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Serialità e comunicazione politica. I Big 5 e l'abbraccio populista = Seriality and Political Communication: The Big Five and the Populist Embrace
No full textThis paper analyses the relationship between seriality and political communication by focusing on the case of the Californian Ideology and the role of Big Tech in the current neopopulist phase. Building on Barbrook and Cameron's proposal, the Californian Ideology is read as a flexible narrative device, progressively "serialized" within public discourse: a format that combines libertarian countercultures, neoliberalism, technodeterminism and the cult of the entrepreneur, becoming the common sense of Silicon Valley elites. The essay reconstructs the genealogy of this ideological constellation and traces its most recent twists: from the media representation of a progressive, liberal Silicon Valley to the emergence of a tech right and a tecnodestra that intersect Trumpism, sovereigntism and "post-liberal" themes. Through the figures of Musk, Thiel, Andreessen and the "PayPal Mafia", the article shows how the serialization of myths, formats and storytelling - from techno-meritocratic self-help to the Promethean rhetoric of "techno-optimism" - fuels a political imaginary that legitimises the convergence between the techno-industrial complex and right-wing populism. The "populist embrace" between the Big Five and the Trump administration is thus interpreted not as a sudden shift to the right, but as the coherent outcome of long ideological trajectories in which the seriality of technical, managerial and salvific discourses contributes to redefining the field of political communication in the age of digital governmentality
La doxasfera digitale e le issue serializzate = The digital doxasphere and serialized issues
No full textThis article reinterprets the doxasphere by emphasizing how connected digital media reorganize political communication through seriality. Building on Bourdieu's notion of public opinion as a field of forces, the model is updated to account for transformations affecting decision-makers, pressure groups, media systems, and connected multitudes. Digital platforms intensify disintermediated communication and reinforce algorithmic visibility, enabling political actors and influencers to structure public discourse through serialized narrative formats (defined by repetitions and variations). Seriality becomes a strategic device: issues are not only circulated but serialized, unfolding as sequences of episodes that reiterate frames, emotions, and antagonisms. This process sustains attention over time, amplifies polarization, and converts conflicts into recurring media events shaped by platform logics. Hybridized media ecosystems reproduce these serial patterns, while prosumer practices continuously feed new iterations of the same controversies. The article argues that serialized issues now constitute the primary organizational form of political communication in the connected doxasphere, where actors compete to impose meaning within an environment governed by repetition, acceleration, and variations
The Elephant in the Room. Change and Continuity in Arab Public Opinion on the Palestinian Cause after October 7th
No full textSince the founding of the State of Israel in 1947, the Palestinian issue has always been a major concern for people in the Middle East and North Africa, a divisive factor among governments in the area, and a cause of political polarization. However, with the emergence of the Arab Uprisings in 2010-2011 and the consequent sectarianization of regional political alliances, the Palestinian issue seemed to have lost its centrality, with some Arab countries increasingly inclined toward the recognition of the State of Israel and normalization of relations. On October 7, 2023, the Hamas-led attacks and subsequent Israeli retaliation brought the issue back to the center of regional and international debate, provoking outrage among citizens across the region and calling normalization processes back into question, demonstrating that the issue, dismissed at the élite-level, has not lost its relevance for the Arab public. How has Arab public opinion on the Palestinian issue changed in the years since the Arab Uprisings, and how has it changed since the October 7 attacks? Through a longitudinal analysis of the Arab Opinion Index, three interesting elements emerge. First, although in the period between 2011 and 2023 the Palestinian cause continued to be considered a regional and Arab cause rather than a national and Palestinian on by the majority of public opinion, that majority dramatically increased after Israeli retaliation, especially in the countries most likely to normalize relations with Israel. Second, public opinion continues to be overwhelmingly opposed to recognition of the state of Israel, but this figure fell further after October 7, and is particularly steep in countries where approval of recognition of Israel was relatively more widespread. Third, while from 2011 to 2023 Israel was considered the greatest threat to stability and security in the region, after the October 7 retaliation that role is filled by the United States
«Turbando con il contagio dell'eresia la quiete dei popoli vicini»: Giovenale Vegezzi e il Memoriale storico-statistico intorno ai Valdesi (1829)
No full textItIl seguente contributo si concentra sulla vita e sulle opere di Giovenale Vegezzi Ruscalla, in particolare sul Memoriale storico-statistico intorno ai Valdesi, redatto nell'anno 1829. Il documento, orientato a favorire la politica conservatrice di Carlo Felice, sottolinea strategicamente la magnanimità di Casa Savoia nei rapporti con il popolo valdese. Giovenale, corroborando la sua narrazione tramite il ricorso a fonti cattoliche, accusava le cronache protestanti di riportare dati storici e statistici spesso fuorvianti.EnThe following paper aims to investigate the life and works of Giovenale Vegezzi Ruscalla. Among these is the historical-statistical memoir about the Waldensians written in the year 1829. The document, aimed at favouring Carlo Felice's conservative policy, strategically sublimates the magnanimity of the House of Savoy towards religious dissidents. Juvenal, corroborating his narrative through recourse to Catholic sources, accused Protestant chronicles of reporting historical and statistical data that were often misleading
Strategie dell'allusione in Gregorio di Nissa: Eunomio, la pozione di Circe e la mandragora
No full textItL'articolo cerca di mettere in evidenza le principali caratteristiche dell'interpretazione del mito di Circe presentata da Gregorio di Nissa, collocandola all'interno della storia ermeneutica del passo omerico e delle altre riprese gregoriane. Il contributo prende in considerazione alcune parole ed espressioni che risultano rivelatrici dell'approccio e della riflessione di Gregorio, che in polemica con Eunomio richiama più o meno velatamente numerosi testi della tradizione classica e tecnica, rendendo la propria opera estremamente evocativa e allusiva.EnThe article attempts to highlight the main features of the interpretation of the myth of Circe presented by Gregory of Nyssa, placing it within the hermeneutic history of the Homeric passage and other Gregorian reinterpretations. The contribution considers some words and expressions that are revealing of the approach and reflection of Gregory, who in polemic with Eunomius recalls, more or less subtly, numerous texts of the classical and technical tradition, making his own work extremely evocative and allusive