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For a Semiotics of Spaces of Memories
No full textThe chapter offers an introduction to the semiotic approach to spaces of memory. After defining in what therms space is a language we focus on two key concepts: narrativity and enunciation. We believe that semiotics can offer a very useful ‘toolkit’ to analyze different kinds of spaces – from cities to monuments, from architecture to urban practices - approaching the various problems that these places open up with a transversal and unifying methodology, thus making fruitful comparisons possible. Semiotic tools can sharpen our analysis, deepen our intuitions in a more coherent and structured framework and allow us to compare different analytical approaches
Il contributo della scrittura soggettiva nella narrazione della storia dell’emigrazione. La corrispondenza di una famiglia sammarinese
No full textQuestioning traumatic heritage and spaces of memory
No full textThis book marks the conclusion of a six-year international and interdisciplinary
European Research Project “SPEME Questioning Traumatic Heritage
in Europe, Argentina, Colombia” (2018-2024) in which university researchers
and heritage professionals debated the role played by urban spaces in the
construction and representation of events and subjectivities involved in
collective traumatic experiences. The project took into consideration how a
difficult past can be articulated in the spaces of museums and heritage sites,
not only to represent what happened, thus freezing the past in a historical
sense, but also to understand what practices and narratives are possible
so that trauma can become a springboard for reflection on contemporary
societies, and how countries and communities relate to an unbearable
history. In the field of heritage and memory studies, debates on the narration
of traumatic pasts through space are certainly not a new topic
The act of documenting: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing
Full text linkThe case study considered by the authors of this article is a peculiar example of a documentary that intervened in the landscape of democratization conflicts in the opaque context of current democracy in Indonesia. Half a century after the genocide, the film reopens the memory of a terrible and non- elaborated past, questioning the impact of the genocide in a difficult democratization process. Is it possible to move from an authoritarian regime that infected and corrupted all aspects of civil coexistence to a new and supposedly more democratic era without working through its traumatic legacy? What role might remorse and forgiveness play in the foundation of a possible new democratic pact? Joshua Oppenheimer’s film, The Act of Killing, confronts all these questions through the documentary use of the Indonesia genocide perpetrators’ words, body images, silences and denials. Engaging the images of this film through a semiotic perspective, the authors interrogate the relationship between aesthetic texts and
political emancipating processes, as well as the role of traumatic memory elaboration in the foundation of democratization. Essential for their analysis is the investigation of how moving images are implicated in the imagination and actions of perpetrators, including their possible functions and effects in relation to the audience
Reading memory sites through signs. Hiding into landscape.
No full textWhat can space tell us about our past? Which stories do memory sites narrate? Which memories do they transmit? And, more importantly, how can we read their meanings? Semiotics can provide us with a homogeneous, shareable and theoretically sound methodology to analyse space within a comparable and common frame of reference for scholars of memory studies and traumatic heritage, as well as for historians, architects and museum curators. The book describes in clear and understandable language the main semiotic concepts that can be used to analyse space, illustrating them with carefully chosen case studies of memory spaces – monuments, museums, post-war urban restoration, filmed and virtual space – in order to show the applicability and efficacy of a semiotic methodology
Uncomfortable Memories of Fascist Italy
No full textThe object of the contribution is an Italian monument: a sculpture emblematic of a controversial memory, the memory of fascism. It is a sculpture that has characterised and marked a very significant public space: a square in the centre of Brescia in northern Italy. Due to its urban location and strongly connotative dimension, it is relevant for a reflection on the spaces of memory and on how public memory is tied to the problem of "ideology" as formulated by Umberto Eco in A Theory of Semiotics
Conversazioni Telematiche
No full textI difficili problemi posti dall’analisi e dalla comprensione della comunicazione umana divengono ancora più complessi nel momento in cui si considera il ruolo che le nuove tecnologie della comunicazione (e dell’informazione) stanno rivestendo nei processi di comunicazione. Allo stesso tempo una migliore comprensione degli effetti che queste tecnologie hanno a livello comunicativo può servire ad attirare la nostra attenzione su certi aspetti della comunicazione che si riveleranno essenziali anche per forme di comunicazione non mediate dalla tecnologia. In questo capitolo cercherò di mostrare come un approccio all’etnografia della comunicazione basato sulla nozione goffmaniana di cambiamento di footing nel discorso può consentirci di trattare alcuni problemi specifici delle conversazioni ed interazioni in ambienti multimediali ed ipermediali, ed allo stesso tempo illuminare anche aspetti essenziali delle ordinarie interazioni faccia a faccia,sia verbali che non verbali. In primo luogo tuttavia cercherò di costruire un comune quadro di riferimento con il lettore presentando alcuni recenti sviluppi nella tecnologia della comunicazione in rete, insieme ad alcuni problemi connessi alla comprensione di queste specifiche tecnologie come forma di ambiente conversazionale.E’ possibile infatti che perfino una delle nozioni centrali introdotte nel titolo di questo capitolo, e precisamente quella di ‘ambiente virtuale distribuito’, non sia immediatamente trasparente per i lettori, e che, per poter discutere degli schemi necessari ad un’analisi etnografica delle conversazioni che hanno luogo in questi ambienti, sia quindi necessaria qualche spiegazione iniziale di questo concetto. Nel quadro del presente lavoro, definirò la nozione di ‘ambiente virtuale distribuito’ nella sua accezione più generale come un tipo specifico di ambiente mediato tecnologicamente che facilità la comunicazione, l’interazione e la gestione delle risorse umane nell’ambiente virtuale, e allo stesso tempo facilità processi simili di comunicazione, interazione e gestione delle risorse in ambienti non virtuali, sia localmente che globalmente
Turning Spaces of Memory into Memoryscapes. Cinema as Counter-monument in Jonathan Perel's El Predio and Tabula Rasa
Full text linkHow might cinema turn a space into a mediated landscape of memory? How can it interrogate what is remembered in a lieu de memoire, intervening in the porous borders that, simultaneously, separates and connects an event, its experience, and its representation? Could cinema’s role be that of a monument or, even, that of a counter-monument? I shall address these questions through the semiotic analysis of the ways in which the ESMA -Space for Memory and for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights, a memory site located in Buenos Aires, has been framed by two documentary films directed by Jonathan Perel: El Predio (2010) and Tabula Rasa (2013). Both films deal with the large, stratified, and troubled trauma site of the former ESMA compound - the Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada (Naval Academy of Mechanics) the most notorious of the clandestine centres of detention, torture and extermination operational in Argentina during the military regime’s ‘Dirty War’. Both films stand as peculiar recordings of the making of ESMA’s new “identity” after the end of the dictatorship, and the many layers it is composed of, thanks to a challenging audio-visual enunciative strategy, a cinematic ethical gaze depicting the transition from a space of suffering, to, supposedly, a landscape of remembering
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