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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
Human Sciences in Dialogue: Epistemology and Methods, Agreements and Disputes, Acquisitions and Projects. Starting from Paolo Fabbri’s Semiotic Research
No full textIn 1973, a long essay by Paolo Fabbri titled "Mass Communications in Italy: a Semiotic Glance and the Evil Eye of Sociology" was first published on Versus (“Le comunicazioni di massa in Italia: sguardo semiotico e malocchio della sociologia”, then republished by Sossella in 2018). The work opened a wide debate in the social sciences, in light of new findings in Semiotics and Structural
Anthropology, Sociolinguistics and Mediology. The extraordinary developments of mass culture stimulated, at that time, a reflection on several points: the epistemology of humanities and the crisis
of Marxism, the dialectic between research methodology and objects of analysis, the nature of media and communication systems, the social function of media tech, the active role of the audience, the unequal competences among communication actors, the processes of socio-cultural creolisation, the centrality of discursive genres and, above all, the rethinking of information theory in a semiotic key. Thus, messages became texts, the sender and the receiver were reshaped in terms of actors of enunciation, the code switched into numerous subcodes, the phatic contact played a primary role in communication, the notion of context lost the referent anchor and changed into meaning
Cucina politica: percorsi semiotici
No full textOn the one hand, cuisine and politics have always been considered two very different semi-spheres. On the other hand, considering the issue more in depth, cooking and politics are both strategies and tactics for governing the community. What I would like to do in this essay is to highlight the unexpected of the (multiple) relations of cooking and politics. Starting from a Latourian epistemological perspective, which considers the social collective as a whole formed by human and non-human actors, and governed by a series of management, control and enhancement processes that are similar to the world of gastronomy and that of politics strictly understood
Traduzione e soggettività. Ancora su Pasolini e il cinema
No full textThis paper reconstructs the debate raised by the thesis on cinema proposed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. In particular, two basic notions are addressed: the idea of cinema as a 'written language of reality' and the role of free indirect discourse for the establishment of a 'poetry cinema'. Pasolini is put into dialogue with Gilles Deleuze, Paolo Fabbri and other semiologists
Introduzione: di sardine e d’altri linguaggi politici
Full text linkAt the market in via Drapperie, in Bologna, in mid-November 2019, sardines were sold for three euros a kilo. In more than one fish shop, the price was the same as always, no significant variation. Yet nearby, in the immense Piazza Maggiore, in those very days sixteen thousand and more sardines were playing the leading role,
tight squeezes, not only producing an unexpected result against the aggressiveness of the right, the league and populist sovereignty, but inventing a new form of political expression: an ironic flash mob in the name of a world figure – the Sardinian, in fact – not particularly heroic or in any way handsome. A figure who –
based on the well-known media mechanism of "contagion" which, when it happens, never ceases to amaze those who caused it in the first place - in a very short time it has depopulated the squares of half of Italy and, it seems, beyond. Everyone wants them, everyone wants them: with great enthusiasm and lots and lots of uncertainty for the immediate future
Parallelismi e inversioni: l’impensato del semiologo
Full text linkThe emphasis on the search for a method identifies Semiotics among human sciences. One of the guiding
principles of this search is poeticness, conceived as a core mechanism of meaning-making structures. As Jakobson,
Lévis-Strauss and, finally, with its exemplar analysis of Maupassant, Greimas illustrate, looking for parallelisms and
inversions between expression and content is one of the most marking traits of Semiotic methodology. In order to
clarify this point, the article resumes a previous semiotic analysis of Paolo Conte’s song Pittori della domenica, a text
with manifest poetic features. The objective is not to articulate further what previously found, but to illuminate the
underlying choices and questions that guided the path of the analyst, giving a voice to an otherwise tacit know-how
Quotidianità e virus: un diario semiotico
Full text linkBeyond health issues, we know that the pandemic has changed our daily lives. Accelerating socio-cultural trends that were already present in our contemporaneity, such as functionalism, the control of bodies, the fear of others, forced hygiene, the reduction of essential freedoms, work from home ... The semiologist, constantly on the hunt of signals and symbols to be interpreted, he thus tried to intercept some of these modulations of daily life, with a kind of diary in public, sprinkled with various insights proposed to readers of various kinds. The following text is a partial collection of these notes, which, read now, may perhaps change their meaning, and interest those who, out of desperation or hope, are trying to understand what has happened to us, what is happening to us, what will happen to us tomorrow. What we have become, what will remain of our loves, our pains, our insatiable curiosity
La natura della lingua, la lingua della natura
No full textFor some years now, an idea has been imposed: the nature/culture opposition needs to be rethought deeply. Both the notion of culture and that of nature have nothing universal and necessary, least of all their relationship. Philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists of science have thus begun to deconstruct the evidence that covers the concept of nature. Examining from a semiotic point of view some dictionary entries, this article tries to go in the same direction. It turns out that nature is cultural construction, and every culture forges it differently
La fatica di essere pigri
No full textLa storia della pigrizia ha radici antiche, incrociandosi con l’ozio e con l’accidia. L’ozio è padre di tutti i vizi, ma anche virtù del letterato che sfugge alle costrizioni del lavoro. Analogamente l’accidia è vizio capitale, meno grave però di altri comportamenti considerati riprovevoli. Intere classi sociali ne fanno il loro vanto, altre la deridono, altre vi aspirano. E molti sono i racconti che riguardano la pigrizia, facendone ora una proprietà caratterizzante certi personaggi (da Oblomov a Paperino) ora un atteggiamento di ribellione contro le società moderne (da Stevenson a Lafargue, da Russell a Barthes). In gioco, è la rivendicazione di stanchezza, il desiderio di riposo, l’esigenza del non voler fare. Morale: difficile essere pigri. Bisogna faticare per riuscirci. In un’epoca che glorifica incessantemente la prestazione, riempiendo ogni momento della nostra vita di gesti carichi di necessità produttive, non far nulla è tutt’altro che evidente. Per questo va perseguito, rivendicato come un diritto, praticato come esercizio di libertà
Oggi viene male questo celeste. Paolo Conte e il dilettantismo
No full textThe figure of the amateur is emerging on the contemporary semiosphere, both in terms of scientific research and in the artistic domain. In this paper we discuss this phenomenon from the textual analysis of a song by Paolo Conte. We thus deal with the relations of mutual inter semiotic translation between music and image by showing how, in Conte, a musical compo sition can, at the level of utterance, become the theory of a given pictorial making and, at the
level of enunciation, be transposed into a drawing that predicates it by its own expressive and semantic means. But also how, in the reverse sense, a certain form of life of the amateur visual artist can be transposed into a precise device of musical performance
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