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Alt vil være, som det var før. Krisediskurs og utopi i Ben Lerners 10:04
2020
Sammendrag Krisenarrativer er et centralt emne i Ben Lerners anden roman, 10:04 (2014). Romanen, som indledes og afsluttes med en storm, undersøger de konsekvenser og forventninger, der er forbundet med at udnævne en bestemt hændelse eller tid til at være en krise, hvad enten begivenheden er opstået som følge af naturen, økonomien eller individuelle årsager. Antropologen Janet Roitman har beskrevet, hvordan krisenarrativer definerer og former vores forståelse af verden og på denne måde begrænser vores muligheder for at forandre verden. I 10:04 forsøger Lerner, i efterdønningerne af den finansielle krise i 2007-09, at undersøge, hvordan krisens rammeværk påvirker vores forståelse af verden, …
Tempi del racconto e racconto del tempo in Piove all’insù
2022
Times of narration and narration of the time in Piove all’insù · The article hosts an analysis of the time categories in Luca Rastello’s novel Piove all’insù (2006). In the first section there is a survey of the verb tenses used in the narration of the past by the main character (who is also the narrator). These tenses contribute to make the two periods of time (the 1970s and the 2000s) constantly overlap each other. A second section is dedicated to the influence of the peculiar timeframes on the anti-utopian and pseudo-science-fictional gradient of the novel. A third section faces the issue of the father/son confrontation in Piove all’insù. All these elements help to define a notion of lit…
Dystopia deconstructed: Applying the triple helix model to a failed utopia
2016
This study analyzes the failure of a literary utopian system—Veronica Roth's Divergent—drawing from difference, which the divergent and the factionless represent. The analysis of the causes and consequences of difference from a socioeconomic perspective reveals a system that the triple helix model can improve. The adapted model based on cooperation and knowledge transfer adds two connections to the three main axes: Universities (Erudite), Government (Abnegation), and Industry (Amity), and gives the divergent a key role: inter-faction coordinators. Following a review of European migration policies, the study explores the creation of a new faction for the factionless. Regarding innovation, th…
Pierwsza nowoczesna retrotopia? "Don Kichote" Miguela de Cervantesa w perspektywie późnego Zygmunta Baumana
2022
The article considers Cervantes's classical work through the prism of retrotopia, as understood in late Bauman. Retrotopia is a double negation of utopia, an attempt to return to an imaginary past, which usually happens in the face of an uncertain future. The first part of the article indicates a clear analogy between the conceptualization of retrotopia and Don Quixote's key themes. These include the issue of nostalgia for times past, the problem ofviolence,ora return to tribal thinking in terms o f”us” versus "them.” The second part o f the text briefly examines Don Quixote as an expression of retrotopian longing for an imaginary past o f a Golden Age, an idyllic era of justice and humanis…
La oposición entre la razón instrumental y la lúdica en la propuesta utópica de Bernard Suits
2020
En este texto analizamos el estudio que Bernard Suits hace del uso instrumental de la razón en The Grasshopper a través de su utopía. Para ello, analizamos el papel que juega la razón instrumental en la teoría del juego y en la utopía de Suits. Luego, comparamos el uso instrumental de la razón con lo que denominamos «actitud lúdica». Esta última encarna la racionalidad lúdica que los jugadores han de adoptar para jugar al juego y vivir en el mundo utópico de Suits. Para concluir, defendemos que la actitud lúdica ofrece una alternativa a la predominancia del uso instrumental de la razón en nuestra sociedad.
Necessary Transformation or Safe Permanence? A Philosophical Approach to the Desire for Change
2011
What is proposed is a meditation on the phrase ‘transformation of the educational system’, paying attention to the sense of the words, and showing what the desire for educational change can reveal. After explaining to what extent ‘educational system’ is a quasi-oxymoron, the meaning of ‘transformation’ has to be compared to those of revolution and utopia. The claim to be transforming the educational system is an attempt to adapt education to social and political situations and constraints. The case of the Langevin-Wallon project in France, which was never applied, helps when wondering what has to be adapted to what. What sort of reciprocity is there between school and society? The organisa…
El final de la historia a la luz de la utopía política. Entre Fukuyama y Jameson
2017
En este artículo voy a interpretar el significado del final de la historia decretado de manera dispar por Fukuyama y Jameson desde el ángulo de la utopía política moderna. A partir de cuantiosos fragmentos procedentes de novelas utópicas, mostrare como las sociedades ideales imaginadas durante la modernidad tuvieron por cimiento el final de la historia, incidencia que se plasmaba en la propagación de una temporalidad circunscrita al presente. Analizando con la ayuda de la bibliografía filosófica y sociólogica adecuada los fenómenos actuales relativos al ethos posthistórico, mostrare como nuestros días se encuentran a merced de patrones temporales muy semejantes. La conclusión principal a la…
On Utopias, Neo-Catholics and Politics
2021
El presente trabajo explora la pertinencia, o no, del uso de la categoría analítica de utopía en relación con el proyecto político de los neocatólicos en la España de Isabel II. Las dificultades del empleo de este concepto, así como su rechazo por parte de los protagonistas de la época, ofrecen una oportunidad para delimitar el sentido político y cultural del catolicismo intransigente en la sociedad postrevolucionaria. Sus propuestas enlazaron con demandas de grupos diversos temerosos ante los riesgos desestabilizadores del soberanismo partidario del decisionismo. This paper explores the approprietness of utopia used as an analytical category in relation to the political project of Neo-Cath…
On the Relationship Between Contemporary Novel-Essay and Science-Fiction
2022
The article inquires upon a possible connection (both formal and thematical) between the literary genre of science-fiction and the form of the novel-essay. Both of them trace their roots back to the late 19th century culture and share a philosophical ambition to interpret the world through narrative philosophy, albeit in opposed ways. After sketching a brief history of the two forms (also underlining their crossroads and similarities), the essay concludes with a parallel reading of two novels by David Foster Wallace and Michel Houellebecq in late 20th century. An open question upon the future paths of a "science-fictional" novel-essay is placed at the end.
Capire il moderno
2002
I risultati della VII Conferenza Internazionale Docomomo di Parigi presso l’Unesco, pubblicati nel volume “Back from Utopia”.