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Fresh fruit and vegetables: a world of multiple interactions : the case of the Buenos Aires Central Wholesale Market (BACWM)
No full textThis research explores ethnographically the everyday social interactions between the ‘users’ of a particular marketplace, the Buenos Aires Central Wholesale Market (BACWM). The ‘users’ of this marketplace are the social actors who work there everyday, and who bring and buy fresh produce. These ´users´ are the ´makers´ of the BACWM since, through their everyday practices, interactions and interpretations and knowledge, they socially construct this hub of distribution
A Laboratory for Mathematics
No full textMacchine matematiche; dalla storia alla scuola is a book by Maria Grazia Bartolini Bussi and Michela Maschietto that provides a description of the reconstruction of many
historical machines for drawing, and their impact on the history of mathematics. Underlying the book’s thesis are ideas about
education and developments in neuroscience. Laura Tedeschini Lalli discussed the book and the educational experiments and
their goals with author Maria Grazia Bartolini Bussi
Maria Cristina Arellana, Georgina Estevez, and Laura Tobie
No full textThis 1965 photograph shows Maria Cristina Arellana of Havana, Cuba, Georgina Estevez and Laura Tobie, both of Caracas, Venezuela in Hubert Hayes Memorial Log Cabin. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University
The dreaming brain/mind, consciousness and psychosis
No full textSeveral independent lines of research in neurobiology seem to support the phenomenologically-grounded view of the dreaming brain/mind as a useful model for psychosis. Hallucinatory phenomena and thought disorders found in psychosis share several peculiarities with dreaming, where internally generated, vivid sensorimotor imagery along with often heightened and incongruous emotion are paired with a decrease in ego functions which ultimately leads to a severe impairment in reality testing. Contemporary conceptualizations of severe mental disorders view psychosis as one psychopathological dimension that may be found across several diagnostic categories. Some experimental data have shown cognitive bizarreness to be equally elevated in dreams and in the waking cognition of acutely psychotic subjects and in patients treated with pro-dopaminergic drugs, independent of the underlying disorder. Further studies into the neurofunctional underpinnings of both conditions will help to clarify the use and validity of this model
Bizarreness in dream reports and waking fantasies of psychotic schizophrenic and manic patients: empirical evidences and theoretical consequences
No full textSeveral overlapping features have frequently been described between psychosis and the subjective experience of dreaming from the neurobiological to the phenomenological level, but whether this similarity reflects the cognitive organization of schizophrenic thought or rather that of psychotic mentation independent of diagnostic categories is still unclear. In this study, 40 actively psychotic inpatients were equally divided in two age- and education-matched groups according to their diagnosis (Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder). Participants were asked to report their dreams upon awakening and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) was administered to elicit waking fantasies; the same procedure was used in a control group of 20 non-psychiatric subjects. Two highly trained judges scored the collected material according to a Dream Bizarreness scale. The same level of cognitive bizarreness was found in TAT and dream reports of schizophrenic and manic subjects but was almost completely absent in the TAT stories of the control group. Two-way analysis of variance for repeated measures assessed the effect of diagnosis and experimental conditions (TAT stories and dream reports) on bizarreness yielding a significant interaction. Cognitive bizarreness seems to be a shared feature of dreaming and psychotic mentation, beyond diagnostic categorizations. Although these findings must be considered preliminary, this experimental measure of the cognitive architecture of thought processes seems to support the view that dreaming could be a useful model for the psychoses
L'unificazione del mondo. Alexandre Kojève e lo Stato universale e omogeneo
No full textThe Author reconstructs the genesis and the later developments of the concepts of the «universal and homogeneous State» in Kojève’s writings. From the lectures on Hegel to the Phenomenology of Right and the correspondence with Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt, the paper analyses Kojève’s thought on the universal and homogeneous State as the political form of the post-historical age. In the last part, the Author reflects on Kojève’s vision of the political form of Europe
Immagini della libertà
No full textThis essay reconstructs several images of political concept of freedom in the
modern and contemporary tradition. In the first part the Author traces the genealogy
of modern political concept of freedom that produces the achievement of
sovereignty and the individual rights in the age of revolutions. This political and
historical process shows an image of freedom as property of the modern subject
which is free because safe, autonomous and independent. In the second part, the
Author introduces a different imagine of freedom in accord with the arendtian
position of What is freedom? So political freedom can be sketched as an action,
a new beginning, an unexpected event; and thus, this different image of freedom
is showed as a possible way out from our age of crisis
Alla ricerca dell'utopia?
No full textThe Author traces the modern history of political concept of utopia from the publication of More’ Utopia. The historic-philosophical analysis shows that the opposition utopia vs realism and its transformations was (and still is now) central to develop the dialectic between reality and imagination, which is one of the axis of the western political Modernity. But, the epistemic and socio-political crisis of the XXth Century reveals the aporia and contradictions within this dialectic. However, in front of fear and angst ruling our present, the Author shows that a possible way out of our crisis could be in starting up again this dialectic along giving birth to new forms of our political coexistence
Rileggere la paura oggi. Volti e forme di una passione lungo i secoli
No full textFear is a passion that deeply characterizes the human nature and it has been a pivotal analytical topic of the Western Thought. The author, through the discussion of two recent books of Marco Filoni (Anatomia di un assedio, Milano 2019) and Martha Nussbaum (The monarchy of fear, It. trans. Bologna 2020) reflects on the political utilization of Fear in light of the actual transformations. Fear is considered crucial for understanding political modernity, while its reappearance in democratic societies is highly challenging and jeopardizes their capacity of cohesion and political order. By discussing the theoretical theses of Filoni and Nussbaum, the author points out the need to go beyond the politics of Fear by reactivating different political passions like Hope
La paura della secessione
No full textThe Author presents the theoretical framework of this «Governare lapaura»’ issue on the Fear of Secession. Starting from the recent cases of the Brexit and the Catalonian referendum, the main goal of this issue is reflecting on the relationship between the political crisis of unitary State and the revival of secession
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