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7A new cultural theory of aesthetics: genes, memes, symbols, and simulacraLexington Books. 2023.This book develops a theory of aesthetics that criticizes scientific and philosophical reductionism that denies the importance of culture in art and taste, but its theory accepts some fundamental aspects of Neo-Darwinist theory of culture by addressing points of convergence among the notions of meme, simulacrum, and symbol.
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4Il disagio dell'inciviltàKaiak 4. 2017.My speech is intended to insert the question of sublimation in a larger consideration of Freud’s thought, based on the model of libidinal repression and its cultural background. In this sense, I will not enter immediately in a detailed discussion of sublimation’s features, but I prefer to criticize it starting by a recognition of the philosophical paradigm that supports it, and then I will move to the analysis of the weak points of sublimation theory. This does not mean that I want to deny the r…Read more
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6In recent times, there has been a debate about the Schmitt’s notion of political theology, by which the notions of messianism and katéchon have been rediscovered. Both the questions are connected with the one of apocalypse and apocalypse nowadays is linked to the western perception of the crisis of capitalism. Thus a question is: how does this complex of conceptions relate with Far-East Culture? Is that apocalyptic imagination valid also for these countries or do they have a different conception…Read more
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Package yourself!Ágalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica 1. 2000.Packaging applied to people is not only a form of self-commodification, but it is a form of self-modification too. In this sense it is a post-human attitude.
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L'ultima Sfera. Breve Storia Filosofica Della Globalizzazione (review)Ágalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica 4. 2003.
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Filosofie dell' acqua: Dal mondo fluttuante al postumanoÁgalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica 6. 2003.
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47The Shadow of Freedom Liberty and Liberation between West and East, Subject and EnvironmentProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 50 795-800. 2008.This speech analyzes the constitutive relationship between liberty and domination. In it freedom is intended as opposition to power through the concept of liberation. But many forms of power, in spite of fighting liberty, try to present themselves as liberators or as a guarantor of liberty itself. In this way the concept of freedom becomes first with Christianity and then with modernity an instrument for a sophisticated technology of power that has the opposite function. This individualistic not…Read more
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Architettura atopica. L'esperienza dell'architettura olandese contemporaneaÁgalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica 13. 2007.Atopic architecture is what characterized recent Dutch architecture. This architecture doesn't consider the presence of cities with a center, but a network of ways which forms a texture without center
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Gyaru Power: Un confronto tra l'immagine dell'adolescente seducente in Giappone e in OccidenteÁgalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica 12. 2006.Visual studies case-study about the image of girls (gyaru) in contemporary Japanese media-culture
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Bergson. Il filosofo del software (review)Ágalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica 10. 2005.
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Post-human.Verso nuovi modelli di esistenza (review)Ágalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica 4. 2003.
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Il gioco dell’arteÁgalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica 17. 2009.It's a text in Italian about institutional theory of art that criticizes the old analytic model for being too much simplistic, and proposes a sophisticated approach also using the reflections made by the Italian esthetician Ermanno Migliorini.
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Ex-humans. Sull'essenza Del PostumanoKainós 6. 2006.The text relates the question of post-human compared to the question of tchnique analyzed by Heidegger.
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