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La dimensione scientifica del teatro
Get PDFIl connubio fra Scienza e Teatro ha radici antiche, ma negli ultimi decenni sta attraversando un periodo di particolare dinamismo. Fioriscono spettacoli che spaziano dalla pura espressione artistica, allo strumento comunicativo inusuale sia all'interno dell'accademia che verso platee studentesche o un pubblico generico, allo stratagemma per alimentare riflessioni su temi etici o sociali. L'aspetto più rilevante del fenomeno è lo stimolo all'interazione fra discipline diverse, con risultati innovativi e spesso sorprendenti
Termodinamica stocastica: l'ordine nelle fluttuazioni
Get PDFLa termodinamica stocastica è una teoria che si propone di descrivere il comportamento aleatorio di sistemi di taglia mesoscopica (intermedia fra la taglia atomica e quella macroscopica) in contatto con serbatoi di calore. Essa ha permesso di identificare sorprendenti regolarità di questo comportamento, note come relazioni di fluttuazione. Essa ha inoltre permesso di chiarire gli aspetti termodinamici della manipolazione di informazioni con implicazioni di vasta portata per la teoria dei sistemi biologici e della computazione
Come un'introduzione. Il telegrafo è nello smartphone. Ri-esplorare i media a sessant'anni da Understanding Media di Marshall McLuhan = As an introduction. The telegraph is in the smartphone. Re-exploring the media sixty years after Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
No full textThis paper discusses some of McLuhan's ideas on the media, presented in Understanding Media. The analysis is informed by the following research questions. First, what are media and how can they be distinguished? This question allows us to evaluate the relevance of McLuhan's definition of the media as "extensions of human beings" and to update the distinction between hot and cool media. Current media are the result of digital technology and its ability to re-mediate media that already existed in the 20th Century. All current media have high definition (like McLuhan's hot media) but involve high participation (like cool media do). Second question: is the definition of "global village" still relevant? We can say this label is more suitable for the social network environment than for the physical-social world. However, our digital global village is not hegemonized by the secondary orality generated by electric media, as in McLuhan's explorations. Instead, we experience a constant overlap between the written and oral dimensions. Finally, is the content of a medium always a previous medium? The answer to this question leads to the analysis of the device that holds all the media together today, that is, the smartphone, the new extension of current humanit
McLuhan e Debray. Un dialogo (perlopiù) possibile = McLuhan and Debray. A (mostly) possible dialogue
No full textIn the progressive definition of his idea of mediology, Régis Debray (inventor of the term) compares himself several times with the lesson of Marshall McLuhan. It is a respectful but also polemical comparison. In his Introduction à la médiologie, Debray devotes an entire chapter to deconstructing the well-known formula "The medium is the message", highlighting its over-simplification on the one hand, and its semantic strength and complexity on the other. This article sets out to retrace the points of contact and divergence between the two great scholars, attempting to highlight how the French thinker has re-read and taken up the assumptions of Understanding media and other McLuhan works, starting from the very concept of medium. Indeed, Debray has his peculiar idea of the medium, which only partly overlaps with McLuhan's. If for McLuhan it is - as an extension - traceable in every artefact, be it tangible or intangible, and is therefore given, for Debray, the medium does not exist per se but is given from time to time, depending on the object of study. In the Introduction, he tends to separate the two interpretations systematically, sometimes forcing his hand even from a lexical point of view and accentuating a difference that, on closer inspection, is not so wide. Debray's enucleation of the concepts of milieu and mediation is also interesting. The former represents, for the French scholar, the safe conduct for the accusations of determinism, which have often affected the Mcluhanian theoretical framework. The milieu is what filters - culturally, politically, socially, technologically - every new technical introduction, allowing (or preventing) it to become part of the material and symbolic universe of the human being. Mediation, on the other hand, is the cornerstone of Debrayan reflection: it is to it, much more than to the medium, that the prefix medium- of the word mediology refers. Richard Grusin, who owes much to McLuhan, spoke a few years ago of "radical mediation", underlining the importance of mediation for the very definition of the individual's identity. How is the idea of mediation dealt with in McLuhan's thought? The article also attempts to question this aspec
Ghostly Militanz: The Loss of Discursive Infrastructures and German Antifascist Radical Counterpublics
Get PDFThis article argues that German Antifa is historically grounded in radical counterpublics, established and maintained via discursive infrastructures by which activists declare, debate, justify and limit their direct actions. This process of discursive communication not only allows them to legitimize their direct action (up-to and including violence) as morally justified Militanz, but also delineates these actions as political rather than criminal. Beginning with the case study of the criminal trial against the so-called Antifa East, the paper argues that factions of German Antifa have abandoned these infrastructures, but in doing so have also lost the moral justification for their actions. By abandoning their-own movement limits and traditions, the Militanz wielded instead evokes only a ghost of that justification. Instead, these clandestine assaults – enacted without any discursive explanation or counterpublic engagement – cannot be understood as political, leaving those involved charged under the German legal code (section 129) regarding criminal rather than political and potentially terrorist (section 129a) engagement