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Zoosémiotique 2.0
2019
To semiotise the animal - to narrate it, to say it, to represent it, to think it, to make it an object of science - means to manage the politics of an unsecured threshold: that which separates it, more or less obstinately, from man. To define the animal is to define man, of course. However, it is more interesting to note that, often surreptitiously, giving the animal a place among the "kingdoms" of nature means, in parallel, adding it between the articulation of the social, between cultural institutions (kinship, affection and kinship, affection and affiliations, strategies and conflicts...). In In other words, to make the animal the object of knowledge is to propose a certain political vis…
Dal cane-cibo al dog restaurant
2017
Gastronomic discourse often calls into question issues surrounding animality, but it’s not only the imposition of Paleo or vegetarian diets encouraging or banning the consumption of meat which are becoming increasingly popular subjects. New trends in animal foods such as the appearance and growth of dog restaurants or the increase in attention being given to the nutritional quality of dry dog food are becoming important areas of discussion too, and while some traditionalists will always view the dog as a beast, contrasting progressive ideas are now being aired in the media. In this article we will talk about food philosophies and restaurants (both human and animal) to showhowthey communicat…
Zoosemiotica 2.0. Forme e politiche dell'animalità
2017
Questo volume ha tre direzioni di discorso. Innanzitutto, un dialogo fra la semiotica e le altre discipline interessate agli studi animali: la filosofia, la filosofia del linguaggio e della mente, le scienze umane e sociali, le scienze cognitive e le neuroscienze. Non a caso molti degli interventi contenuti in questo volume non sono di semiologi ma di filosofi, sociologi, antropologi, linguisti, filologi, letterati etc. In secondo luogo, una discussione interna alla semiotica, nel passaggio dalla zoosemiotica 1.0 (tradizionalmente più interessata ai linguaggi e alle forme di comunicazione delle diverse specie animali) alla zoosemiotica 2.0, di conserva con altri settori a prima vista oppost…