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Mediterranean Great Conversation
2015
The exit from the Mediterranean emergency requires rethinking its identity in a new perspective. This means recognizing its legitimate role as a “Great Sea in Between”, as a cultural interface able to connect all the citizens that address to it, in everyday life and as individuals, involving them in a real “great conversation” based on the design disciplines. Design, Brand, Visual Identity, Packaging, Social Media, Fashion, Food, Architecture, Music may be powerful antidotes to the immobility of those who mourn a lost Mediterranean harmony and also a viable alternative to the ethnic closure led by the proponents of the Clash of Civilizations.
Pater, Walter. Gaston de Latour, Ed. Gerald Monsman. The collected Works of Walter Pater. Vol. iv. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxxviii + 3…
2020
A review of Gerald Monsman's edition of Walter Pater's novel, Gaston de Latour in the OUP Collected Works.
Bruno Latour: Matkalla maahan, politiikka ja uusi ilmastojärjestys
2022
Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Bruno Latour: Matkalla maahan, politiikka ja uusi ilmastojärjestys, suom. Päivi Malinen, johdanto Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen. Vastapaino 2022. nonPeerReviewed
"Cette époque de doute": Walter Pater et la question de la croyance
2017
International audience; Cet ouvrage examine la question de la croyance dans les essais et les romans de Walter Pater (1839-1894) et en particulier dans Gaston de Latour afin de situer sa position dans lepaysage intellectuel et spirituel bouleversé de la fin du xixe siècle en Grande-Bretagne. À travers un dialogue avec la psychanalyse freudienne et lacanienne, cette étude, la première qui est consacrée à la croyance chez Pater, montre la logique et la subtilité rigoureuse d’un penseur dont la réflexion demeure actuelle. Pater est un témoin attentif de la réarticulation du croire et de la subjectivité qui l’exprime ; derrière ses audacieuses reconstitutions historiques, il est également l’ana…
Sémiotique et anthropologie des modernes. Une histoire de comptes à rendre
2017
Dans son projet d’anthropologie, Bruno Latour insiste à plusieurs reprises sur le décalage entre les pratiques des Modernes et le compte rendu officiel qu’ils en donnent. Cela devrait permettre de donner un tout autre sens à notre présent, et de devenir ce que nous avons toujours été, sans le savoir. Nous n’avons jamais été modernes. Et je crois que, pour permettre à la sémiotique de faire face à son évolution, c’est sans doute une telle attitude qu’on pourrait adopter, en passant du compte rendu « majeur » à un point de vue adéquat. Nous partirons donc de l’histoire « majeure » des Modernes et nous verrons que cette histoire est étroitement liée à la constitution même de la sémiotique, qui…
La ‘svolta ontologica’ e le questioni epistemologiche in antropologia
2020
In the first part of this article I propose to approach the ‘ontological turn’ in anthropology by focusing on how Martin Holbraad and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro link epistemological, ontological and political issues. Focusing on their new epistemological views to others’ forms of thought and their intrinsic conceptual and ontological presuppositions, inexplicable through the recourse to external determinants, these scholars aim at a radical epistemological and political questioning of the bipartitions of Western modern ontology (such as nature vs culture) in line with Bruno Latour’s ideas on ‘modern constitution’ and its distinction between ‘matters of fact’ and ‘matters of concern’. The ar…
« ‘Strange Old Italian Dress’: Walter Pater, Victorian Fashionista? »
2017
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‘Strange old Italian dresses’: Walter Pater, Victorian fashionista?
2019
This article discusses Aesthetic dress as conceived by Walter Pater. Indeed in “Leonardo Da Vinci” (1869), the unfinished Gaston de Latour (1888-1894?), “The School of Giorgione” (1877) and “A Prince of Court Painters” (1885), Pater mentions and describes dress with special emphasis on details. Such descriptions belong to a series of writings on Aesthetic dress, admittedly a core component of British Aestheticism. Pater’s descriptions should therefore be contrasted to the 1870s portraits of Whistler, and to the 1880s-1890s writings of Whistler, Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, along with the caricatures of Aesthetes by George du Maurier and Sir Leslie Ward. Pater responds by progressively deli…
Dalla porta, verso la libertà
2023
There is a cat meowing at the door: it wants to go out for a walk. The owner of the office where that door is located gets very nervous: he spends his time opening and opening and closing it because the animal is constantly coming and going and he, who is in poor health, does not tolerate draughts. The cat would like the door always open. He always closed. Hence these constant meows, on the one hand, and these constant opening and closing, on the other hand, with the associated angry and collective shrieking. What a stress.
Postfazione. Che cos'è un progetto?
2021
We should go back to the project and redesign it. Maybe even changing its form. No longer a technical drawing, a sketch on paper, a working scheme of an object that does not yet exist, but something different. Maybe a different kind of drawing, a diagram, or maybe a story. No storytelling though, please, at least if by storytelling we mean telling stories as is done in marketing to sell products. No, the project can be thought of as a story only if the story is also thought of as a project. Without a formal definition of storytelling we cannot think of formalizing the way to take into consideration the social dimension of objects. In the end it is Bruno Latour, perhaps in spite of himself, …