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Capturing the Sun: Solarpunk and the Elite Capture of Imagination
No full textThe climate emergencies of the last few years are making increasingly clear that unless the destructive and exploitative structures that support modern standards of living are dismantled and transformed, the future shall be a very hot and desolate one. Science fiction has offered a venue to reflect and envision possible futures in ways that engage our imagination and stimulate technological innovation. We argue that imagination can be understood as a collective capability that supports forms of resistance and resilience. This framing enables us to examine the consequence of the existence of power asymmetries, which may distort the potential of imagination to be a source of transformative change. To make our case, we reflect on solarpunk as a contemporary art and activism movement that envisions hopeful futures of ecological living. We argue that, as a subversive imaginary, solarpunk may be affected by processes of elite capture that could stifle its radical potential, particularly in relation to its visual identity. By reflecting on two emblematic cases, we illustrate how imagination can be captured in ways that damage its political potential. Our contribution shows that even well-intentioned or apparently innocuous uses of forms of imagination and imaginaries can have reactionary political consequences that normalize and neutralize narratives in support of radical change. Analyzing the risk of capture of sustainable future imaginaries such as solarpunk is relevant for the study of the multiple narratives, visual, literary, and academic, that are at play in public debates on the sustainability transition and climate change mitigation and adaptation, and their political consequences.The climate emergencies of the last few years are making increasingly clear that unless the destructive and exploitative structures that support modern standards of living are dismantled and transformed, the future shall be a very hot and desolate one. Science fiction has offered a venue to reflect and envision possible futures in ways that engage our imagination and stimulate technological innovation. We argue that imagination can be understood as a collective capability that supports forms of resistance and resilience. This framing enables us to examine the consequence of the existence of power asymmetries, which may distort the potential of imagination to be a source of transformative change. To make our case, we reflect on solarpunk as a contemporary art and activism movement that envisions hopeful futures of ecological living. We argue that, as a subversive imaginary, solarpunk may be affected by processes of elite capture that could stifle its radical potential, particularly in relation to its visual identity. By reflecting on two emblematic cases, we illustrate how imagination can be captured in ways that damage its political potential. Our contribution shows that even well-intentioned or apparently innocuous uses of forms of imagination and imaginaries can have reactionary political consequences that normalize and neutralize narratives in support of radical change. Analyzing the risk of capture of sustainable future imaginaries such as solarpunk is relevant for the study of the multiple narratives, visual, literary, and academic, that are at play in public debates on the sustainability transition and climate change mitigation and adaptation, and their political consequences
ALESSANDRO NOVEMBRE, Young Schopenhauer. The Origin of the Metaphysics of Will and its Aporias
No full textReview to ALESSANDRO NOVEMBRE, Young Schopenhauer. The Origin of the Metaphysics of Will and its Aporias, translated by Sarah De Sanctis, Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 554, € 139,95. ISBN 978-3-11-066530-7.Recensione a ALESSANDRO NOVEMBRE, Young Schopenhauer. The Origin of the Metaphysics of Will and its Aporias, translated by Sarah De Sanctis, Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 554, € 139,95. ISBN 978-3-11-066530-7
Recensione a: Ø. Kvalnes, E.B. Hansen Sandseter, Risky Play An Ethical Challenge, Cham, Springer Nature, 2023
No full textUn viaggio di scoperta: perdersi per ritrovarsi nella “terra di mezzo”
No full textAbstract – The paper is based on Tolkien’s novel “Lord of the Rings”, which in the framework of the project \u27SUPER Orientation and Tutoring Pathways to Promote University and Professional Success\u27 (POT- 2017-2018) formed the basis for the realization of an orientation pathway aimed at high school students. The workshop path investigated personal and educational biographies, life trajectories and awareness of future choices. The theme of the “journey” was the leitmotif of the course, declined through the character of Frodo, who is forced to abandon the comforts of his life to embark on a journey that will lead him to get lost both outside and inside himself, to re-orient himself and to seek new paths to follow. Orientation emerges, therefore, as a rhizomatic process in which to experience the formative value of stumbling and error, in which to lose oneself and find oneself in order to reach a “middle ground” from which to continue the journey.Riassunto – Il contributo prende spunto dal romanzo di Tolkien “Il signore degli Anelli” che nell’ambito progetto “SUPER Percorsi di orientamento e tutorato per promuovere il successo universitario e professionale” (POT- 2017-2018) ha costituito la base per la realizzazione di un percorso di orientamento rivolto agli studenti delle scuole superiori. Il percorso laboratoriale ha indagato le biografie personali e formative, le traiettorie di vita e la consapevolezza rispetto alle scelte future. Il tema del “viaggio” ha costituito il filo conduttore del percorso declinato attraverso il personaggio di Frodo che si vede costretto ad abbandonare gli agi della sua vita per intraprendere un cammino che lo porterà a perdersi sia fuori sia dentro di sé, a ri-orientarsi e a cercare strade nuove da percorrere. L’orientamento emerge, quindi, come processo rizomatico in cui sperimentare la valenza formativa dell’inciampo e dell’errore, in cui perdersi e ritrovarsi per giungere ad una “terra di mezzo” da dove proseguire il viaggio
L’esperienza scolastica valutata dagli studenti. Il questionario “Io e la scuola” a supporto dei processi di miglioramento del benessere scolastico
No full textThe essay presents the developments of research on the well-being of secondary school students. Analyses confirm the factorial structure of the construct, with a Well-Being factor, including six scales, and two anxiety factors, General Anxiety and Test Anxiety. In addition analyses of variance highlight significant differences with respect to kind of school, self-perceived performance, gender, and feeling part of a minority. It emerges that students with a migrant background and those who believe they have a low performance live the school experience with discomfort, with particular reference to dimensions such as sense of protection, consideration, test anxiety and class cohesion. Along with the questionnaire the WHO-5 scale was administered. It correlates positively with the Wellbeing scale and negatively with the two Anxiety scales and about 61% of the students score below 13 on this scale, which suggests the need for further investigation.Il saggio presenta i risultati di una ricerca sul benessere a scuola degli studenti di scuola secondaria di II grado. Le analisi confermano il modello con un fattore Benessere, comprendente sei scale, e due fattori di ansia, Ansia generale e da valutazione. Le analisi mettono in luce differenze significative rispetto all’indirizzo di studi, al rendimento autopercepito, al genere e al sentirsi parte di una minoranza. Ne emerge che le studentesse, gli studenti con background migratorio e quelli che ritengono di avere un rendimento scarso vivono l’esperienza scolastica con disagio, in particolare rispetto al sentirsi protetti e considerati, all’ansia da valutazione e al sentirsi parte di un gruppo coeso. Insieme a “Io e la scuola” è stato somministrato il questionario WHO-5 in cui circa il 61% degli studenti del campione ottiene un punteggio inferiore a 13, che in letteratura indica la necessità di approfondire l’indagine con strumenti diagnostici
TIZIANO POSSAMAI, La pazienza della libertà. Foucault, Sloterdijk, Bateson
No full textReview to TIZIANO POSSAMAI, La pazienza della libertà. Foucault, Sloterdijk, Bateson, Milano: Mimesis, 2023, p. 161, € 13,00. ISBN 979-12-2230-405-2Recensione a TIZIANO POSSAMAI, La pazienza della libertà. Foucault, Sloterdijk, Bateson, Milano: Mimesis, 2023, p. 161, € 13,00. ISBN 979-12-2230-405-
“Pensate, vedere Antonioni al ritmo di Mazinga!” : Rimediazioni dell’esperienza cinematografica nel panorama mediale contemporaneo: da Umberto Eco a Laura Mulvey e Douglas Gordon
No full textThe paper aims to explore the fruitful reflections developed by Umberto Eco, between the 1960s (Apocalittici e integrati) and the 1980s, concerning the contemporary media proliferation and the social fragmentation of cultural tastes. The contemporary notions of remediation (Bolter, Grusin) and post-mediality are anticipated in Eco’s essays.
The essay focuses on two contemporary forms of audiovisual media reception, i.e. the aesthetics of delay developed by Laura Mulvey and the slow-motion video-installations by Douglas Gordon: these forms of media reception re-mediate a film pre-existent, and they encourage new interactive cultural habits of media reception.Il saggio intende approfondire le nuove forme di fruizione dei prodotti audiovisivi (cinema, videoinstallazioni), partendo dalle riflessioni di Umberto Eco sulla moltiplicazione dei media e sulla caduta delle gerarchie di valore culturale tra arte e mezzi di comunicazione di massa, riflessioni rilanciate di recente da Jay David Bolter in Plenitudine digitale. In particolare, i nuovi supporti mediali permettono sia di attivare esperienze di fruizione inedite di un contenuto mediale preesistente (come nel caso dell’estetica del ritardo sostenuta da Laura Mulvey in riferimento all’esperienza di visione del film), sia di riconfigurare e dislocare l’esperienza cinematografica all’interno dello spazio espositivo dell’arte contemporanea (le videoinstallazioni di Douglas Gordon). All’interno di queste nuove esperienze di fruizione, che mescolano prodotti culturali anche eterogenei, gioca un ruolo decisivo il processo di rimediazione dei media, da interpretare come una riconfigurazione culturale in grado di valorizzare e sottolineare l’opacità dei mezzi e il loro scarto rispetto alla realtà. 
La Messa non è finita: Le tecnologie digitali e la promessa del “super”
No full textThe digital technologies that pervade our daily lives - artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) - present themselves to us first and foremost as “new”. However, the promises these technologies hold out to us, the desires we hope to fulfil by resorting to them, the imagery they powerfully nurture, and the discourses that narrate them are by no means new. On the contrary, they are rooted in the ground that for millennia has been concretely experienced by human communities in the various experiences of the sacred, the magical and the supernatural, worked far and wide by mythologies, religions and ideologies, and formulated into concepts and dogmas by theological and even political reflection. The contribution aims to examine some case studies in which the application of new image production technologies reveals the theological background of AI, VR and AR, in the dialectic of disenchantment/re-enchantment of experience.Le tecnologie digitali che pervadono la nostra vita quotidiana – intelligenza artificiale (IA), realtà virtuale (VR) e realtà aumentata (AR) – ci si presentano innanzitutto come “nuove”. Tuttavia, le promesse che tali tecnologie ci rivolgono, i desideri che speriamo di soddisfare ricorrendovi, l’immaginario che alimentano con forza e i discorsi che le narrano non sono affatto nuovi. Al contrario, affondano le loro radici nel terreno che per millenni è stato concretamente vissuto dalle comunità umane nelle varie esperienze del sacro, del magico e del soprannaturale, lavorato in lungo e in largo dalle mitologie, dalle religioni e dalle ideologie, e formulato in concetti e dogmi dalla riflessione teologica e anche politica. Il contributo mira a esaminare alcuni casi di studio in cui l’applicazione delle nuove tecnologie di produzione d’immagine rivela lo sfondo teologico di AI, VR e AR, nella dialettica di disincanto/reincanto dell’esperienza
Resurrezione digitale: Apocalissi e integrazione
No full textDer Artikel verwebt eine semiotische Analyse digitaler \u27Auferstehungstechnologien\u27 mit einem Rahmen, der von Umberto Ecos bahnbrechendem Werk Apocalittici e integrati [teilweise Übersetzung: Apokalypse verschoben] inspiriert ist. Auf diese Weise untersucht der Artikel die polarisierte Rezeption digitaler \u27Auferstehungstechnologien\u27, ähnlich wie Ecos dialektische Kategorisierung kultureller Phänomene in apokalyptische Kritik und integrierte Umarmung. Anhand der Deepfake-Technologie, mit der Joaquin Oliver, ein Opfer der Schießerei in der Parkland-Schule (14. Februar 2018), "wiederauferstanden" ist, untersucht der Artikel die gesellschaftlichen und ethischen Implikationen solcher Technologien und knüpft damit an Ecos Erforschung der Auswirkungen der Massenmedien auf die Kultur an. Der Artikel bewegt sich zwischen der apokalyptischen Sichtweise, die vor den Gefahren und ethischen Dilemmata warnt, die sich aus der Verwischung der Grenzen zwischen Authentizität und Künstlichkeit ergeben, und der ganzheitlichen Perspektive, die in der Nutzung von Technologie für soziales Engagement und emotionale Bindung Potenzial sieht. Durch die Gegenüberstellung von Charles S. Peirces spirituellem Begriff der Unsterblichkeit und dem traditionellen christlichen Glauben an die physische Auferstehung enthüllt die Analyse ein zeitgenössisches Schlachtfeld der Ideologie, in dem die semiotischen Implikationen der digitalen \u27Auferstehung\u27 breitere kulturelle Spannungen zwischen Innovation und Tradition widerspiegeln. Letztendlich stellt der Artikel die Semiotik als eine wichtige Disziplin dar, um die nuancierten Bedeutungsebenen und Auswirkungen der digitalen "Auferstehung" zu analysieren. Er spiegelt damit Ecos Forderung nach einer kritischen Untersuchung kultureller Phänomene innerhalb der modernen technologischen Landschaft wider.The article interweaves a semiotic analysis of digital ‘resurrection’ technologies with a framework inspired by Umberto Eco’s seminal work Apocalittici e integrati [partial English translation: Apocalypse postponed]. Through this lens, the article explores the polarized reception of digital ‘resurrection’ technologies, akin to Eco’s dialectical categorization of cultural phenomena into apocalyptic criticisms and integrated embrace. By examining the deepfake technology that ‘resurrected’ Joaquin Oliver, a victim of the Parkland school shooting (February 14, 2018), the article delves into the societal and ethical implications of such technologies, echoing Eco’s exploration of mass media’s impact on culture. The article navigates between the apocalyptic view, which warns of the dangers and ethical dilemmas posed by blurring the lines between authenticity and artificiality, and the integrated perspective, which sees potential in leveraging technology for social advocacy and emotional engagement. Through the juxtaposition of Charles S. Peirce’s spiritual notion of immortality and traditional Christian beliefs in physical resurrection, the analysis reveals a contemporary battleground of ideology, where the semiotic implications of digital ‘resurrection’ reflect broader cultural tensions between innovation and tradition. Ultimately, the article posits semiotics as a vital discipline for dissecting the nuanced layers of meaning and impact behind digital ‘resurrection’, mirroring Eco’s call for a critical examination of cultural phenomena within the modern technological landscape.El artículo entreteje un análisis semiótico de las tecnologías digitales de "resurrección" con un marco inspirado en la obra seminal de Umberto Eco Apocalittici e integrati [traducción parcial al español: Apocalipsis aplazado]. A través de esta lente, el artículo explora la recepción polarizada de las tecnologías de "resurrección" digital, afín a la categorización dialéctica de Eco de los fenómenos culturales en críticas apocalípticas y abrazo integrado. Al examinar la tecnología deepfake que "resucitó" a Joaquín Oliver, víctima del tiroteo en la escuela de Parkland (14 de febrero de 2018), el artículo profundiza en las implicaciones sociales y éticas de dichas tecnologías, haciéndose eco de la exploración de Eco del impacto de los medios de comunicación de masas en la cultura. El artículo navega entre la visión apocalíptica, que advierte de los peligros y dilemas éticos que plantea la difuminación de las líneas entre autenticidad y artificialidad, y la perspectiva integrada, que ve potencial en el aprovechamiento de la tecnología para la defensa social y el compromiso emocional. A través de la yuxtaposición de la noción espiritual de inmortalidad de Charles S. Peirce y las creencias cristianas tradicionales en la resurrección física, el análisis revela un campo de batalla ideológico contemporáneo, en el que las implicaciones semióticas de la "resurrección" digital reflejan tensiones culturales más amplias entre innovación y tradición. En última instancia, el artículo postula la semiótica como una disciplina vital para diseccionar las matizadas capas de significado e impacto que se esconden tras la "resurrección" digital, reflejando el llamamiento de Eco a un examen crítico de los fenómenos culturales dentro del panorama tecnológico moderno.L\u27article mêle une analyse sémiotique des technologies de "résurrection" numérique à un cadre inspiré de l\u27ouvrage fondamental d\u27Umberto Eco, Apocalittici e integrati (traduction partielle en anglais : Apocalypse postponed). Dans cette optique, l\u27article explore la réception polarisée des technologies de "résurrection" numérique, qui s\u27apparente à la catégorisation dialectique d\u27Eco des phénomènes culturels en critiques apocalyptiques et en embrassades intégrées. En examinant la technologie deepfake qui a "ressuscité" Joaquin Oliver, une victime de la fusillade de l\u27école de Parkland (14 février 2018), l\u27article se penche sur les implications sociétales et éthiques de ces technologies, faisant écho à l\u27exploration d\u27Eco de l\u27impact des médias de masse sur la culture. L\u27article navigue entre la vision apocalyptique, qui met en garde contre les dangers et les dilemmes éthiques posés par le brouillage des lignes entre l\u27authenticité et l\u27artificialité, et la perspective intégrée, qui voit un potentiel dans l\u27utilisation de la technologie pour la défense sociale et l\u27engagement émotionnel. En juxtaposant la notion spirituelle d\u27immortalité de Charles S. Peirce et les croyances chrétiennes traditionnelles en la résurrection physique, l\u27analyse révèle un champ de bataille idéologique contemporain, où les implications sémiotiques de la "résurrection" numérique reflètent des tensions culturelles plus larges entre l\u27innovation et la tradition. En fin de compte, l\u27article présente la sémiotique comme une discipline vitale pour disséquer les couches nuancées de signification et d\u27impact derrière la "résurrection" numérique, reflétant l\u27appel d\u27Eco pour un examen critique des phénomènes culturels dans le paysage technologique moderne.L’articolo intesse un’analisi semiotica delle tecnologie digitali di ‘resurrezione’, collocandola in un quadro ispirato al fondamentale lavoro di Umberto Eco, Apocalittici e integrati. Attraverso questa prospettiva, esplora la ricezione polarizzata di tali tecnologie, parallela alla categorizzazione dialettica dei fenomeni culturali da parte di Eco in critiche apocalittiche e adozioni integrate. Esaminando la tecnologia deepfake che ha ‘resuscitato’ Joaquin Oliver, vittima del massacro alla Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School di Parkland (14 febbraio 2018), l’articolo approfondisce le implicazioni sociali ed etiche di tali tecnologie, risuonando con le indagini di Eco a proposito dell’impatto dei mass media sulla cultura. L’analisi naviga tra la visione apocalittica, che mette in guardia rispetto ai pericoli e ai dilemmi etici derivanti dall’offuscamento dei confini tra autenticità e artificialità, e la prospettiva integrata, che intravede il potenziale dell’utilizzo della tecnologia per le campagne sociali e il loro successo emotivo. Attraverso la giustapposizione tra la concezione spirituale d’immortalità di Charles S. Peirce e le credenze cristiane tradizionali nella resurrezione fisica, l’analisi svela un campo di battaglia ideologico contemporaneo, dove le implicazioni semiotiche della resurrezione digitale riflettono le tensioni culturali più ampie tra innovazione e tradizione. In conclusione, l’articolo propone la semiotica come disciplina fondamentale per decifrare i livelli sfumati di significato e impatto che sottendono l’idea di una ‘resurrezione’ digitale, aderendo all’appello di Eco a un esame critico dei fenomeni culturali nel panorama tecnologico moderno
