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Epiche della competenza: alleanze e conflitti in nome dell'expertise
2021
The debate around competence and its enemies is more alive today than ever. Very heated, a little confused. Never before has the expert, the competent, the experienced connoisseur of men and things been in the spotlight of the news, the undisputed protagonist, but also the acclaimed antagonist, of the discourse of the media, and therefore, by transitive property, of the life of all of us, both social and individual. Never before has the expert been invoked to try to understand what is happening, what has happened, and above all what could happen to us.
La competenza esperta. Tipologie e trasmissione
2021
Today, the crisis of expertise coincides with the role that political and scientific decisions have assumed in tackling and solving enormous community problems: from environmental pollution to immigration, from vaccines to pandemics. On the one hand, there is an urgent need for the expertise of specialists, acquired by degrees, or the tacit, embedded knowledge of 'amateurs by profession', who intercede and translate between several areas of knowledge. On the other, this knowledge and skill is opposed, and everyone feels entitled to have their say. It is a paradox.
Facebook dei morti
2017
L'articolo prende in esame il modo in cui la morte viene trattata all'interno dei social network, dai grandi lutti globali fino alle microcomunità formate dalle liste di amici.
Folktale, Morphology
2020
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was born in St. Petersburg on April 17, 1895 and died in Leningrad on August 22, 1970. Despite remaining in the same city, the events of history caused those places, over the course of (his) time, to take on a whole new meaning and a very different flavor. Of course, to a folklorist like Propp, used to reflecting on the distance of millennia, those seventy-five years will have been nothing. Though the fact remains that the monumental epochal shifts he witnessed (the Russian Revolution and the long cultural and political Soviet regime that followed) feature heavily in his brilliant work.
The intimate relationship between food and place branding: a cultural semiotic approach
2022
Over the past ten years, food and places have been at the epicenter of sophisticated branding strategies. On the one hand, there has been enormous growth in the number and complexity of branding devices such as ‘geographical indications’ (GIs) that aim to establish cultural associations between local food products and places of origin. On the other hand, cities, regions, and states use cuisine, ingredients, and traditional dishes in destination marketing strategies to introduce food identity as a distinctive element in the brand image of a place. These processes have been extensively studied by place branding researchers, inasmuch as by social and human scientists at large, while highlighti…
Il valore delle differenze. Tipicità e terroir nella cultura alimentare
2021
DOP, IGP, tipico, tradizionale, a chilometro zero, terroir, identità: negli ultimi decenni il cibo è entrato prepotentemente nelle nostre vite come fenomeno geografico e sociale, ancor prima che alimentare. Questo lavoro propone un’analisi semiotica del fenomeno attraverso quattro casi emblematici di costruzione della tipicità alimentare: quello del sistema dei marchi di qualità europei DOP, IGP e STG e del problema dell’origine; quello di un relais in Sicilia dove l’esperienza di permanenza è incentrata sull’apprendimento della cucina tradizionale; quello del linguaggio dei ristoranti “stellati” e della loro evoluzione – ormai d’obbligo – in templi dell’alta cucina locale; quello relativo …
Mangiar fuori. Spazi urbani e pratiche conviviali
2021
The article investigates the world of restaurants from a semiotic perspective, attempting to link the spatiality of restaurants to the convivial practices they propose.
Foodporn. From Conviviality to Sharing
2019
We are used to talking and talking about food, anywhere and anyhow, while eating peculiar quantities of it in souplesse, both in excess or symmetrical insufficiency. Likewise, we are used to talking about pornography in unsuitable tones, ranging from the ashamed to the academic, which, in any case, hardly conceal ancestral pruderies that have never been kept under sufficient control. We do use pornography in contumacy, wherever humanly possible. It can be easily said that, by crossing these two practices, which are at the same time physical and discursive, through a pertinent Engelsian dialectic, a third one emerges. And that is – as should be clear at this point – foodporn.
Food Porn
2019
Global Humanities, a biannual, interdisciplinary, and peer-reviewed journal in the humanities that is now available for open access (https://altija.com/global-humanities/) is calling for paper proposals for Volume 6, which will deal with food porn, a phenomenon mostly related to social media and the idea of sharing images of food with friends and the broader world. The phenomenon of food porn offers multiple approaches for the humanities, why we are interested in, but not limited by, the following topics: food porn semiotics food porn identities food porn practices food porn and class consciousness historical perspectives on food porn (pre-social media) food porn and social media
La cuisine en pandémie
2022
Le travail de Jean-Jacques Boutaud sur la sémiotique de l’alimentation est un point de repère fondamental, soit pour les études sur la gastronomie, soit pour celles sur la signification. L’ouvrage Le sens gourmand a tracé des parcours de recherche sur la commensalité, le goût et les aliments qui sont encore très débattus par les savants, comme un certain nombre d’essais sur des thèmes similaires que Jean-Jacques a publié tout au long de sa brillante carrière. Les modèles et les méthodes qu’il a proposés sont essentiels pour le sémioticien intéressé à reconstruire les structures mobiles du langage de la nourriture et, en ce qui me concerne, je les utilise abondamment dans mon travail.