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PostDigital Bodies
No full textPOSTDIGITAL BODIES
Mostra/ Workshop (20.10.2021)
Officina Vanvitelli - Complesso Monumentale del Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta
Coordinamento Scientifico: Patrizia Ranzo, Chiara Scarpitti.
Gruppo di ricerca: C. Leone, M. Musto, P. Ranzo, C. Scarpitti, R. Veneziano.
Hanno collaborato alla ricerca: M. Carlomagno (credits: support to workshop), F. Galdi (credits: Spark AR Interfaces and Grasshopper modeling), G. Pontillo (credits: support to Stratasys), G. Scalera (credits: graphic design manifesto).
Internal Partnership: Riot Studio, The Spark Hub.
Foreign Partnership: College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University Shanghai, China.
Saluti Istituzionali di:
- Luigi Maffei, ProRettore Innovazione Informatica e Tecnologica dell’Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
- Lucia Altucci, Delegata per la Ricerca e Coordinatrice della Sezione Qualità della Ricerca dell'Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
- Ornella Zerlenga, Direttrice del Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale
- Patrizia Ranzo, Presidente CdL in Design per l’Innovazione e Cordinatore Scientifico del Progetto “PostDigital M.P.” Programma V:alere
- Francesca Valsecchi, Associate Professor Ecology and Cultures Innovation Lab Fablab “Tongji University Shanghai”
- Chiara Scarpitti, Responsabile Scientifico del Progetto “PostDigital Manufacturing Processes. Body Hacking” Programma V:alere.
Breve Abstract:
La mostra PostDigital Bodies illustra i risultati della ricerca “Post Digital Manufacturing Processes. Body Hacking for Productive Systems”, finanziata nell’ambito del Programma V:alere 2020.
A partire da uno scenario postdigitale e dall’analisi critica di 50 casi studio, al confine tra design, moda e tecnologia, la ricerca ha sperimentato una serie di tecnologie avanzate in rapporto dicotomico tra fisico e digitale, corpo interno e corpo esterno, design speculativo e design funzionale. Il percorso espositivo si articola in due sale, esplorabili attraverso una serie di esperienze interattive. L’interazione è definita dall’ascolto di otto video lectures tratte da dialoghi con ospiti internazionali, dal coinvolgimento in processi critici aperti, dalla costruzione di infografiche, dalla partecipazione a indagini materiche e digitali. Attraverso l’ibridazione tra tecnologie e software - come la stampa 3D, le Brain Computer Interfaces, l’augmented reality, i dati parametrici e le reti GAN di intelligenza artificiale - PostDigital Bodies si pone come obiettivo la sperimentazione di processi postdigitali e la promozione di una cultura transdisciplinare del design, tesa a nuove prospet- tive e pratiche dell’industria contemporanea
Independent Developers: The invisible urban regenerators
No full textMost of today’s urban development and regeneration is being provided by the private
sector. Cities are being regenerated and redeveloped by institutional developers with
projects that can change entire neighbourhoods and city centres. The majority of these
developers are interested primarily in institutional properties and other buildings that are
large enough to generate the required returns and revenues without bearing too much risks.
There are also areas and neighbourhoods that do not experience institutional development
and investment because their developmental values and sites are not encouraging to them.
Nevertheless, some of these areas gained economic growth and were regenerated without
any institutional developers being involved. These kinds of regenerations are either a result
of community development or they are the outcome of independent development. This type
of development culture is not much studied yet. Independent developers are the invisibles
working in the shadows of the big institutional property developers that are often covered in
the media and literature. Hardly anybody notices and writes about these small and
independent developers that, although developing smaller projects, still have an impact on
and are important for urban regeneration. This analysis of independent developers and their
projects will provide information on their approach to property development. The report will
discuss the major differences between institutional and independent development and how
they each address topics like location, market, intervention and funding. By drawing on
examples from interviews, literature and other publications, the report will examine
independent property developers in more detail and try to analyse their role and their
contribution to urban regeneration
The role of language typology on L2 acquisition and learning, Special Issue
No full textThis special issue of the I-LanD Journal aims to explore the role of
language typology on second language acquisition (SLA) and learning.
The contributions to this special issue address the question as to
whether and in which ways typological contrasts of languages play a
crucial role in how events are expressed in adult second language (L2).
In this regard, Slobin (1996), by means of his Thinking for Speaking
hypothesis, argues that differences across languages predispose native
speakers to view and to talk about events differently and this seems to
have important consequences in discourse conceptualisation and
production even at very advanced levels of L2 proficiency.
Research on typological variation across languages has been
conducted for decades and important advances have been made in the
domain. For instance, it is well known that Germanic vs Romance
native speakers differ in the ways they conceptualise and verbalise
events. Consequently, speakers diverge in the preferred perspective
selected with respect to conceptual domains such as aspect, time,
motion, modality, both at the sentence level (von Stutterheim 2003)
and at discourse level (Klein/von Stutterheim 2002; Carroll/Lambert
2006) and this is partly due to the typological properties of languages.
Most studies show the challenges adult L2 learners face in restructuring
these patterns in the process of acquisition of another language with a
different set of patterns. This hard task for learners implies full or
partial crosslinguistic influence (CLI, cf. McManus 2022 for a more
recent overview). The latter, often used interchangeably with transfer
(cf. Odlin 1989, 2003, 2005), refers to the search for similarities/
differences between one’s prior linguistic knowledge (from the L1 or
any other previously acquired languages) and learning, knowledge
and use of the new language (Jarvis/Pavlenko 2010: 1). CLI is a key
component of the L2 learning process, and it seems particularly
relevant when learners try to map L2 words into the concepts of their
L1. In this sense, SLA can be seen as cognitive restructuring (HijazoGascón 2021: 2), since learners can experience a cognitive dissonance
between the L2 lexical items and the L1 notions. The question of
whether L1 typological properties may be transferred or not in the L2
discourse has been largely explored for the cognitive domains of time
(e.g. von Stutterheim 2003 for ongoingness vs boundness; McManus/
Marsden 2017, Giuliano/Anastasio 2021a for time and aspect) and
Introduction: The Role
of Language Typology
on L2 Acquisition and Learning
Simona Anastasio
University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France
[email protected]
Patrizia Giuliano
University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy
[email protected]
DOI: 10.26379/IL2022002_000
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space (e.g. Cadierno/Ruiz 2006; Hendriks et al. 2008; Carroll et al.
2012; Hijazo-Gascón 2021) and, to a lesser extent, for syntax (e.g.
Giuliano/Anastasio 2021b). More recently, research has also focused
on the co-speech gestures in the expression of events. As such, the
literature shows that the ways L2 learners’ gestures can reveal how
they keep on gesturing as in their L1 rather than in the L2 native-like
manner (e.g. Gullberg 2009; Stam 2018, 2023).
In spite of the evident role of inter-typological contrasts during the
process of SLA (along with other important variables such as the L2
input exposure, the L2 proficiency level, individual factors) in terms of
CLI, there is little research that focuses on the impact of intratypological variation, i.e. typological differences or similarities
between languages of the same type (except for Ibarretxe-Antuñano
2009, 2015; Anastasio 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022). Additionally, the
impact of language typology is still far from being fully understood
and this is due to several reasons: a) native speakers’ preferences go
beyond the clear-cut typological classification when encoding the
intended message (Slobin 2006; von Stutterheim et al. 2009; Beavers
etal. 2010); b) most studies look at learners with an L1/L2 combination
belonging to different genetic and typological families and very few
consider the impact of the L1 when the learners’ languages in contact
are typologically close (except for Benazzo/Andorno 2017; Anastasio
2019, 2021, 2022; Saturno 2020; Hijazo-Gascón 2021) and can,
however, lack equivalent form-function categories.
This special issue brings together recent empirical research on
inter- and intratypological contrasts and their role on L2 acquisition
and learning. Specifically, drawing upon a functional perspective, this
special issue aims to add to the SLA field by offering recent empirical
studies relying on original data, involving: different types of tasks;
quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods approaches; learners at
all stages of learning.
The key themes under focus explore morphological, syntactic, and
semantics differences between languages with their consequences for
framing events in L1 as well as in L2. In particular, three main domains
are investigated: a) affectedness; b) differential object marking; c)
space (static and dynamic location events). The data collected
represent a diversified selection of L1-L2 pairs: a) learners whose L1
and L2 are typologically and genetically closely-related (Isabel Repiso;
Jacopo Saturno); b) learners with an L1-L2 combination considered as
typologically distant (Christina Piot, Maria Hellerstedt); c) learners
whose L1 and L2 belong to different typological types but present
similarities in the linguistic devices for conveying events (Delia
Airoldi).
The first paper of this special issue deals with a still underexplored
domain in SLA functional approach, i.e. affectedness within Romance
languages. Specifically, Isabel Repiso examines the syntactic and
morphological realisation of affected arguments across two
typologically and genetically-related languages, French and Spanish,
and in L2 French of Spanish learners (A2-B2 levels of CEFR). The
crosslinguistic findings show different morpho-syntactic preferences
in French and Spanish productions to mark affectedness. As to L2
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results, CLI arises in terms of under/overuse of non-native like use of
L2 structures especially at less advanced stage. The author hypothesises
that, when confronting to the L2 verbalisation of a universal domain,
learners tend to rely on L2 constructions similar to those of the L1 as
a strategy to compensate lack of knowledge regarding TL uses.
Jacopo Saturno’s contribution also explores the morphosyntax
domain, by focusing on the differential object marking in nominal
morphology in L2 Polish of East Slavic learners (L1: Belorussian,
Russian, Ukrainian) of A1-B1 proficiency (CEFR). By means of a
quantitative study, the author confirms that CLI and universal
tendencies, such as markedness, may coexist as explanatory factors in
the differential object marking in an intercomprehension situation.
The subsequent three papers concern the role of typological
diversity in the expression of space in language. Christina Piot focuses
on multimodality in motion event construal. She first examines how
native speakers (French vs Dutch) express the same motion events in
their speech and co-speech gestures and then to what extent
multimodal and inter-/intralinguistic differences impact performances
of CLIL French learners of L2 Dutch (A1-B2 proficiency levels).
Participants were recruited in Belgium, whose context is not
particularly favourable for monolingual speakers, since it offers three
official languages: Flemish/Dutch speaking; Walloon/French speaking;
and, to a lesser extent, Ostbelgien German speaking. Analysis of
language use and gesture by native speakers shows not only
prototypical features of typological classifications, but also patterns
which are less typical of their language-category. As for L2 performance,
learners have their own thinking-for-speaking pattern which is inbetween the French and the Dutch tendencies. Moreover, the study
also highlights that gestures give information on event
conceptualisation.
With respect to a different language combination, Delia Airoldi’s
contribution also focuses on the expression of motion. Specifically, the
author compares the productions of native speakers of Italian and
German to the productions of German learners of L2 Italian
(intermediate and advanced) by using different types of stimuli. The
aim is to study inter- and intra-linguistic differences between German
and Italian and to see whether learners’ productions are target-like in
L2 motion event construal or still influenced by the L1 patterns.
In the final paper, Maria Hellerstedt discusses two types of space:
location and caused motion, as described by French and Swedish
native speakers and by intermediate and advanced French learners of
L2 Swedish. The larger goal is to investigate the semantic components
selected to describe static and dynamic location in L2 Swedish, namely
by means of posture verbs, and to identify learners’ strategies
(avoidance, over-using) justifying learners’ linguistic choices. On the
one hand, the paper shows the developmental trajectory of L2 Swedish
learners in the use of posture verbs in spatial events. On the other
hand, it highlights traces of CLI and other interlanguage strategies in
producing idiomatic posture verbs.
Taken together, the above contributions bring a timely update within
the research field of typology and L2 acquisition and learning by
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building on and complementing previous literature on the subject. In
particular, these papers provide empirical studies on different
linguistic domains, while offering new avenues for future research on
the issues under investigation in this special issue
Whither Critical Management and Organization Studies? For a Performative Critique of Capitalist Flows in the Wake of the COVID‐19 Pandemic
No full textZanoni, P (corresponding author), Hasselt Univ, Hasselt, Belgium.
[email protected]
Post-Diversity, Precarious Work for All: Unmaking borders to govern labour in the Amazon warehouse
No full textThis paper investigates the (un)making of borders as a form of labour governmentality in one of Amazon's warehouses in Poland. Guided by a critical theory of borders as a form of labour governmentality under global capitalism, we identify organizational practices through which socio-demographic categories traditionally deployed as principles of organizing work (e.g., gender, age, ability) are unmade: the management of deskilled labour through an algorithmic system, the non-selective hiring of workers, the enforcement of social norms of interpersonal respect and a universal system of casualized employment. Together, these practices constitute workers as undifferentiated, interchangeable and equal labour, let them compete with each other under harshly exploitative conditions, and continuously dispose of the least productive among them, keeping all in structural uncertainty. The study contributes to the critical diversity literature by showing a 'post-diversity' governmentality that rests on equality, competition and precarization of labour as a whole, rather than segregation and marginalization through an 'ideal worker' norm. This labour governmentality operates by eliciting consent from historically subordinated workers and eliminating the advantage of historically relatively privileged ones. Unmaking borders within labour inside the organization, this governmentality at the same time crucially rests on borders outside it.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: We would like to acknowledge the funding Patrizia Zanoni received from the Flemish
Research Fund (FWO), grant no. G085119N and Miłosz Miszczyński from the National Science Centre, Poland, grant no. 2019/35/B/HS4/04136.
We would like to thank our respondents, the guest editors of the special issue, the anonymous reviewers, the members of the Chair Organization Studies of the Utrecht School of Governance, the members of SEIN - Identity, Diversity & Inequality Research at Hasselt University, the participants in EGOS Sub-theme ‘Diversity and intersectionality: Struggles for recognition and redistribution in organizations and (self-)entrepreneurship’ in 2021 in Amsterdam (online) and the EGOS sub-theme ‘Re-organizing imperfections at work: negotiating power and control in employment relations’ in 2022 in Vienna for their generous feedback on previous versions of the paper. Last but not least, we thank ERA-NET CHANSE for allowing us to further build on this line of research through the Humans in Digital Logistics (HuLog) project, grant no. 101004509 (2022-2025)
BOOKREVIEW: Handbook on the Law of Cultural Heritage and International Trade edited by James Nafziger and Robert Paterson [Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014, pp. 1-650, £180, h/bk]
No full textThe author was asked to write this bookreview as an expert in the field of international cultural law. The book includes chapters both relating to International norms and domestic law. The author of the bookreview highlights the influence of international law within domestic legal orders
Emilio Villa e Patrizia Vicinelli: due diversi modelli di scrittura poetica per voce nel secondo Novecento italiano
No full textL'articolo esamina alcune opere poetiche di Patrizia Vicinelli e di Emilio Villa ipotizzandone ed evidenziandone le peculiarità concepite per la voce e la performance in base a riflessioni sul rapporto tra oralità e scrittura in questi due autori. Si tratta di un aspetto fin qui non ancora studiato, in particolare nell'opera di Emilio Villa, pur autore di un intenso e stratificato monologo per Carmelo Bene.The article examines some poems by Patrizia Vicinelli and Emilio Villa hypothesizing and highlighting the peculiarities conceived for the voice and performance. The essay demonstrates the relationship between orality and writing in these two authors. This is an aspect that has not yet been studied, particularly in the work of Emilio Villa, despite he is the author of an intense and stratified monologue specifically conceived for Carmelo Bene
Tracce di Persio in Sidonio Apollinare
No full textThe author analyzes some loci in Sidonius Apollinaris' work, arguing that the alleged quotatiopns from Persius' Satyres have indeed a common topic or proverbial origin. More Persian quotations in Sidonius' epistles come from the first satyre by Persius
Uno scambio epistolare fra Giovanni Segarelli e Francesco da Fiano
No full textCombining the scantly extant data with autoptic researches carried out in the Archivio Caetani (Rome), the Author outlines the biographical sketch of a late 14th century annotator of Seneca's Tragedies. The article contains the first critical edition of a brief correspondance between Giovanni Segarelli and Francesco da Fiano, written in a twofold prose and verse draft
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