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Per un approccio ontologico alla prefigurazione ecologica
No full textL’articolo avanza una proposta teorico-metodologica per lo studio della prefigurazione ecologica, cioè quel tipo di attivismo ambientalista ispirato dall’ecologismo e caratterizzato da una visione interstiziale del cambiamento sociale, che si concretizza nella creazione di economie locali alternative, socialmente
ed ecologicamente sostenibili. Dopo una discussione dei principali approcci alla prefigurazione ecologica come «ecotopia» e come «nuovo ambientalismo del quotidiano», l’articolo presenta una prospettiva di “politica ontologica”, incentrata, da un lato, sull’analisi delle pratiche alternative del valore “performate” nelle iniziative di prefigurazione ecologica e, dall’altro,
degli immaginari che le mettono in relazione a una visione di società ecologica. L’attenzione alla dimensione ontologica porta in evidenza che la posta in gioco della prefigurazione ecologica risiede non tanto nel far esistere nel presente un futuro già anticipato nelle forme della sua realizzazione, quanto nel
rendere accessibile un potenziale di alternativa ontologica che è già insito nel presente, e la cui attivazione permette di aprire uno spazio di immaginazione radicale del futuro. Allo stesso tempo, come lo discuteremo a partire dal caso del movimento “ecotopico” della permacultura, questa prospettiva fornisce
alcune chiavi interpretative promettenti per analizzare il diverso potenziale «trasgressivo» delle iniziative di prefigurazione ecologica.This contribution advances a theoretical-methodological proposal for the study of ecological prefiguration, which is a form of environmental activism inspired by ecologism and characterized by an interstitial vision of social change conducive to the creation of alternative, socially and ecologically sustainable local economies. After a discussion of the current approaches to ecological prefiguration as «ecotopia» and «new environmentalism of everyday life», the article introduces an “ontological politics” perspective, centered upon, on the one hand, the analysis of the alternative value practices “performed” in prefigurative initiatives and, on the other hand, the imaginaries that relate them to a vision of ecological society. The focus on the ontological dimension shows that what is at stake in ecological prefiguration is not so
much the realization of an anticipated future in the present but rather the disclosure of a potential of ontological alternative that is already inherent in the present, and whose activation allows to open a space for the radical imagination of the future. At the same time, as we discuss starting from the case of the “ecotopian” movement of permaculture, this perspective provides some interpretative keys to understand the different “transgressive” potential of ecological prefiguration initiatives
Sulla desiderabilità del lavoro neghentropico. L’importanza dei processi di costruzione di senso nella comprensione delle dinamiche del capitalismo e della sua critica [On the desirability of negentropic labor: The importance of sense-making processes in understanding the dynamics of capitalism and its critique]
No full textThe commentary critically addresses Emanuele Leonardi's arguments as exposed in Lavoro Natura Valore André Gorz tra marxismo e decrescita (Orthotes, 2017). In particular, it focuses on the role of sense making in the critique of capitalism, on the notion of negentropic labor and on the link between collective desirability and social metabolism
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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