155 research outputs found
Ruins of War : The Green Sea and the Mysterious Island
No full textThis chapter provides a semiotic investigation of an emblematic space in Palermo, the Foro Italico. After the Second World War, this space was occupied for many years by the ruins left when the city was bombed. Analysing the diachronic evolution of the Foro Italico, the author examines the semantic categories that have defined the space, exploring how the memory of the war has been concealed and inscribed in the post-war rewritings of the place. The chapter reads this space as 'a mysterious island', caught between nature and culture. Referring to different kinds of texts, Marrone illustrates how the practices of various local and migrant communities contribute not only to the resemantisation of space but also to the production of new memories
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No full textFormalizzazione o accumulazione? Digitalizzazione e dipendenza nelle piattaforme di food delivery
No full textThe paper provides a perspective, empirically explorated in the context of food delivery, able to focus those factors which have developed the digitalizazion of the economy, but also why its benefits are not being redistributed among those who have been involved. The hypothesis is that this happens because digitalization is not only the product of technological development, but also of a ri-articulation of accumulation processes happening in the context of neoliberalism effects on the society. A process which is not only increasing the relevance of food delivery, but it is also transforming social relations inside such context. The paper presents empirical evidences coming from the analysis of four of the major food delivery platforms balance sheet. Furthermore, the author will analyze 5 interviews conducted among food delivery workers and 7 among restaurant’s manager. The author finally underlines how digitalization is producing a dependency from digital platforms which gets deepen by the way in which they operate
Epistemic Democracy and Technopolitics: Four Models of Deliberation
No full textIn this article, the author examines the structure of four deliberative models: epistemic democracy,
epistocracy, dystopic algocracy, and utopian algocracy. Epistocracy and algocracy (which in its two
versionsis an extremization of epistocracy) represent a challenge to the alleged epistemic superiority
of democracy: epistocracy for its emphasis on the role of experts; algocracy for its emphasis on
technique as a cognitively and ethically superior tool. In the concluding remarks, the author will
advance the thesis that these challenges can only be answered by emphasizing the value of citizens’
political participation, which can also represent both an increase in their cognitive abilities and a
value for public ethic
Female Journeys: Autobiographical Expressions by French and Italian Women
No full textIn this study of 19th- and 20th-century French and Italian women\u27s autobiography, the author illustrates how the protagonists\u27 development unfolds through separation from oppressive social and familial structures. Reading the selected life stories as bildungsromane and drawing on an array of both canonical and noncanonical texts in the various autobiographical subgenres, Marrone concludes that the heroines\u27 movements away from oppressive structures are not limited to particular historical periods but are motivated by historical and cultural circumstances. She thoughtfully traces the reasons why a 19th-century protagonist might leave her country, a turn-of-the century heroine might flee her family, and a modern female character might separate from her mother, carefully examining their motivations and their goals. In telling their stories, she concludes, women writers continually challenge existing autobiographical conventions. Marrone finds that postmodern texts prove that the journey toward selfhood may be an ongoing one, one that unfolds through the creation of multiple life stories --Amazon.
The author begins her study with a consideration of the tradition of women\u27s autobiography in French and Italian literature of the 19th- and 20th-centuries. Using several examples from various genres, she brings issues of gender oppression, marital abuse, sexuality, and motherhood to the forefront of the discussion. She continues by analyzing the genres of autobiography and bildungsroman—where they overlap and where they diverge, specifically in women\u27s writing. Turning to specific authors and their works, Marrone moves on to an analysis of the writings of Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso, C^D\u27eleste Mogador, Sibilla Aleramo, Oriana Fallaci, Marie Cardinal, and Annie Ernaux. In examining the works of these writers, the author concludes that women writers continue to attempt to define themselves in their own voices. Marrone finds that postmodern writers participate in innovative experimentation in life writing: hybrid texts, creative auto/biographies, and collective life stories
Nicolò Rezzara e le battaglie scolastiche dei cattolici italiani tra Otto e Novecento
No full textDuring the first fifteen years of the XX Century the Italian scholastic debate was animated by two main questions: the control of the state over primary school and the teaching of religion in public schools. Among the various protagonists of those debates, Nicolò Rezzara represented one of the most relevant figures of the Catholic front: author of various books on the school and its legislation, his contribution well represents the evolution of Catholic positions on these issues, hovering between the request of a religiously oriented public school and the opposition to the monopoly regime imposed after the Italian unification. The article aims to highlight the work of this author, which still lacks an in-depth study
LE APORIE DELLA GENERALIZZAZIONE: MARTHA NUSSBAUM E LE EMOZIONI INTELLIGENTI
No full textThe paper discusses the so-called neo-Stoic theory of emotions as presented in Martha Nussbaum’s Upheveals of Thought. The thesis I argue is that her theory has only superficial connections with Stoic theory and engages in a series of truisms that by no means make it a new theory, as the author claims
Fragments of a political discourse. Critical interventions
No full textO presente ensaio defende a pertinência do olhar semiótico sobre a política, assim como o caráter político da pesquisa em semiótica. Por meio de desenvolvimentos acerca da organização discursiva na política contemporânea, e da ideia de discurso político, o autor elabora análises e reflexões acerca de temas e paixões com os quais ele identifica um caminho específico da semiótica para responder aos questionamentos promovidos pelo campo da política. Para isso, realiza intervenções críticas, enquanto postura semiótica fundadora. O trabalho visa também a desconstruir mitos e significações naturalizadas. Tais gestos semióticos são consequência da orientação geral que permite à produção dos discursos: uma postura política e, consequentemente, ética que orienta os processos semióticos de construção e de interpretação dos dispositivos discursivos.This essay defends the relevance of the semiotic regards on politics, as well as the political characteristic of semiotic research. Through the development of discursive organization in contemporary politics and the idea of political discourse, the author analyzes and reflects about the themes and the passions which he identifies a specific path of semiotics to answer the questions raised by the any political fields. For this, it performs critical interventions, as a founding semiotic posture. The work also aims at dismantling naturalized myths and meanings. These semiotic gestures are a consequence of the general orientation that allows the production of discourses: a political and ethical posture that guides the semiotic processes of construction and interpretation of discursive devices
Structure/Structuralism
No full textThe first issue of Word, the Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York, published in April 1945 by Roman Jakobson and André Martinet, both exiles living in the USA, features one of the first articles by Claude Lévi-Strauss (1958) (L’analyse structurale en linguistique et en anthropologie) and the last essay by Ernst Cassirer
(2002) (Structuralism in Modern Linguistics), who died a few weeks before its publi cation. This is the official birth of structuralism, a term seemingly coined by the author of Philosophie der symbolischen Formen in his posthumous essay with its testimonial quality
Alterations in Step Width and Reaction Times in Walking Subjects Exposed to Mediolateral Foot-Transmitted Vibration
No full textThis study explores how low-frequency foot-transmitted vibration (FTV) affects both gait parameters and cognitive performance. Twenty healthy male participants experienced harmonic mediolateral FTV (1.25 Hz, 1 m/s2) while either standing or walking on a treadmill. We assessed participants’ reaction times to visual stimuli using a psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) test under five conditions, including (i) baseline (standing still without vibration), (ii) vibration (standing still with vibration), (iii) walking (walking without vibration), (iv) walking with vibration, and (v) post-test (standing still without vibration after the tests). Additionally, the step width (SW) was measured with a camera system in conditions (iii) and (iv), i.e., when participants were walking with and without vibration and during PVT execution. The results showed that the average vigilance decreased, and the step width increased while walking and/or with vibration exposure. These findings suggest a potential connection between decreased vigilance, increased step width, and the need for enhanced stability, focusing on balance maintenance and a wider base of support. Implications for future standard revisions are presented and discussed
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