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State Without Territory: a legal-political heresy
2021
The sovereign, territorial, nation state form has imposed itself globally. Nevertheless, as Carl Schmitt points out: «Statehood is not a universal concept, valid for all times and all peoples». In other words, state is not the only possible way to establish a relationship between space, humanity and power. This paper intends to historicise the current geopolitical paradigm and drafting a heresy of the public law doctrine: a State Without Territory, a diasporic political community reclaiming some of the traditional government functions. In order to rethink the state concept, a pattern that shapes and affects so strongly both external reality and our minds, a methodology is needed. The author…
Within the symbolic world of the prehistoric hunters: A GIS-based and 3D model analysis of sites with complexes of linear incisions in western Sicily
2021
Abstract The prehistoric peopling of Sicily has left scattered traces of symbolic activities through well-known rock art expressions in caves and rock shelters located all around the island (among the most significant, the sites of Addaura, Racchio and Genovese). A peculiar phenomenon is the incision of linear signs, often grouped on the same rocky walls, hidden in fissures or placed at the entrance of the underground chambers of caves. In this report, we investigate a sample of these graphic expressions from a spatial and technical point of view. A GIS-based approach presents the territorial pattern providing insight, on a macroscale, into the intentional positioning of the sign complexes.…
Memoria, spazio, identità. Una premessa
2023
Memory, which has always been a subject of research and reflection, entered by right with Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss into the space of 'total social facts', i.e. the group of those aspects of human behaviour that support the ideological structure of social universes and regulate the capacity to perform a given action, regardless of intentionality, of both individuals and groups. What emerges is the problematic nature of the very nature of memory and its relationship to history and historians.
Grammatizzazioni dello spazio-corpo: tra algoritmizzazione ed eccedenze
2015
Lo spazio definito dalle nuove tecnologie digitali viene sempre più frequentemente descritto attorno ai concetti problematici di condivisione, cooperazione, moltiplicazione dei punti di enunciazione, facilitazione e accesso (più) democratico ai beni e ai servizi. Più realisticamente può essere raccontato come uno spazio fondato sulla chimera della neutralità e della calcolabilità dell'esistente. A partire dal tentativo continuo (e mai compiuto) di gestione delle pluri-potenzialità dello spazio-corpo attraverso la grammatizzazione algoritmica, ci interessa indagare la cartografia degli anfratti, delle zone di accumulo dell'ingestibile, coestensivi o conflittuali alla spazialità definita dal …
Raccontare e rappresentare le lingue e lo spazio. L'esperienza dell'Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia
2017
La Dialettologia Percettiva, disciplina che si occupa dello studio delle opinioni dei parlanti sulle varietà di lingua, nell'ultimo decennio ha rinnovato i propri fondamenti. Il volume da un lato intende ripercorrere criticamente tali profonde innovazioni, dall'altro propone una serie di modelli originali per l'analisi e l'interpretazione dei dati. Il corpus della ricerca è costituito dalle risposte di circa 900 informatori distribuiti in 60 punti d'inchiesta a tre domande del questionario dell'Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS) pensate per rilevare la percezione e rappresentazione della differenza linguistica. Una mole imponente di dati che sono stati trattati con un approccio quanti-…
Spazio e percorso in siciliano antico: analisi di un corpus
2020
In ancient Sicilian, basic spatial relations are encoded by means of prepositional phrases introduced by ‘da’ and ‘di’ (origin), ‘a’, ‘in’ and ‘intra’ (location and direction), ‘per/pir/pri’ (path). This contribution offers a description of these encoding means based on the examination of a corpus of Sicialian texts of the 14th to 16th centuries. The analysis is carried out against a cognitive grammar theoretical background and takes into account the existing studies on spatial relations in the world languages. These studies brought to light some recurring patterns: for instance, ‘direction’ tends to be encoded in a more articlulated way than ‘origin’, while the encoding of ‘path’ seems to …
Rappresentare le spazialità complesse. L’esperienza dell’ALS (Atlante linguistico della Sicilia)
2016
Dans cet article, nous nous occuperons des données quantitatives et qualitatives recueillies durant les vingt-cinq dernières années en Sicile. Ces données ont été collectées dans le cadre d’une enquête sur le terrain de grande ampleur qui a intéressé la Sicile entière dans le contexte des activités de l’Atlas linguistique de la Sicile (ALS). En particulier, nous observerons les données sur la perception et sur la représentation des différences linguistiques recueillies à travers trois questions du questionnaire ALS. Nous présenterons aussi une proposition de cartographie pluridimensionnelle de ces données. Pour l’analyse, l’interprétation et la cartographie des données nous avons élaboré un…
Can Wii modulate visuospatial attention lateralization?
2012
South-eastern Sicily: a counterfactual post-metropolis
2017
Postmetropolis is an ambitious term that could be summarized as the "postmodern metropolis." With it Edward W. Soja (2000) aims to define the globalized city that he supposes to be involved in a radical transition process that began with the post-modern city. In relation to these considerations, the article explores the post-metropolitan profile of South-eastern Sicily through: a socio-economic outlook describing the characteristics of demography, employment and income in this part of Sicily; a spatial analysis of housing and land use; and finally an institutional description of the administrative state of the art in Syracuse, Ragusa and their surroundings. Each section describes the most c…
Robotic and virtual World Programming labs to Stimulate Reasoning and visual-spatial Abilities
2013
Abstract The individuals’ cognitive skills, academic performance and their relationship with programming of robots or virtual learning environment is a topic of particular interest in the area of human-robot interaction. This paper presents a pilot study performed on a group of 36 lower secondary school students involved in a 32-hours laboratory based on the combination of LEGO Mindstorm NXT and Microsoft Kodu Game Lab (KGL) and aimed at programming first a robot and further a more complete virtual world based on a narrative-designed scenario. The findings of the research will be discussed in the light of the effectiveness of using robotics and virtual world programming as a meaningful and …