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How can Everyday Aesthetics meet Fashion?
No full textAmongst recent theoretical efforts to achieve the academic “addressability” of widespread phenomena that bring to the fore the etymological poignancy of the term “aisthesis”, Everyday Aesthetics seems emblematical for a richer reconceptualization of aesthetics. It, in fact, deals with features of our daily life traditionally overlooked by art-centred aesthetics, due to their “mundane” nature. Yet fashion, indeed a crucial element in the everyday, has curiously played a secondary, or rather, no role in such investigation. This paper aims to compensate this neglect by highlighting a normative feature of the aesthetic linked to its anthropological root and to prove how, if put to the test of everydayness through the lens of aestheticization and intersubjectivity, fashion and the aesthetic can be equated
Inter-facing Everydayness. From Distance to Use, Through the Cartographic Paradigm
No full textIn this paper, after a brief historical overview, we will make a programmatic and paradigmatic comparison through analogy, between cartography and design. These two subjects both share three fundamental characteristics: a captivating appearance, usefulness, and also are ubiquitous in everyday life. This is particularly evident nowadays in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets that are featured with a touchscreen technology. The paradigmaticity of such a comparison stands in the planning, and organizational quality, common to the two above mentioned subject areas. We will maintain that such a quality creates new aesthetics horizons, made possible as a result of great usability, functionality and interactivity. These features are achieved through the interdisciplinary cooperation between a careful design activity and a formal organization of symbols. These materialize into what we claim to be the «pass key» to this new kind of aesthetic experience rooted in the everyday and marked by immediacy: the interface
Estetica del design
No full textChe l’estetica, in tempi recenti, abbia accolto nel novero degli ambiti degni della sua attenzione teoretica fenomeni non necessariamente afferenti al consolidato dominio dell’arte e della natura è ormai innegabile. La presente rassegna propone una ricognizione che, nello specifico, ambisce a far emergere il progressivo interesse che un fenomeno tipicamente tardo-moderno e contemporaneo come il design sta destando nel campo dell’estetica. Ciascuna delle analisi effettuate per i testi in esame si concentra, in particolare, su tratti distintivi che li connotano e che possono essere così riassunti: estetizzazione e ubiquitous computing (M.N. Folkmann), estetica kantiana ed everyday aesthetics (J. Forsey), estesica (S. Vial) e bellezza funzionale (G. Parsons). In questo contributo ci si occuperà dei primi due testi, ossia quelli di Folkmann e Forsey
The Aesthechnics of Everyday life: Suggestions for a Reconsideration of Aesthetics in the Age of Wearable Technologies
No full textThis paper does not aim to provide definitive answers to the
current debate around the recent line of aesthetic investigation known as
Everyday Aesthetics. Neither does it seek to afford absolute methodological
and categorial parameters to it. Its main purpose is to suggest a possible
thematic approach that starts from a circumscription of the aesthetic
inquiry in question to the world of design in its digitally connoted configurations,
which today, more than ever, mediate and shape our everyday
lives. It is hoped that this approach could contribute to clarify the dynamics
through which the current state of the aesthetic is produced and perceived,
and that it would encourage established aesthetic theories to reconsider
the absoluteness of their traditional paradigms of investigation. But
more importantly, this paper will be rooted in the growing significance that
wearable technologies are potentially and progressively gaining nowadays
Everyday Aesthetics: Istituzionalizzazione e "svolta normativa"
No full textIl testo analizza, contestualizzandola all'interno del recente e vivace dibattito accademico innescato dalla giovane branca dell'estetica denominata Everyday Aesthetics, la voce enciclopedica pubblicata per la prima volta online nel 2015 sulla Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy e realizzata da una delle voci più importanti nel dibattito in questione: Yuriko Saito. La pubblicazione di questo lemma sembra dunque sancire, per ampiezza e profondità, il riconoscimento dello statuto istituzionale-accademico dell'Everyday Aesthetics. Tuttavia, orientato da un percorso di tipo prettamente socio-etico, il contributo di Saito ignora completamente una recente svolta in senso intersoggettivista-normativo che sta avendo luogo nell'Everyday Aesthetics. A partire da questa considerazione, il presente testo metterà in relazione quanto sostenuto da Saito con quattro contributi pubblicati tra il 2010 e il 2015, i quali hanno messo in evidenza il progressivo affermarsi proprio di tale svolta
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
G.L. Iannilli, Inter-facing everydayness. Dalla distanza all’uso, attraverso il paradigma cartografico, in G. Matteucci (a cura di), Estetica e Pratica del Quotidiano. Oggetto, Esperienza, Design, Mimesis, Milano 2015
No full textIn this paper, after a brief historical overview, we will make a programmatic and paradigmatic comparison through analogy, between cartography and design. These two subjects both share three fundamental characteristics: a captivating appearance, usefulness, and also are ubiquitous in everyday life. This is particularly evident nowadays in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets that are featured with a touchscreen technology. The paradigmaticity of such a comparison stands in the planning, and organizational quality, common to the two above mentioned subject areas. We will maintain that such a quality creates new aesthetics horizons, made possible as a result of great usability, functionality and interactivity. These features are achieved through the interdisciplinary cooperation between a careful design activity and a formal organization of symbols. These materialize into what we claim to be the «pass key» to this new kind of aesthetic experience rooted in the everyday and marked by immediacy: the interface
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
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