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No full textMegaprojects have characterized all civilizations since the dawn of mankind. In the
last decades, they are spreading not only in developed and rich countries, but almost
anywhere in the world. In addition, their dimension is growing in terms of cost,
impact, and complexity. Research on megaprojects is pretty recent: the first broad
study has been carried out by Miller and Lessard (2000), having as a core concept
that megaprojects are shaped, not chosen or planned. The message of Miller and
Lessard is still valid: makes no sense to apply a planning or selection process for a
megaproject, as it will not become a piece of the environment where it will be
placed, but it will literally make the environment, dramatically modify the environment
where it is located. Miller and Lessard focused their attention on large
engineering projects (LEPs); today, researches expanded the perimeter of such
studies to megaprojects, including large-scale events such as Olympics and large IT
projects. The three major contributors to current megaproject research are Bent
Flyvbjerg, Edward Merrow, and Peter E. D. Love. Determining whether a project is
a megaproject is not immediate: there is a threshold related to the budget invested
(some authors set a lower limit to 100 M€/); in addition, it is
pretty clear that phenomena characterizing megaprojects are emerging even in
project investing an order of magnitude less, but facing a large variety of stakeholders:
this is the case of several IT projects. It is pretty clear that it is a matter of
complexity in the project’s (internal and external) environment, but it stays unclear
how to assess the level of complexity first, and how to govern it, later. What is
evident is that traditional management is not working for a megaproject. More
simply, traditional management is not enough. Applying a traditional “Deming”
approach Plan-Do-Check-Act simply is not enough: organizations performing
megaprojects still need good managers able to apply traditional management at
tactic level, but what is missing in this approach is the long-run strategy enabling a
megaproject to shape the environment where is operating in the best possible way.
At the same time, the public debate on megaprojects is far from being agreed
upon. In the last few years, the topic is particularly relevant at the EU level. In fact the decision-making process on which infrastructure (LEP) should be funded and which not by the public sector has been criticized by new “sovranist” political
parties. For example, studies both in favour and against the funding of the same
infrastructure have been published by different academics, even belonging to the same institution
Testimoniar el vacío más allá de la catástrofe lingüística. Conjunto vacío de Verónica Gerber Bicecci
Full text linkThis essay aims to analyze the novel Conjunto vacío (2015) by the argenmex visual artist Verónica Gerber Bicecci, investigating the strategies chosen by the author to testify the trauma of argentine exile in Mexico in the aftermath of the last civic-military dictatorship. Starting with some considerations about the argenmex identity, it will be shown how exile turns into a “linguistic catastrophe” (Gatti), due to the representational impossibility it imposes on the word. The problem roots in the void of sense imposed by the exile trauma, which the word always tries to fill. To give account of this void, Gerber Bicecci recurs to the mathematical theory of sets, due to its ability to conceive the void without risking filling it. The mathematical categories of sets enter the text through their graphic representations: Venn’s diagrams drawn by the author. The universal reach of the graphic code allows the abstraction of the novel’s protagonist’s experience from this representational frame, which fits for the experience of every subject who suffered exile, creating a ‘community of exile’, which we will analyze through the theoretical proposals of the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito. In the end, the tight link between written word and graphic representation will justify the qualification of Conjunto vacío in terms of ‘multimedia testimony’.El presente ensayo se propone analizar la novela Conjunto vacío (2015) de la artista visual argenmex Verónica Gerber Bicecci, indagando las estrategias que la autora elige para testimoniar el trauma del exilio argentino en México después de la última dictadura cívico-militar. A partir de una reflexión sobre la identidad argenmex, se mostrará como el exilio se convierte en “catástrofe lingüística” (Gatti) al quebrar las posibilidades representativas de la palabra, imponiendo un vacío de sentido que la palabra siempre intenta llenar. Para dar cuenta de este vacío, Gerber Bicecci recurre a la teoría matemática de los conjuntos, debido a su capacidad de concebirlo sin correr el riesgo de llenarlo de sentido, cuyas categorías entran en el texto a través de su representación gráfica, o sea diagramas de Venn dibujados por la autora. El alcance universal del código gráfico permite la abstracción de las vivencias de la protagonista de la novela de este marco representativo, en el que encajan las experiencias de cada sujeto que sufrió el exilio, configurando así una verdadera ‘comunidad del vacío’, que analizaremos a través de las propuestas del filósofo italiano Roberto Esposito. Finalmente, el estrecho vínculo entre palabra escrita y representación gráfica motivarán la calificación de Conjunto vacío en términos de ‘testimonio multimedia’.This essay aims to analyze the novel Conjunto vacío (2015) by the argenmex visual artist Verónica Gerber Bicecci, investigating the strategies chosen by the author to testify the trauma of argentine exile in Mexico in the aftermath of the last civic-military dictatorship. Starting with some considerations about the argenmex identity, it will be shown how exile turns into a “linguistic catastrophe” (Gatti), due to the representational impossibility it imposes on the word. The problem roots in the void of sense imposed by the exile trauma, which the word always tries to fill. To give account of this void, Gerber Bicecci recurs to the mathematical theory of sets, due to its ability to conceive the void without risking filling it. The mathematical categories of sets enter the text through their graphic representations: Venn’s diagrams drawn by the author. The universal reach of the graphic code allows the abstraction of the novel’s protagonist’s experience from this representational frame, which fits for the experience of every subject who suffered exile, creating a ‘community of exile’, which we will analyze through the theoretical proposals of the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito. In the end, the tight link between written word and graphic representation will justify the qualification of Conjunto vacío in terms of ‘multimedia testimony’
Carolina Pizarro Cortés (editado por), Nuevas formas del testimonio
Full text linkCarolina Pizarro Cortés (editado por), Nuevas formas del testimonio
(Santiago de Chile, Editorial USACH, 2021, 180 pp.
ISBN 978-956-303-514-8)
por Federico Canton
Teresa Basile, Infancias. La narrativa argentina de HIJOS
Full text linkTeresa Basile, Infancias. La narrativa argentina de HIJOS
(Córdoba, Eduvim, 2019, 300 pp. ISBN 978-987-699-569-6)
por Federico Canton
The Italian Legislation on Digital Signatures and The Role of Italian Banks as Certificate Authorities: a Strategic Analysis
No full textNew Distribution Models for Financial Services : The Italian Banks’ Approach To On Line Trading Development in Italy
No full textGiuseppe Caputo, Un mondo orfano
Full text linkGiuseppe Caputo, Un mondo orfano (Napoli, Polidoro Editore, 2023, pp.250, ISBN 978-888-5737-67-9) di Federico CantoniGiuseppe Caputo, Un mondo orfano (Napoli, Polidoro Editore, 2023, pp.250, ISBN 978-888-5737-67-9) di Federico Canton
Sustainability as a turning point for the success of megaprojects. The Italian approach
No full textSince their birth, megaprojects, defined as projects with a budget of more
than one billion (USD) (Warrack, 1985), have encountered considerable difficulties
in producing the results initially expected: “Over budget, over time,
under benefits, over and over again.” as “the Iron Law of Megaprojects” by
B. Flyvbjerg states. Some authors highlights that most of Megaprojects have
facing problems in producing the expected outcome because of the traditional
adoption of the triple constraint as success parameter, which tends to evaluate project’s success on the basis of a delivery that respects costs, time
and quality (Silvius, 2017).
However, megaprojects usually have an impact that can go well beyond
the immediate completion of the project (Turner, 2012). The different stakeholders
tend to evaluate the success of a megaproject at different times and
considering non-univocal criteria. The literature (Shenhar and Dvir, 2007;
Zolin, 2012; Turner, 2014) generally highlights that the project participants
(project manager and team) evaluate project success immediately after the
delivery phase, while consumers judge success in the months following the
end of the project based on how well it achieves its immediate business objectives.
In addition, investors and megaprojects’ sponsors are able to assess
the project success only after two or three years, evaluating (a) the financial
ability to refund the investment and (b) the alignment of the project output with the company strategy goals (Derakhshan, 2019)
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