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Gastromania on italian tv
2021
By turning on the TV, at any time of the day or night, one can comeacross programs in which food is the undisputed protagonist. Actually, thepresence of food on TV is not a contemporary phenomenon, but it goesback to the origins of television. Over time, the way of narrating food hasbeen transformed, as well as the role attributed to it and the values (gastronomicand social) associated to it.In this paper, after having traced a historical overview of Italian foodtelevision programming, we focus on the analysis of four recent programs.The objective is to understand how settings, rhythmic and temporal scansion,and the distribution of roles among the various actors involved configurenarratives…
Objet et préfiguration
2010
We call prefigurative an object whose primary function is to allow whoever manipulates it to represent an object, a situation, an action that has not yet happened ; the prefigured object is particular because it not only exists to convey meaning but also to inform, to get us to believe and finally to make us act. This article aims to outline the semiotic analysis of one of these objects, the restaurant menu: leaving aside the verbal text, we shall examine the material object which is its support (paper, cardboard, slate, screen, etc..) and see that it directs our receptions and predisposes us by its material, its size, its touch, its typography and its layout to perceive the true taste of t…
Forms of gastronomic camouflage: veridiction in the kitchen
2022
In this essay, we analyse the regimes of truth and the forms of culinary camouflage inscribed in some signature dishes by several well-known Italian chefs, whose work is emblematic of the various fictional trends in gastronomy. In doing so, we will keep in mind the so-called semiotic square of veridiction that discursive semiotics has been proposing and using for some time. The analysis reveals how the gastronomic discourse of the Italian haute cousine produces effects of illusion, secrecy, falsehood and truth. The concurrence of these veridiction modes allows for an explicit model which accounts for the various styles of camouflage and thus describes current tendencies in contemporary cuis…
Cucina politica: percorsi semiotici
2019
On the one hand, cuisine and politics have always been considered two very different semi-spheres. On the other hand, considering the issue more in depth, cooking and politics are both strategies and tactics for governing the community. What I would like to do in this essay is to highlight the unexpected of the (multiple) relations of cooking and politics. Starting from a Latourian epistemological perspective, which considers the social collective as a whole formed by human and non-human actors, and governed by a series of management, control and enhancement processes that are similar to the world of gastronomy and that of politics strictly understood.
Dopodiché
2019
Rileggere – leggere? – oggi il Maupassant di Greimas è un’esperienza straniante: appassiona e turba nello stesso tempo; richiede, più che impegno, caparbietà, desiderio di oltrepassare evidenze e stereotipi, slogan e facilitazioni d’ogni sorta. Per questa ragione, si tratta di un’esperienza fortemente inattuale. In un’epoca qual è la nostra, fatta di quiz e instant book, soluzioni prevedibili per domande banali, le lenti semiotiche di Greimas appaiono tanto appannate quanto necessarie. Meno se ne sente il bisogno, più occorre inforcarle. Chi scrive oggi libri così? Nessuno, certamente: motivo in più per plaudire alla sua ripubblicazione. Colmare la distanza che ci separa da quest’opera, sem…
Conclusione
2010
Forme di costruzione dell’identità dei luoghi: il caso di Erice nelle guide turistiche
2006
Verso una guida transmediale: Turisti per caso
2010
Viaggiare: istruzioni per l'uso. Semiotica delle guide turistiche
2010
Culture and Politics of Laziness. From Fairy Tales to Oblomov and Bartleby
2021
La these de cet article est que la paresse n’est pas une propriete psychologique d’un sujet individuel mais un sentiment collectif : c’est une reaction, voire une rebellion, contre ceux qui nous enferment dans une culture qui voit l’activite comme une valeur supreme, souvent comme une fin en soi. La paresse est la reponse a ceux qui nous forcent a faire et a exagerer, a nous donner a nos occupations avec zele et constance, devouement total et perseverance aveugle. Donc, il n’est pas vrai qu’une personne paresseuse ne fait rien, ou plutot qu’elle fait tout ce qu’elle peut pour ne rien faire. Le paresseux travaille frenetiquement afin de creer les conditions parfaites qui lui permettent d’act…