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L’altra cucina. Oggetti e gastronomia
2015
In una realtà sociale come quella in cui viviamo attualmente, così fortemente pervasa dai discorsi sulla cucina, viene spontaneo chiedersi se non si possa ribaltare la prospettiva pensando anche ai discorsi della cucina, quei racconti cioè che vedono come protagonisti gli oggetti grazie ai quali cuciniamo. Di che cosa parlano questi muti servitori? Che storie raccontano? In questi ultimi anni, l’offerta di pentole, coltelli ed elettrodomestici, si è arricchita a dismisura, secondo un meccanismo che sembra mimare quello della moda, cui il fenomeno della gastronomia è stato infatti accostato. Rispetto all’abbigliamento qui è al lavoro una doppia pertinenza: da un lato quella estetica, con un …
Città/Brand. Esercizio di semiotica discorsiva
2008
Ikea
2014
Come cucinare il commensale. La neve al sole di Massimo Bottura
2013
Città di sabbia. Pratiche di costruzione del senso in una località balneare
2009
Mondello is Palermo city’s inhabitants favourite seaside resort, a long white sand strip that assumes different meanings depending on the season: during summer, when it is invaded by lido’s facilities that make an urban system of it; and during winter, when some of them are removed and it becomes a savage land, where the contact with nature can be experienced. The most important among the devices that perform this resemantization is the “capanna”, a small wooden cabin rented for the entire season to extended families with which the sandy surface is splitted, organized, oriented. A system made of streets and squares, but more than this on social relationships, those typical of a small commun…
La cucina oggi
2014
The kitchen, it is known, is the heart of an house, the place where the culinary value of food and its important social meanings are both constructed. No wonder that kitchens (and cousine) have profoundly changed recently. First the walls that used to keep them separated from living rooms and sitting rooms fell down, after that, they were contracted and optimized going along the chronic lack of time and space of contemporary world. At the end of the process they became a single object, the all-in-one of which the Vorwerk’s Thermomix is the forefather. This paper starts from such an object, an industrial product that becomes and informant for us, that is the witness of a relevant change that…