The Production of Meaning by Means of Things. We live surrounded by things. Objects that are imagined, designed, built by us to achieve our weakness and inadequacy to survive with only our strenght and body. We build prosthesis to increase our strenght and things to ensure comfort in our daily life. Objects communicate with us, and beetwen them, and crystallize inside them the meanings we give them. .Some of major scholars have studied the relations between things and us: Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Arnold Gehlen, Jean Baudrillard Roland Barthes, Louis Bolke, Abraham Moles, Jan Mukařovský too. This essays aims at exploring the above mentioned issues.
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The vinyl or the nostalgia of the Millennials. Old, uncomfortable and expensive, vinyl is once again the protagonist of the music market. The last thirteen years have seen a steady increase in global sales. Elderly collectors are no longer wandering in dusty little shops or vintage markets searching for perfect title, nowadays even the new generations yeld to the aesthetic and emotional pleasure of the 33 and 45 rpm. While Sony closes the Terra Haute factory in Indiana for CD production, it opens a new one in Japan for vinyl printing. Which motivation drives, above all the Millennials, towards this renewed falling in love? The fascination of vinyl redides, in primis , in its nostalgic aura.
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Consciousness and estrangement. The politics of capitalism on the threshold of self. The turning towards the “psychic dimension” is a characteristic of late capitalism that projects a specific cultural logic on the “self” and on the "isolated individual”. It is necessary, therefore, to rethink the idea of consciousness - a prerequisite for the marxian analysis - that in past years didn't have the due attention in social studies, while it obtained in other fields (in the field of neuroscience for example). The aim of the article, therefore, is to investigate, at what level, in advanced capitalism, the attention that in fordism was oriented to the politics of the body, is oriented towards the psyche and the consciousness in late capitalism, reducing the “collective to the individual” and to the "internal resources" of the subjects. This paper moves from these assumptions to re- interpret the concept of estrangement in advanced capitalism.
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This essay is about the image of the Human in the XXI century. A Human that aims, in the dreams/projects of contemporary elites, at transcending itself, thus becoming purer and being absolved from some flaws/sins with which it could never come to terms. It would then be free of any limit, thanks only to its mechanical-mathematical intelligence. If this should come to pass, however, something must be left behind. Until a few years ago, it seemed that renouncing the flesh and its tangle of passions, weaknesses and emotions would be enough. Now, just as Baudrillard had foreseen, it seems that there will be no need even of the limpid intellectual talents that have been carefully selected throughout recent centuries. They abandoned their carriers to move to more fitting environments: the long chain of separations and reductions led to the predominance of only one component of the human intelligence, which got objectified in the information technologies and needs now neither parents nor servants.
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Visual Culture Studies represent an innovative approach to the study of visual culture, connecting Media Studies, sociology, aesthetics, history of art, iconography. The evolution of this field of study, thanks to authors such as W.J.T. Mitchell, M. Bal, J. Elkins and others, raises some relevant issues. Starting from the book Epidemia visuale (edited by Fabio La Rocca), this paper explores how visual culture can contribute to the evolution of media theories. Moreover, the vision is conceived as a social and cultural construction. In this perspective, different observation techniques produce new ways of knowing. The aim of the discipline is thus no longer the study of visual content, but the study of the connection between vision practices and forms of knowledge. A third set of questions addressed by the authors of this book deals with the evolution of visual culture within the conflicting and effervescent dynamics of contemporary digital social imaginaries.
视觉文化研究代表了一种创新的方法来研究视觉文化，连接媒体研究，社会学，美学，艺术史，图像学。由于W.J.T. Mitchell、M. Bal、J. Elkins等人的贡献，这一研究领域的发展提出了一些相关的问题。本文从Fabio La Rocca编辑的《流行病视觉》一书开始，探讨视觉文化如何促进媒体理论的发展。此外，这一愿景被认为是一种社会和文化建构。从这个角度来看，不同的观察技术产生了新的认识方式。因此，这门学科的目的不再是研究视觉内容，而是研究视觉实践与知识形式之间的联系。本书作者提出的第三组问题涉及当代数字社会想象的冲突和沸腾动态中视觉文化的演变。
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This creative writing tries to analyse the current dominant figurations of post- human bodies, emphasizing their humanist, individual-centered and anthropocentric biases. It shows that these figurations rely upon a linear idea of time and a sealed perspective on the future. In order to imagine post-human bodies differently, I develop a collaborative research-creation project that challenges the individualist conception of problematizing and creating. One of the aims of this project is to ask what would be the conditions for the emergence of new figurations of post-human bodies. It will rely on a processual temporality allowing imaginaries to flourish without the constraint of a linear time.
{"title":"The figuration of post-human bodies: a processual experiment with imaginaries","authors":"A. François","doi":"10.7413/22818138125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138125","url":null,"abstract":"This creative writing tries to analyse the current dominant figurations of post- human bodies, emphasizing their humanist, individual-centered and anthropocentric biases. It shows that these figurations rely upon a linear idea of time and a sealed perspective on the future. In order to imagine post-human bodies differently, I develop a collaborative research-creation project that challenges the individualist conception of problematizing and creating. One of the aims of this project is to ask what would be the conditions for the emergence of new figurations of post-human bodies. It will rely on a processual temporality allowing imaginaries to flourish without the constraint of a linear time.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126005873","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}
Image of the human – so as defined by Humanism – is been represented in several ways during all the course of Modernity. Those representations relate to evolving vision, both exterior and interior, of human, previously inspired to Marco Vitruvio Pollione, then passing by the works by Leonardo da Vinci, Diego Velazquez, at last by the XX century arts and media, reaching a threshold that – temporarily – we name “posthuman”. The current trend gives a largely progressive connotation to idea of posthuman. I think, instead, that posthuman may be the extreme reinforcement of that the same humanistic ethics considers as the worse elements of humanistic individualization, like egotism and self-referentiality, that are related to a “centripetal” self, a sort of “black hole” that swallows and annihilates any form of empathy, solidarity, sympathy. I think we are in front of a new historic phase, the age – with a neologism – of Neoteric : the historic phase of the absolute exasperation of individualism.
{"title":"Zodiaco (o bestiario?) del Terzo millennio. Crepuscolo del moderno – aurora del neoterico","authors":"A. Fattori","doi":"10.7413/22818138128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138128","url":null,"abstract":"Image of the human – so as defined by Humanism – is been represented in several ways during all the course of Modernity. Those representations relate to evolving vision, both exterior and interior, of human, previously inspired to Marco Vitruvio Pollione, then passing by the works by Leonardo da Vinci, Diego Velazquez, at last by the XX century arts and media, reaching a threshold that – temporarily – we name “posthuman”. The current trend gives a largely progressive connotation to idea of posthuman. I think, instead, that posthuman may be the extreme reinforcement of that the same humanistic ethics considers as the worse elements of humanistic individualization, like egotism and self-referentiality, that are related to a “centripetal” self, a sort of “black hole” that swallows and annihilates any form of empathy, solidarity, sympathy. I think we are in front of a new historic phase, the age – with a neologism – of Neoteric : the historic phase of the absolute exasperation of individualism.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"267 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129509437","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 night of humanism. The image of man in contemporary society. The image of man established in the last centuries in Western society is today in deep crisis. It is replaced, as we will try to prove in this article, by the images of the « homo naturalis », the « homo data » and the « homo neo-religiosus ». The homo naturalis emerges as a consequence of an integral questioning of the meaning universe of modernity. Nature rises here as an exemplary model. The homo data is the result of a sort of hypermatematization of the world made possible by new digital technologies. The homo neo-religiosus is the protagonist of the process of desecolarization: here the imagery gives back to men a sacred universe. Analyzing the sociological reasons by virtue of which the image of the man of humanism are today replaced by the images we have just mentioned, is the goal of this paper.
{"title":"La notte dell’umanesimo. L’immagine dell’uomo nella società contemporanea","authors":"Antonio Camorrino","doi":"10.7413/22818138126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138126","url":null,"abstract":"The night of humanism. The image of man in contemporary society. The image of man established in the last centuries in Western society is today in deep crisis. It is replaced, as we will try to prove in this article, by the images of the « homo naturalis », the « homo data » and the « homo neo-religiosus ». The homo naturalis emerges as a consequence of an integral questioning of the meaning universe of modernity. Nature rises here as an exemplary model. The homo data is the result of a sort of hypermatematization of the world made possible by new digital technologies. The homo neo-religiosus is the protagonist of the process of desecolarization: here the imagery gives back to men a sacred universe. Analyzing the sociological reasons by virtue of which the image of the man of humanism are today replaced by the images we have just mentioned, is the goal of this paper.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131198651","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}
At the end of the nineteenth century, Giddens proposed a new kind of androgyny intended as a way to resolve the conflict between the sexes and democratise societies starting from the most intimate area of our lives. In so doing, mainstream sociology made use of an ancient idea that is central in a set of founding myths with reference both to the West and to the rest of the world and is subsequently visible in several literary works, artistic creations and cultural trends. All these elements, in fact, reveal at least two aspects: firstly, human beings unconsciously think themselves as painfully ruptured creatures and therefore tend to some kind of completion; secondly, androgyny can represent both a way to criticize old sexual stereotypes and a more general attempt to differently think and live. This is particularly true nowadays, when so-called postmodernity seems to yearn for androgyny intended as lightness of thought and life but also as illusory and narcissistic self- sufficiency.
{"title":"Una struggente nostalgia dell’intero. La tentazione dell’androgino come ricomposizione dell’umano","authors":"Emanuela Susca","doi":"10.7413/22818138127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138127","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of the nineteenth century, Giddens proposed a new kind of androgyny intended as a way to resolve the conflict between the sexes and democratise societies starting from the most intimate area of our lives. In so doing, mainstream sociology made use of an ancient idea that is central in a set of founding myths with reference both to the West and to the rest of the world and is subsequently visible in several literary works, artistic creations and cultural trends. All these elements, in fact, reveal at least two aspects: firstly, human beings unconsciously think themselves as painfully ruptured creatures and therefore tend to some kind of completion; secondly, androgyny can represent both a way to criticize old sexual stereotypes and a more general attempt to differently think and live. This is particularly true nowadays, when so-called postmodernity seems to yearn for androgyny intended as lightness of thought and life but also as illusory and narcissistic self- sufficiency.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122394042","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}
This paper intends to start from the recent reprint of the "new scientific spirit" of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. The questions we ask to the text are linked to the sociology of the imaginary and to the sociology of the media. To investigate the new scientific spirit means to highlight what innovationis it contains and what (even today) can be useful both for the disciplinary fields from which we have decided to investigate the text, and for the question we have decided to be the central question of investigate: can there be a new scientific spirit?
{"title":"Davvero può esistere un nuovo spirito scientifico","authors":"Vincenzo Del Gaudio","doi":"10.7413/22818138132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138132","url":null,"abstract":"This paper intends to start from the recent reprint of the \"new scientific spirit\" of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. The questions we ask to the text are linked to the sociology of the imaginary and to the sociology of the media. To investigate the new scientific spirit means to highlight what innovationis it contains and what (even today) can be useful both for the disciplinary fields from which we have decided to investigate the text, and for the question we have decided to be the central question of investigate: can there be a new scientific spirit?","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129657604","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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