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Tipografia, culture e immaginari. Il ruolo della forma delle lettere nella percezione di identità e contesti. 印刷、文化和想象。字母形式在身份和上下文感知中的作用。
Pub Date : 2016-09-20 DOI: 10.7413/22818138060
Nicoletta Raffo
The article proposes a reflection on the influence exercised by artificial visual signs in the process of creation of social imaginaries regarding cultural identity and contexts on different scales. The text will consider mainly the typographic sign – understood as the shape of letters and the blank space between them – and will explain how it impacts on our daily visual experience.
本文在不同尺度上反思人工视觉符号在社会意象的创造过程中对文化认同和语境的影响。本文将主要考虑印刷符号-理解为字母的形状和它们之间的空白空间-并将解释它如何影响我们的日常视觉体验。
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Facebook & Co.: un dispositivo narrativo sintetico a comprimere l’immaginario Facebook & Co:一种合成的叙事装置,用来压缩想象
Pub Date : 2016-09-20 DOI: 10.7413/22818138061
Antonio Sofia
With social networks online, technology transit from being option or extension of action to define the ontologies and the connections field in which the individual links the dots to define himself. The design objectifies positions and dispositions in functional reductions and fictional relationships. Transition operators (who have in common the possibility to collect, to organize, to sell data) promise to make life better, the world a better place. We’ll be able to ask the machine what studies to do, what the ambition to pursue, which people is better to spend time with. We could ask to find in the past accessible explanations to strengthen ourselves; we could obtain, in the present e for the future, a more effective, a more efficient orientation. The process must develop natural and necessary: it need a faith or submission act, the imagination compression, the belief that the world is not only becoming better, but better in the only way it can be possible.
随着社交网络的上线,技术从行动的选择或延伸,转变为定义本体和连接领域,个人在其中连接点来定义自己。该设计在功能简化和虚构关系中客观化了位置和性格。过渡运营商(他们有收集、组织和出售数据的共同可能性)承诺让生活更美好,让世界更美好。我们可以问机器要做什么研究,要追求什么抱负,和哪些人在一起更值得。我们可以要求在过去找到可理解的解释来增强我们自己;我们可以在现在和未来,获得一个更有效,更有效的方向。这个过程必须是自然而必要的:它需要一种信念或顺从的行为,想象力的压缩,相信世界不仅在变得更好,而且是在唯一可能的方式下变得更好。
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Free to do evil. Some possible implications of moral enhancement for free will and moral responsibility 自由地做坏事。道德增强对自由意志和道德责任的一些可能含义
Pub Date : 2016-09-20 DOI: 10.7413/22818138059
C. Luverà
In recent years the progress of biomedical technologies has enabled man to enhance his physical and cognitive abilities by using pharmaceutical, surgical, or genetic techniques. In social imaginary many worries are raised by this new possibility to go beyond the limits set up by nature, even though remote. In the wider framework of human enhancement we will examine a particular one: moral bioenhancement. More specifically it is the use of new biomedical technologies to improve our acting or reflecting morally. These kinds of prospective interventions raise many ethical issues. We will focus specifically on the implications for human freedom and consequently for moral responsibility. Although these concepts could be threatened by moral bioenhancement we could imagine a futuristic scenario where these kinds of interventions could have a useful social employment.
近年来,生物医学技术的进步使人类能够通过药物、外科手术或基因技术来增强自己的身体和认知能力。在社会想象中,这种超越自然界限的新可能性引起了许多担忧,尽管这种可能性很遥远。在人类增强的更广泛框架中,我们将研究一个特殊的框架:道德生物增强。更具体地说,它是利用新的生物医学技术来改善我们的行为或道德反映。这类前瞻性干预引发了许多伦理问题。我们将特别关注对人类自由的影响,从而对道德责任的影响。尽管这些概念可能会受到道德生物增强的威胁,但我们可以想象一个未来的场景,在那里这些干预措施可能会有有用的社会就业。
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Immagini dal confine. Migranti, spazi simbolici e ordine politico contemporaneo 边界图像。移民、象征空间和当代政治秩序
Pub Date : 2016-09-20 DOI: 10.7413/22818138070
M. Meo
The article is about three major themes: the political imaginary, the border as a space from which it spreads, the images, that convey and reproducing it, cause social reality. This last part was developed by the analysis of a specific case study. In this work the author investigates how the sense of political e collective identity and the social construction comes out by the analysis of the most web popular migrants images in Lampedusa (the most extreme border of the EU).
这篇文章主要围绕三个主题展开:政治想象、边界作为边界传播的空间、传递和再现边界的图像导致社会现实。最后一部分是通过对具体案例的分析研究而展开的。在这部作品中,作者通过对兰佩杜萨岛(欧盟最极端的边境)最受欢迎的网络移民形象的分析,探讨了政治集体认同感和社会建构感是如何产生的。
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Singularity Believers and The New Utopia of Transhumanism 奇点信徒与超人类主义的新乌托邦
Pub Date : 2016-09-20 DOI: 10.7413/22818138056
Roberto Paura
Transhumanism is a cultural and philosophical movement born in the United States during the 1980s as a product of the technological revolution represented by the mass distribution of information technology and cybernetics, as well as by the first scientific studies on nanotechnologies. Transhumanism preaches the possibility of a technological enhancement of the human body, both through the use of technological prosthesis that by means of a life extension made possible by the use of genetics, biomedical engineering and nanotechnology. The ultimate goal of transhumanism is to completely overcome the need of a biological hardware through the integral fusion between man and machine made possible by the mind-uploading, a technique that would pour out on a digital infrastructure the entire contents of the human mind. In this paper I intend to analyze the assumptions of transhumanism from a perspective of “technological imagination”, claiming that this cultural movement represents a new kind of utopia, if not even a modern New Age- style religion that blends techno-optimistic statements of scientific and technological research with the collective imagination of cyberculture, resulting in a kind of mystique of technological development. The concept of “singularity”, preached by the theorists of transhumanism (Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Max More and others) seems quite similar to the Christian idea of the “end of times”, after which it is expected the emergence of a new type of humanity. In particular, the argument that transhumanism can be considered a new kind of “technological” religion is based on the analysis of the role that the issue of death plays within the transhumanist discourse. As in most religions and utopian narratives, transhumanism believes that it is possible to defeat death, in this case through the use of scientific and technological progress. Transhumanism supporters are willing to put their bodies into hibernation to wait the future resurrection in a world where death has been defeated. Therefore, transhumanism can be considered a cult of our times, a product of a particular social imaginary of the techno-scientific development.
超人类主义是20世纪80年代在美国诞生的一种文化和哲学运动,是以信息技术和控制论的大规模传播以及纳米技术的第一次科学研究为代表的技术革命的产物。超人类主义宣扬技术增强人体的可能性,既可以通过使用技术假肢,也可以通过使用遗传学、生物医学工程和纳米技术来延长寿命。超人类主义的最终目标是通过意识上传技术实现人与机器的整体融合,从而完全克服对生物硬件的需求,这种技术将把人类思想的全部内容倾注到数字基础设施上。在本文中,我打算从“技术想象”的角度分析超人类主义的假设,声称这种文化运动代表了一种新的乌托邦,如果不是一种现代新时代风格的宗教,它将科学和技术研究的技术乐观主义声明与网络文化的集体想象混合在一起,导致一种技术发展的神秘感。超人类主义理论家(雷·库兹韦尔、尼克·博斯特罗姆、马克斯·莫尔等人)所宣扬的“奇点”概念,似乎与基督教的“末日”概念非常相似,在此之后,人们预计会出现一种新型人类。特别地,超人类主义可以被视为一种新的“技术”宗教的论点是基于对死亡问题在超人类主义话语中所起作用的分析。正如在大多数宗教和乌托邦叙事中一样,超人类主义相信有可能战胜死亡,在这种情况下,通过使用科学和技术进步。超人类主义的支持者愿意让自己的身体进入冬眠状态,在一个死亡已经被击败的世界里等待未来的复活。因此,超人类主义可以被认为是我们这个时代的一种崇拜,是技术科学发展的特定社会想象的产物。
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Tools for a Crisis: the Serializing Theorem in the Age of the Video-civil War 危机的工具:视频内战时代的序列化定理
Pub Date : 2016-03-10 DOI: 10.7413/22818138049
Luca Cinquemani, A. Tortorella
Starting from a brief de-functionalizing analysis of the info-spectacular society, the essay explores the pervasiveness of the repressive-disciplining forms which are increasingly affecting the behaviors of the individualities in the info-spherical dominion. In particular, the paper focuses on what will be defined the “serializing” and highlights some repetitive-determinant aspects of the video-seriality that are involved in the processes of “over-codification” imposed by the infosphere on the anthropo-sphere. In order to define the serializing will be taken in exam both the possible evolutions of the Gelassenheit and the “dispositiviness” imposed by info-securitarian post- democracies through the hard and soft repressive systems. In this perspective we will postulate that every cybernetic singularity is info-determined by a “code-valuable string” that seems to be capable of maintaining a continuous over-codification of the imaginary and of the human behavior.
本文从对信息壮观社会的简单去功能化分析出发,探讨了在信息球形统治下,压抑的纪律形式越来越多地影响着个性的行为。特别地,本文聚焦于什么将被定义为“系列化”,并强调了视频系列化的一些重复决定因素,这些因素涉及信息圈对人类圈施加的“过度编纂”过程。为了定义连载,将在考试中采取的Gelassenheit的可能演变和“处置性”强加的信息安全主义后民主国家通过硬和软压制系统。从这个角度来看,我们将假设每个控制论奇点都是由一个“代码-有价值的字符串”决定的信息,这个字符串似乎能够维持对想象和人类行为的持续过度编码。
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Imaginary and Everyday Life: the Role of Symbolic in the Social Construction of the Reality 想象与日常生活:象征在现实的社会建构中的作用
Pub Date : 2016-03-10 DOI: 10.7413/22818138054
Valentina Grassi
All sociology's founding fathers, from Durkheim to Weber, from Simmel to Pareto, have considered the role that non-rational components of action have for understanding social life. The defining moment for this field of study has been the publication, in 1960, of the important work of G. Durand about the anthropological structures of imaginary. As for the social imaginary, it is mostly C. Castoriadis that paved the way for the study of the imaginary component of social institutions. Finally, the study of the role and significance of the imagae in social life, especially in the daily life of social actors, is the thread of thought of the French sociologist M. Maffesoli.
所有社会学的奠基人,从迪尔凯姆到韦伯,从齐美尔到帕累托,都考虑过行为的非理性成分在理解社会生活中的作用。这一研究领域的决定性时刻是G. Durand在1960年发表的关于想象的人类学结构的重要著作。至于社会想象,主要是C. Castoriadis为研究社会制度的想象成分铺平了道路。最后,研究形象在社会生活中的作用和意义,特别是在社会行动者的日常生活中,是法国社会学家M. Maffesoli的思想主线。
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The deconstruction of the West: an unaccomplished task. Towards “the politics of imagining the West” 西方的解构:一个未完成的任务。走向“想象西方的政治”
Pub Date : 2016-03-10 DOI: 10.7413/22818138053
L. Casini
Despite the ambition of Postcolonial Studies to place deconstruction of “the West” at the heart of contemporary social sciences and humanities, the authority of this notion has never been so strong, and the West appears today to belong to a “natural order” of thinking and speaking about our current reality. Having pointed out the limits of the postcolonial critique of the West, this study then individuates and connects several lines of research to a common epistemological basis in order to map the contours of an emerging field: “the politics of imagining the West”. From this perspective, the West is no longer conceived of as a subject of history but as a historically determined narrative articulated by individuals and social groups with strategic aims in the context of wider discourses.
尽管后殖民研究雄心勃勃地将“西方”的解构置于当代社会科学和人文科学的核心,但这一概念的权威从未如此强大,今天的西方似乎属于思考和谈论我们当前现实的“自然秩序”。在指出了对西方的后殖民批判的局限性之后,本研究接着将几个研究线个体化并连接到一个共同的认识论基础上,以便绘制一个新兴领域的轮廓:“想象西方的政治”。从这个角度来看,西方不再被认为是一个历史的主体,而是一个由个人和社会团体在更广泛的话语背景下以战略目标阐述的历史决定的叙事。
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Modern Technology within the Western Theological Imaginary 西方神学想象中的现代技术
Pub Date : 2015-12-01 DOI: 10.7413/22818138044
N. Turnbull
In this paper, I claim that modern technology possesses certain general ‘onto-formative’ characteristics that indicate that our contemporary technological condition now defies orthodox theoretical forms of comprehension. In the light of this claim, I will propose that any adequate conceptual understanding of modern technics requires a decisive shift of disciplinary register: specifically, towards theology and to the formation of new philosophical paradigms founded upon metaphysically-inspired interpretations of the ‘total significance’ of modern technics. Such theological conceptions, I will argue, emerge from a startling recognition of modern technics’ incipient association with the infinite, the transcendent as well as with its capacity to “bring new worlds into existence”. I attempt this, in the first instance, by drawing upon the work of two major thinkers who I believe paved the way towards just such a theological conception: Martin Heidegger and Ernst Junger. In a non-standard interpretation of their respective philosophies of technology, I will go on to claim that these two thinkers should be viewed as attempting to find a way towards a “radically conservative” revalorisation of ancient theological truths that they believed could provide 20th century modernity with the philosophical groundwork for a new techno-political order that they posited in contrast to a dying Platonic-Christian civilisation. For both of these thinkers a theological understanding of modern technics created the possibility of a new spiritual condition/zeitgeist where the very idea of modern technology is rearticulated as the focal point of a post-Platonic-Christian social imaginary that they believed to be revolutionary in its necessarily destructive relationship to extant historical worlds and their corresponding traditions. By these lights, I suggest, that modern social imaginary can only be con conceived within a new theological synthesis that transcends the Platonic/Christian dichotomy of techne and theoria - of the worker and the philosopher/priest - in a way that allows for the poetic root of both to be revealed in its primal, world-constituting, form. I will conclude with a brief comparison between these ‘pagan’ conceptions of technology and contemporary Christian theological conceptions which have been acutely aware of the highly ambiguous position of modern technics within Christian metaphysical schemes and the need to reform these in the light the manifestly destructive potential of modern forms of technological innovation.
在本文中,我声称现代技术具有某些普遍的“自我形成”特征,这些特征表明我们当代的技术条件现在违背了正统的理论理解形式。根据这一说法,我将提出,对现代技术的任何充分的概念性理解都需要学科领域的决定性转变:具体地说,就是转向神学,转向建立在对现代技术的“总体意义”的形而上学启发解释基础上的新哲学范式。我认为,这种神学观念源于对现代技术与无限、超越以及“带来新世界”的能力的初步联系的惊人认识。首先,我试图借鉴两位主要思想家的作品,我相信他们为这种神学概念铺平了道路:马丁·海德格尔和恩斯特·荣格。在对他们各自的技术哲学的非标准解释中,我将继续声称,这两位思想家应该被视为试图找到一条通往“激进保守”的古代神学真理的复兴之路,他们认为这些真理可以为20世纪的现代性提供新的技术-政治秩序的哲学基础,他们提出了与垂死的柏拉图-基督教文明形成鲜明对比的新技术-政治秩序。对于这两位思想家来说,对现代技术的神学理解创造了一种新的精神状态/时代精神的可能性,在这种精神状态/时代精神中,现代技术的概念被重新表达为后柏拉图-基督教社会想象的焦点,他们认为这是革命性的,因为它与现存的历史世界及其相应的传统有着必然的破坏性关系。根据这些观点,我认为,现代社会想象只能在一种新的神学综合中被构想出来,这种综合超越了柏拉图/基督教的技术和理论二分法——工人和哲学家/牧师——以一种允许两者的诗歌根源以其原始的、构成世界的形式被揭示出来的方式。最后,我将对这些“异教”技术概念与当代基督教神学概念进行简要比较,后者敏锐地意识到现代技术在基督教形而上学方案中的高度模糊地位,以及根据现代技术创新形式的明显破坏性潜力对这些概念进行改革的必要性。
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The Double instance of the political. Imaginary: affects as rhetorical means and structure 政治上的双重例子。虚构的:影响作为修辞手段和结构
Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7413/22818138160
Samuel Mateus
Although emotions are linked to irrationality, a number of recent researches have shown emotions are central to political behaviour. While as politics is an emotionally dense sphere of individual and collective action, any fuller comprehension of the political imaginary must ponder it. This paper considers the emotional dimension of the political imaginary according to a dual rhetorical instance: the use of emotions as tools (emotional appeals) to influence behaviour and thinking; and the very affective nature of politics as such. In other words, I will examine affects as rhetorical means and as structuring elements of the political imaginary. By referring to empirical political messages – from the Daisy Ad until the election of the comedian actor Volodymyr Zelensky as President of Ukraine - it is claimed that the political imaginary is not just about collective reasoning. The political imaginary is also something that we feel. This paper intends to clarify how affects help to determine collective feeling and, consequently, political decision making and social understanding
尽管情绪与非理性有关,但最近的一些研究表明,情绪对政治行为至关重要。由于政治是个人和集体行动的情感密集领域,任何对政治想象的更全面理解都必须对其进行思考。本文根据一个双重修辞实例来考虑政治想象的情感维度:利用情感作为工具(情感诉求)来影响行为和思维;以及政治本身的情感本质。换句话说,我将把影响作为修辞手段和政治想象的结构元素来研究。通过引用经验性的政治信息——从《雏菊广告》到喜剧演员Volodymyr Zelensky当选乌克兰总统——有人声称,政治想象不仅仅是集体推理。政治想象也是我们能感受到的东西。本文旨在阐明影响如何帮助决定集体情感,从而决定政治决策和社会理解
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