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Il discorso animale
2019
For semiotics, the question of the talking animal is evidence but, in other ways, it is something unthought of, a theme that still needs to be worked on and discussed in view of new models of reflection and analysis. It is an evidence because talking animals are the norm in fairy tales, in legends, myths, fiction and so on: all material that, adequately analysed, has led to the theory of narrativity, where a non-human actor can play even very complex attitudinal roles. Even very complex ones. However, this is also something unthought of because, after all, narrative grammar, in its interplay between actors and actants, has in some way humanised animals, situating itself within an epistemolo…
Prologue : entre chiens et loups
2010
"Le petit chat est mort" : sur Fils, de Serge Doubrovsky
2010
Zoosémiotique 2.0
2019
To semiotise the animal - to narrate it, to say it, to represent it, to think it, to make it an object of science - means to manage the politics of an unsecured threshold: that which separates it, more or less obstinately, from man. To define the animal is to define man, of course. However, it is more interesting to note that, often surreptitiously, giving the animal a place among the "kingdoms" of nature means, in parallel, adding it between the articulation of the social, between cultural institutions (kinship, affection and kinship, affection and affiliations, strategies and conflicts...). In In other words, to make the animal the object of knowledge is to propose a certain political vis…
Umani e animali nell’antropologia socioculturale contemporanea
2022
In the chapter, I show the connection between the ways in which the nineteenth-twentieth century sociocultural anthropologists became interested in the study of human-animal relationships and the dominant conceptions about the relationship between humanity and animality in philosophical and scientific thought of these two centuries. Till the last part of the twentieth century non-human animals were considered by anthropologists mainly as material and/or symbolic resources for the reproduction of humans and their social orders. This view paralleled the dominant vision in Western modern philosophical and scientific thought in which non-human animals were assimilated to mindless machines belon…
Zoosemiotica 2.0. Forme e politiche dell'animalità
2017
Questo volume ha tre direzioni di discorso. Innanzitutto, un dialogo fra la semiotica e le altre discipline interessate agli studi animali: la filosofia, la filosofia del linguaggio e della mente, le scienze umane e sociali, le scienze cognitive e le neuroscienze. Non a caso molti degli interventi contenuti in questo volume non sono di semiologi ma di filosofi, sociologi, antropologi, linguisti, filologi, letterati etc. In secondo luogo, una discussione interna alla semiotica, nel passaggio dalla zoosemiotica 1.0 (tradizionalmente più interessata ai linguaggi e alle forme di comunicazione delle diverse specie animali) alla zoosemiotica 2.0, di conserva con altri settori a prima vista oppost…