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Vulnerabilidad, Critica y pandemia
No full textIn this essay the author analyzes some of the most striking political phenomena occurred during the first Lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, by recurring to the concept of shared vulnerability. The political analysis is based on recent feminist and political-philosophical scholarship regarding biopolitics, and the author claims that the pandemic experience has put into question many theoretical paradigms very influential in political-philosophical research in the last 30 years
Leap-92 - Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial Conference On Low-energy Antiproton Physics Courmayeur, Aosta-valley, Italy, September 14-19, 1992 - Foreword
No full textOn the Autonomy of the Political
No full textThe essay discusses some of the main purports of Kari Palonen's theory of parliamentarism. Envisaging its origin in Max Weber's thought, this essay highlights the important nexus Palonen establishes between political forms of parliamentary debate and the development of scientific methods and discussions in the modern era. Science and parliament are, according to Palonen, twins in developing the specific Western modern mentality of perspectivism
Resisting the Tourist Gaze. Art Activism Against Cruise Ship Extractivism in the Venice Lagoon
No full textThe essay situates Venice’s struggles against the cruise ship industry within a larger framework of resistance against planetary extractive capitalism, emphasising the role of local art-activist initiatives in denouncing the social and the ecological degradation caused by the cruise ship presence in Venice. In the first part, the concept of extractive tourism is introduced and analysed in relation to the case of Venice and the cruise companies’ economic model. The operations and infrastructure of cruise tourism produce extractive relations that entangle and exploit tourists, local communities and the natural environment. The Author examines how mass tourism has aggravated the environmental and social issues of the city of Venice and its lagoon. In the second part, the essay presents a number of artistic projects, specifically by visual artists Eleonora Sovrani, Gli Impresari, Banksy, and Elena Mazzi. These artworks can help us visualise the failures of the current urban development model of the tourist economy, while also exposing the nefarious effects of extractive capitalism on the well-being of the lagoon ecosystem and the human and non-human subjects cohabiting in it
The Anthropocene and the Aesthetics of Planetary Abstraction
No full textThe notion of the Anthropocene presupposed since its initial formulations the possibility to represent planetary anthropogenic environmental change through methods of data collection and imaging techniques of satellite reconnaissance, remote sensing and data mining, computer simulations and modelling.
The popularization of the Anthropocene paradigm has prompted researchers working within the earth system sciences, climatology, geology, and international scientific bodies to evolve and improve existing forms of visual communication and public outreach initiatives. The reception of the Anthropocene paradigm by visual artists, art institutions, natural history museums, design studios, and var-
ious other cultural and aesthetic practices has generated – and is continuing to produce – a large and diverse corpus of arts-based and research-oriented visualizations of climate change. In this chapter, the author will introduce the subject of geo-scientific Anthropocene visualizations and will define a working corpus of the most relevant artistic projects that have expanded or called into question the
socio-ecological visualizations originating in the geosciences. In particular, the
essay will focus on recent works by American painter Diane Burko (Seeing Climate Change, 2021) and by Japanese experimental audio-visual artist Ryoji Ikeda (Data-Verse, 2019). While creatively incorporating the technological and data-driven aesthetics of climate change science, these artists ask us also to reflect on how the ubiquity and pervasiveness of climate data and satellite imagery are effectively
re-configuring the way we perceive the planet and the environmental crises today
Illusione e realtà nell'epoca della post-verità
No full textIl saggio analizza le dinamiche complesse del rapporto fra verità, opinione e politica all'epoca dei social network, indagando el possibili connessioni fra la propaganda totalitaria e la diffusione di regimi di verità parziali e settoriali nelle cosiddette 'camere di risonanza dei social network. L'incipit del saggio interroga la dimensione dell'illusione a partire dal Palazzo di Atlante ne l'Orlando furioso di Ludovico Ariosto
Introduzione
No full textIl saggio è una introduzione critica al celebre volume di C. Pateman, Il contratto sessuale, ripubblicato in edizione italiana. Nel saggio si discute uno degli assunti centrali della filosofia politica moderna e della conseguente narrazione emancipativa ad essa legata, ossia il fatto che il contrattualismo politico, ideato per liberare i figli dalla naturale soggezione dei padri e sostituire la legge paterna (il dispotismo, il governo arbitrario di un sovrano assoluto, la tirannia di norme dettate dalle credenze e dalle tradizioni) con il governo civile, si configura, in realtà, come una narrazione esclusivamente maschile (tra fratelli) che non solo esclude le donne ma pretende altresì di decretare, per contratto, la loro ‘naturale soggezione’. Criticando la pretesa che la narrazione contrattualista moderna (quella, per intenderci, di Locke, Kant, Rousseau) sia una storia universale di libertà, Pateman mostra, svelando l’originarietà del contratto sessuale (la divisione netta tra sfera pubblica e sfera privata), che i soggetti moderni che si liberano dell’autorità paterna mantengono di quella stessa autorità un aspetto cruciale, il controllo e l’uso dei corpi delle donne. Il saggio si conclude con una attualizzazione delle analisi di Pateman che discute le sorti del patriarcato contemporaneo, alla luce delle grandi trasformazioni socio-politiche della condizione delle donne nelle democrazie occidentali
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