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La tavola e la mappa. Paradigmi per una metaforologia mediale dell’immaginazione cartografica in Kant
No full textImmanuel Kant’s thought is a central historical and theoretical reference in Hans Blumenberg’s metaphorological project. This is demonstrated by the fact that in the Paradigms the author outlines the concept of absolute metaphor by explicitly referring to §59 of the Critique of the Power of Judgment and recognizing in the Kantian symbol a model for his own metaphorics. However, Kant’s name also appears in the chapter on the metaphor of the “terra incognita” that not only did he theorize the presence of symbolic hypotyposis in our language [...] but also made extensive use of metaphors linked to “determinate historical experiences”. In particular: geographical metaphors. In my essay, I would like to start from the analysis of Kant’s geographical metaphors in order to try to rethink Blumenberg’s archaeological method as an archaeology of media that grounds the study of metaphors in the materiality of communication and the combination of tools, agents and media
Aesthetics of Terra Forma: what tools for terrestrial imagination? Bruno Latour’s lesson
No full textLanding on Earth. This now famous formula, which appears in the title of the exhibition/catalogue Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, sums up Latour’s ecological-political project and his attempt to respond to the Anthropocene’s need to bring us back to Earth, to this unstable soil that reacts to our actions and from which the project of Modernity had progressively distanced us. For Latour, climate change and the definition of anthropos as a geological force impose the search for a new habitable territory: the Earth we thought we knew, but which now presents itself as a new terra incognita. However, because of the uncertainty about the shape of the Earth, the need to develop new tools to orient ourselves and describe the situation in which we find ourselves becomes more and more urgent. If what is at stake after the disorientation (spatial, temporal, identity) caused by Gaia’s intrusion is the re-politicization of belonging to the land, what are the cartographic representations that will be able to effectively describe our co-belonging to the space we inhabit, helping to make visible the different chains of agency? What are the tools we can use to learn to see things differently and thus become more “sensitive and responsive” to the fragile shells of this metastable world where life forms other than our own intersect their paths? What kind of map is an earthly map?Landing on Earth. This now famous formula, which appears in the title of the exhibition/catalogue Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, sums up Latour’s ecological-political project and his attempt to respond to the Anthropocene’s need to bring us back to Earth, to this unstable soil that reacts to our actions and from which the project of Modernity had progressively distanced us. For Latour, climate change and the definition of anthropos as a geological force impose the search for a new habitable territory: the Earth we thought we knew, but which now presents itself as a new terra incognita. However, because of the uncertainty about the shape of the Earth, the need to develop new tools to orient ourselves and describe the situation in which we find ourselves becomes more and more urgent. If what is at stake after the disorientation (spatial, temporal, identity) caused by Gaia’s intrusion is the re-politicization of belonging to the land, what are the cartographic representations that will be able to effectively describe our co-belonging to the space we inhabit, helping to make visible the different chains of agency? What are the tools we can use to learn to see things differently and thus become more “sensitive and responsive” to the fragile shells of this metastable world where life forms other than our own intersect their paths? What kind of map is an earthly map
Die Terminologie. Ein antirationalistischer Aspekt der Philosophie Kants
No full textIn questo articolo si indaga la concezione di Kant riguardo al lessico filosofico, tema su cui è possibile valutare un'importante presa di distanza della sua filosofia dal razionalismo dogmatico .This essay is focused on the Kantian idea of philosophical terminology, trying to clear the prejudices concerning his alleged silence on language and to point out the antirational character of his philosophy of language. In this context are retraced the information Kant gives about how philosophical specialized vocabulary has to be found and the role it plays in the philosophical communication. A particular attention is also given to the doctrine of
Meditieren and the idea of heuristic as a method for the accomplishment of a scientific work
Emilio Garroni e le «bellezze olivettiane»
No full textEmilio Garroni (1925-2005) è stato uno dei più importanti e originali interpreti dell’estetica italiana del secolo scorso1. Figura di intellettuale complessa e sfaccettata, fin dal principio il suo percorso di ricerca è costellato di incursioni nei più svariati ambiti della cultura. Ne è prova il fatto che tra gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta, ancor prima di conseguire la libera docenza in estetica, Garroni inizia a lavorare per la RAI, collaborando in qualità di esperto alla realizzazione di numerose rubriche culturali.La RAI di quegli anni è un laboratorio di idee molto più vivo e ricco di quanto non sia oggi
Kant e il punto di vista umano sullo spazio. Dall’Estetica trascendentale all’estetica come critica del gusto
No full textWe can “speak of space, extended beings, and so on, only from the human stand-point”. So writes Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason at the conclusion of his (metaphysical and transcendental) exposition of the concept of space, emphasising that space and the relations that take place in it obtain “objective” meaning only when considered in accordance with the “laws of their conjunction”. Yet in nature, ac-cording to its a priori form, phenomena are treated without distinction of any kind, constituting, as Scaravelli wrote, a sensible texture that is “everywhere identical and perfectly isotropic”. Moreover, on the basis of transcendental principles of nature alone, what is different about individual phenomena cannot be justified. In the Critique of Pure Reason, this further dimension of knowledge was perceived as a problem and the question therefore remained open: how do we refer to the space in which sense objects find their place when we are not engaged in perceiving them in precise relations, as prescribed by the laws of the intellect to the transcendental synhypothesis of the imagination? What are the qualities of the representation of external objects when the human standpoint is not concerned with their cognitive presentation in an objective and analytically predetermined world? The aim of my paper is to shed light on these questions in order to investigate the representational modes of the external sense in those cases in which the cognitive presentation of external objects in an objective and analytically predetermined world is not at stake, but the mere conformity to subjective purposes of external intuitions. My proposal, in short, is to move out of the domain of nature in general and into the territory of particular experience, and explore what in spatial representation is simply subjective
The map: a medium of perception. Remarks on the relationship between space, imagination and map from Google Earth
No full textStarting from the concept of Digital Earth, the article questions the effects that Google's geo-spatial applications have produced on our daily relationship with information, and the way we experience the spaces around us. Its aim is twofold: on the one hand, I intend to examine the implications that bring Google's digital maps closer to the invention of the print or telescope; on the other hand, I intend to explain, through a medio-anthropological investigation, how the map, as a medium of perception, falls not only de facto, but also de jure, into the field of aesthetics
Bio-maps. The challenges of mapping the spaces of life
No full textIn 2016, Bouchra Khalili presented her “Mapping Journey Projectμ at the MoMA in New York. Addressing the issue of first-hand migratory experience, the artist challenged the forms of representation and visibility demanded by governmental cartography, and showed an alternative geo-political map defined by the precarious lives of stateless people. Drawing inspiration from Khalili’s work and following the common thread of migrant’s figure, this paper addresses the cartographic logic of dominant territorial imagination and its complex relation to the silenced geographies of marginalized subjects. Thus, while adapting the idea of mapping the sphere of life – bios – from Walter Benjamin, it focuses on the problematic link between the working space of the map and the representation of the spaces of life
Il senso globale del luogo. Una prospettiva kantiana sul rapporto tra luogo, identità e cultura
No full textLa relazione fra luogo, identità e cultura rappresenta uno dei temi centrali del dibattito contemporaneo, soprattutto alla luce della crescente estensione geografica delle relazioni sociali, politiche ed economiche. Se è vero che oggi la velocità e l’intensità delle interconnessioni globali sono aumentate, è anche vero che tali interrelazioni non sono nuove. Questo è il punto del dibattito che intendo approfondire nel mio saggio: delineare un approccio alla questione del rapporto fra luogo, cultura e identità, attraverso una mirata considerazione storica del senso globale del luogo. Un piano di lavoro che trova nell’età dell’Illuminismo il primo fenomeno della cultura occidentale ad essere simultaneamente nazionale e locale e internazionale, un banco di prova esemplare. Focalizzerò la mia attenzione sul pensiero di Immanuel Kant, poiché rappresenta una delle migliori illustrazioni di come i processi di esplorazione globale
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