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La neovalutazione al governo della società / Neoevaluation at the Government of Society
No full textOver the last three decades the rise of neoliberalism has been coupled with the rapid proliferation of a «new spirit of evaluation» (Barats et al. 2018), made up of rankings, ratings, and techniques aimed to measure every aspect of human life. By adopting a critical/cultural approach, we maintain that these evaluative practices, rather than being seen just as technical and neutral tools to improve individual, organizational and state performances, should be instead conceived as the ritual manifestation of truth (the “alethurgy”, to put it in Foucault’s words) of the current «managerial mode of domination» (Boltanski 2014). By steering our behaviour at a distance, «metric power» (Beer 2016) governs our life and erodes space for critics. In light of this, we regard neoevaluation as the specific rationality of the «new spirit of capitalism» (Boltanski and Chiapello 2014). Hence, we propose the foundation of a new research field in social and political science – that we suggest to name “Critical Evaluation Studies” – which finds a first contribution in this monographic issue.Keywords:Critical Evaluation Studies, Metric Power, Neoliberalism, Alethurgy, Power Knowledg
RECENSIONE A LA MAFIA DIMENTICATA
No full textSantino U., La mafia dimenticata. La criminalità organizzata in Sicilia dall’Unità d’Italia ai primi del Novecento. Le inchieste, i processi. Un documento storico, Editore Melampo, Milano, 2017, pp. 643
DAL RISCHIO ALLA PRESTAZIONE DISPOSITIVI, MISURAZIONI, PRODUZIONE DEL VALORE E INCLUSIONE DIFFERENZIALE /From Risk to Performance. Devices, Measurements, Value Production and Differential Inclusion
No full textThis article analyses the transition from risk society to performance society in the neo-liberal context. At the same time, the most important dispositifs of the principle of performance are discussed: management as an all-pervasive form of organization of human resources in the private sector and in institutions; the paradoxes generated by selectivity on a meritocraticbasis; the extraction of value from human predispositions, in particular from differences in sexual orientation and gender.Keywords:Neoliberalism, Performance society, Management, Meritocracy, Differential inclusio
Online platforms: new vulnerabilities to be addressed in the european legal framework
Get PDFOnline platforms play a significant role in facilitating the exchange of goods and services, operating as market makers. Their intermediation function is carried out through the conclusion of a series of unilaterally determined contracts, in which business users have a specific vulnerable position.Therefore, the need to ensure the growth of this phenomenon led to the adoption of Reg. (EU) No. 1150/2019, “On promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services”. The new legal framework seeks to address commercial users' vulnerabilities related to asymmetry of knowledge and bargaining power. The paper aims to analyze this Regulation its problematic aspects
A Libertarian, An-archist and A-crata approach to education
No full textWhen anarchism appeared as a political proposal, it was accompanied by a philosophy that encompasses all aspects of human life. In this political project, education plays a very important role on the road to a radically different society. Education is a necessary condition to foster free people who tend towards social solidarity. At present, anarchists offer three different educational proposals: deschooling society, creating schools with an anarchist agenda and ethos and teaching in free and compulsory schools. In this paper, we explore the third option in a more detailed way: the role of an anarchist teacher in public schools. We pay attention to the three essentials that run throughout all manifestations of anarchist ideology: freedom (libertarian*), autonomy (anarchism) and empowerment (a-cracia**). The three of them should guide anarchist teachers, according to the central principals of anarchist political praxis: direct action, prefigurative politics and mutual aid. The means employed to change society must be coherent with the ends to be achieved.__________________*Although I continue to use the term ‘libertarian’ in my paper, it is, in Spanish (and also in French or Italian), synonymous with ‘anarchist’ and has a weak, but interesting, relationship with the US term ‘libertarian’, which is normally on the right of the political spectrum (Roderick, 2018; García Moriyón, 2019).**‘Acracia’ is a very frequent term in Spanish to refer to ‘anarchism’, and ‘ácrata’ is almost synonymous to ‘anarchist’. This term exists also in French, Portuguese and German, but not in English. I want to use it because it refers to a fundamental trait of anarchism: a society without power nor domination. ‘Acracia’ comes from ancient Greek: α-, a ‘non’, y κράτος, kratos ‘power’. It is very different meaning to that of the English term ‘akrasia’: weakness of will
Narrazioni di violenza domestica. Il diritto di essere riconosciuta e riconoscersi “persona competente”
No full textThe theoretical background in which this contribution is framed saw personal identity coincide with narrative identity, and thinks to the stories we tell as a way to build worlds: the subjects interested by my reflection are women victims of violence, in particular domestic violence. I intend to suggest and demonstrate, also through the use of other interdisciplinary contributions, that both exposure and media re-exposure of our own narrated is not useful neither for the effects of a real public awareness, nor for women who have suffered violence within a relationship of proximity and trust (Ventimiglia 2002); at the same time, I intend to reflect on the need for a greater diffusion of some good practices (authentic actions of social justice), useful for helping these women to free themselves from the concept of vulnerability and to rebuild their dislocated identities.Riassunto: Lo sfondo teorico in cui si inserisce questo contributo è quello che ha visto coincidere l’identità personale con l’identità narrativa, e considera le storie che raccontiamo un modo per costruire mondi: i soggetti interessati alla mia riflessione sono le donne vittime di violenza, in particolare di violenza domestica. Intendo suggerire e dimostrare, tramite anche l’utilizzo di altri contributi interdisciplinari, che l’esposizione e la ri-esposizione mediatica del proprio narrato non è utile né agli effetti di una reale sensibilizzazione del pubblico, né tantomeno per le donne che hanno subìto violenza all’interno di una relazione di prossimità e di fiducia; allo stesso tempo, intendo riflettere sulla necessità di una maggiore diffusione di alcune buone pratiche (autentiche azioni di giustizia sociale), utili per aiutare queste donne a liberarsi dal concetto di vulnerabilità e a ricostruire le loro identità scompaginate
CARCERE E SOFFERENZA MENTALE. L’abisso della vita che non è più vita/PRISON AND MENTAL PAINS. A life that is no longer a life
No full textThis article focuses on the interactions between prison, madness andpower, from the modern era to the mature unfolding of digital sovereignty.In this extended transition, the significant novelty, is that the digitalgaze goes far and much deeper than that of the Panopticon, to the point ofmaking prison and mental suffering one of the most atrocious moulds oflife which is no longer living.Keywords:Prison, Madness, Mental Health, Social Control, Power
L’internamento prêt-à-porter e altri dispositivi del post manicomio. Dialogo tra Maria Grazia Giannichedda e Antonio Esposito/PRÊT-À-PORTER INTERNMENT AND OTHER POST-SANATORIUM DEVICES. A discussion between Maria Grazia Giannichedda and Antonio Esposito
No full textLa domanda «Che cosa resta manicomio?», che accompagna questo numero di “Cartografie sociali”, ha diverse genesi.Tra le motivazioni più importanti che ci hanno portato a proporre questo interrogativo, c’è l’incontro, didattico e di ricerca, realizzato, in questi anni, con le studentesse e gli studenti universitari e delle scuole medie-superiori, dialogando sul tema dell’istituzione psichiatrica. La domanda, quindi, nasce dall’esigenza di comprendere quale percezione i più giovani abbiano oggi del manicomio. L’impressione, a oltre quarant’anni dalla legge 180, è che questa percezione sia un po’ sbiadita, quasi scomparsa, come se il superamento dell’ospedale psichiatrico, in Italia, abbia determinato un processo di distanziamento dalla realtà asilare, e, conseguentemente, una grande difficoltà a comprendere il significato storico del manicomio e della lotta per il suo superamento. Così, diventa estremamente complesso anche riuscire a decodificare la “metamorfizzazione” del manicomio (Castel R. 1975; Id., Castel F., Lovell 1979; Castel R. 1980), e quindi la riproposizione delle sue logiche e delle sue prassi all’interno dell’insieme sociale, al di là dei confini definiti dalle mura asilari. Insomma, oggi, è forse ancor più difficile riuscire a disvelare e demistificare quello che Basaglia chiamava il “fascino discreto del manicomio” (Basaglia 1979)
LA REPUBBLICA DEI PERFORMANTI OVVERO SI HIC EST ASINUS NON ERIT ILLIC EQUUS / The Republic of Performing People or si hic est asinus non erit illic equus
No full textThree “artistic” metaphors – a modern novel, a Renaissance engraving and a Pompeian fresco – establish three different (yet converging) interpretations of the current consideration of the world of culture (in the fields of art, scientific research as well as school and university education), degraded by reductive performative visions that contribute to the creation of an entirely self-referential “Republic of letters” (which does not correspond, however, to the real country). The article ends with a provocative “eulogy of the scribble”, understood as an extreme attempt at resistance and survival of an active subject, who wants to avoid its fading into the institutional (and ideological) dimension that seeks to determine it. Keywords:Evaluation, Power-knowledge, Hermeneutics, Political symbolism, Social contro