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Momenti di contaminazione e figure della spettacolarizzazione della disabilità , tra immaginario pop e industria culturale. Il Circo Barnum, Joker e gli X-Men
No full textThe article aims to investigate three stages of diversity-disability’s spectacularisation in the
field of cultural and media industry. The Barnum Circus, the Joker (the Batman’s
antagonist) and the saga of the X-Men: three forms of cultural consumption which go
through symbolic landscapes of modernity and postmodernity. On methodological point of
view, the article utilizes approaches coming from sociology of culture and discourse
analysis. The author would like to highlight the structural ambiguities which distinguish the
disability’s aestheticization process, trying to demonstrate that they, finally, after a long and
complicated path, however, led to humanize and to set off the diversity
La pandemia e l'immaginario distopico-catastrofista. L'Occidente di fronte alla “collassologia”
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Il Leviatano digitale e il neototalitarismo soft
No full textThe crisis of political representation and liberal democracies offers one of the most investigated
topic, both on an academic side and a cultural and political perspective (at large). Some books
recently published – coming from a variety of approaches and orientations – suggest the idea of
a «Soft New Totalitarianism» related to the digital revolution. And the birth of a «Tech-Leviathan» at
the confluence of Surveillance Capitalism, biopower, postdemocracy and restrictions of personal
freedom. A process accelerated in the present pandemic age, which is testing the boundless rise
of high-tech firms influence and a renewed public intervention. This review article reconstructs a
path of scholars and books designing a multiple critical and «Tech-pessimist» theory concerning
the risks of «Soft New Totalitarianism» for western audience democracies
Corpo e comunicazione politica neopopulista. L'iconografia e l'immaginario del «salvinismo» [Neopopulist body and political communication. The iconography and imagery of "Salvinism"]
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