno dei temi fondamentali affrontati dalla filosofia per circa mezzo secolo, dagli anni '20 agli anni '70 del Novecento, un secolo di grandi fermenti intellettuali: l'alterità, e con essa il solipsismo. La critica di Castelli al solipsismo viene ripercorsa e analizzata in relazione alla formazione, alla vita e ai maestri del filosofo.
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Papers by Raffaella Sabra Palmisano
therefore the field of experimentation and continuous changes. These practices of modification – implemented not only for medical, legal, religious and above all political purposes, practices that range
from haircutting to amputation of limbs, through tattoos and scarification, etc. – can often be experienced by those who practice them as an approach to the reality of themselves in an attempt to “show what manifests itself from itself, as it manifests itself”. These practices also always characterize status transitions as well as manifest the will to be there and the very mode of this being there. Being inseparable from the historicity of those who practice them, these modifications have a political meaning in which the role of science cannot be ignored. The relationship between science, politics and body modifications is thus expressed, assuredly, in the corporeity of the cyborg and the mutant and in all the political imagery related to and as a result of them.
Books by Raffaella Sabra Palmisano
therefore the field of experimentation and continuous changes. These practices of modification – implemented not only for medical, legal, religious and above all political purposes, practices that range
from haircutting to amputation of limbs, through tattoos and scarification, etc. – can often be experienced by those who practice them as an approach to the reality of themselves in an attempt to “show what manifests itself from itself, as it manifests itself”. These practices also always characterize status transitions as well as manifest the will to be there and the very mode of this being there. Being inseparable from the historicity of those who practice them, these modifications have a political meaning in which the role of science cannot be ignored. The relationship between science, politics and body modifications is thus expressed, assuredly, in the corporeity of the cyborg and the mutant and in all the political imagery related to and as a result of them.