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Spectres of the Imagination: A Post-Phenomenological Perspective on the Filmic Image and its Uses:
No full textThe article reconsiders the joint development of a theory of the moving images by Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Their theory highlights the spectrality of moving images, and formulates a hypothesis about its meaning for the filmic experience. This meaning has especially to do with the way imagination elaborates the sense of images flowing on the screen: it is an effect of the work of imagination synthesizing the visual experience, and not a “special effect” added to a special genre of movies. Filmmakers make accordingly specters appear on the screen as a signature of their reflection upon the action of imagination through the filmic narration
Upcycling: The Art Nouveau of Fashion?
No full textThis paper explores the intersection of sustainability, aesthetics, and ethics within the fashion industry, focusing on upcycling as a key driver of the green fashion movement. By drawing parallels with the Art Nouveau movement, the article examines how upcycling can serve as a catalyst for both ethical and aesthetic transformations in the industry. Through a detailed analysis of concepts such as art, craft, style, and taste, the paper investigates whether upcycling can become the linchpin of a paradigm shift toward more sustainable fashion. It also considers the influence of deconstruction fashion, particularly the works of designers like Margiela, Demeulemeester, and Kawakubo, as foundational to the timeline of “reuse, reduce, recycle.” Ultimately, the paper aims to establish a theoretical framework that links aesthetic reception, social belonging, and marketing effectiveness to the industry’s ethical practices, assessing the potential for upcycling to influence fashion’s future sustainability
Talk, Ties, and Social Times: Unpacking the Duality of Networks and Futures
No full textHow is talk about what will, could, and should happen in the future shaped by networks of actors engaged in these conversations? And how do conversations about imagined futures reshape social relations? This essay considers the roots of my current research on “the duality of networks and futures” in seminars and conversations with Harrison White at Columbia in the 1990s. First, I recount generative exchanges with White on language, interaction, and publics, focusing on how “social times” are developed through switches between “network-domains”. Second, I describe how these ideas inform my current work on the construction of futures in public interest scenario projects, as examples of intentional and focused “sites of hyperprojectivity”. As a historical example, I explore intensive debates about imagined futures in the Kenya at the Crossroads project in 1998–2000. Finally, I share some preliminary mappings of transnational networks of public interest scenario projects, based on an original dataset of 230+ multi-stakeholder foresight exercises conducted worldwide since the 1990s. This analysis attempts to channel White’s theoretical and methodological insights by formalizing the link between cultural and relational processes at a larger scale
Joy and Guilt, Passion and Anxiety. Exploring Emotions in the Neoliberal Academia
No full textIn this introduction to the Symposium on Emotions in Academic Work, we explore key reflections on emotion work, emotional labour, and feeling rules within contemporary academia, in light of the transformations brought about by the neoliberal reconfiguration of academic labour. Topics such as academic guilt, stress, time management, as well as joy and satisfaction, are examined through a gendered and intersectional lens
Employment, Housing and Residence Permits: a dangerous intersection. The Italian case.
No full textForeign workers represent one of the social subjectivities most exposed to structural marginalisation and institutionalised discrimination. As highlighted by prominent legal scholarship, these individuals face a unique entanglement between housing, employment and residence permits that severely limits their fundamental rights. Indeed, adequate housing is a necessary precondition to obtain or convert a residence permit, yet the Italian legal system often sets more burdensome requirements for foreigners’ access to public housing, while the private market is marked by systemic discrimination. This paradox - where the right to housing depends on already having housing - generates a "double track" of protection that places migrant workers in a structurally subordinate position. The implications become even more critical when analysed in relation to the employer - employee dynamic: the law allows (and in some cases requires) employers to provide a housing “guarantee” for this type of workers, making them dependent on the employers not only for income but also for legal residence. Job loss, even if illegitimate, can thus undermine the right to stay in Italy, producing a dynamic of de facto domination. This study investigates the legal-sociological roots of such mechanisms - whether accidental or systemic - and will draw on both legal analysis and field research
L’acquisizione del lessico ricettivo e produttivo nel primo ciclo d’istruzione: l’esperienza dello Studiabolario nelle scuole della Valle d’Aosta
No full textThis paper outlines the context and structure of the Studiabolario, an innovative open-access tool promoted by the “Centro di studi storico-letterari Natalino Sapegno”, designed to support the acquisition of both receptive and productive vocabulary in lower secondary education. The first part of the article reviews recent lexicographic production and observes that, although excellent, the dictionaries describing contemporary Italian vocabulary are often too complex and unappealing for students under the age of fourteen. This observation gave rise to the scientific and educational initiative behind the Studiabolario, whose origins and lexicographic structure are retraced and described in the second part of the article.Questo contributo dà conto del contesto e della struttura dello Studiabolario, un inedito strumento open access promosso dal “Centro di studi storico-letterari Natalino Sapegno” utile a favorire l’acquisizione del lessico ricettivo e produttivo nel primo ciclo d’istruzione. Nella prima parte dell’articolo si passa in rassegna la recente produzione lessicografica e si osserva che i pur ottimi dizionari che descrivono il lessico dell’italiano contemporaneo sono difficili e poco appetibili per studentesse e studenti al di sotto dei quattordici anni. Dalla constatazione di questa situazione ha preso avvio l’esperienza scientifica e didattica dello Studiabolario, di cui la seconda parte dell’articolo ripercorre la genesi e ne descrive la struttura lessicografica
Leggere Galileo a scuola: qualche spunto didattico per l’ora di italiano
No full textThis paper presents an example of a lesson that integrates literature and language in upper secondary school Italian classes (final three-year cycle). Starting from the reading of a passage from Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo by Galileo Galilei, followed by a brief linguistic commentary, the article offers didactic suggestions useful for designing Italian language teaching pathways in the final stage of secondary education.Il contributo propone un esempio di lezione che faccia interagire letteratura e lingua nell’ora di italiano del triennio della secondaria di secondo grado. A partire dalla lettura di un passo del Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo di Galileo Galilei, seguita da un breve commento linguistico, vengono offerti spunti didattici utili a impostare percorsi d’insegnamento dell’italiano nell’ultimo segmento scolastico
Sarmad di Kashan (XVII sec.), poeta persiano emigrato in India, dalla multipla personalità etnica, linguistica, religiosa
No full textThe article explores the intercultural and interreligious dimension of the Persian poet Sarmad of Kashan (c. 1590-1660), who was of Jewish-Armenian origin but born in Persia, later converted to Islam and finally emigrated to India. It was here, at the Mughal court, that he met the prince-philosopher Dârâ Shokuh (Shikoh), who promoted a policy of tolerance and Hindu-Muslim dialogue. And it was in Delhi that Sarmad and his protector met a tragic end in the power struggle between Dârâ Shokuh and his ambitious brother Awrangzeb, who was determined to crush any openness to Hinduism and non-Muslims. Sarmad led the life of a wandering and 'irregular' Sufi (though some say he converted to Hinduism), walking around naked in the manner of renunciate ascetics or sannyasins, accompanied only by his friend Abhay Chand, a Hindu youth to whom he addressed passionate verses. He composed magnificent quatrains - on human beauty as a revelation of the divine and on his status as an unrepentant sinner - which would form a corpus of some 350 poems. His verses are also imbued with deep reflections on a theology of beauty and the decidedly unsettling idea of 'finding God in sin'.L’articolo esplora la dimensione interculturale e interreligiosa del poeta persiano Sarmad di Kashan (1590-1660 circa), di origine ebraico-armena, nato in Persia, poi convertitosi all’Islam e infine emigrato in India. Qui, alla corte dei Moghul, incontrò il principe-filosofo Dârâ Shokuh (Shikoh), che promosse una politica di tolleranza e di dialogo tra indù e musulmani. Ed è proprio a Delhi che Sarmad e il suo protettore conobbero una tragica fine nella lotta di potere tra Dârâ Shokuh e l’ambizioso fratello Awrangzeb, deciso a stroncare qualsiasi apertura all’induismo e ai non musulmani. Sarmad condusse una vita da sufi errante e “irregolare” (anche se alcuni dicono che si convertì all’induismo), andando in giro nudo alla maniera degli asceti rinuncianti o sannyasin, accompagnato solo dal suo amico Abhay Chand, un giovane indù a cui rivolse versi appassionati. Compose magnifiche quartine - sulla bellezza umana come rivelazione del divino e sulla sua condizione di peccatore impenitente - che andranno a formare un corpus di circa 350 poesie. I suoi versi sono anche intrisi di profonde riflessioni su una teologia della bellezza e sull’idea decisamente spiazzante di “trovare Dio nel peccato”
Arran Stibbe, Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021, 260 pp., ISBN 9780367855512
No full textWriting Choreographies: (STS) Knowledge Production in Post-digital Academia
No full textIn this paper we develop the notion of “writing choreographies” and explore the epistemic practices and politics of STS writing by drawing on a collective autoethnography of academic work. In particular, we analyse post-digital writing practices, where these are understood as distributed across different devices, tools, bodies, and spaces under conditions in which distinctions between “digital” and “non-digital” formats, practices, and objects are no longer clear. As in the choreography of a dance, writing choreographies emerge from dynamic movements across space and time, follow rhythms and patterns, and are shaped by aesthetic considerations. We argue that writing is choreographed through the artful arrangement and navigation of “seams” between different materialities of writing, and through configuring and “atmosphering” writing spaces. We explore how agency within writing emerges from aesthetic choices and practices, and how STS researchers are “made and done” within their research. As such, writing choreographies speak to the ways in which writers encounter and negotiate current academic structures and dynamics, such as acceleration and increasing pressure to produce concrete “outputs” such as articles