Ecosophy of Avatar. Science-fiction, nature and everyday life. More than a century after its dawn, with Avatar (2009) cinema has returned to emanate the amazement of its origins, wrapping the viewer in a plot of synaesthesia that evokes the overwhelming effect provoked in the room by L'Arrivee d'un train en gare de La Ciotat by the Lumiere brothers (1895) and recalls the wonder sown in the audience by Le voyage dans la lune di Melies (1902). James Cameron's film, awarded by the box office but neglected by critics, was the first to propose a reading that is as transversal as it is innovative of the relationship between the media audience, the system of objects and the environment, tracing a scenario that can correspond with the contemporary imaginary and with the practices of everyday life. The film crystallizes the ecosophical sensitivity emerging in contemporary scenarios in the intertwining between the extension of the system of objects, the mediatization of existence and the overbearing return of nature in the speeches, aesthetics and practices of our culture.
阿凡达的生态学。科幻小说，自然和日常生活。一个多世纪过去了，随着《阿凡达》(2009)的问世，电影重新散发出其起源的惊奇，将观众包裹在一个通感的情节中，唤起了卢米埃尔兄弟(1895)的《到达的火车》(L' vee d'un train en gare de La Ciotat)在房间里引发的巨大影响，并让人想起了《美丽的月亮之旅》(1902)在观众中播下的奇迹。詹姆斯·卡梅隆(James Cameron)的这部电影获得了票房奖，但却被影评人所忽视，它是第一部提出一种阅读方式的电影，这种阅读方式既具有横贯性，又创新了媒体观众、物体系统和环境之间的关系，追踪了一种能够与当代想象和日常生活实践相对应的场景。这部电影在我们文化的话语、美学和实践中，在客体系统的延伸、存在的媒介化和自然的强势回归之间的交织中，体现了当代场景中出现的生态敏感性。
{"title":"L’ecosophie d’Avatar. Science-fiction, nature et vie quotidienne","authors":"Vincenzo Susca","doi":"10.7413/22818138171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138171","url":null,"abstract":"Ecosophy of Avatar. Science-fiction, nature and everyday life. More than a century after its dawn, with Avatar (2009) cinema has returned to emanate the amazement of its origins, wrapping the viewer in a plot of synaesthesia that evokes the overwhelming effect provoked in the room by L'Arrivee d'un train en gare de La Ciotat by the Lumiere brothers (1895) and recalls the wonder sown in the audience by Le voyage dans la lune di Melies (1902). James Cameron's film, awarded by the box office but neglected by critics, was the first to propose a reading that is as transversal as it is innovative of the relationship between the media audience, the system of objects and the environment, tracing a scenario that can correspond with the contemporary imaginary and with the practices of everyday life. The film crystallizes the ecosophical sensitivity emerging in contemporary scenarios in the intertwining between the extension of the system of objects, the mediatization of existence and the overbearing return of nature in the speeches, aesthetics and practices of our culture.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114201299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plant totemism. Toward a new imaginary of the plants in the Anthropocene . The Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia coined the concept of “plant totemism” to define the new emerging relationship between humans and plants in the Anthropocene. Recently, the interest in plant life is increasing, thanks to new researches on trees’ ability to perceive the environment they live in and to build social relationships. These topics exert great fascination in the social imaginary since they are rooted in popular culture and return in modern times in many science-fiction stories. Moreover, studies on plant intelligence first emerged in the pseudoscientific milieu of New Age. As a result, new forms of spirituality and pseudoscience emerge, from “forest bathing” to the “bioenergetic landscape”. The article analyzes the different forms the rediscovery of plant life assumes in the modern imaginary, concluding that plant totemism can be considered a case study in social imaginary to understand the emergence of a new sicentific spirit that tries to reconcile human and non- human world.
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The "unnoticed nature" : towards perspectives of re-enchantement. « The most obvious, ubiquitous and important realities are often the most difficult to understand and discuss ». This is Wallace's exhortation to go beyond the egocentricity and become aware of nature, which is considered an obvious and therefore "unnoticed" entity. Nature has suffered the consequences of a way of thinking and living life which make man confused and unaware. This condition helps – in the words of Georg Simmel – the "foreigner" to see the invisible that the autochthonous does not see. But when the risk burst into the scene, it expresses the deep relationship between human being and nature, which is no longer "unnoticed". The feeling of helplessness compared to the unpredictability of phenomena forces us to reverse the course towards "neo-archaic" forms, to reach new horizons of meaning and "refocus our gaze". The aim of this paper is to analize and reflect on the re-enchanted imageries of nature in the contemporary society with a focus on the perception of risk.
{"title":"La natura “inavveritita”: verso prospettive immaginali di reincanto","authors":"Elena Savona","doi":"10.7413/22818138168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138168","url":null,"abstract":"The \"unnoticed nature\" : towards perspectives of re-enchantement. « The most obvious, ubiquitous and important realities are often the most difficult to understand and discuss ». This is Wallace's exhortation to go beyond the egocentricity and become aware of nature, which is considered an obvious and therefore \"unnoticed\" entity. Nature has suffered the consequences of a way of thinking and living life which make man confused and unaware. This condition helps – in the words of Georg Simmel – the \"foreigner\" to see the invisible that the autochthonous does not see. But when the risk burst into the scene, it expresses the deep relationship between human being and nature, which is no longer \"unnoticed\". The feeling of helplessness compared to the unpredictability of phenomena forces us to reverse the course towards \"neo-archaic\" forms, to reach new horizons of meaning and \"refocus our gaze\". The aim of this paper is to analize and reflect on the re-enchanted imageries of nature in the contemporary society with a focus on the perception of risk.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126178455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Towards a definition of post-spectatorship: how filmic experience changes in the post-cinema era. This essay aims to reflect around Mario Tirino's book "Postspettatorialita. L’esperienza del film nell’era digitale". In the contemporary mediascape, where the media hybridize and remedy and the (networked) publics play an increasingly active role, the film experience and spectatorship have changed substantially. Mario Tirino's work enters into the merits of these changes, showing how they derive from a combination of factors that have influenced production, distribution and consumption. The merit of the author is to investigate contemporary cinema and changes in the spectatorship by resorting to consolidated theoretical approaches in the sociology of cultural processes and media sociology and to the presentation of empirical cases and analysis of products, forms and media practices, to provide a comprehensive overview and a broaden reflection on the link between the media and the imaginary and, even more specifically, between cinema and the imaginary.
{"title":"Verso una definizione di postspettatorialità: come cambia l’esperienza filmica nel postcinema.","authors":"S. Castellano","doi":"10.7413/22818138176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138176","url":null,"abstract":"Towards a definition of post-spectatorship: how filmic experience changes in the post-cinema era. This essay aims to reflect around Mario Tirino's book \"Postspettatorialita. L’esperienza del film nell’era digitale\". In the contemporary mediascape, where the media hybridize and remedy and the (networked) publics play an increasingly active role, the film experience and spectatorship have changed substantially. Mario Tirino's work enters into the merits of these changes, showing how they derive from a combination of factors that have influenced production, distribution and consumption. The merit of the author is to investigate contemporary cinema and changes in the spectatorship by resorting to consolidated theoretical approaches in the sociology of cultural processes and media sociology and to the presentation of empirical cases and analysis of products, forms and media practices, to provide a comprehensive overview and a broaden reflection on the link between the media and the imaginary and, even more specifically, between cinema and the imaginary.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131895069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Imagery of Nature. «Ecospiritual Neo-tribalism», «Geodicy», «Disneyfication». The aim of this paper is to analyze some peculiar forms of the contemporary imagery of nature. To this end, I first explain the sociological reasons behind the current questioning of humanism and modernity. Then I briefly try to scrutinize the phenomenon of «re-enchantment», starting from the concept of «disenchantment» as used above all by Max Weber and Marcel Gauchet. Subsequently, I analyze the phenomenon of ecospirituality, understood as the «re-enchantment» - in the words of Michel Maffesoli - of the natural sphere. In this sense, I speak of a sort of «ecospiritual neo-tribalism». Finally, I discuss the American imagery of wilderness and its subsequent spread throughout the West. I conclude with a reflection on the phenomenon of the « disneyfication of nature », applying here to the imagery of nature a concept used by David Lyon.
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The Imaginary 'in Action'. The images of Nature in the behavior of social actors. Starting from a perspective of Sociology of Action, this paper aims to develop the issue of Social Imaginary, highlighting that there are different ways to feel nature and to act with regard to it, depending on the different social mentalities (i.e. values, social norms, traditions that form a specific culture) which characterize a particular society or community, and on psycho-social dynamics that are involved in different kind of social Action. The aim of this analysis is to adequately highlight the characteristics, the structure and the practical consequences in the ordinary lifestyle of at least two different forms of Imaginary of Nature: in the first model considered, nature is perceived as an ideal space where the Subject wants to realize a concrete life project. It is a form of ‘self-representation’ of one’s social reality. In the second model considered, on the contrary, nature is perceived essentially as a physical space in which it is possible to project emotions and personal needs. We will therefore speak of imaginary as ‘self-narration’.
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The ecosophycal metropolis: atmospheres, perceptions, narrations . The ecosophycal metropolis is a proposition to build a perspective of a narration of our time, our contemporary lived experience in relation with the imaginary of the urban environment where we can see a hybrid dialectic in order to notice a reciprocity between nature, urbanities, technics that influence the architectural conceptions and the life styles. This is a new aesthetical paradigm that we must understand like a dynamic of social and cultural life and also like an organic mutation of the urban and social body. In the dynamic of consideration about the relation between metropolis and nature, the proposition aims to understand the ecology of urban life and sensible perception that through the ambiances effect the modalities to live in an optical to being in the world. Our focus about the ecosophycal interrogation is an epistemological and phenomenological procedure in the way to highlights the sensible forms that articulate the urban life experience illustrating some constitutive examples of architectures, modulations and also via the imaginary of narrations and urban utopian fantasies.
{"title":"La metropoli ecosofica: atmosfere, percezioni, narrazioni","authors":"F. Rocca","doi":"10.7413/22818138169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138169","url":null,"abstract":"The ecosophycal metropolis: atmospheres, perceptions, narrations . The ecosophycal metropolis is a proposition to build a perspective of a narration of our time, our contemporary lived experience in relation with the imaginary of the urban environment where we can see a hybrid dialectic in order to notice a reciprocity between nature, urbanities, technics that influence the architectural conceptions and the life styles. This is a new aesthetical paradigm that we must understand like a dynamic of social and cultural life and also like an organic mutation of the urban and social body. In the dynamic of consideration about the relation between metropolis and nature, the proposition aims to understand the ecology of urban life and sensible perception that through the ambiances effect the modalities to live in an optical to being in the world. Our focus about the ecosophycal interrogation is an epistemological and phenomenological procedure in the way to highlights the sensible forms that articulate the urban life experience illustrating some constitutive examples of architectures, modulations and also via the imaginary of narrations and urban utopian fantasies.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124313196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Artificial sauvage and real domesticity in the making of “nature in cities” : flora as the main medium for sauvage imaginaries. The expressions “Putting nature back in the city” or “greener cities” are part of a dynamic rhetorical set where the rewilding branch of the imaginaries is particularly used. While the livability of cities is questioned, we use the “outside the walls” imaginary of a romanticised wilderness (sauvage). However, this rewilding actually seems to mobilize domestic figures, usually being about vegetalizing cities, whether it is about urban planning or the idea of nature as a service-provider. Flora appears as having become the principal medium through which the sauvage/wild is perceived inside cities. This is part of a general movement of re-romanticizing the idea of nature, blending imaginaries born out of very different territories : that of the sauvage and that of the anglo-saxon wild, the latter being loaded with a romantic power seemingly tainting our conceptions of urban planning. What if the meaning of sauvage was more about the production of this floral signifier as a representation of a radical alterity to the metropolitan habitat as a normative model ?
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The Self-Confession Of The Earth. Growers of “natural wine” prove that relying on magical thinking can yet produce scientifically measurable results. The market of natural wine is a solid sociological and economical phenomena. And yet, behind concrete results, the expertise and the lore mobilised can rest on superstition or analogical thinking. Based on pragmatic material and participative methodologies, this article investigates the dynamics that allow magical practices to cause real, measurable consequences on a large-scale consumer good. It would like to expose more how this “indirect causation” allows natural winemakers and natural wine consumers to become a vehicle of nature for humans.
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'Send me a message': on communication with text messages as possibility, constriction and desire. The responsibility for deciding if, how and when an artefact shoud be used does not fall solely on the user. A significant amount of research in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has highlighted the complex interrelationship that determines the way we use technological objects. Many elements attributable to both the "social sphere" and the "technological dimension" are responsible for the way the device is effectively used. In this article we intend to, firstly, understand the distribution scheme of responsibility proposed by the literature, in which users, technological objects and relative contexts constitute and configure practices of use. Secondly, we will try to explore a particular configuration of this scheme in which user's responsibility is greatly diminished. To illustrate and analyze the main aspects of this configuration, we will focus on the use of mobile instant messaging systems. This case study allows us to observe the ways in which smartphones, in certain contexts, impose a particular behaviour on people, reducing their responsibility in choosing the mode of use.
{"title":"'Mandami un messaggio’: sulla comunicazione con i messaggi di testo come possibilità, costrizione e desiderio","authors":"Joaquin Mutchinick","doi":"10.7413/22818138175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138175","url":null,"abstract":"'Send me a message': on communication with text messages as possibility, constriction and desire. The responsibility for deciding if, how and when an artefact shoud be used does not fall solely on the user. A significant amount of research in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has highlighted the complex interrelationship that determines the way we use technological objects. Many elements attributable to both the \"social sphere\" and the \"technological dimension\" are responsible for the way the device is effectively used. In this article we intend to, firstly, understand the distribution scheme of responsibility proposed by the literature, in which users, technological objects and relative contexts constitute and configure practices of use. Secondly, we will try to explore a particular configuration of this scheme in which user's responsibility is greatly diminished. To illustrate and analyze the main aspects of this configuration, we will focus on the use of mobile instant messaging systems. This case study allows us to observe the ways in which smartphones, in certain contexts, impose a particular behaviour on people, reducing their responsibility in choosing the mode of use.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130108535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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