Search results for " semiotic"

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,…

Sacralià in viaggio. Ekphrasis turistiche in alcune guide recenti

2008

Sightseeing in Guidebook

2007

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-…

Heidi vs Peppa Pig

2014

Analisi del celebre romanzo e della serie tv per bambini "Heidi".

I Puffi nella foresta segreta

2017

Viaggio nella foresta segreta è il terzo film dedicato da Sony Picture Animation al rilancio della celebre serie di personaggi animati disegnati da Peyo. Già Umberto Eco in un simpatico articolo uscito su Alfabeta ne descriveva i contorni, sottolineando la complessità semiotica della neolingua puffa, gli aspetti egualitari del loro vivere insieme (tutti i puffi sono uguali e maschi), la forma di governo gerontocratica (tutto il potere va all’anziano Grande Puffo), l’enigma della loro riproduzione (come si diventa puffo?), il carattere di utopia politica misticheggiante del loro modello di società (una comune sessantottina) che assume le sembianze di un’età dell’oro tanto bucolica quanto fia…