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Teoria del muro. L'articolazione materiale del potere
Full text linkIn this paper the author analyzes the issue of the statal wall through an interdisciplinary
perspective which connects ontology, philosophy of technology and political philosophy.
The main argument of the paper is that there is an ontological difference between a statal
wall and the border on which it is inscribed. After a brief discussion of some well-known
ontological theories, the author argues that a wall is not a social object, but rather an
artifact. More specifically, a wall is a political artifact, because it is an instrument that
materially inscribes on the space a complex relation of power. In order to conceptualize
an emerging global political rationality, a new term has been coined by french scholars
Florine Ballif and Stéphane Rosière: teichopolitics. The term comes from the ancient
greek teichos, which literally means “the wall of the city”. Therefore, teichopolitics is the
politics of building walls, most of the time for security purposes. The paper deals with
some aspects of contemporary teichopolitics from a philosophical point view. In the first
part of the paper, the author criticizes the postmodern idea of a virtual and fluid global
space, and the connected idea of an historical and political consummation of modern
categories (e.g. State, territory, sovereignty); in the second part, he analyzes thoroughly
the ontological difference between wall and border and some phenomenological aspects
related; in the third part, he shows how and why a wall studied as an apparatus (dispositif)
implies the acknowledgement of different forms of power (e.g. sovereign, disciplinary,
governamental); in the last part, he argues that the issue of statal walls should be analysed
through what he calls a political ontology of the artifacts
L'occupazione dello spazio e la presa di possesso. Carl Schmitt e Immanuel Kant
No full textThe paper analyzes the concept of Landnahme through the philosophical frameworks
provided by Kant and Schmitt. In the first part the concept of «taking possession» in
Kant’s doctrine of right is taken into account. In the second part, Kant’s theory is criticized
through the Schmittian concept of nomos as the co-presence of juridical order and
spatial localization. The aim of the third part is to show how both Kant’s and Schmitt’s
theories end up supporting the vision of a relationship between the individual and the
world dominated by an exclusivist and possessive logic. In the conclusions, the Author
argues for a man-space relationship firstly based on the act of dwelling, suggesting a
possible political reformulation of the history of the nomos
What is a Wall? Towards An Ontology of Political Artefacts
Full text linkThe paper deals with the problem of the ontology of political artefacts. A political
artefact is a material object that produces certain effects on the social and political environment.
The philosophical question I would like to answer is if such an artefact is
political because its materiality imposes a social or political norm, or because it simply
describes and reproduces certain relations of power. Therefore, I discuss and criticize
some of the most relevant theories (technological determinism, social constructivism,
Actor-Network-Theory) that deals with the problem of political artefacts and the
relation between humans and things. After that, I defend an approach that I define
“material contextualism”. In the conclusion, I show why a philosophical theory of the
wall, namely a material object that inscribes on the space a relation of power, must be
grounded on the material contextualism
Nuovi spazi, nuove armi, vecchi nemici. Carl Schmitt e la critica filosofica del potere aereo
Full text linkIn this paper, my aim is to analyze the ethical and political consequences of airpower. The cornerstone of the essay is Carl Schmitt’s political philosophy, especially the issue of the verticalization of the conflict. I argue that the new war paradigm, so called drone warfare, undermines the juridical and political schemes of modernity. In this perspective, I try to develop Schmitt’s philosophy in order to provide the basic principles of a political philosophy of aerial warfare
Crisi e decisione: su Carl Schmitt
Full text linkRiflessioni sul rapporto tra crisi e decisione in Schmitt
Alle origini del potere aereo. La teoria della guerra di Giulio Douhet e la sua eredità
Full text linkIl saggio analizza la teoria della guerra di Giulio Douhet, concentrandosi in particolare sul saggio Il dominio dell’aria (1932) e sul rapporto che connette la forma della guerra e i mezzi con la quale essa viene combattuta. La tesi del saggio è che Douhet abbia anticipato, seppur in maniera acritica, numerose intuizioni teoriche e politiche che emergeranno con le guerre aeree novecentesche. Tuttavia, l’opera di Douhet è anche fortemente problematica dal momento che numerosi assunti dottrinari entrano in contraddizione con le linee fondamentali del diritto internazionale moderno. Per questo motivo, sebbene raggiungendo conclusioni antitetiche, l’opera di Douhet può essere letta come un’anticipazione della teoria di Carl Schmitt sul riemergere nel Novecento della guerra giusta
New Realism(s). A Brief Theoretical Inquiry
Full text linkAmong the different tendencies in contemporary philosophy, the so called “new realism” is
probably one of the most interesting. The “New Realism” is not simply a “back” to the reality,
a banal and trivial recognition of the existence of the external world. Rather, it is a polemic
(and therefore political) philosophical movement against the theoretical monopoly,
especially in continental philosophy, ruled by the postmodern philosophical discourse.
Therefore, New Realism is a sort of philosophical antagonist of postmodernity. However,
we cannot flatten the New Realism on the critique of postmodernity. Indeed, New Realism
is a multifaceted and stratified philosophical movement. There are several different New
Realisms. These New Realisms include different authors, lines and paths of research,
joined by the critique of postmodernity, but distinguished in many ways. The aim of this contribution
is double. Firstly, I will trace briefly the theoretical history of New Realism. Secondly,
I will focus my paper on the most important topics of new realism, and at the same time
on the different philosophical theories (Ferraris, Meillassoux, Gabriel, Boghossian, Harman,
Gratton) developed within the name of “New Realism”
Beati e pezzenti. Il governo spaziale della povertà
No full textAnalisi sulla dimensione spaziale del governo biopolitico della poverta
Materialismo e artefattualità. Una filosofia politica della materia
Full text linkIn questo saggio analizzo l’idea del mondo come coesistenza di umani e cose, e sostengo
che tale coesistenza debba essere considerate sotto la lente concettuale della responsabilità. Nei primi
due paragrafi sostengo che l’esperienza umana è sempre mediata da un sistema di artefatti. Nel terzo
e nel quarto paragrafo sintetizzo due differenti approcci filosofici, ossia la teoria degli artefatti e il
metodo materialista, i quali condividono la tesi della performatività degli artefatti nella costituzione
dell’esperienza umana. Nelle conclusioni mostro la rilevanza etica e politica di questa possibile
ermeneutica materiale del mondo.In this paper, I analyze the idea of the world as the co-existence of humans and things. I argue that this co-existence should be considered from the conceptual perspective of responsibility. In the first two paragraphs, I argue that a system of artefacts always mediates human experience. In the third and fourth paragraphs, I synthetize two different philosophical approaches, namely the theory of artefacts and the materialistic method, which share the thesis of the performativity of artefacts in the constitution of human experience. In the conclusions, I show the political and ethical relevance of this possible material hermeneutics of the world
La talassopolitica. Spazio e tempo della politica nell'era tecnologica
No full textPrefazione di Julien Freund alla traduzione francese di Land und Meer di Carl Schmit
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