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Posmemoria, traducción y montaje del recuerdo
Full text linkThe aim of this article is to demonstrate how post-memory, that is, the process of generational transmission of memory, is closely linked to the concepts of translation and re-writing. To confirm this argumentation, the author analyses the documentary El silencio es un cuerpo que cae (2017), written and directed by the Argentinian filmmaker Agustina Comedi. The movie, an example of found footage, using amateur home movies of her family, intertwines private and collective memories with reflections on the new, possible and different modalities to transmit the memory of homosexuality across generations
Posizionamenti della memoria
Full text linkThe main goal of this paper is to investigate the enunciation created when a subject, in a space of memory, looks at a photograph where a person, connected with a traumatic event, is represented. In particular, considering the dynamics of “me-you” (as theorized by Schapiro) evoked by the frontality of the photographs, I propose a reflection on the “proxemics of memory”. In particular, I consider the positioning in space of the spectator-subject that allows him/her to always change his/her acting role, “becoming” perpetrator and victim according to the enunciation that is activated. To do this, I focus on three case studies that represent three different ways of changing the spectator’s acting role, so as to propose reflections on the ways in which traumatic memory is transmitted through photographs that “look into the eyes”
Come a casa. Turismo, erosione del trauma e nostalgia nel DDR Museum di Berlino
No full textThis paper analyses the visiting experience presented to tourists in spaces devoted to the translation and transmission of the past, looking in particular at the nostalgia strategies proposed in spatial enunciation, i.e., the "softening" of events in museum halls. In this case, nostalgia is considered not so much (and not only) as an individual passion connected to the desire to return to a space, but as a spatial atmosphere to be consumed through the tourist experience. Nostalgia is also understood as a passionate coloring of museum strategies, that is used to make a past temporality experienceable and enduring, externalized as better than the present. The article takes a museum in Berlin as its case study, investigating the way in which the space tries to instill nostalgia in the tourist by recreating homely environments, producing a domestication of the past and a depotentiation of the trauma that underlies the history that is represented, making the experience playful and credible and thus still making the enunciated past desirable
Attualità dell’inattuale. Benito Mussolini: variazioni semiotiche di un dittatore
Full text linkIn epoca contemporanea diamo per scontato, da un lato, l’impossibile ritorno di un fascismo “storico” che abbia le stesse caratteristiche di quello del secolo scorso e, dall’altro, l’inattualità della retorica e dei registri comunicativi di Benito Mussolini.
Allora perché per alcuni gruppi sociali l’ex-dittatore d’Italia è ancora di moda?
È a partire da questi presupposti e questa domanda generale che il contributo prende le mosse. In particolar modo, l’obiettivo principale di questo saggio è di indagare le risemantizzazioni di Benito Mussolini prodotte specificatamente nella sua città natale, Predappio.
Il piccolo comune romagnolo è oggi una meta centrale per gruppi nostalgici e neofascisti che, tre volte l’anno (in occasione dell’anniversario della nascita e della morte di Mussolini e in quello della marcia su Roma), si ritrovano nella piazza del paese per mettere in atto delle pratiche di commemorazione in onore dell’ex dittatore d’Italia. Dopo qualche riferimento contestuale, si indagheranno le variazioni semiotiche che del dittatore vengono prodotte in questo spazio della memoria, dimostrando secondo quali schemi culturali Mussolini viene declinato come “santo”, “padre di famiglia” e “oggetto souvenir”. Per farlo saranno presi in analisi i tre spazi che a Predappio sono legati in maniera emblematica al ricordo dell’ex dittatore. La risemantizzazione di Mussolini come “santo” sarà indagata guardando alla cripta della sua famiglia, che si trova nel cimitero di San Cassiano, poco distante dalla piazza principale di Predappio. Lì, nel 1957, è stata tumulata la salma del dittatore. Il Mussolini “padre di famiglia”, invece, sarà studiato attraverso le modalità esposizione degli oggetti nella vecchia residenza del duce “Villa Carpena”, ora museo privato. L’ultima e terza parte di questo lavoro, incentrata sul Mussolini “souvenir”, sarà votata all’indagine di come l’immagine del dittatore venga riprodotta su oggetti venduti nei negozi di souvenir di Predappio, incoraggiando una forma di turismo nostalgico
Repetition, Recognition, Remediation. Or Benito Mussolini after Benito Mussolini
Full text linkThe main goal of this contribution is to investigate the way in which a figure of memory, the image of a person linked to an event of the past, symbolically travels in a specific culture. Investigating the role of recognition and repetition, I will reframe the modality of remembering the traumatic past through remediation. In particular, the analysis of an emblematic example from the contemporary Italian semiosphere, Benito Mussolini, allows me to focus on the creation of a common heritage of knowledge that is synthesized in a single person, culturally defined as a synecdoche of specific beliefs and values
The Senses of the Island. Semiotics of the Italian Fascist Lands of Confino
No full textThis essay aims to investigate the various semiotic roles played by islands in the memory of the Italian Fascist confino (forced confinement) of opponents of Mussolini’s regime. In particular, starting from the assumption that the little islands in the south of Italy were used by the regime as a space of exclusion for its enemies, I consider the possible encyclopaedical network related to the fascist construction and anti-fascist memory of islandness. The essay compares different forms of cultural perception of the island of confino: as a space for anti-fascist enemies and minorities, as a stereotypical space of “villeggiatura”, relaxation and holiday, and as space of nostalgia
Versus. Quaderni di Studi Semiotici
No full textVersus (o VS, come spesso viene indicata) è una delle prime e più conosciute riviste internazionali di semiotica, filosofia e teoria dei linguaggi e, da oltre quarant’anni, rappresenta un punto di riferimento per la ricerca semiotica. È stata fondata nel 1971 da Umberto Eco, che ne è stato il direttore fino alla sua scomparsa nel febbraio 2016. Attualmente VS-Versus è diretta da Patrizia Violi. Dal 1971 sono stati pubblicati più di 120 numeri e oltre 600 articoli
Degrees of nostalgia predappio, a case study
No full textIf you happened to pass through Predappio on the anniversary of the birth or the death of Benito Mussolini, or that of the march on Rome, there is a good chance you would meet a sizeable group of neo-fascists wearing t-shirts, watches or baseball caps adorned with the dictator's face, bought at the souvenir shops on the town's main street. You might meet young men and women with the angular face of the ex-duce tattooed on their arms or shoulders. If you then decided to follow that group of people, you would arrive at the cemetery of San Cassiano, two kilometres from the town's main square, where Mussolini was buried in the family crypt. After a few minutes, if you looked around the crowd, you might realize that what the press and public opinion often call the «nostalgic people of Predappio» are actually not all the same. In this contribution, I propose a possible typology of the different degrees of nostalgia in the people that animate Predappio during these «holy» days for the Fascist calendar
Una pandemia “dimenticata”. Strategie di testualizzazione dell’influenza spagnola durante l’emergenza di Covid-19
Full text linkThe main goal of this paper is to investigate how texts related to the Spanish Flu pandemic (1918- 1920) are used to interpret the Covid-19 emergency. In particular, starting with the idea proposed by Omar Calabrese in relation to the collective “taste” of history, and taking into account a corpus of American, Italian and British online media, I consider the various semiotic strategies of “presentification of the past” and “prognostication of the future”, as well as how the texts of the pandemic past in the early twentieth century have been considered as epistemic sources to which to refer and a historical experience from which to learn
Review of Marek Tamm, Juri Lotman. Culture, Memory and History. Essays in Cultural Semiotics.
No full textReview of Marek Tamm, Juri Lotman. Culture, Memory and History. Essays in Cultural Semiotics
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