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Human-centred Assembly: A Case Study for an Anthropocentric Cyber-physical System
2014
Abstract To engineer the factory of the future the paper argues for an anthropocentric cyber-physical reference model that assimilate in an integrated, dynamic, structural and functional way all the required components (i.e. physical, computational and human) of a synthetic hybrid system. This is due to the real need to design large-scale complex systems that accommodate the latest achievements in factory automation where the human is not merely playing a simple and clear role inside the control-loop, but is becoming a composite factor in a highly automated system (“man-in-the-mesh”). The concept is demonstrated by instantiating our anthropocentric cyber-physical reference model in a concre…
Neoanthropocene Raising and Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage: A Case Study in Southern Italy
2020
Analyzing the human history on the planet, a conflictual relation was raised when humankind had started destroying the natural ecosystem and biota, and consequently, a capacity to induce environmental change has increased throughout human history in the so-called Anthropocene age. A 'noosphere'-centered civilization could produce a non-disruptive new kind of anthropocentrism. This is becoming a new context to define Neoanthropocene based on a renewed homeostatic relationship between Earth and mankind. The potential application of this theoretical approach has been tested in drafting steps of Plan of Lucania Apennines, Valdagri, and Lagonegrese National Park, in southern Italy. Drafting the …
Dificultades y límites en la ampliación de la comunidad moral
2009
These pages aim to answer the question, from the ethical theory, of whether it is necessary to extend the universe of moral beings in order to account for the responsibility we have for other beings and for nature in general. To this end, we review the various proposals calling for an extension to the moral community. Following the critical dialogue with these traditions, we argue that the moral community does not need to be extended, but that the concept of moral responsibility requires reconstruction
Breaking the barriers of animosity: innovation in business models as a positioning strategy
2021
Consumer animosity is often studied in the large economies of the world, in order to explain the negative feelings generated by an individual towards another country and its products, due to various political, economic and social conflicts. This study presents three specific developments in this field. First, to demonstrate how companies in the retail sector have been able to develop innovations in their business models through their shops and virtual channels, which generate a positive positioning in the mind of the consumer, capable of minimizing animosity towards them. In this way it is shown that a consumer can have strong feelings of patriotism, animosity and ethnocentrism, and yet a p…
The Other in Western Civilization
2017
This chapter explores how the Otherness was imagined by Europeanness, as well as the stereotypes, prejudices and idealized image around the non-Western Other. This section not only discusses to what extent Europe launched to colonize the world but the socio-cultural background for the European proclamation of supremacy over the rest of the world. The perverse core of European ethnocentrism rests in its paternalism to understand the cultural difference, adjoined to the rise and consolidation of Science, which paradoxically accelerated what David Riesman dubbed ‘the Other-oriented’ gaze. This is the moment of great technological breakthrough and the flourishing of romantic novels, literature …
Contemporary Anti-Gypsyism in European Mass Media
2014
This paper focuses on the contemporary phenomenon of Anti-Gypsyism which diffused widely throughout social representations of the so called “Gypsies”. In Europe and especially in Italy, the media tends to reproduce racist stereotypes and prejudices through a xenophobic depiction of this ethnic group, often offering an ethnocentric point of view. From an anthropological perspective, Roma people are a minority group facing diasporic phenomena across Europe, produced by the host societies.
Art Education as a Trap
2005
Art education is often talked about as a general good that will solve problems of every description and meet the most varied current problems. In Finland, for example, art education tends to be seen as something that fosters human growth, teaches aesthetic and ethical values, promotes self‐expression and social skills, and meets the challenges of the media age. Any problems that might emerge stem simply from insufficient resources. Instead of continuing what is, probably, a generally known and shared discussion, we want to ask ourselves and others what are the traps art education might conceal, possibly in part under precisely such rhetoric. Our phenomenological perspective emphasises prese…
Les territoires urbains polycentriques en Europe : de l'organisation économique à la gouvernance
2006
La présente recherche a pour objectif d'étudier les nouvelles centralités au sein des territoires urbains en Europe, de mener une analyse comparative des modalités d'organisation économique et institutionnelle de ces territoires afin d'en dégager des orientations de recherches prospectives sur l'interface : Europe Polycentrique – Recomposition des centralités - Gouvernance urbaine. Cinq pays sont privilégiés : l'Allemagne, l'Espagne, la France, la Grande-Bretagne et l'Italie. Trois grilles d'analyse sont utilisées pour synthétiser les recherches : 1/ la forme "intra" ou "inter" urbaine des polarités économiques 2/ Les caractéristiques fonctionnelles des polarités 3/ les modes de gouvernance…
Les territoires urbains polycentriques en Europe : de l'organisation économique à la gouvernance
2006
La présente recherche a pour objectif d'étudier les nouvelles centralités au sein des territoires urbains en Europe, de mener une analyse comparative des modalités d'organisation économique et institutionnelle de ces territoires afin d'en dégager des orientations de recherches prospectives sur l'interface : Europe Polycentrique – Recomposition des centralités - Gouvernance urbaine. Cinq pays sont privilégiés : l'Allemagne, l'Espagne, la France, la Grande-Bretagne et l'Italie. Trois grilles d'analyse sont utilisées pour synthétiser les recherches : 1/ la forme "intra" ou "inter" urbaine des polarités économiques 2/ Les caractéristiques fonctionnelles des polarités 3/ les modes de gouvernance…