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Più grande, più lento di qualsiasi impero. Le alterità inassimilabili dell’immaginazione politica femminista
No full textFrom Ursula K. Le Guin's Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971), the paper focuses on the issue of relationship to otherness from a philosophical and political perspective, taking into account its characters – specifically Harfex, the biologist, and Osden, the "empath" – in dialogue with feminist theorists such as Irigaray, Cavarero, Butler, Haraway, among others. On the one hand, we find a dichotomous vision of difference rooted in confrontation, categorization, hierarchization (and hence oppression and exploitation); on the other hand, we find otherness as interdependence and connection: a tactile, mucosal, not pacified relationship that is not anthropocentric, nor rational, and recognizes agency in otherness. A situated and embodied dynamic that is never given in advance.
Together with Osden we will explore the possibility of empathy as a form of truth, and, linking up to Le Guin’s Earthsea saga and The Dispossessed, we will highlight two different modes of power-knowledge production: on one side, knowledge as organization, classification, and anthropocentric reduction to human perspective; on the other, knowledge as intimacy, equilibrium, connection, and unassimilability of the other
Love, Politics, and Public/Private Porosity
Get PDFThis article examines the political and theoretical life of Jane Addams and the women of Hull House, who gave rise to a constellation of new subjects and practices in nineteenth-century Chicago. In particular, the article highlights the importance of women’s relations in the settlement in Halsted Street, which were a fundamental part of the group’s political practice and reflection on democracy, society, and justice: on the one hand, they reconfigured the traditional dichotomy between private and public space, revealing its inherent porosity; on the other, relations of proximity, friendship, and love proved to be transformative forces and an embodied practice of justice that escaped the dynamics of the dual subject/object relationship, becoming an element of social change. Love, considered in the triple sense of romantic and intimate love, affectionate and cooperative love, and love of Humanity, turned out to be a political element that could redefine the norms and spaces of social action for Victorian women. Moreover, it extended the sphere of democracy beyond governmental procedures and institutions and transformed it into a life practice based on acting in concert and being together
Woman and Stasis: two 'unpolitical' operators of the political
Get PDFThis paper investigates the relationship between sexual difference and stasis as it is
defined by Nicole Loraux in her studies on conflict and politics in classical Athens. As
one of the most influential researcher of the classical city, Loraux has investigated the
relationship between division and oblivion in the Greek political space, pinpointing the
fundamental relationship between politics and conflict and highlighting the division at
the heart of the rhetoric of the “City as one”, Hé Polis, and as an harmonic and rational
space of freedom and logos
Corpi in rivolta. Una ricognizione filosofica su conflitto e politica
Get PDFQuesto lavoro di ricerca vuole proporre un'analisi filosofica del nesso tra Politico e Conflitto, a partire dalla presa in esame delle esperienze politiche di rivolta, rivoluzione, mobilitazione e protesta, ponendo al centro il corpo e la differenza sessuale come strumenti interpretativi. Tale posizionamento conduce la riflessione a interrogare le soggettività incarnate, così come la relazione individuale e collettiva con lo spazio urbano, le esperienze nella folla – tra potenziamento e terrore - e, soprattutto, le differenti relazioni tra i sessi che si dispongono nello spazio collettivo di conflitto. Particolare attenzione verrà data al nesso che lega donne, rivolta, potere e violenza. Attraverso una messa a tema delle “grandi narrazioni” sul corpo, la violenza e il femminile, che costituiscono l'autorappresentazione del Potere all'interno della tradizione politica occidentale, questa ricerca adotta una prospettiva genealogica e decostruttiva, guardando al contempo a discorsi e rappresentazioni alternative, fuori dall'orizzonte del simbolico politico tradizionale. Si discuteranno posizioni e letture differenti dell'esperienza di rivolta e del processo rivoluzionario, alla ricerca di categorie utili a distinguerle concettualmente: tra queste, la categoria mezzi/fini, il rapporto con il tempo, il nesso tra libertà e violenza. Infine, strumento fondamentale di interpretazione e riflessione sarà le differenti posizioni femministe sulla violenza, sul conflitto e sulla logica rivoluzionaria contrapposta al gesto di rivolta.This thesis aims at an analysis of the relationship between Politics and conflict from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the political experience of revolts, mobilisations and protests, taking into account the body and the sexual difference as relevant interpretative instruments. Particular attention is given to the link between revolt, women, power and violence. Focusing on the institutional and traditional “grand narrative” of Power over the body, violence and feminine, this research adopts a deconstructive and genealogical perspective, while at the same time looking for relevant representations and discourses, out of the traditional symbolic order of politics. Several readings and positions about the experience of revolt and the revolutionary process are discussed in order to identify categories to separate “revolt” from “revolution”: the experience of time, the relationship between means and ends, the link between liberty and violence. Then, a fundamental interpretative tool is found in the feminist perspective on violence, conflict, protest experiences and the opposition between the revolutionary logic and the revolt position
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