The article moves from the idea of monster as a “cultural predicate” referable to a wide linguist... more The article moves from the idea of monster as a “cultural predicate” referable to a wide linguistic and symbolic repertoire proper to the overall human history. In this perspective, particular attention is paid to the variegated viewpoints on monstrosity that, from the initial teratology of “natural” sign, develops into a teratology of a specifically “social” character. Hence the indication that, from a material standpoint, shows how the transformations of feeling, thinking, and acting related to nowadays work activities, make it possible to associate certain characteristics of monstrosity – clearly not conceivable only in negative terms – to new productive subjects and cooperating singularities.
... DAS FIKTIVE UND DAS IMAGINÄRE: RISPOSTA ESTETICA E OGGETTO ARTISTICO IN WOLFGANG ISER Alessan... more ... DAS FIKTIVE UND DAS IMAGINÄRE: RISPOSTA ESTETICA E OGGETTO ARTISTICO IN WOLFGANG ISER Alessandro Raveggi 1. L'ESTETICO E LA LETTURA: VERSO UNA TEORIA DEGLI ATTI DELLA FINZIONE Nella versione di un'estetica della ricezione elaborata da ...
The title of Richard Sennett’s latest work could perhaps be reformulated, in the spirit of Benjam... more The title of Richard Sennett’s latest work could perhaps be reformulated, in the spirit of Benjamin, as The Fate and Character of the Figure of the Craftsman. In effect it is not particularly difficult to see the work in question as an interpretation of the era of separation, in various senses, of manual and intellectual labor, of doing and thinking, of execution and projection, that points towards a possible overcoming of this predicament. For the author expressly reaffirms a mastery of doing and making that can be recognized today in those who work in so-called “open source” programming, and are active in the common realization of some good intimately held “in common,” of a software that cannot simply be “privatized.” A very rich field of research, of “material culture,” lies behind Sennett’s thoughtprovoking text. His book defends the idea that certain practices of life and work, that were typical of pre-industrial societies, are now re-emerging in the contemporary context, albei...
Foucault and Deleuze, "untimely" thinkers after and with Nietzsche. In substance, thoug... more Foucault and Deleuze, "untimely" thinkers after and with Nietzsche. In substance, thought is such only when it creates friction, generates opposition and, in short, serves as a toolbox for saying something different, even by forcing and betraying the literal thought of the writer. This doesn't mean we can say anything and everything, following a trend that has been, in a sense, attributed precisely to post-structuralism – the current of thought in which the two French philosophers are generally placed. The ontology of the modernity to which Foucault referred, taking up the Nietzschean teaching on unmodern or untimely living, signifies that the philosopher has to look to the present, grasp the world in transformation and try, as far as possible, to forge ahead with his own line of deterritorialisation (to take up Deleuze and Guattari). Philosophy must not only grasp the theoretical aspects but must fully investigate the socio-cultural complexity, identifying at least so...
In Cronofagia. La contrazione del tempo e dello spazio nell’era della globalizzazione (Guerini e ... more In Cronofagia. La contrazione del tempo e dello spazio nell’era della globalizzazione (Guerini e Associati, Milano, 2003) sono raccolti, a cura di G. Paolucci, gli atti del convegno su «Rapidita. La contrazione del tempo e dello spazio nella vita quotidiana», tenuto presso l’Istituto Universitario Europeo (Firenze) nel gennaio del 2002. E proprio l’attenzione alla contrazione spazio-temporale del mondo contemporaneo a segnare di se i contributi pubblicati in questo volume, sostanzialmente div...
The development of information and communication technologies delineates, especially in its retic... more The development of information and communication technologies delineates, especially in its reticulate articulation, an environment in which artistic experimentation, with its modalities of representation, is able to express itself in a particularly remarkable manner. This environment, moreover, seems to promote creativity and the affirmation of the cognitive capacities in general. To better understand such potentialities, however, it is opportune to consider also those positions (such as Paul Virilio’s) that are hyper-critical of the advent of the “electric environment” and its “artistic” articulations.
The article moves from the idea of monster as a “cultural predicate” referable to a wide linguist... more The article moves from the idea of monster as a “cultural predicate” referable to a wide linguistic and symbolic repertoire proper to the overall human history. In this perspective, particular attention is paid to the variegated viewpoints on monstrosity that, from the initial teratology of “natural” sign, develops into a teratology of a specifically “social” character. Hence the indication that, from a material standpoint, shows how the transformations of feeling, thinking, and acting related to nowadays work activities, make it possible to associate certain characteristics of monstrosity – clearly not conceivable only in negative terms – to new productive subjects and cooperating singularities.
... DAS FIKTIVE UND DAS IMAGINÄRE: RISPOSTA ESTETICA E OGGETTO ARTISTICO IN WOLFGANG ISER Alessan... more ... DAS FIKTIVE UND DAS IMAGINÄRE: RISPOSTA ESTETICA E OGGETTO ARTISTICO IN WOLFGANG ISER Alessandro Raveggi 1. L'ESTETICO E LA LETTURA: VERSO UNA TEORIA DEGLI ATTI DELLA FINZIONE Nella versione di un'estetica della ricezione elaborata da ...
The title of Richard Sennett’s latest work could perhaps be reformulated, in the spirit of Benjam... more The title of Richard Sennett’s latest work could perhaps be reformulated, in the spirit of Benjamin, as The Fate and Character of the Figure of the Craftsman. In effect it is not particularly difficult to see the work in question as an interpretation of the era of separation, in various senses, of manual and intellectual labor, of doing and thinking, of execution and projection, that points towards a possible overcoming of this predicament. For the author expressly reaffirms a mastery of doing and making that can be recognized today in those who work in so-called “open source” programming, and are active in the common realization of some good intimately held “in common,” of a software that cannot simply be “privatized.” A very rich field of research, of “material culture,” lies behind Sennett’s thoughtprovoking text. His book defends the idea that certain practices of life and work, that were typical of pre-industrial societies, are now re-emerging in the contemporary context, albei...
Foucault and Deleuze, "untimely" thinkers after and with Nietzsche. In substance, thoug... more Foucault and Deleuze, "untimely" thinkers after and with Nietzsche. In substance, thought is such only when it creates friction, generates opposition and, in short, serves as a toolbox for saying something different, even by forcing and betraying the literal thought of the writer. This doesn't mean we can say anything and everything, following a trend that has been, in a sense, attributed precisely to post-structuralism – the current of thought in which the two French philosophers are generally placed. The ontology of the modernity to which Foucault referred, taking up the Nietzschean teaching on unmodern or untimely living, signifies that the philosopher has to look to the present, grasp the world in transformation and try, as far as possible, to forge ahead with his own line of deterritorialisation (to take up Deleuze and Guattari). Philosophy must not only grasp the theoretical aspects but must fully investigate the socio-cultural complexity, identifying at least so...
In Cronofagia. La contrazione del tempo e dello spazio nell’era della globalizzazione (Guerini e ... more In Cronofagia. La contrazione del tempo e dello spazio nell’era della globalizzazione (Guerini e Associati, Milano, 2003) sono raccolti, a cura di G. Paolucci, gli atti del convegno su «Rapidita. La contrazione del tempo e dello spazio nella vita quotidiana», tenuto presso l’Istituto Universitario Europeo (Firenze) nel gennaio del 2002. E proprio l’attenzione alla contrazione spazio-temporale del mondo contemporaneo a segnare di se i contributi pubblicati in questo volume, sostanzialmente div...
The development of information and communication technologies delineates, especially in its retic... more The development of information and communication technologies delineates, especially in its reticulate articulation, an environment in which artistic experimentation, with its modalities of representation, is able to express itself in a particularly remarkable manner. This environment, moreover, seems to promote creativity and the affirmation of the cognitive capacities in general. To better understand such potentialities, however, it is opportune to consider also those positions (such as Paul Virilio’s) that are hyper-critical of the advent of the “electric environment” and its “artistic” articulations.
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