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The limits of subtractive politics: Agamben and Rousseau’s inheritance
2020
The article critically engages with Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Rousseau in order to explore the affinities between the two authors’ subtractive approach to political subjectivation. In The Kingdom and the Glory. Agamben argues that Rousseau’s Social Contract reproduces, in a secularized manner, the providential paradigm of government, whose origins Agamben finds in early Christianity. This paradigm establishes a fictitious articulation between transcendent sovereignty and immanent government, presenting particular acts of government as emanating from general divine laws. We shall demonstrate that Rousseau was neither unaware of the problematic character of this paradigm nor did he venture…
On the Effect of Slotted Blades on Savonius Wind Generator Performances by CFD Analysis
2012
In this paper a new bucket configuration for Savonius wind generator is proposed. With the aim to increase the effect of the overlap ratio RS on the wind turbine performances and to increase the amount of lift force able to produce torque and power, slotted blades are investigated by means of the Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis. The numerical analyses are performed by Comsol Multiphysics® and the results obtained for a Savonius wind turbine with overlap only are compared to numerical and experimental benchmarks. Parametric analyses are performed, for fixed overlap ratio, by varying the slot angle β and the results show that for low angle β the Savonius rotor exploits improved performa…
La sana provocació de recomanar exercicis d’admiració [Ressenya]
2002
Ressenya i petit comentari crític de l'assaig del filòsof alemany Peter Sloterdijk El desprecio de las masas Trad. de G. Cano Pre-Textos, Valencia, 2002, 108 pàgs.
El paso del caballo
2015
In his book on acrobatic anthropology “You must change your life”, Sloterdijk cites a Rilke verse about the Apollo’s archaic torso: Du mußt dein Leben ändern, but adjoining in a enigmatic way the exclamation mark. This final mark is sealing the imperative mode, a “absolute verticality” that in this graphic sign is referring to a top-down hierarchy. Sloterdijk adopts the verticality as a cipher of value, and so the necessity to use transcendence as the only way of change. My brief paper deals just with this stake.
Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2012/13, Ziema (218)
2012
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Cinisms mūsdienu pasaulē. Filozofiskais skatījums (Sloterdaiks un Žižeks)
2015
Maģistra darbs “Cinisms mūsdienu pasaulē. Filozofiskais skatījums (Sloterdaiks un Žižeks)” ir sociālās filozofijas ievirzes pētījums, kurā izvērstas un salīdzinātas filozofu Slavoja Žižeka un Petera Sloterdaika kapitālisma ideoloģijas un ciniskā indivīda konceptu interpretācijas. Darbā analizēta Peters Sloterdaika kinisma interpretācija kā iespējamais risinājums modernās sabiedrības problēmai – ciniskā indivīda atbrīvošanās no autentiskuma un tieksme uz pašdestrukciju. Maģistra darbā secināts, ka filozofu norādītie risinājumi, kas varētu atbrīvot indivīdu no kapitālisma ideoloģijas sistēmas, modernajā sabiedrībā nesasniegtu vēlamo rezultātu, tādejādi neatbrīvojot indivīdu no ciniskā vērojum…
New forms for urban space: utopia? Creative leisure time in an experience for the 10th Biennial of architecture of Venice: Living at Vema
2015
Questo saggio riflette, a 10 anni della “10. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura - Biennale di Venezia”, sulla ricerca e la sperimentazione architettonica inerenti alle nuove forma di spazio urbano, come il progetto, Gli orti dell’ozio creativo, di Santo Giunta redatto per VEMA (2006). In questa città futura – masterplan di Franco Purini, curatore del Padiglione Italiano, ipotizzata sull’asse tra Verona e Mantova e nei pressi del crocevia dei corridoi ferroviari Lisbona-Kiev e Berlino-Palermo – gli spazi ed i luoghi sono stati studiati da 20 gruppi di architetti. «Il gruppo guidato da Santo Giunta – come scrivono François Burckhardt e Burghart Schmidt – ha proposto strategie di attenzione…