Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary最新文献

{"title":"Tipografia, culture e immaginari. Il ruolo della forma delle lettere nella percezione di identità e contesti.","authors":"Nicoletta Raffo","doi":"10.7413/22818138060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138060","url":null,"abstract":"The article proposes a reflection on the influence exercised by artificial visual signs in the process of creation of social imaginaries regarding cultural identity and contexts on different scales. The text will consider mainly the typographic sign – understood as the shape of letters and the blank space between them – and will explain how it impacts on our daily visual experience.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129038734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Facebook & Co.: un dispositivo narrativo sintetico a comprimere l’immaginario","authors":"Antonio Sofia","doi":"10.7413/22818138061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138061","url":null,"abstract":"With social networks online, technology transit from being option or extension of action to define the ontologies and the connections field in which the individual links the dots to define himself. The design objectifies positions and dispositions in functional reductions and fictional relationships. Transition operators (who have in common the possibility to collect, to organize, to sell data) promise to make life better, the world a better place. We’ll be able to ask the machine what studies to do, what the ambition to pursue, which people is better to spend time with. We could ask to find in the past accessible explanations to strengthen ourselves; we could obtain, in the present e for the future, a more effective, a more efficient orientation. The process must develop natural and necessary: it need a faith or submission act, the imagination compression, the belief that the world is not only becoming better, but better in the only way it can be possible.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128746328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Free to do evil. Some possible implications of moral enhancement for free will and moral responsibility","authors":"C. Luverà","doi":"10.7413/22818138059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138059","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the progress of biomedical technologies has enabled man to enhance his physical and cognitive abilities by using pharmaceutical, surgical, or genetic techniques. In social imaginary many worries are raised by this new possibility to go beyond the limits set up by nature, even though remote. In the wider framework of human enhancement we will examine a particular one: moral bioenhancement. More specifically it is the use of new biomedical technologies to improve our acting or reflecting morally. These kinds of prospective interventions raise many ethical issues. We will focus specifically on the implications for human freedom and consequently for moral responsibility. Although these concepts could be threatened by moral bioenhancement we could imagine a futuristic scenario where these kinds of interventions could have a useful social employment.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124952126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Immagini dal confine. Migranti, spazi simbolici e ordine politico contemporaneo","authors":"M. Meo","doi":"10.7413/22818138070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138070","url":null,"abstract":"The article is about three major themes: the political imaginary, the border as a space from which it spreads, the images, that convey and reproducing it, cause social reality. This last part was developed by the analysis of a specific case study. In this work the author investigates how the sense of political e collective identity and the social construction comes out by the analysis of the most web popular migrants images in Lampedusa (the most extreme border of the EU).","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131881269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Singularity Believers and The New Utopia of Transhumanism","authors":"Roberto Paura","doi":"10.7413/22818138056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138056","url":null,"abstract":"Transhumanism is a cultural and philosophical movement born in the United States during the 1980s as a product of the technological revolution represented by the mass distribution of information technology and cybernetics, as well as by the first scientific studies on nanotechnologies. Transhumanism preaches the possibility of a technological enhancement of the human body, both through the use of technological prosthesis that by means of a life extension made possible by the use of genetics, biomedical engineering and nanotechnology. The ultimate goal of transhumanism is to completely overcome the need of a biological hardware through the integral fusion between man and machine made possible by the mind-uploading, a technique that would pour out on a digital infrastructure the entire contents of the human mind. In this paper I intend to analyze the assumptions of transhumanism from a perspective of “technological imagination”, claiming that this cultural movement represents a new kind of utopia, if not even a modern New Age- style religion that blends techno-optimistic statements of scientific and technological research with the collective imagination of cyberculture, resulting in a kind of mystique of technological development. The concept of “singularity”, preached by the theorists of transhumanism (Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Max More and others) seems quite similar to the Christian idea of the “end of times”, after which it is expected the emergence of a new type of humanity. In particular, the argument that transhumanism can be considered a new kind of “technological” religion is based on the analysis of the role that the issue of death plays within the transhumanist discourse. As in most religions and utopian narratives, transhumanism believes that it is possible to defeat death, in this case through the use of scientific and technological progress. Transhumanism supporters are willing to put their bodies into hibernation to wait the future resurrection in a world where death has been defeated. Therefore, transhumanism can be considered a cult of our times, a product of a particular social imaginary of the techno-scientific development.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126305308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tools for a Crisis: the Serializing Theorem in the Age of the Video-civil War","authors":"Luca Cinquemani, A. Tortorella","doi":"10.7413/22818138049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138049","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from a brief de-functionalizing analysis of the info-spectacular society, the essay explores the pervasiveness of the repressive-disciplining forms which are increasingly affecting the behaviors of the individualities in the info-spherical dominion. In particular, the paper focuses on what will be defined the “serializing” and highlights some repetitive-determinant aspects of the video-seriality that are involved in the processes of “over-codification” imposed by the infosphere on the anthropo-sphere. In order to define the serializing will be taken in exam both the possible evolutions of the Gelassenheit and the “dispositiviness” imposed by info-securitarian post- democracies through the hard and soft repressive systems. In this perspective we will postulate that every cybernetic singularity is info-determined by a “code-valuable string” that seems to be capable of maintaining a continuous over-codification of the imaginary and of the human behavior.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123021793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imaginary and Everyday Life: the Role of Symbolic in the Social Construction of the Reality","authors":"Valentina Grassi","doi":"10.7413/22818138054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138054","url":null,"abstract":"All sociology's founding fathers, from Durkheim to Weber, from Simmel to Pareto, have considered the role that non-rational components of action have for understanding social life. The defining moment for this field of study has been the publication, in 1960, of the important work of G. Durand about the anthropological structures of imaginary. As for the social imaginary, it is mostly C. Castoriadis that paved the way for the study of the imaginary component of social institutions. Finally, the study of the role and significance of the imagae in social life, especially in the daily life of social actors, is the thread of thought of the French sociologist M. Maffesoli.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124596373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The deconstruction of the West: an unaccomplished task. Towards “the politics of imagining the West”","authors":"L. Casini","doi":"10.7413/22818138053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138053","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the ambition of Postcolonial Studies to place deconstruction of “the West” at the heart of contemporary social sciences and humanities, the authority of this notion has never been so strong, and the West appears today to belong to a “natural order” of thinking and speaking about our current reality. Having pointed out the limits of the postcolonial critique of the West, this study then individuates and connects several lines of research to a common epistemological basis in order to map the contours of an emerging field: “the politics of imagining the West”. From this perspective, the West is no longer conceived of as a subject of history but as a historically determined narrative articulated by individuals and social groups with strategic aims in the context of wider discourses.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123315989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modern Technology within the Western Theological Imaginary","authors":"N. Turnbull","doi":"10.7413/22818138044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138044","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I claim that modern technology possesses certain general ‘onto-formative’ characteristics that indicate that our contemporary technological condition now defies orthodox theoretical forms of comprehension. In the light of this claim, I will propose that any adequate conceptual understanding of modern technics requires a decisive shift of disciplinary register: specifically, towards theology and to the formation of new philosophical paradigms founded upon metaphysically-inspired interpretations of the ‘total significance’ of modern technics. Such theological conceptions, I will argue, emerge from a startling recognition of modern technics’ incipient association with the infinite, the transcendent as well as with its capacity to “bring new worlds into existence”. I attempt this, in the first instance, by drawing upon the work of two major thinkers who I believe paved the way towards just such a theological conception: Martin Heidegger and Ernst Junger. In a non-standard interpretation of their respective philosophies of technology, I will go on to claim that these two thinkers should be viewed as attempting to find a way towards a “radically conservative” revalorisation of ancient theological truths that they believed could provide 20th century modernity with the philosophical groundwork for a new techno-political order that they posited in contrast to a dying Platonic-Christian civilisation. For both of these thinkers a theological understanding of modern technics created the possibility of a new spiritual condition/zeitgeist where the very idea of modern technology is rearticulated as the focal point of a post-Platonic-Christian social imaginary that they believed to be revolutionary in its necessarily destructive relationship to extant historical worlds and their corresponding traditions. By these lights, I suggest, that modern social imaginary can only be con conceived within a new theological synthesis that transcends the Platonic/Christian dichotomy of techne and theoria - of the worker and the philosopher/priest - in a way that allows for the poetic root of both to be revealed in its primal, world-constituting, form. I will conclude with a brief comparison between these ‘pagan’ conceptions of technology and contemporary Christian theological conceptions which have been acutely aware of the highly ambiguous position of modern technics within Christian metaphysical schemes and the need to reform these in the light the manifestly destructive potential of modern forms of technological innovation.","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"24 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114085811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Double instance of the political. Imaginary: affects as rhetorical means and structure","authors":"Samuel Mateus","doi":"10.7413/22818138160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7413/22818138160","url":null,"abstract":"Although emotions are linked to irrationality, a number of recent researches have shown emotions are central to political behaviour. While as politics is an emotionally dense sphere of individual and collective action, any fuller comprehension of the political imaginary must ponder it. This paper considers the emotional dimension of the political imaginary according to a dual rhetorical instance: the use of emotions as tools (emotional appeals) to influence behaviour and thinking; and the very affective nature of politics as such. In other words, I will examine affects as rhetorical means and as structuring elements of the political imaginary. By referring to empirical political messages – from the Daisy Ad until the election of the comedian actor Volodymyr Zelensky as President of Ukraine - it is claimed that the political imaginary is not just about collective reasoning. The political imaginary is also something that we feel. This paper intends to clarify how affects help to determine collective feeling and, consequently, political decision making and social understanding","PeriodicalId":293955,"journal":{"name":"Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115735998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}