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La Repubblica di Platone fra totalitarismo, dissimulazione e utopia
2014
Introduzione a Il comunismo ed il socialismo
2023
Antonio Rosmini anticipa in questa sua opera, elaborata nel 1847 e pubblicata nel 1849, alcune tra le questioni che in seguito saranno addebitate alle soluzioni politiche sviluppate nell’ambito del materialismo storico e dialettico. Il comunismo ed il socialismo permane ancora una lettura interessante e stimolante per osservare con spirito critico le idee e i fatti della storia politica di metà Ottocento, offrendo al lettore le ragioni profonde delle analisi rosminiane sulla possibilità di una società migliore nel segno della giustizia sociale.
Un progetto siciliano di Umberto Riva
2023
La giornata di studio dedicata a Umberto Riva si è posta come occasione per riattivare una riflessione sul lavoro di un grande architetto, di cui è riconosciuta la particolarissima sensibilità plastico-figurativa declinata alle diverse scale dell’Architettura e del Design; l’autrice, che ha conosciuto Riva nei Laboratori di “Belìce ‘80”, ha condiviso con lo stesso l’esperienza di un incarico nel 1988 dall’Amministrazione di Salemi per la redazione di un progetto di riqualificazione dell’area di nuova espansione post-terremoto e di costruzione di un Centro Sociale e Culturale. Si è trattato di un lavoro complesso che ha impegnato i progettisti per diversi anni con alterne vicende e blocchi d…
“Never Some Easy Flashback”
2012
Abstract This paper provides a close reading of Paul Farley’s 160-line poem, “Thorns.” The poem is read in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s celebrated Romantic ballad “The Thorn.” Special attention is given to Farley’s treatment of memory and metaphor: It is shown how the first, exploratory part of the poem elaborates upon the interdependent nature of memory and metaphor, while the second part uses a more regulated form of imagery in its evocation of a generational memory linked to a particular place and time (the working-class Liverpool of the 1960s and 1970s). The tension between the two parts of the poem is reflected in the taut relationship between the poet and a confrontational alter…
Glimmering utopias: 50 years of African film
2010
The history of African film began in the 1960s with the independence of the colonies. Despite all kinds of political and economic difficulties, numerous films have been made since then, featuring wide-ranging processes of consolidation, differentiation and transformation which were characteristic of post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. However, these feature films should not merely be viewed as back references to specifically African problems. The glimmering fictions are imagination spaces. They preserve ideas about how the post-colonial circumstances should be approached. Seen from this perspective, the history of African film may be studied as a history of African utopias. Die Geschichte des…
Dopo le città di fondazione
2020
Abstract: Il periodo delle città di fondazione del Novecento è una significativa stagione per la riorganizzazione del territorio pensando allo sviluppo dell’agricoltura e alla risoluzione di problemi economici e sociali; ad essa corrisponde un’azione politica che tenta di affrontare questioni antiche e all’architettura di sperimentare nuovi linguaggi. Al fallimento dello sviluppo economico segue una fase di importanti studi interdisciplinari che rendono la Sicilia un laboratorio di idee; all’architettura si collegano ancora oggi segni e testimonianze che si offrono come un modello su cui ricostruire un’utopia postuma. The period of the founding cities of the twentieth century is a significa…
Sidney Armor Reeve: Engineer, Inventor, Progressive, and Underappreciated Utopian
2022
Sidney Armor Reeve, professional engineer and amateur historian, economist, and sociologist, writing during what has been described as the Progressive Era, at-tacked the very foundations of the existing economic and social orders. He explic-itly criticized the dominant commercialism of the capitalist society as being a can-cer, a major cause of inequality and unemployment, offering instead a program of reform that, while some reviewers characterized it as consistent with the program of the socialists, presented something of an alternative vision, one recognizing the primacy of the Ultimate Consumer. His remedy, favoring as it did the central con-trol of the economy, shared at least commonal…
Interaction
2010
The Reality and Unreality of Jerusalem
2012
Urban Planning emerged out to achieve welfare and progress of human being. Many theorists wrote about the utopian and the good city. Planners has been working hard to create suitable and workable cities. However, there are situations in which planning is used to strengthen a dominant group upon marginalized groups. Jerusalem is one of those cases in which planning is used as a control tool upon other groups. The occupation of Jerusalem from the Israeli side and the injustice in the city, has forced many theorists to think about the future of Jerusalem. Since the beginning of the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis more several solutions have been proposed for the context of Jerusalem…
Tempi del racconto e racconto del tempo in Piove all’insù
2022
Times of narration and narration of the time in Piove all’insù · The article hosts an analysis of the time categories in Luca Rastello’s novel Piove all’insù (2006). In the first section there is a survey of the verb tenses used in the narration of the past by the main character (who is also the narrator). These tenses contribute to make the two periods of time (the 1970s and the 2000s) constantly overlap each other. A second section is dedicated to the influence of the peculiar timeframes on the anti-utopian and pseudo-science-fictional gradient of the novel. A third section faces the issue of the father/son confrontation in Piove all’insù. All these elements help to define a notion of lit…