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L’anima di New York. Gentrificazione, Artificazione, Turistificazione a partire da Pretend It’s a City di Scorsese
This essay propose an analysis of the docu-series dedicated to the notorious Newyorker writer Fran Lebowitz, Pretend It’s a City, directed by Martin Scorsese and aired by Netflix in 2021. The issues raised by the documentary are discussed with reference to the cinematic culture as well as to the contributions of some of the founding authors of the intellctual debate on gentrification and the city of New York.
The Discourse of Fake News in Italy A Comparative Analysis
While the ongoing debate over post-truth focuses predominantly on finding procedures to reveal false statements, distinguishing facts (truth) from fake news (false), promoting fact-checking and debunking on an ever broader scale, the semiotic perspective may choose to speculate on the benefits of analysing the texts which actually create and spread fake news, in order to acknowledge the main discursive and narrative strategies used by those most responsible for spreading hoaxes, and better understand the way they produce their own credibility and use it in order to pollute public debate. Reconstructing the rhetorical dimension of the "mud-slinging machine" may prove particularly useful, as …
Discorso sul metodo di Peppa Pig
This article goes through the events and the theoretical problems raised by the publication of a Semiotic essay that the author has dedicated to the analysis of Peppa Pig, a popular TV series targeted to early-childhood. Assuming a situated point of view, it chooses to dramatize the position of the researcher towards the complexity as represented by the emergence of the “wilderness” of the text to analyze. Consequently, this article aims at enlightening the strategies actually followed by the author in facing this complexity. What format and style to choose in the writing process? How to identify the limits of the text? How to evaluate the eventuality that inspired the analytical curiosity …
Culture del tatuaggio
La pratica contemporanea del tatuaggio conosce una diffusione planetaria. Ma la scrittura sul corpo da anti-linguaggio marginale è diventata moda globalizzata. Diverse scienze umane si sono occupate del fenomeno, in particolare l’antropologia criminale a quella culturale, nei loro intrecci con la sociologia, il folklore, la teoria delle immagini, la storia letteraria e gli studi culturali e, not least, la semiotica, teoria del segno e del senso. La questione dell’identità individuale e collettiva dei processi di costruzione, trasformazione e denegazione del segno che dal somatico tracima nel sociale (e viceversa), peraltro, coincide solo parzialmente con quella relativa alla scrittura del c…
Special Issue: Animals in Law
Living together with animals is silently but progressively coming to a new meaning. Humanity has been always defining itself in comparison with the animal world, looking for any difference useful at the purpose of recognizing a dominion over the world meant as a natural kingdom populated by animals. In the naturalist ontology (Descola), animals are considered as a mere mean, at disposal of mankind for the most various purposes: food, work (workhorses), entertainment (circuses, zoos), scientific experimentation, fashion (leathers and furs), public security (police and sniffer dogs), company (pets) and so on. In the present times, this state of things is undergoing a severe criticism. Risen a…
Images of Europe. The Union between Federation and Separation
This book deals with the fundamental semantics of images of Europe, which consist of valences, mirror beliefs and affectivities. This is why it relaunches the importance of the European discourse in its symbolic dimension. As such, it explores the many images of Europe, or rather the many images through which European discourse is actually constituted in daily life, in search of their enunciative responsibility in today’s world for determining the current “State of the Union”. The identity of the European continent is based on a millenary tension between universalism and particularism: images of Europe have in fact been alternately inspired, over the centuries, by a model of homogeneity – R…