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Emiliano Battistini
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Le forme del fritto
2018
La frittura è una modalità di trasformazione dei cibi specifica, spesso trascurata, non inclusa nel celebre triangolo culinario di Lévi-Strauss (Antropologia Strutturale, 1958). Brillat-Savarin elaborò nella Fisiologia del Gusto una sua ‘teoria della frittura’, mentre Bastide (1987, cfr. Marrone, Semiotica del gusto, 2016) oppose la frittura alla bollitura, mostrando come – al di là dell’apparente similarità per l’immersione dei cibi in un liquido – le categorie in gioco nei due processi di cottura siano inverse. Barthes (vd. la voce ‘frites’ in Marrone 2016, Roland Barthes: parole chiave) in un suo celebre articolo contenuto in Miti d’oggi eleva le frites a simbolo nazionale francese. Nell…
Forme del fritto: alcune esperienze di consumo
2020
Questo capitolo propone uno studio sul campo di una pratica alimentare che caratterizza la Sicilia e, in particolare, la città di Palermo: lo street food. Lo street food palermitano si caratterizza per essere indissolubilmente legato alla frittura, una modalità di cottura pervasiva tanto nei mercati storici della città, quanto in quei luoghi chiusi che, in forme diverse, tentano di replicarne l'esperienza. Il fritto è, ancor prima che una modalità di cottura dei cibi, un particolare dispositivo ambientale e sensoriale, che pregiudica olfattivamente gli spazi di vendita e consumo e che spinge, alcuni format di distribuzione, a limitarne la pervasività. Vedremo, in questo senso, come la diffe…
“Sealfie”, “Phoque you” and “Animism”: The Canadian Inuit Answer to the United-States Anti-sealing Activism
2018
A corpus made by online Canadian newspaper articles, coming from the archives of CBC News, Vice Canada and Huffington Post Canada, and related multimedia contents such us audio interviews, videos and especially links to images and comments shared on Twitter, allows us to reconstruct the debate on the seal hunt that involved Canadian media in 2014. In specific, we propose an interpretation of the pro-sealing discourse by Canadian Inuit and Newfoundlanders as an ironic and incisive answer to the serious United States animal rights activists discourse, explaining how these two different points of view on animals come from a different experience of the environment and a different conception of …
For a semiotic multisensorial analysis of urban space. The case of Ballaro and Vucciria markets in Palermo
2017
One of the most interesting fields in which to study the interaction between senses is that of the urban space experience. If the semiotic approach questioned especially the meaning configurations deriving from the visual organisation of space and from the relationship between designed space and lived space (Hammad 2003, 2013; Marrone, Pezzini 2006 and 2008) other approaches suggested concepts like ‘soundscape’ (Schafer 1977) or ‘smellscape’ (McLean 2014). These concepts introduced new interpretative keys which allowed the study of landscape through sensorial channels other than sight. However, they once again anchored this study to only one sense, detached from the others. What we propose,…
The Human-Animal Relationship and the Musical Metaphor in The Great Animal Orchestra by Bernie Krause
2018
Taking as case study the discourse of The Great Animal Orchestra, the following paper presents the sociosemiotic analysis carried out on the work by Bernie Krause, focusing especially on the analysis of the CD The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony, of the exposition Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux and of the related Internet sites, which followed his first wider public presentation The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places. Through the musical metaphor, Krause’s discourse calls again into question the human-animal relationship, reversing the common meanings – this discovered animal culture stands opposite to contemporary human barbarity – and approachi…