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Il ritorno a casa - Maria Lai a Ulassai, 1981
Get PDFL’articolo è una riflessione critica sulla fondamentale opera di Maria Lai Legarsi alla montagna, collettiva e «relazionale» nel pioneristico coinvolgimento degli abitanti di un piccolo paese della Sardegna (Ulassai) in un’irripetibile esperienza umana ed estetica, l’otto di settembre del 1981. Il ritorno a casa della piccola protagonista della storia assurge a metafora dell’azione catartica e salvifica dell’arte e di un ritrovare se stessi sui fragili territori dell’ispirazione artistica
Dentro una terra. Il Monumento alla Resistenza di Cima Grappa
Get PDFMolti dei monumenti italiani della seconda metà del Novecento sono concepiti nell’orizzonte del dialogo con le arti. Significativo per la sintesi raggiunta in tal senso, è il monumento alla Resistenza di Cima Grappa (1974), esito di una felice compenetrazione fra architettura, scultura e poesia resa possibile dalla comune sensibilità degli autori per i valori del paesaggio
Architetture “impossibili” di Giotto e Keaton
Get PDFIl testo fa parte della ricerca Equilibri Eccentrici, che esplora un procedimento attraverso le figure esemplari di Giotto e Buster Keaton. Il loro incontro è un paradosso per chiarire alcune idee attraverso opposizioni e analogie. Eccentrico è il procedimento che ho seguito nell’interrogare lo spazio tra Buster Keaton e Giotto. Il progetto e il disegno sono stati usati come strumenti di conoscenz
Marina Abramović - The Cleaner. L’allestimento in mostra. Modello di Palazzo Strozzi per Marina Abramović
Get PDFRevitalizing Political Agency: Contextual Politics against Discrimination
Get PDFThis article centres on the predicament of political discrimination insofar as inclusive policies fail to address it and end up impoverishing political agency. On the one hand, inclusion plays out as a powerful political tool, as people are believed to gain access to forms of recognition granting legal protection and social visibility. On the other hand, however, my claim is that most models of political inclusion require people’s adhering to fixed policy matrixes that do not allow the articulation of forms of life falling short of the standards that these matrixes incorporate. The following analysis will be devoted to foregrounding the limits of inclusion and to advancing an alternative model that revitalizes political agency by valuing practices carried out in smaller social networks of solidarity – ones that entail some sort of normativity but are characterised by fluidity and proximity. On this alternative account, inclusion comes to be reframed as a web of relations and relocated within the subject’s reach. Whether in a vertical or a horizontal exchange, the subject becomes part of a collective that is not configured as the mainstream or the majority, nor does it saturate the subject’s life. Rather, inclusive processes appear as sectional moments of renegotiation and rearticulation of one’s subjectivity exposed to the constant flux of daily interactions
Two Ways of Understanding Persons: A Husserlian Distinction
Get PDFThis paper clarifies the distinction that Edmund Husserl makes between two different ways of understanding other persons, their actions and motivations: the experiential or empirical way, on the one hand, and the genuinely or authentically intuitive way, on the other hand. The paper argues that Husserl’s discussion of self-understanding clarifies his concept of the intuitive understanding of others and allows us to explicate what is involved in it: not just the grasping of the other’s actual motivations of action but also the grasping of her motivational possibilities. The paper ends by discussing the dynamic character of the personal subject
The Metamorphosis of Aliens into Political Agents
Get PDFConsidering being political not as a status, but rather as an act that demands both capacity and action as its necessary conditions, I see being a political agent not as a permanent condition, but rather in a twofold dimension of potentiality and actuality. Moreover, I contend that the right to vote is not a necessary, nor a sufficient condition for being a political actor, although such a right can enhance our possibilities of having a say, augmenting one’s degree of political agency. This means that those individuals who are deprived of the right to vote, undocumented migrants in particular, can nonetheless be political agents in the polity. Indeed, notwithstanding the importance attached to the right to vote and to citizenship as fundamental for political participation, I claim that undocumented migrants are political although lacking the legal voting means of participation. Although much of the debate around migrants’ political participation has centred around the extension of the right to vote to migrants, there are in fact other rights that require attention. Moreover, even if we consider the right to vote as essential to protect people from abuses granting them a say within the polity, the arguments that have been proposed fail when it comes to recognize the rights and the political agency of undocumented migrants. In my understanding, migrants become political agents by their very same acting in the city, deserving to be heard and let free to express themselves in voicing their claims as subjects of justice, autonomous individuals, final units of our moral concern
Archive Fever di Okwui Enwezor (2008): nuove fonti per l’analisi di una mostra di successo
Get PDFDespite its success, the 2008 exhibition Archive Fever. Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art curated by Okwui Enwezor at the International Center of Photography in New York has never been subjected to close examination. The aim of this essay is to reconsider the exhibition’s rationale in relation to previous debates on the notion of the archive and on archival art, and to analyze Enwezor’s curatorial choices in terms of artworks and their installation
Recensione di W.J.T. Mitchell, Scienza delle immagini. Iconologia, cultura visuale ed estetica dei media, trad. di Federica Cavaletti, Monza, Johan & Levi, 2018, pp. 276, ISBN 9788860101990
Get PDFStrinGRID. Paesaggio, rigenerazione e reti di relazioni nel progetto dello spazio pubblico urbano
Get PDFThe concept of landscape, as an interpretative and design device, is particularly useful to recognize the implicit transformative potential into the hybrid and widespread condition of contemporary city and territory. In this sense, to recycle places and materials, and more generally the urban regeneration is not more an isolate act, but a process to build new material and immaterial networks.The reflections by this paper speak about the participation in an Ideas Context finalized to regenerate the public spaces in an urban centre of Napoli’s Metropolitan City. This project is not only an opportunity to rethink the urban design, but the intention is to build a landscape network able to penetrate and engage the two principal territorial systems, urban and rural, working on continuity elements, identity paths, limits and moreover on the relational dimension of spaces and urban functions