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Retoriche social. Nuove politiche della vita quotidiana
2018
Viviamo immersi in fiumi di parole. La nostra vita quotidiana si è velocemente trasformata nel suo riflesso comunicativo, costituita com’è dalla necessità di dire, dichiarare, raccontare ogni suo anfratto, testualizzandolo sui social network. Questa ansia (ma sarebbe più corretto chiamarla ingiunzione) di essere connessi ha come conseguenza non secondaria quella di allargare lo spettro del politico. Ogni giorno, distribuendo i nostri like in giro per la rete, non facciamo altro che circostanziare, puntualizzare, dire e ridire la nostra identità in relazione a quella degli altri, affiliandola, più o meno consapevolmente, a collettivi eterogenei, che si formano e si riconoscono, funzionano su…
Rhetoric of the visual : metaphor in a still image
2011
Are Brands Postmodern Relics? Taking a Closer Look at New Sacred Objects
2011
Summary : Ever since the Church lost its monopoly on the sacred, no longer able to solely determine its form or contents, the social sphere has gradually taken over this value, applying it to new human and social objects. As a result, the modes of expression of the sacred have multiplied, along with the subjective and intimate experiences of modern individualism. Among the vast number of potential manifestations of this value, to which almost everything now seems to aspire, this paper will concentrate on commercial brands as vectors of meaning, with the hypothesis that some of them seek to position themselves, in postmodern society, as new figures of the sacred. This area of study is close …
economics in the mirror of the financial crisis
2011
The structure of the Chapter is as follows. In Section 2 I discuss some of the factors that may have played a role in causing the crisis and emphasise that supporters of different economic theories will assign different weights to each factor in their analyses. As a consequence, suggested economic policies are highly sensitive to the economic theory employed in evaluating the set of causes. In Section 3 I seek to defend economists from the common charge that their inability to foresee the crisis is a clear sign of the lack of scientific status of their discipline. In my view, the main liability of mainstream economics lies elsewhere, in its excessive trust on the self-equilibrating mechanis…
Standardization of Road Danger Signs in the European Union
2015
The aim of this research is to find a solution for the standardization of road signs in the EU zone by a comparative analysis of different national sign systems to establish a common set from a single country. This work is based on the idea that road sign standardization might increase the safety level of transnational journeys and foster the relationships among the various members of the EU Community. This paper presents the outcome of the first step of the research, which focuses on the harmonization of danger signs. In more detail, a multicriteria approach is applied to rank 19 EU Member States on the basis of three main aspects: the installation cost of new signs, new sign learning issu…
La congiura degli uguali: involtini & friends
2019
The essay reconstructs the events of “involtini”, a very popular dish in Italian cuisine, in order to trace the specificities of the Sicilian recipes. In particular, a corpus of recipes is analyzed in order to identify the recurring narrative programs in the preparation of the Sicilian “involtini”, distinguishing variations and invariant forms. Particular attention is given to the conformation of the gastronomic object itself and its arrangement on the plate. By comparing other types and sizes of similar gastronomic objects, it is highlighted how cultural and political meanings can be identified in the sense of the “involtini”.
Análisis de los antecedentes histórico-filosóficos de la "paradoja cognitiva de Duval"
2015
In a famous article published in 1993, Raymond Duval highlighted a simple fact: the student may confuse the mathematical object O he is trying to build cognitively with one of its semiotic representations R(O). Duval explained that this confusion was due to a sort of inevitable paradox: only someone who has already built O, can recognize R(O) as a representation of O and not as an object in itself. Thereafter, this thought has been extremely influential for researchers. However, even if in different terms, many scholars of semiotics have emphasized the same phenomenon. In this paper we propose to remind some of them. En un famoso artículo publicado en 1993, Raymond Duval evidenciaba el sigu…
Enigma, suspense, dilemma. Valori e modalità di lettura del giorno della civetta
2020
The paper presents a close reading of The Day of the Owl originating f rom the perspective of semiotic literary theory. It is possible to observe three strategies in the text: enigma, suspense, and dilemma. Whereas the first two cover the unmasking of the truth – following the tradition in crime novels –, the third strategy is particular to the Sciascian contextual crime novel, focused on the semantic instability of values that are the foundation of the social contract. From this starting point, this essay seeks to show that the ‘first novel on Mafia’ is also the first novel that tackles the issue of the Anti-Mafia.
Verità del cibo: dopo la gastromania
2019
Spenti i riflettori sui palcoscenici della cucina e del tavola, esaurita la sbornia mediatica nei confronti dei cuochi star o delle supposte virtù taumaturgiche di un’alimentazione sedicente corretta, ridimensionate le retoriche dei naturalismi più o meno mistici o delle dietetiche tanto prodigiose quanto contraddittorie, è arrivato il momento di ritrovare la verità del cibo. Che significherebbe ritornare – oltre la chiacchiera mediatica che ha stancato il pubblico d’ogni ordine e grado – a quel che c’è realmente in tavola: esito di una sapiente trasformazione di materie prime e loro mescolanza creativa, ma anche frammenti significativi di storia, società, cultura, politica, identità etnich…
La forma dell'arancino: arte culinaria e investigazione poliziesca
2012
Analisi di un racconto di A. Camilleri in vista di una teoria della figuralità nell'abduzione e di una strutturaizone del ricettario