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L'inizio del lavoro. Teoria politica e questione sociale nella Francia di prima metà Ottocento
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Il pensiero come arnese. Note sul metodo operaista degli anni Sessanta
Get PDF“I concetti non sono già fatti, non stanno ad aspettarci come fossero corpi celesti. Non c’è un cielo per i concetti; devono essere inventati, fabbricati o piuttosto creati e non sarebbero nulla senza la firma di coloro che li creano”. È forse questo pensiero di Deleuze e Guattari a tracciare nel modo migliore la rotta degli eterogenei saggi che compongono questo libro, nel quale si affrontano alcuni dei principali problemi posti dal pensiero critico contemporaneo. Nelle filosofie e nei concetti di Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Felix Guattari, gli operaisti italiani, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, e altri intercessori, non si tratta, però, di ricercare un tesoro segreto attualizzabile in presa diretta nel tempo presente, perché quei concetti e quelle filosofie rappresentano risposte contestualizzate a sfide storicamente determinate. Tuttavia, la società del capitale e della merce conserva ed espande la propria capacità egemonica; approfondisce le contraddizioni relative al dominio dell’uomo sull’uomo, dell’uomo sulla natura e dell’uomo su se stesso, oltre che le persistenti gerarchie di classe, di genere e di “razza”. I testi del volume si concentrano allora sul modo in cui i grandi pensatori affrontati sono stati capaci di concettualizzare alcuni tra i problemi decisivi della modernità capitalistica. È principalmente per questo che le filosofie analizzate nel volume possono ancora rappresentare il laboratorio per la coniazione di nuovi concetti, capaci finalmente di affrontare i vecchi (e pur sempre nuovi) problemi, mettendoli in “costellazione” con il tempo presente. Sono quei problemi, infatti, a riproporsi oggi, più acutamente che mai, come le vere e proprie invarianti della nostra nuova “grande trasformazione”. Al suo interno si tratta ora di ri-pensare resistenze e creazioni collettive che si oppongano alla programmazione burocratica e all’automazione degli assiomi capitalistici. Ma per aprire linee di fuga inedite occorrono concetti che, come voleva Benjamin, pur nella “totale mancanza di illusioni nei confronti dell’epoca” sappiano pronunciarsi “senza riserve per essa”
Living Labour and Social Movements: A Dialogue with Antonio Negri
No full text In this interview, Antonio Negri first focuses on the possibility of defining the concept of ‘social movement’. By mobilizing a spectrum of references that goes from Carl Schmitt to the Weberian sociology of religion, he insists on the necessity, not to sociologically crystallize the concept, but, instead, to think about it in a historical manner. Social movements would then be attempts at activating ‘liberation processes’, which nowadays can only be thought of within the conditions of financial capitalism. Negri then proceeds to examine the relation between the concept of social movement and those of class and class struggle: he suggests a dynamic and relational interpretation of the Marxian concept of ‘living labour’ as a bridge between a class analysis of society and the study of social movements, movements which in the contemporary landscape are ready to take an ‘entrepreneurial’ connotation. The political and intellectual experience of Italian Workerism in the 1960s is then recalled as a fertile example of the application of this method of social analysis, but also as an exemplification of the principle of ‘unrepeatability’ of social movements. The author finally claims to be a ‘theorist of immaterial labour’ in order to then develop a radical critique of the idea of so-called ‘post-materialist’ movements and of the effects that such a notion has had on the sociology of social movements. </jats:p
Training in quantitative microbial risk assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in processing chains: Quantification of biofilm‐cells transfer integrating virulence and persistence factors
Get PDFFood safety is a global challenge, with nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide falling ill each year from consuming contaminated food. The risk is particularly high in ready-to-eat (RTE) products, which are consumed without further cooking to eliminate harmful microorganisms. To address this, the University of Cordoba and the University of Bologna, in the framework of the EU-FORA programme, developed a training programme focused on quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) for Listeria monocytogenes in RTE food processing chains, a significant public health concern due to its association with severe foodborne illnesses. The programme aimed to train the fellow in advanced food microbiology techniques, predictive modelling and comprehensive QMRA methodologies. The fellow gained hands-on experience with predictive microbiology models applied to real-world scenarios, particularly RTE meat and fish products. Activities included developing predictive models for microbial growth and conducting challenge tests to evaluate Listeria behaviour in various foods. Emphasising data collection and statistical analysis, the fellowship explores the dynamics of Listeria within the food supply chain. A case study on sliced cooked ham demonstrates QMRA's application, using Monte Carlo simulations to estimate Listeria concentrations at consumption, ultimately informing risk management strategies. This initiative aimed to increase the number of food safety risk assessment experts in Europe, thereby enhancing public health outcomes related to foodborne diseases
Towards a critical theory of social movements : an introduction
No full textFirst published online: 22 December 2017In this introductory essay, we first argue that social movement studies have not paid enough attention to the dynamics of capitalist transformations. Second, we identify the epistemological biases of the discipline. Third, we propose some solutions to fill this gap, namely exploring the relations between the dynamics of the accumulation process and the social movement formation processes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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