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- Delio Salottolo was born in Naples on July 24, 1981. In 2006 he graduated from the University of Naples “Federico II”... moreDelio Salottolo was born in Naples on July 24, 1981. In 2006 he graduated from the University of Naples “Federico II” and in 2013 he was PhD in “Philosophy and Politics” at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” with a dissertation on Michel Foucault's thought. He is currently a research fellow at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and professor of history and philosophy in high schools. Since 2009 he has been the editor of the academic online journal “S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it”.edit
Starting from the horizon of ethical, economic, political and climatic crisis that characterises our epoch, this essay aims to propose an analysis of the concept of revolution and its positioning among the fundamental concepts that define... more
Starting from the horizon of ethical, economic, political and climatic crisis that characterises our epoch, this essay aims to propose an analysis of the concept of revolution and its positioning among the fundamental concepts that define the conditions of possibility of the historical and temporal experience of the human in Modernity. The exploration moves from Platonov’s novel, Čevengur, in which it is possible to explore the constraints and possibilities of the concept of revolution in Modernity, its complex reasons and contradictions, and then to propose a reconstruction of what we define as the first two epochs of this conceptualisation, starting from the indications of Koselleck and Marramao. In the conclusions, we move from Bruno Latour’s reflection and try to go beyond our never having been modern, to try to define the contours of a possible third epoch of the concept of revolution, in which we need to rethink the very structures through which we think about our belonging to the world and time.
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Faced with the current pandemic situation, many thinkers examined not only the relationship between the political dimension and the present health emergency, and the related social and economic transformations, but also and above all the... more
Faced with the current pandemic situation, many thinkers examined not only the relationship between the political dimension and the present health emergency, and the related social and economic transformations, but also and above all the changes in the construction of identity and the self-perception that it has determined and will continue to determine. Giorgio Agamben and Byung-Chul Han, although starting from different analyses (disciplinary society / performance society), agree on the return and on the tightening of devices that limit personal freedoms. The provocative question from which we are starting is whether neoliberalism really wants a pandemic. The answer is particularly complex and is divided into three passages: the first part, in fact, is critically confronted with Agamben’s reflection; the second part starts from the analysis of Byung-Chul Han’s thought, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses; in the last part, the fallout from the point of view of identity processes is discussed above all through a critical analysis of the paradigms of resilience and victimization.
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HUMAN, ALL TOO (LITTLE) HUMAN? The expression "Anthropocene" hit the headlines when the chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Jozef Crutzen on 22nd February 2000, during a meeting of the scientific committee of the International... more
HUMAN, ALL TOO (LITTLE) HUMAN? The expression "Anthropocene" hit the headlines when the chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Jozef Crutzen on 22nd February 2000, during a meeting of the scientific committee of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP), interrupted the interlocutors using for the first time this word, the only one capable of defining the impact that the human species is having on the environment and on the biosphere. From that moment an important debate appares and it immediately went beyond the boundaries of the hard sciences to flow into different fields, from epistemology to anthropology, from philosophy to sociology of science, passing through economics and politics. The dossier of the n. 21/2019 of S&F_ intends to examine the expression "Anthropocene" as a concept that refers both to an insufficiency of human being as we know it faced with the crisis of the Modernity and its superabundance – an excess of intervention, in the sense o...
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How long can a culture persist without the new? TINA and the research of a "cosmology" worthy of the Anthropocene The essay intends to analyze the possibility of building/imagining a new cosmology in the time of the... more
How long can a culture persist without the new? TINA and the research of a "cosmology" worthy of the Anthropocene The essay intends to analyze the possibility of building/imagining a new cosmology in the time of the Anthropocene. This will be the path: first, deconstructing the mainstream and fashionable narrative of the Anthropocene, highlighting all the ideological aspects whose it is formed, consciously and unconsciously; secondly, showing the limits of the ability to make philosophy and to imagine the new because of "capitalist realism", which represents an asphyxiating, pervasive and all-encompassing imagine of reality; finally, outlining the profile of a new cosmology, capable of reactivating the power to imagine and act, beyond the TINA (there is no alternative) and in order to create the radically new, the only possible way out of the suffocating atmosphere of the fashionable Anthropocene and of "capitalist realism".
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The Power venerated for its Impotence: Pierre Clastres and the "savage" (An)Archaeology of the Political The paper aims to analyse the crux of the reflection of the anthropologist Pierre Clastres within the discursive regime of... more
The Power venerated for its Impotence: Pierre Clastres and the "savage" (An)Archaeology of the Political The paper aims to analyse the crux of the reflection of the anthropologist Pierre Clastres within the discursive regime of late modernity: is a stateless society really conceivable? And the image of a non-coercive power that goes beyond the image of Western power as a connection between command and obedience? A journey within a splendid dream, that of the most mature anthropology, and a reflection that places us before a very particular answer to those that are the two fundamental questions of modernity: what is man and what is society.
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There was a time when the study on the origin of human verbal language caused scandals and prohibitions, as in 1866 when the Société de Linguistique de Paris forbade to present contributions on this issue. Nowadays, instead, this is one... more
There was a time when the study on the origin of human verbal language caused scandals and prohibitions, as in 1866 when the Société de Linguistique de Paris forbade to present contributions on this issue. Nowadays, instead, this is one of the more controversial and widely studied topics, as if this question would hide some additional value, something that deals with the deep meaning of mankind and with its place in the world. Thus, since fossils can't speak, and even the monkeys, which are so close to us, do not seem to have any intention to do it, biologists, neuroscientists, palaeontologists, and philosophers discuss about it.
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Living with the Robots. A Conversation about social Robotics This interview aims at focusing some aspects of an intriguing discipline known as social Robotics. In particular, we try to get familiar with concepts and philosophical... more
Living with the Robots. A Conversation about social Robotics This interview aims at focusing some aspects of an intriguing discipline known as social Robotics. In particular, we try to get familiar with concepts and philosophical frameworks which deal with this new human enterprise. Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano will help us to get in contact with a scenario in which emotions, reason and ethics will be partially revised by a somehow different perspective about human-robot interaction and sociality.
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Life and The Useful: the Parable of the Sow The notion of life and the notion of utile represent a sort of paradigm of modernity: the conflict that invests them can be deconstructed to show the trend lines of our time. The... more
Life and The Useful: the Parable of the Sow The notion of life and the notion of utile represent a sort of paradigm of modernity: the conflict that invests them can be deconstructed to show the trend lines of our time. The individual/property/contract triad undergoes a fundamental decentralization that leads to a rethinking of political categories of modernity. La limite de l'utile, the invention of the human person and the multiple overflow of life, even in terms of belief in freedom, are the essential keys to this path, according to seraphic Durkheim and extreme Bataille.
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THE "NEUROSCIENCE OF THE RACE". REMARKS ON NATURE, CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY In this paper we intend to analyse the topic of the "Neuroscience of the race" and the relationship between "nature" and... more
THE "NEUROSCIENCE OF THE RACE". REMARKS ON NATURE, CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY In this paper we intend to analyse the topic of the "Neuroscience of the race" and the relationship between "nature" and "culture" in this respect. After analyzing an important paper on the topic by Jennifer T. Kubota, Mahazarin R. Banaji and Elizabeth Phelps, the key issue is here identified as the mechanism that produces the relationship between nature and culture in late modernity. The path that will be followed is divided into three stages: first, we will analyze the relationship between the "Neuroscience" and the so‐called "human nature"; second, we will approach the relationship between "Neuroscience" and "medical device" by analyzing the theoretical, practical and political roles of the medical concept of "prevention"; finally, will touch upon the "centrifugal" aspect of human being that emerges from such s...
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The extended Experience. Reflections on the Anthropocene The debate on the so-called Anthropocene represents the emergence of a problematization that calls into question the whole system of modernity, which is to be understood as a... more
The extended Experience. Reflections on the Anthropocene The debate on the so-called Anthropocene represents the emergence of a problematization that calls into question the whole system of modernity, which is to be understood as a combination of reflective rationality and a capitalist mode of production. The essay intends to analyze the contradictions that arise from the "discovery" of the Anthropocene: that between anthropocentrism and post-anthropocentrism, and that between origin and outcome of modernity. If Latour's studies are important to understand the epistemological status of unfinished modernity, we must go to the material origin of the problem and understand the implications of the capitalist and modern world-ecology. Once the places of the emergency of the problematization have been identified, it is possible to think about an intervention in reality that has at its center the dynamics of the conflict and the determination of an extended experience.
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In this paper we intend to analyze the devices and conceptual strategies fielded by Claude Bernard, trying to figure out what was the contribution of the physiologist to the life sciences and vitalistic metaphysics of our time. The basic... more
In this paper we intend to analyze the devices and conceptual strategies fielded by Claude Bernard, trying to figure out what was the contribution of the physiologist to the life sciences and vitalistic metaphysics of our time. The basic idea is that the originality and importance of his work consists not so much in the experimental method applied to living organisms, but rather in having inserted old and new concepts within an epistemological framework expertly re‐determined. The analysis will focus on a few key points – the re‐ positioning of the dichotomy vitalism/mechanism, the question of heredity and individual variation, the analysis of the level of "latent life" and the relationship between physiology and morphology – and the horizon within which will be included will be that of the dialectic between conditions and expressions.
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In this essay we analyze more philosophico the impact of the research on the origin of human verbal language. Starting from suggestions deriving from the work of Agamben and Lévi-Strauss, two discontinuists, we face a double... more
In this essay we analyze more philosophico the impact of the research on the origin of human verbal language. Starting from suggestions deriving from the work of Agamben and Lévi-Strauss, two discontinuists, we face a double contradiction. The first relates to the inability to define the birth date of human language and of human world. This consideration makes us suspect that behind the passion for this issue there is a hidden need. The second concerns the mix of fascinans and tremendum linked to human mutism, which suggests, from the dominator point of view, an attitude to human animalization, and, from the dominated point of view, a form of resistance or survival instinct. Under these lenses we will read the enfant sauvage by Itard and the Foe by Coetzee. Finally we will discuss the issue of the need for origin as modern mankind melancholia and as unresolved tension towards the future.
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF (AND "US") IN THE TIME OF DATAISM The essay intends to analyze some elements concerning the crux of the construction of Self (and "Us") in the age of the so-called Dataism. The analysis moves,... more
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF (AND "US") IN THE TIME OF DATAISM The essay intends to analyze some elements concerning the crux of the construction of Self (and "Us") in the age of the so-called Dataism. The analysis moves, first of all, from epistemological considerations, and then goes on issues concerning the crux of identity and subjectivation within the conceptual couple Neoliberalism/Dataism: taking the cue from the observations of Goffman and Foucault, we intend to identify the heart of the problem within the impossibility of a narrative and temporalized construction of Self. The conclusions will attempt critical work around the notion of Populism as a dominant political aspect in the age of Dataism.
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The aim of this article is to show how important is the idea of "apocalypse" in the present age and discuss if it is possible to develop any strategies of "survival". After discussing some elements of de Martino's... more
The aim of this article is to show how important is the idea of "apocalypse" in the present age and discuss if it is possible to develop any strategies of "survival". After discussing some elements of de Martino's thought about the temporal, psychopathological and political meaning of "apocalypse", we'll analyze the sense of Lars von Trier's Melancholia as a symptom of the contemporary situation. After that, we'll point out the importance of 11/9, the biggest and most shocking event of our time, debating the opinions of Baudrillard and Girard. Both thinkers consider 11/9 a fundamental event in order to understand the meaning of our time, Baudrillard debating the problem of our virtual society and Girard talking about the signs of a next "apocalypse". Finally, we'll try to introduce the concept of a "politics of survival", such as it has been recently discussed by Didi-Huberman in his important book, Survivance des...
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L'articolo intende analizzare la relazione tra la riflessione del fondatore della clinica moderna Claude Bernard e la letteratura di Emile Zola. Partendo dalla riflessione del medico francese e passando per la “scena” del laboratorio... more
L'articolo intende analizzare la relazione tra la riflessione del fondatore della clinica moderna Claude Bernard e la letteratura di Emile Zola. Partendo dalla riflessione del medico francese e passando per la “scena” del laboratorio (Bernard, ma anche Charcot) e la costruzione di cio che puo essere definito “personaggio fisiologico”, si cerca di identificare allo stesso tempo la trasformazione nella lettura del (e nello “sguardo” sul) fenomeno umano, avutasi a partire dalla rivoluzione della biologia moderna, e il passaggio determinante per la costruzione del “protagonista” del grande romanzo moderno. The paper aims to analyse the relationship between the thought of the founder of the modern clinic Claude Bernard and the literature of Emile Zola. Starting from the “philosophy” of the French clinician and passing through the “scene” of the laboratory (Bernard, but also Charcot) and the construction of what can be defined as “physiological character”, the paper tries to identify ...
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Considerations on the concept of world and of relationship to the world in the age of Anthropocene: essay on XXI century philosophy The essay intends to analyze the notion of "world" and "relationship to the world" as... more
Considerations on the concept of world and of relationship to the world in the age of Anthropocene: essay on XXI century philosophy The essay intends to analyze the notion of "world" and "relationship to the world" as a crucial problem connected to the symbolic, economic and ecological crisis. The reflection starts from the analysis of the complex notion of "Anthropocene" (and why it should be conserved) and from the analysis of the notion of "world" (and why it should be conserved as a "relationship to the world"). The essay then proposes four theses on how to understand the "world" and the "relationship to the world" through a critical discussion especially with the theories of Bruno Latour, Quentin Meillassoux and Donna Haraway. The development of the essay leads to the central question of the need for conflict and for overcoming of the modern imaginary and the capitalist mode of production as the only possible...
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The essay aims to analyze some difficulties in thinking ethics and politics for the future starting from the characteristics of the temporal and historical discourse order of Modernity. The starting point is the analysis of the... more
The essay aims to analyze some difficulties in thinking ethics and politics for the future starting from the characteristics of the temporal and historical discourse order of Modernity. The starting point is the analysis of the name/concept of Anthropocene, a new geological era in which the human becomes a geological force, and the specific temporality that it shows: the need to think beyond the division between "human history" and "natural history". In order to define the limits of the order of temporal and historical discourse in Modernity, I questioned Reinhart Koselleck's reflection and Michel Foucault. If it is true that, reasoning with and beyond Koselleck, Modernity seems structurally incapable of thinking the future as radically different from an extension of the present; it is equally true that Modernity itself, thought of as ethos and not as epoch, can point the way to a form of critique of all existent reality as an ontology of actuality and a dimension of care towards exploited human living, non-human living, and Earth system.
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Dalle conclusioni. Il paesaggio e, per certi versi, la wilderness possono aiutare a costruire una nuova “visione del mondo”; un orizzonte di senso in vista di un nuovo universo simbolico e di un nuovo modo di organizzare il metabolismo... more
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Il paesaggio e, per certi versi, la wilderness possono aiutare a costruire una nuova “visione del mondo”; un orizzonte di senso in vista di un nuovo universo simbolico e di un nuovo modo di organizzare il metabolismo uomo/ natura. La necessità di una nuova ecologia-mondo e il bisogno del radicalmente nuovo. Contro la violenza simbolica naturalizzante e irrazionale del Significante Dominante del Capitale globale, abbiamo bisogno di rinnovare le nostre grandi narrazioni contro ogni forma che assume il post-moderno: l’Antropocene ci racconta come la natura sia storia e la storia sia natura, come le grandi narrazioni possano distendersi, inglobandola, ben oltre e ben prima l’apparizione di una determinata specie, Homo sapiens, nel lusso creativo della natura universale. E l’Antropocene ci mostra che la natura è eccedenza ed eccesso, creatività assoluta e solidarietà nella creazione, in poche parole simbiosi generalizzata. Il paesaggio e la wilderness, nella loro insuperabile ambiguità, riescono a farci intravedere proprio questo, raccontando questa mescolanza originaria e da volere. Ripensare le forme di appartenenza al tutto naturale tra lacerazione e creazione, riconsiderare la modestia di una parte nei confronti della totalità, riaffermare che esiste una responsabilità differenziata in Homo sapiens, sottolineare l’orrore di dati previsionali che ragionano nell’ordine di quante centinaia di milioni di morti
il nostro modo di produzione e consumo può produrre in differenti scenari, questo il compito preliminare. La necessità etico-politica – nella ricerca e nella militanza – non può abbandonarsi al catastrofismo immobilizzante o alla furia accumulatrice. La catastrofe è soltanto una virtualità, non esiste alcun destino che ci imponga di realizzarla.
Il paesaggio e, per certi versi, la wilderness possono aiutare a costruire una nuova “visione del mondo”; un orizzonte di senso in vista di un nuovo universo simbolico e di un nuovo modo di organizzare il metabolismo uomo/ natura. La necessità di una nuova ecologia-mondo e il bisogno del radicalmente nuovo. Contro la violenza simbolica naturalizzante e irrazionale del Significante Dominante del Capitale globale, abbiamo bisogno di rinnovare le nostre grandi narrazioni contro ogni forma che assume il post-moderno: l’Antropocene ci racconta come la natura sia storia e la storia sia natura, come le grandi narrazioni possano distendersi, inglobandola, ben oltre e ben prima l’apparizione di una determinata specie, Homo sapiens, nel lusso creativo della natura universale. E l’Antropocene ci mostra che la natura è eccedenza ed eccesso, creatività assoluta e solidarietà nella creazione, in poche parole simbiosi generalizzata. Il paesaggio e la wilderness, nella loro insuperabile ambiguità, riescono a farci intravedere proprio questo, raccontando questa mescolanza originaria e da volere. Ripensare le forme di appartenenza al tutto naturale tra lacerazione e creazione, riconsiderare la modestia di una parte nei confronti della totalità, riaffermare che esiste una responsabilità differenziata in Homo sapiens, sottolineare l’orrore di dati previsionali che ragionano nell’ordine di quante centinaia di milioni di morti
il nostro modo di produzione e consumo può produrre in differenti scenari, questo il compito preliminare. La necessità etico-politica – nella ricerca e nella militanza – non può abbandonarsi al catastrofismo immobilizzante o alla furia accumulatrice. La catastrofe è soltanto una virtualità, non esiste alcun destino che ci imponga di realizzarla.
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IS PLANT ETHICS REALLY NECESSARY? This article aims at analysing the possibility and the need for a plant ethics within the field of applied ethics. Starting with an analysis of the symbolic and cultural representations of “nature” and... more
IS PLANT ETHICS REALLY NECESSARY?
This article aims at analysing the possibility and the need for a plant ethics within the field of applied ethics. Starting with an analysis of the symbolic and cultural representations of “nature” and with the connection with the material dimension of human relationality, it will move on to a speculative and synthetic analysis of the fundamental categories of environmental ethics (serving as a model for animal ethics and plant ethics), and then to renewed ontological representations that vegetal life can “show”, concluding with some propositions from which it is possible to answer positively to the question: is plant ethics really necessary?
This article aims at analysing the possibility and the need for a plant ethics within the field of applied ethics. Starting with an analysis of the symbolic and cultural representations of “nature” and with the connection with the material dimension of human relationality, it will move on to a speculative and synthetic analysis of the fundamental categories of environmental ethics (serving as a model for animal ethics and plant ethics), and then to renewed ontological representations that vegetal life can “show”, concluding with some propositions from which it is possible to answer positively to the question: is plant ethics really necessary?
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The human Image in Durkheim and Mauss: the Reasons why it may concern us In this paper we intend to analyse the topic of the image of man in the sociology of Durkheim and Mauss. The idea is that this topic is crucial to understand some... more
The human Image in Durkheim and Mauss: the Reasons why it may concern us In this paper we intend to analyse the topic of the image of man in the sociology of Durkheim and Mauss. The idea is that this topic is crucial to understand some aspects of the contemporary world and the fundamental question is intentionally ironic: who came first the man or the social? The path that we will follow is divided into three stages: first, we will analyse the position of the problem and why the question on the social appears with modernity; second, we will approach the thought of Durkheim and the key issue of the collective representations (in connection with the device of the unconscious and history); finally, we will examine the question of man in three dimensions and anthropological synthesis in Mauss. The brief conclusions explain why this path concerns everyone.
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This article aims at analysing how a particular representation of (individual and collective) death is symptom of a particular organization of culture and symbolic representations. Starting from the reflections of Jankélévitch, Bauman and... more
This article aims at analysing how a particular representation of (individual and collective) death is symptom of a particular organization of culture and symbolic representations. Starting from the reflections of Jankélévitch, Bauman and Gorer, I analyse the characteristics of what could be called “pornography of catastrophe”, i.e. the condition of human being in the Anthropocene faced with the possibility of individual and collective death. The “deconstruction of mortality” and the “deconstruction of immortality” are at the basis of this “pornographic” imaginary, as well as the all-modern and postmodern impossibility of inserting death within the symbolic exchange of our culture (the reference is to Baudrillard). Thus, the pornography of catastrophe feeds
in a contradictory way on a series of elements ranging from the need for
domination to the quiet of extinction, from the Promethean delirium of a certain transhumanism to the eternal mechanicism/machinism in the
representation of Nature (internal and external to the human). Catastrophe is “pornographic” – individualism of the specter and impossibility of symbolic and social elaboration – also from a strictly epistemological and ontological point of view, starting from the uncertainty and indeterminacy of “natural facts” within non-linear systems, denoting a certain difficulty for human moral psychology to adapt to contradictory forms of temporality. Analysing some elements of the so-called collapsologie, death, collapse and impotence seem to be correlated with this “pornographic” attitude, so that reactivating the imagination, at this moment in sapiens' history, becomes an immediately ethical-political task.
in a contradictory way on a series of elements ranging from the need for
domination to the quiet of extinction, from the Promethean delirium of a certain transhumanism to the eternal mechanicism/machinism in the
representation of Nature (internal and external to the human). Catastrophe is “pornographic” – individualism of the specter and impossibility of symbolic and social elaboration – also from a strictly epistemological and ontological point of view, starting from the uncertainty and indeterminacy of “natural facts” within non-linear systems, denoting a certain difficulty for human moral psychology to adapt to contradictory forms of temporality. Analysing some elements of the so-called collapsologie, death, collapse and impotence seem to be correlated with this “pornographic” attitude, so that reactivating the imagination, at this moment in sapiens' history, becomes an immediately ethical-political task.
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In this essay, I intend to analyze the epistemological, ontological and sociological complexity of the terms “normal” and “pathological” and of psychiatry tout court as a theoretical and institutional device. While “mental illness” is... more
In this essay, I intend to analyze the epistemological, ontological and sociological complexity of the terms “normal” and “pathological” and of psychiatry tout court as a theoretical and institutional device. While “mental illness” is indeed undefinable, its definition is, nevertheless, critical to understand some aspects of social partitioning inbourgeois and capitalist modernity. Thus, the parallel tracks that I will follow here pertain on one hand to the importance of the definition of the “history of science” and on the other to the ambiguity inherent to the definition of “abnormality” itself. The conflict between facts and values is key not only in terms of scientific definition but also as for the position of the "stigmatized” in relation to the institution, the social body, the self, and within the interaction that is always determined as asymmetrical.
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In this paper we intend to analyse the relationship between philosophy, psychiatry and, in wider terms, among human sciences. The key issue is here identified as the mechanism that produces the relationship between physiology (normality)... more
In this paper we intend to analyse the relationship between philosophy, psychiatry and, in wider terms, among human sciences. The key issue is here identified as the mechanism that produces the relationship between physiology (normality) and pathology in medical and the human sciences. The path that we will follow is divided into three stages: first, we will analyse the confusion between fact and value (i.e.; between the quantitative and qualitative dimension in the human phenomenon); second, we will approach the connection between the birth of the human sciences and the emergence of the device normal/pathological (Comte and the principle Broussais; Durkheim and the notion of anomie in relation to the division of labour and suicide); finally, we will touch upon the ultimate question aboutpsychiatry: is it a science of “man (Binswanger) or a knowledge/power based device that determines the structure of modernity (Foucault)?
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This interview aims at focusing a series of evolutionary, ethical, communicative and political issues about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Professor Telmo Pievani discusses the evolutionary causes of the phenomenon and how this pandemic is a... more
This interview aims at
focusing a series of
evolutionary, ethical,
communicative and
political issues about
the SARS-CoV-2
pandemic. Professor
Telmo Pievani discusses
the evolutionary causes
of the phenomenon and
how this pandemic is a
lesson in humility for
Homo sapiens. He thinks
in terms of ethics of
foresight, and does not
spare criticism of the
“asphyxiated and
culturally inadequate
politics”, emphasising
the need for
environmental justice to represent justice tout court.
focusing a series of
evolutionary, ethical,
communicative and
political issues about
the SARS-CoV-2
pandemic. Professor
Telmo Pievani discusses
the evolutionary causes
of the phenomenon and
how this pandemic is a
lesson in humility for
Homo sapiens. He thinks
in terms of ethics of
foresight, and does not
spare criticism of the
“asphyxiated and
culturally inadequate
politics”, emphasising
the need for
environmental justice to represent justice tout court.
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Was Claude Bernard a mechanicist or a vitalist? What we intend to show first is that, with a careful choice of quotes, it is possible to prove both claims. Then is it a theoretical weakness and an epistemological indecision? The thesis of... more
Was Claude Bernard a mechanicist or a vitalist?
What we intend to show first is that, with a
careful choice of quotes, it is possible to
prove both claims. Then is it a theoretical
weakness and an epistemological indecision?
The thesis of this essay is that Claude
Bernard's indecision is the epistemological
indecision of Modernity, which has developed a
binary style of thinking, then producing a
series of hybridizations that are both
necessary and improbable. It is a question of
attitudes and demands and the answer is to be
found from both an epistemological and an
anthropological point of view.
What we intend to show first is that, with a
careful choice of quotes, it is possible to
prove both claims. Then is it a theoretical
weakness and an epistemological indecision?
The thesis of this essay is that Claude
Bernard's indecision is the epistemological
indecision of Modernity, which has developed a
binary style of thinking, then producing a
series of hybridizations that are both
necessary and improbable. It is a question of
attitudes and demands and the answer is to be
found from both an epistemological and an
anthropological point of view.
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Faced with the current pandemic situation, many thinkers examined not only the relationship between the political dimension and the present health emergency, and the related social and economic transformations, but also and above all the... more
Faced with the current pandemic situation,
many thinkers examined not only the
relationship between the political
dimension and the present health
emergency, and the related social and
economic transformations, but also and
above all the changes in the construction
of identity and the self-perception that
it has determined and will continue to
determine. Giorgio Agamben and Byung-Chul
Han, although starting from different
analyses (disciplinary society /
performance society), agree on the return
and on the tightening of devices that limit
personal freedoms. The provocative
question from which we are starting is
whether neoliberalism really wants a
pandemic. The answer is particularly
complex and is divided into three
passages: the first part, in fact, is
critically confronted with Agamben’s
reflection; the second part starts from
the analysis of Byung-Chul Han’s thought,
highlighting its strengths and weaknesses;
in the last part, the fallout from the
point of view of identity processes is
discussed above all through a critical
analysis of the paradigms of resilience
and victimization.
many thinkers examined not only the
relationship between the political
dimension and the present health
emergency, and the related social and
economic transformations, but also and
above all the changes in the construction
of identity and the self-perception that
it has determined and will continue to
determine. Giorgio Agamben and Byung-Chul
Han, although starting from different
analyses (disciplinary society /
performance society), agree on the return
and on the tightening of devices that limit
personal freedoms. The provocative
question from which we are starting is
whether neoliberalism really wants a
pandemic. The answer is particularly
complex and is divided into three
passages: the first part, in fact, is
critically confronted with Agamben’s
reflection; the second part starts from
the analysis of Byung-Chul Han’s thought,
highlighting its strengths and weaknesses;
in the last part, the fallout from the
point of view of identity processes is
discussed above all through a critical
analysis of the paradigms of resilience
and victimization.
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This essay aims at analysing the relationship between the Anthropocene as fashionable concept and the migrant issue as the return of the repressed in the self-absolving Western narrative. First of all, we will deconstruct the mainstream... more
This essay aims at analysing the relationship between the Anthropocene as fashionable concept and the migrant issue as the return of the repressed in the self-absolving Western narrative. First of all, we will deconstruct the mainstream concept of Anthropocene (starting from a well-known essay by W. Steffen, J. Grinevald, P. Crutzen and J. McNeill), showing its disquieting continuity with the conceptual and political devices of Western modernity; then, we will analyse the migrant issue, starting from the problematization of climate refugee and Achille Mbembe’s conceptualization about the becoming-Negro of the world. Secondly, we will address the concept of un-appropriable (Mbembe and Agamben): the thesis is that the Negro (in its wider meaning) can become the subject of emancipation starting from new perspectives of “use” beyond capitalist property and appropriation. Thirdly, we will show how the un-appropriable needs a new realism starting from a renewed cosmology and an ontology of mixing (Margulis and Coccia). The conclusions will investigate the implications between the two fundamental political questions: how is to be? and what is to be done?
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HOW LONG CAN A CULTURE PERSIST WITHOUT THE NEW? TINA AND THE RESEARCH OF A “COSMOLOGY” WORTHY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE. The essay intends to analyze the possibility of building/imagining a new cosmology in the time of the Anthropocene. This... more
HOW LONG CAN A CULTURE PERSIST WITHOUT THE NEW? TINA AND
THE RESEARCH OF A “COSMOLOGY” WORTHY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE. The essay intends to analyze the possibility of
building/imagining a new cosmology in the time of the Anthropocene. This will be the path: first, deconstructing the mainstream and fashionable narrative of the Anthropocene, highlighting all the ideological aspects whose it is formed, consciously and unconsciously; secondly, showing the limits of the ability to make philosophy and to imagine the new because of “capitalist realism”, which represents an asphyxiating, pervasive and all-encompassing imagine of reality; finally,
outlining the profile of a new cosmology, capable of reactivating the power to imagine and act, beyond the TINA (there is no alternative)
and in order to create the radically new, the only possible way out of the suffocating atmosphere of the fashionable Anthropocene and
of “capitalist realism”.
THE RESEARCH OF A “COSMOLOGY” WORTHY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE. The essay intends to analyze the possibility of
building/imagining a new cosmology in the time of the Anthropocene. This will be the path: first, deconstructing the mainstream and fashionable narrative of the Anthropocene, highlighting all the ideological aspects whose it is formed, consciously and unconsciously; secondly, showing the limits of the ability to make philosophy and to imagine the new because of “capitalist realism”, which represents an asphyxiating, pervasive and all-encompassing imagine of reality; finally,
outlining the profile of a new cosmology, capable of reactivating the power to imagine and act, beyond the TINA (there is no alternative)
and in order to create the radically new, the only possible way out of the suffocating atmosphere of the fashionable Anthropocene and
of “capitalist realism”.
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Un ulteriore elemento che la pandemia da SarsCov2 porta chiaramente all’emergenza è un’altra contraddizione propria della nostra epoca di capitalismo neoliberista: la letalità del Covid-19 non è connessa soltanto a una determinata... more
Un ulteriore elemento che la pandemia da SarsCov2 porta chiaramente all’emergenza è un’altra contraddizione propria della nostra epoca di capitalismo neoliberista: la letalità del Covid-19 non è connessa soltanto a una determinata virulenza, calcolabile quantitativamente,
non è soltanto naturale (laddove per “naturale” dobbiamo intendere, in maniera estremamente semplificata, ciò che è conforme a una certa espressione biologica), ma è anche umana – una catastrofe esattamente come il terremoto di Lisbona nella lettura del passeggiatore solitario Rousseau. Il SarsCov2 è la rappresentazione perfetta dell’ibrido, del network all’interno del quale ad agire non è mai soltanto un elemento, ma l’intera organizzazione sistemica: questa tipologia di virus ha origine animale; il salto di specie avviene sempre più frequentemente per l’impatto umano sulla biodiversità; una volta effettuato il salto di specie, il virus si mostra letale in misura maggiore o minore
all’efficienza di un determinato sistema sanitario. È in gioco tutta l’ecologia-mondo nella quale ci troviamo immersi ed è esattamente questo il terreno da rivolgere per una nuova possibile fioritura.
non è soltanto naturale (laddove per “naturale” dobbiamo intendere, in maniera estremamente semplificata, ciò che è conforme a una certa espressione biologica), ma è anche umana – una catastrofe esattamente come il terremoto di Lisbona nella lettura del passeggiatore solitario Rousseau. Il SarsCov2 è la rappresentazione perfetta dell’ibrido, del network all’interno del quale ad agire non è mai soltanto un elemento, ma l’intera organizzazione sistemica: questa tipologia di virus ha origine animale; il salto di specie avviene sempre più frequentemente per l’impatto umano sulla biodiversità; una volta effettuato il salto di specie, il virus si mostra letale in misura maggiore o minore
all’efficienza di un determinato sistema sanitario. È in gioco tutta l’ecologia-mondo nella quale ci troviamo immersi ed è esattamente questo il terreno da rivolgere per una nuova possibile fioritura.
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This article aims to address the reflection of Bataille from the notions of desire and death – and from the use he makes of them -, in order to show how the dynamics of sacrifice, in their constant reversal of the dialectic between... more
This article aims to address the reflection of Bataille from the notions of desire and death – and from the use he makes of them -, in order to show how the dynamics of sacrifice, in their constant reversal of the dialectic between immanence and transcendence, is the foundation of his reflection and becomes the instrument for the construction of an anthropological narration. the basis of this dynamics is the original way
through which Bataille articulated the Hegelian-Kojèvian teaching on a constant interest for ethnology and cultural anthropology.
through which Bataille articulated the Hegelian-Kojèvian teaching on a constant interest for ethnology and cultural anthropology.
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The aim of this article is to show how important is the idea of “apocalypse” in the present age and discuss if it is possible to develop any strategies of “survival”. After discussing some elements of de Martino’s thought about the... more
The aim of this article is to show how important is the
idea of “apocalypse” in the present age and discuss if it is possible to develop any strategies of “survival”. After discussing some elements of de Martino’s thought about the temporal, psychopathological and political meaning of “apocalypse”, we’ll analyze the sense of Lars von
Trier’s Melancholia as a symptom of the contemporary situation. After that, we’ll point out the importance of 11/9, the biggest and most shocking event of our time, debating the opinions of Baudrillard and Girard. Boththinkers consider 11/9 a fundamental event in order to understand the meaning of our time, Baudrillard debating the problem of our virtual society and Girard talking about the signs of a next “apocalypse”. Finally, we’ll try to introduce the concept of a “politics of survival”, such as it has been recently discussed by Didi‐Huberman in his important book, Survivance des lucioles.
idea of “apocalypse” in the present age and discuss if it is possible to develop any strategies of “survival”. After discussing some elements of de Martino’s thought about the temporal, psychopathological and political meaning of “apocalypse”, we’ll analyze the sense of Lars von
Trier’s Melancholia as a symptom of the contemporary situation. After that, we’ll point out the importance of 11/9, the biggest and most shocking event of our time, debating the opinions of Baudrillard and Girard. Boththinkers consider 11/9 a fundamental event in order to understand the meaning of our time, Baudrillard debating the problem of our virtual society and Girard talking about the signs of a next “apocalypse”. Finally, we’ll try to introduce the concept of a “politics of survival”, such as it has been recently discussed by Didi‐Huberman in his important book, Survivance des lucioles.
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In this essay we analyze more philosophico the impact of the research on the origin of human verbal language. Starting from suggestions deriving from the work of Agamben and Lévi‐ Strauss, two discontinuists, we face a double... more
In this essay we analyze more philosophico the impact of the research on the origin of human verbal language. Starting from suggestions deriving from the work of Agamben and Lévi‐ Strauss, two discontinuists, we face a double contradiction. The first relates to the inability to define the birth date of human language and of human world. This consideration makes us suspect that behind the passion for this issue there is a hidden need. The second concerns the mix of fascinans and tremendum linked to human mutism, which suggests, from the dominator point of view, an attitude to human animalization, and, from the dominated point of view, a form of resistance or survival instinct. Under these lenses we will read the enfant sauvage by Itard and the Foe by Coetzee. Finally we will discuss the issue of the need for origin as modern mankind melancholia and as unresolved tension towards the future.
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Questo studio su e con Durkheim muove da due considerazioni di fondo: la prima concerne la nascita e lo sviluppo delle scienze sociali – in questo senso si identifica l’apparire della problematizzazione della solidarietà con l’apparire... more
Questo studio su e con Durkheim muove da due considerazioni di fondo: la prima concerne la nascita e lo sviluppo delle scienze sociali – in questo senso si identifica l’apparire della problematizzazione della solidarietà con l’apparire stesso della problematizzazione delle scienze sociali e, sempre in questo senso, si identifica la centralità dell’elemento “filosofico” nell’evoluzione della riflessione durkheimiana; la seconda riguarda la complessità della riflessione del sociologo francese e la maniera mediante la quale è possibile affermare che quanto da lui ritrovato, nelle sue contraddizioni molteplici, possa essere ancora decisamente attuale. Che in un modo o nell’altro ci riguardi.
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Viviamo in un’epoca in cui sembra che qualsiasi disciplina classica possa essere declinata a partire dal prefisso bio. Si parla costantemente di bioetica, biopolitica o bioeconomia – tanto per fare gli esempi più riusciti. In tutto questo... more
Viviamo in un’epoca in cui sembra che qualsiasi disciplina classica possa essere declinata a partire dal prefisso bio. Si parla costantemente di bioetica, biopolitica o bioeconomia – tanto per fare gli esempi più riusciti. In tutto questo Foucault c’entra qualcosa e il punto di partenza da cui muove questo saggio è nella sua semplicità lampante, Foucault è il pensatore della modernità all’interno del quale la problematizzazione della vita ha raggiunto il livello più elevato di consapevolezza. E così abbiamo la vita come “indicatore epistemologico”, la vita come ciò che è attraversato e plasmato dalle relazioni di potere, ma anche la vita come elemento plastico in vista di nuove forme di soggettivazione, il bios come produttore di differenze nella sua relazione con la verità e il mondo. La tensione fondamentale nella riflessione foucaultiana riguarda, allora, quella che lui stesso definisce la ricerca di “una vita radicalmente altra”. Ed è questa tensione a determinare sin dall’inizio l’attenzione per le esperienze marginali di folli, delinquenti, ermafroditi e perversi sessuali, ed è la medesima tensione ad essere alla base del suo testamento filosofico dedicato al Cinismo antico. In poche parole, è questo il senso della “militanza filosofica” secondo Foucault, del suo originale modo di intendere l’engagement. A partire da tali presupposti, questo studio attua un attraversamento dell’intera opera foucaultiana non soltanto con l’intenzione di restituire la complessità di una filosofia, ma anche perché mosso dalla convinzione che questa tensione continua in vista di “una vita radicalmente altra” ci riguardi, riguardi il senso dell’epoca in cui viviamo.
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Claude Bernard è sicuramente una figura fondamentale e complessa di scienziato e pensatore. Fondatore del metodo scientifico in fisiologia, la sua riflessione presenta complessità maggiori di quanto la tradizione abbia voluto accordargli.... more
Claude Bernard è sicuramente una figura fondamentale e complessa di scienziato e pensatore. Fondatore del metodo scientifico in fisiologia, la sua riflessione presenta complessità maggiori di quanto la tradizione abbia voluto accordargli. In questo libro sono raccolti alcuni saggi occasionali, che rappresentano la summa del suo pensiero scientifico, così come ne espongono le più feconde articolazioni contraddittorie. L’intento non è soltanto quello di raccontare un’esperienza fondamentale di pensiero, ma anche di determinare fino a che punto quanto detto da Claude Bernard ci riguardi o, ancor di più, quanto le contraddizioni che si ritrovano nella sua riflessione siano alla base delle contraddizioni che ogni approccio esclusivamente “fisiologico” alla vita (in questo senso, “decomplessificante”) porta con sé. La fisiologia e la metafisica della vita novecentesche devono indubbiamente qualcosa a questo profondo scienziato, passato tuttavia alla storia come un “rude vivisettore”.
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Due scritti di Gabriel Tarde che si richiamano a vicenda, originale messa in opera della sua particolare filosofia, sociologia e psicologia. Nel primo scritto, Frammento di storia futura, una catastrofe ambientale costringe i pochi... more
Due scritti di Gabriel Tarde che si richiamano a vicenda, originale messa in opera della sua particolare filosofia, sociologia e psicologia. Nel primo scritto, Frammento di storia futura, una catastrofe ambientale costringe i pochi sopravvissuti a rifugiarsi nelle viscere della terra, dove costruiscono una nuova società, sviluppata secondo il modello tardiano. Una sorta di rovesciamento dell’ideale platonico dell’uscire dalla caverna, e un’immagine del futuro che, proprio perché già sempre possibile, non può attingere la perfezione. Nel secondo scritto, I giganti calvi, incontriamo e impariamo a conoscere la super-umanità del futuro, plasmata con pratiche eugenetiche a partire dall’invenzione “geniale” di un uomo solitario. In un mondo che si crede perfetto e che perfetto non può essere, la catastrofe è però sempre in agguato. Finzioni profonde e ironiche sui futuri possibili dell’umanità, questi scritti tardiani – tutti giocati tra creazione e catastrofe e in cui domina la contingenza – mostrano come la creatività sia un fatto di portata ontologica e lo sforzo di immaginare un futuro altro non sia soltanto un imperativo etico e politico, ma anche il modo migliore per realizzare la natura umana.
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There was a time when the study on the origin of human verbal language caused scandals and prohibitions, as in 1866 when the Société de Linguistique de Paris forbade to present contributions on this issue. Nowadays, instead, this is one... more
There was a time when the study on the origin of human verbal
language caused scandals and prohibitions, as in 1866 when the Société de Linguistique de Paris forbade to present contributions on this issue. Nowadays, instead, this is one of the more controversial and widely studied topics, as if this question would hide some additional value, something that deals with the deep meaning of mankind and with its place in the world. Thus, since fossils can’t speak, and even the
monkeys, which are so close to us, do not seem to have any intention to do it, biologists, neuroscientists, palaeontologists, and philosophers discuss about it.
language caused scandals and prohibitions, as in 1866 when the Société de Linguistique de Paris forbade to present contributions on this issue. Nowadays, instead, this is one of the more controversial and widely studied topics, as if this question would hide some additional value, something that deals with the deep meaning of mankind and with its place in the world. Thus, since fossils can’t speak, and even the
monkeys, which are so close to us, do not seem to have any intention to do it, biologists, neuroscientists, palaeontologists, and philosophers discuss about it.
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The expression “Anthropocene” hit the headlines when the chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Jozef Crutzen on 22nd February 2000, during a meeting of the scientific committee of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP),... more
The expression “Anthropocene” hit the headlines when the chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Jozef Crutzen on 22nd February 2000, during a meeting of the scientific committee of the International Geosphere
Biosphere Program (IGBP), interrupted the interlocutors using for the first time this word, the only one capable of defining the impact that the
human species is having on the environment and on the biosphere. From that moment an important debate appares and it immediately went beyond the boundaries of the hard sciences to flow into different fields, from epistemology to anthropology, from philosophy to sociology of science, passingmthrough economics and politics.
The dossier of the n. 21/2019 of S&F_ intends to examine the
expression “Anthropocene” as a concept that refers both to an insufficiency of human being as we know it faced with the crisis
of the Modernity and its superabundance – an excess of intervention, in the sense of expropriation, exploitation and destruction of Nature, Earth and Other.
Biosphere Program (IGBP), interrupted the interlocutors using for the first time this word, the only one capable of defining the impact that the
human species is having on the environment and on the biosphere. From that moment an important debate appares and it immediately went beyond the boundaries of the hard sciences to flow into different fields, from epistemology to anthropology, from philosophy to sociology of science, passingmthrough economics and politics.
The dossier of the n. 21/2019 of S&F_ intends to examine the
expression “Anthropocene” as a concept that refers both to an insufficiency of human being as we know it faced with the crisis
of the Modernity and its superabundance – an excess of intervention, in the sense of expropriation, exploitation and destruction of Nature, Earth and Other.
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THE FUTURE EVE BETWEEN ARTIFICIAL BODIES AND NATURAL BODIES: LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY OR SUBJECTION? In the last thirty years the problematic relationship between body and machine has frequently been declined in the feminine, keeping the... more
THE FUTURE EVE BETWEEN ARTIFICIAL BODIES AND NATURAL BODIES: LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY OR SUBJECTION? In the last thirty years the problematic relationship between body and machine has frequently been declined in the feminine, keeping the woman at the center, her specificity, her aesthetic characteristics, her reproductive capacity. This attempt of the overcoming the patriarchal symbolic order has increasingly confronted, on the one hand, with the need for a reorganization of knowledge-therefore, in an epistemological key, a specific attention to a demystification of the role of Science and Technology, going beyond nature and culture, and, on the other hand, with a need to deepen the devices of reification of female body. The dossier of the n. 23/2020 of S&F_ intends to examine this problematization by crossing a series of issues: the relationship between reproductive work and support technologies, the role of motherhood, where requests for technical and manipulative intervention and requests for new naturalization increasingly cross, the problem of medicalization and normalization and the production of docile subjects and populations, the central role of neoliberal reproductive technologies as the basis for an exploitative and patriarchal economics.
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In December 2019, the city of Wuhan in Hubei became the epicenter of an unprecedented health crisis. SARS-CoV-2 is marking a watershed moment for sapiens. On the one hand, we are facing the most serious health emergency of the 21st... more
In December 2019, the city of Wuhan in Hubei
became the epicenter of an unprecedented health
crisis. SARS-CoV-2 is marking a watershed
moment for sapiens. On the one hand, we are
facing the most serious health emergency of the
21st century, on the other hand we are beginning
to experience the negative effects of our
development models that do not take into account
the welfare of non-human animals and the
systemic effect that our actions have on the
balance of the biosphere. In the contributions
hosted in this Dossier, the plurality of issues
raised by SARS-CoV-2 comes to light clearly and
distinctly. From bioethical questions to
biopolitical issues, including an in-depth
examination of the effects that the pandemic is
having on society and on the capacity for selfperception
of sapiens, we try to shed light on
the countless consequences that this pandemic
is bringing with it.
became the epicenter of an unprecedented health
crisis. SARS-CoV-2 is marking a watershed
moment for sapiens. On the one hand, we are
facing the most serious health emergency of the
21st century, on the other hand we are beginning
to experience the negative effects of our
development models that do not take into account
the welfare of non-human animals and the
systemic effect that our actions have on the
balance of the biosphere. In the contributions
hosted in this Dossier, the plurality of issues
raised by SARS-CoV-2 comes to light clearly and
distinctly. From bioethical questions to
biopolitical issues, including an in-depth
examination of the effects that the pandemic is
having on society and on the capacity for selfperception
of sapiens, we try to shed light on
the countless consequences that this pandemic
is bringing with it.
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THE FUTURE EVE BETWEEN ARTIFICIAL BODIES AND NATURAL BODIES: LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY OR SUBJECTION? In the last thirty years the problematic relationship between body and machine has frequently been declined in the feminine, keeping the... more
THE FUTURE EVE BETWEEN ARTIFICIAL BODIES AND NATURAL BODIES: LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY OR SUBJECTION? In the last thirty years the problematic relationship between body and machine has frequently been declined in the feminine, keeping the woman at the center, her specificity, her aesthetic characteristics, her reproductive capacity. This attempt of the overcoming the patriarchal symbolic order has increasingly confronted, on the one hand, with the need for a reorganization of knowledge-therefore, in an epistemological key, a specific attention to a demystification of the role of Science and Technology, going beyond nature and culture, and, on the other hand, with a need to deepen the devices of reification of female body. The dossier of the n. 23/2020 of S&F_ intends to examine this problematization by crossing a series of issues: the relationship between reproductive work and support technologies, the role of motherhood, where requests for technical and manipulative intervention and requests for new naturalization increasingly cross, the problem of medicalization and normalization and the production of docile subjects and populations, the central role of neoliberal reproductive technologies as the basis for an exploitative and patriarchal economics.
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What Is Dead May Never Die, the motto of the House of Greyjoy in "Game of Thrones", takes us back to a time when death did not represent the dissolution of human existence, but the fulfillment of a destiny. At least, ritualized and... more
What Is Dead May Never Die, the motto of the House of Greyjoy in "Game of Thrones", takes us back to a time when death did not represent the dissolution of human existence, but the fulfillment of a destiny. At least, ritualized and celebrated, it implied the promise of remembrance and allowed one’s placement within a collective narrative. The same cannot be said of today's conception of death, no longer considered within a community dimension, but increasingly individualized. Its rites of passage, whether secular or religious, are increasingly stripped of sacredness. Death, today, does not represent, in common feeling, a completion, but only the end.The purpose of this Issue is to investigate the multiple philosophical, ethical and anthropological paths within which the theme of death is addressed.