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“Our Science is a science of the dead world”. La pandemia come apocalisse culturale e l’ipotesi della scienza come religione
No full text«Our science is a science of the dead world». The Pandemic as Cultural Apocalypse and the
Hypothesis of Science as Religion · In the public debate around the pandemic, there are positions that
have sustained how contemporary techno-science has assumed cultural meanings and operating
methods proper to a religion. This thesis, amended by the political implications and critical of the
management of the socio-health emergency, is here taken as a research hypothesis whose preconditions are intended to be verified. In other words: are empirical evidences identifiable within the
technoscientific field, and not only therefore in the public communication of science, which can
be used as a premise for the hypothesized outcome? At the basis of the hypothesis of science as
religion there is a fact the idea, detectable in scientific publications, that the pandemic constituted a
fatal threat to the human species, a real apocalypse. From the examples analysed, this idea refers to
a long-lasting cultural theme – the cultural apocalypse – whose social meaning goes beyond a mere
rhetorical and argumentative function to act as a shared horizon of meaning and symbolism on the
basis of which to interpret reality, orient decisions and take action. This fact seems to call into question the process of secularization and «disenchantment of the world» by showing a translation into
the technoscientific field of reasons and elements of religious traditions, such as the idea of «the
end of the world» and the «expectation of salvation», both in its internal functioning and in its social perception. If the hypothesis is verified in the premises, it follows that technoscience, by reason
of the collectively recognized authority, has legitimized and fed a public discursive order crossed by
irrationalistic currents, feelings of fear, promises of universal salvation through pharmacological
discoveries endowed with miraculous powers and prefiguration of epochal palingenesis with the
announcement of a global «new normal» in the name of a due «faith in science»
“Society must be controlled” “Green Pass” and the experiment of a society of control in Italy
No full textPurpose-The introduction in Italy in July 2021 of the "COVID-19 Green Certification ", known as the "Green Pass ", was a particularly important moment in the political and social history of the country. While its use for health reasons is debatable both logically and scientifically, its effects should be measured at the general sociological level. The "Green Pass " allowed Italian social life to be shaped according to a social and political profile that can be traced back to a "society of control ". This paper aims to discuss the aforementioned issue.Design/methodology/approach-This paper, of a theoretical nature, intends to verify such an interpretation through a critical survey of Gilles Deleuze's well-known Post-scriptum sur les societes de controle (1990) and relating the theories to it from cybernetic science, sociology of social systems and the continental philosophy, specifically Michel Foucault. After a short introduction on the history of the instrument's introduction, the paper, divided into parts reflecting the set-up of Deleuze's text, examines the systemic social effects of the "Green Pass " with regard to its logic, and concludes with a reflection on the program of the instrument's future developments.Findings-The "Green Pass " put into practice a model of a society of control as anticipated by Deleuze, verified with particular reference to some instances of Luhmann's theory of social systems, and in the perspective of a Foucault's "normalizing society " in the process of definition and affirmation.Social implications- The "Green Pass " has been a controversial tool that has caused forms of social discrimination and exclusion and has seriously questioned the architecture of the rule of law. The conceptual paper tries to reflect on the premises and implications of this instrument.Originality/value- The approach to the problem both in a critical key and according to concepts and theories of the sociology of social systems, cybernetics and continental philosophy
Ospitalità, mondi, identità
No full textOgni biografia racchiude il gioiello dell’esperienza di una vita umana e in parte della storia del suo tempo. Questa raccolta ci introduce in un mondo di uomini e di donne che per scelta o per necessità hanno rimodellato la propria identità, trasformato le loro abitudini, i loro valori e le necessità.
In ogni intervista osserviamo una doppia vita e molteplici soluzioni. L’immagine che ne scaturisce è quella di un’immigrazione con mille sfaccettature, un’esperienza che è impossibile ridurre a definizioni rigide e impermeabili al cambiamento. Di conseguenza, anche i possibili modelli di accoglienza e l’idea stessa di integrazione non possono che riflettere questa immagine.
Non troveremo una descrizione ripetitiva dei problemi dell’arrivo, delle difficoltà di inserimento e delle rivendicazioni; troveremo invece, oltre a un’analisi precisa in termini sociologici, un caleidoscopio di racconti che descrivono il mondo e che ci aiutano a vedere l’immigrato non come chi “comincia”, ma come chi “ri-comincia”
L'eredità del presente. Capitalismo, forme di vita, utopia
No full textIl libro si sviluppa lungo la trama di due fili intrecciati. Il primo è interno alla riflessione scientifica e intende verificare in che modo la teoria sociale – in particolare la sociologia e l’antropologia – sia al contempo espressione e interpretazione del vasto campo strutturale di tensioni e conflitti definito dalla co-implicazione tra i concetti di capitalismo, forme di vita e utopia. Il secondo, in un senso più ambizioso e rivolgendosi anche a un pubblico di non specialisti, pensa il possibile e l’utopico come risorse ancora largamente da comprendere e impiegare in tutta la loro ricchezza e fecondità scientifica e politica. Con un’attenzione rivolta ai drammatici eventi degli ultimi tempi, il volume intende offrire alcune riflessioni su temi che sembrano poter rivestire un interesse trasversale e tragicamente attuale, come le alternative all’ordine dominante, il ruolo della tecnoscienza, il compito del pensiero critico. Capitalismo, forme di vita e utopia sono, in tal senso, la difficile eredità del presente: ciò che abbiamo ricevuto dal passato e ciò che lasceremo al futuro
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