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Machiavelli e il materialismo delle passioni. Introduzione
Full text linkThis special issue reframes Machiavelli through a “materialism of the passions”: affects are not residues to be disciplined but constitutive energies that organize, unsettle, and regenerate political life. Drawing on a Lucretian naturalism, the essays map how desire, fear, laughter, and resentment operate beneath formal order, making conflict not a pathology to cure but a generative condition of freedom. The opening studies trace a non-transcendent account of the multitude and theorize collective desire as a negative, world-opening force, exemplified by Rome’s refusal to colonize Antium and Pacuvio Calavo’s ruse at Capua. Subsequent contributions examine laughter and parody in Discorsi I, 4 as rhetorical devices that disarm the fear of tumult; recast Machiavellian realism and virtù via the governance of passions in the Istorie fiorentine; and situate Machiavelli within broader cultural-political imaginaries—from the myth of the Swiss in European nation-building to Schmitt’s concepts of commissarial and sovereign dictatorship (Discorsi I, 34–37). Taken together, the volume presents Machiavelli as a theorist of complexity for whom political vitality emerges from the incessant oscillation between order and conflict, and for whom the passions are the deep motor of both cohesion and crisis
“So much was the plebs more willing to desire things in Rome than to possess them in Anzio”. On Multitude and Desire in Machiavelli|“Tanto era quella plebe più pronta a volere desiderare le cose in Roma che a possederle in Anzio” Su moltitudine e desiderio in Machiavelli
No full textThis article examines the concept of the multitude in Machiavelli’s thought, with a particular focus on the organic relationship between desire and the dynamic constitution that structures and articulates its collective essence. Moving beyond reductive interpretations, the Machiavellian multitude emerges as an irreducible conceptual figure, animated by a constitutive tension between potentiality and actuality, order and conflict. Through a reinterpretation of two emblematic episodes from the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy – the Roman plebs’ refusal to relocate to the colony of Antium (Discourses I, 37) and Pacuvius Calavius’ stratagem in Capua (Discourses I, 47) – this study highlights how collective desire transcends mere material aspiration to become a principle of openness to the possible, a negative force capable of continuously regenerating the political. In this perspective, the multitude is a collective subject in perpetual becoming, where conflict is not an obstacle to order but its condition of possibility. This study integrates Machiavelli’s thought with contemporary interpretations, exploring the multitude as a key to understanding the nature of the political as a site of tension, transformation, and inexhaustible potential
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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