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Tradurre la semiotica? Strumenti per la ricerca di una transdisciplinarità
No full textWith the background knowledge acquired in many years of research within fields of studies whose objects are similar to those analysed by semiotics, the article tries to lists the possible theoretical - as well as ethical and political - questions that may allow us both to specify a semiotic perspective, and to open up this perspective to an effective transdisciplinary dialogue. Leaving definitive or allencompassing answers aside, in the first part the paper tries to clarify what is meant by “transdisciplinary gaze”, and which are its main categories, along with their heuristic potential. In the second part of the article, the ways in which semiotics can offer to other fields of research not only a
method intended as an organon, but also tools to face contemporary “problems” and issues, are discussed. This direction of research may be useful to develop further the political and ethical sides of a transdisciplinary research that finds in its application, and in the continuous perfecting of its method, the way to be a therapeutic of the social body
Processi di metaforizzazione e trasformazioni della razionalità moderna: Hans Blumenberg e le rioccupazioni del mondo della vita.
No full textBy adopting a perspective that favours the dialogue between Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology with those disciplinary fields (Cultural Anthropology, Gender Theories etc) that in the last decades have investigated the profound transformations of modern rationality, the essay will focus on the ways in which we have “access” to meaning as a metaphor in relation to the very definition of modern subjectivity and its forms of self-preservation. In developing a confrontation between Blumenberg’s world unreadability and the post-structuralist’s idea of the world as a form of textuality, the paper will question how the so called “continental philosophy” is changing in order to face the ways in which Western rationality can, and still has to face, a complexity that demands the revision of the ways in which the life world is rooted in processes of metaphorization and conceptualization. In other words, how might certain concepts and metaphor still help us thinking of the human, but also the post-human? And how are they still part of an hermeneutics able to interrogate modern subjectivities and their capacity for self-preservations? Are there new metaphors? And what is the role of language or, better, of semiotic systems of signification in the re-thinking of a globalized world characterized by profound differences and by a digital revolution that affects the very constitution of the metaphor thorugh which we assign meaning to the world
Turning Spaces of Memory into Memoryscapes. Cinema as Counter-monument in Jonathan Perel's El Predio and Tabula Rasa
Full text linkHow might cinema turn a space into a mediated landscape of memory? How can it interrogate what is remembered in a lieu de memoire, intervening in the porous borders that, simultaneously, separates and connects an event, its experience, and its representation? Could cinema’s role be that of a monument or, even, that of a counter-monument? I shall address these questions through the semiotic analysis of the ways in which the ESMA -Space for Memory and for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights, a memory site located in Buenos Aires, has been framed by two documentary films directed by Jonathan Perel: El Predio (2010) and Tabula Rasa (2013). Both films deal with the large, stratified, and troubled trauma site of the former ESMA compound - the Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada (Naval Academy of Mechanics) the most notorious of the clandestine centres of detention, torture and extermination operational in Argentina during the military regime’s ‘Dirty War’. Both films stand as peculiar recordings of the making of ESMA’s new “identity” after the end of the dictatorship, and the many layers it is composed of, thanks to a challenging audio-visual enunciative strategy, a cinematic ethical gaze depicting the transition from a space of suffering, to, supposedly, a landscape of remembering
Italianicity/ness
No full textWhen writing and thinking about «Studi Culturali», we have often been trapped in a Esher-like picture. The Italian language chosen to name the Journal somehow reflects, from the landscape of a disciplinarily various garden of studies about Italy, or from Italian scholars or else from international scholars for an Italian public, an infinite regression towards a different scenery. As the many volumes of this journal have already testified, it is a scenery populated also by many authors who write in other languages and come from different traditions, notably and quite distinctively the Anglo-American one. Moreover, the eye of the contemporary cultural scholar as he or she writes from Italy and/or on Italian material, is getting accustomed to decipher the shape and even the idiosyncrasies of the English language, stressing even more, in the forceful difficulties and intricacies of necessary translations, the specificity of a situated glance. And a glance from and on Italy is more than situated; we increasingly recognize its being from the «province», a position from where it is more and more difficult to sustain global pretensions and becomes necessary to address the unevenness of globalizing trends. We cannot but place the peninsula on the backdrop of an uneven globalization whose processes appear increasingly centrifugal with respect to the European Nations at large. The special issues addresses italianicity from a variety of perspectives which stress its iconic and phantomatic nature
Gli studi culturali e la cultura visuale
No full textFocusing on a number of recently published and relevant works, this paper reconstructs a few major lines of development of the interdisciplinary field of visual culture studies, with particular attention at its process of institutionalization, the role of (British) cultural studies, and some specificities of the Italian context – thus suggesting also possible future areas of scholarly dialogue and integration
For a Semiotics of Spaces of Memories
No full textThe chapter offers an introduction to the semiotic approach to spaces of memory. After defining in what therms space is a language we focus on two key concepts: narrativity and enunciation. We believe that semiotics can offer a very useful ‘toolkit’ to analyze different kinds of spaces – from cities to monuments, from architecture to urban practices - approaching the various problems that these places open up with a transversal and unifying methodology, thus making fruitful comparisons possible. Semiotic tools can sharpen our analysis, deepen our intuitions in a more coherent and structured framework and allow us to compare different analytical approaches
Le voci dei caduti: "Newsweek" e il trauma culturale della guerra in Iraq
No full textAl centro del saggio vi è il panorama mediatico statunitense, in particolare il settimanale «Newsweek» che nel 2006 ha raccolto lettere ed e-mail dei soldati caduti in Iraq, poi pubblicate in un numero speciale, ma soprattutto ordinate in un archivio web corredato di fotografie, immagini video e registrazioni audio. L’operazione di «Newsweek» è interessante perché diviene uno dei tanti sintomi di una svolta nelle rappresentazioni e nella vendita della Seconda Guerra del Golfo che testimonia di una parziale ritrovata autonomia dei media statunitensi nei confronti del potere politico, e dunque anche di un tentativo di cambiamento della morfologia dell’opinione pubblica americana. Il settimanale si pone infatti esso stesso come testimone e narratore della storia fino a poco tempo fa mai raccontata, al contrario, spesso censurata, dei caduti in guerra, che vengono quindi trasformati in vittime di un conflitto che si inizia a trattare come «trauma culturale». E dunque, dal momento che il potere politico non solo non ha saputo vincere la guerra, ma non l’ha nemmeno saputa raccontare, «Newsweek» si è candidato a riscriverne la storia “dal basso”, in modo da salvare non tanto coloro che sono morti, bensì l’identità nazionale americana, l’umanità, il coraggio, ma anche le paure dei suoi eroi, e il dolore di chi rimane, tutti uniti insieme in quella che risulta essere una vera e propria «comunità di memoria e di rimembranza». Il conflitto iracheno viene allora raccontato non solo da chi l’ha vissuto direttamente e quotidianamente, subendone la violenza, ma anche la noia e la ripetizione, ma viene anche periodizzato: ciascuna missiva viene infatti inserita in una narrativa con cui si scandisce la guerra, che viene divisa in quattro fasi: da quella dell’invasione, all’inizio delle insurrezione, fino allo scoppio della guerra civile, passando per il tentativo di instaurare la democrazia con le elezioni. In questo modo il settimanale, investendo i propri lettori del ruolo di spettatori e testimoni, si riappropria non solo della storia ma anche della memoria della guerra, trovando un posto al dolore causato e provato, identificando alcune delle sue vittime, soprattutto definendo la relazione che queste intrattengono con la comunità più ampia della nazione americana traumatizzata dalla guerra
Introduzione
No full textL'introduzione, oltre a presentare i saggi contenuti nel volume e il lavoro svolto dai curatori, delinea le tappe principali della ricerca sulla comunicazione e la rappresentazione dei conflitti
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