Search results for " Semiotics"

Premessa

2021

Reading the city sub specie gastronomica means observing the multiple relationships that the language of food and that of space entertain each other. What is highlighted in thie volume is the social value that founds, by merging them, the links between food and cities in the different branches that the authors propose to us. We therefore speak of restaurants and markets, kitchens and dining rooms, supermarkets and taverns, street food and fast food, food and wine tourism and domestic imprisonments.

Foodscapes: cibo in città

2021

Reading the city from a gastronomical point of view means observing the multiple relationships that the language of food and the language of space have with each other. It means selecting and making relevant some areas of the urban text and some parts of food discourse, electing them as representative segments of wider social dynamics. From this perspective, the city becomes a litmus test of the food and wine scene, a reflection of dishes and tastes, food orientations and consumption trends. On the other hand, food outlets become a mirror of urban flows, of ways of living in neighbourhoods, of social and convivial practices. And of their transformations, because it is clear that the city ev…

L’anima di New York. Gentrificazione, Artificazione, Turistificazione a partire da Pretend It’s a City di Scorsese

2021

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.

Futuro passato

2021

The volume propose a collection that reflects on what an event is and in what how temporality is schematized, so as to make it humanly understandable, manageable, thinkable. Covid-19 was, in this sense, just a great accelerator, a particularly caseinteresting about "temporal subversion".

Vintage violence. La strana violenza del cinema di Losey

2015

Los textos sobre la violencia tienden a dar por sentado este concepto. En este artículo se intentará esbozar una definición semiótica a través de una breve relectura de algunos clásicos y de algunas entradas de vocabulario, para sugerir una caracterización de la violencia como dispositivo semiótico: una articulación de dos figuras diferentes de agresión («laceración»/«constricción») contra un umbral convencional. Esta hipótesis se desarrolla en el análisis de las películas de Joseph Losey, donde la violencia aparece de muchas formas, pero nunca llega a ser (con raras excepciones) totalmente explícita o espectacular. El artículo reconsidera el análisis de Gilles Deleuze en L’Image-Mouvement,…

Many Images for a Continent. An Introduction

2021

For too long, the European Union has presented itself as a haven for bureaucrats, united by a hegemonic will practiced through the hyper-standardization of every aspect of social life. The result of this representation, so often weaponised by political forces hostile to the European project, has also been the reason the many images (normative acts, community projects, cultural initiatives etc.) that constitute the European discourse struggle to be recognized and read into a basic everyday narrative capable of shaping a European horizon of shared destinies. This book recognises the importance of the European discourse in its symbolic dimension and the need for it to be circulated via a wide-…

Accidents and explosions in semiotic research in Italy. Introductory notes

2022

A history of Italian semiotics has yet to be written. This issue therefore has completely different aspirations: more than a history, or even less a geography, its intended goal is that of self-analysis of, roughly speaking, the last twenty or twenty-five years. Something like this: let us stop for a moment, let us see where we have sown our seeds, and what we have reaped, what we still need to plan, and in which direction we will proceed. The essays collected here do just that: they outline the conceptual map of semiotic research in Italy, combining research themes, methods of investigation and, when they may overlap, research centres scattered throughout the country. So, Italian semiotics…

Yrjö Blomstedtin ja Victor Sucksdorffin Kainuu

2016

The urban being between environment and landscape. On the old town as an emerging subject

2018

The landscape units of the Sicilian mountainous inland, as for the case of Petralia Soprana, are marked by the presence of ancient urban centres controlling the agricultural territory, from which they derived their own wealth, and to which they conferred landscape significance. The unity between economy and landscape has been interrupted by the radical transformation of the socio-economic structure and the technologic progress, which have eroded the consistency between structures and superstructures. We propose an assessment approach based on a synthesis of semiotic and phenomenological view. The approach mainly focuses on the basic concepts and contents of the valuation process that can be…

Modernity and the articulation of the gender system: Order, conflict, and chaos

2009

Gender system can be understood as a cultural system rooted in biological differences. Semiotically speaking, it is a binary sign system (male/female) with some variation involved (transsexuals, homosexuals, etc.). In the process of modernity, the biological motivation of the gender system is being loosened by technological innovations such as contraception and mother's milk substitute. At the same time, the state has replaced family and kin as the organizing structure of society and the cultural ideal of equality has gained a strong position. These and similar changes together have made gender flow in 'post-traditional' societies. The paper deals with this process in paying attention to th…