{"title":"Il Re si nasconde tra le pagine di Calvino e dentro i disegni di Escher = The King hides in the pages of Calvin and in the Escher's drawings","authors":"Laura Appignanesi","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N10P63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N10P63","url":null,"abstract":"The King hides in the pages of Calvin and in the Escher's drawings. The paper takes into consideration the Twentieth Century western society. To understand its complexity, Niklas Luhmann uses the concept of second-order observation and describes society in terms of functionally differentiated systems. This socio-philosophical paradigm represents the \"hidden King\", or rather, the constitutional meta-card that identifies the principles and regulates the functioning of contemporary society. The thesis argued in the article is that this systemic approach also informs the art and literature of two exponents of that century, so far considered sui generis: the Italian writer Italo Calvino and the Dutch engraver Maurits Cornelis Escher. In short, Luhmann's theory of systems is proposed as interpretative key of figurative works and narrative texts; or, alternatively, it seems possible to illustrate the systems theory starting from the analysis of Calvino's text and from the reading of Escher's drawings.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"63-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1285/I22840753N10P63","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48623163","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 di pensiero: la foglia, il denaro e i passages. Per una ricerca del principio formativo dell’immaginario = Images of Thought: the Leaf, the Life and the Arcades. For a Research of the Generative Principle of Imaginary","authors":"A. Tramontana","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N10P23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N10P23","url":null,"abstract":"Images of Thought: the Leaf, the Life and the Arcades. For a Research of the Generative Principle of Imaginary. The main aspect of our imaginary is the variety and the quantity of phenomenon that characterizes our everyday life. This fragmentary scenario makes it tough to consider every element as a part of a unique imaginary. However, we can take into account some classic works in order to consider different phenomenon manifestations of a unique generative principle. The aim of this paper is to examine the works of Goethe, Simmel, and Benjamin, considering that they have in common the capacity to assemble multitude in a single image of thought. In fact, although they start from different field of research, they examine the empirical world as an expression of a unique generative principle. Therefore, for Goethe leaf is the “original form” of the botanical world. While, in Simmel’s work life is the “central idea” of the modern daily life. Finally, Parisian Arcades are for Benjamin the origin of the modern capitalism. Thus, the leaf, the life, and the Arcades, are meaningful examples to focus our attention on the opportunity to discover a synthetic image of our imaginary.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"23-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1285/I22840753N10P23","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46520397","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":"Elvis, il re nascosto del rock. Messianesimo, illusione rivoluzionaria e nuovi feticismi pop = Elvis, the hidden king of rock and roll. Messianism, revolutionary delusion and birth of new pop fetishisms","authors":"M. Raffa","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N10P93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N10P93","url":null,"abstract":"Elvis, the hidden king of rock and roll. Messianism, revolutionary delusion and birth of new pop fetishisms. Taking inspiration from Simmel’s insight regarding the presence of hidden kings in every distinguished cultural epoch, this paper explores the forms through which pop culture has got to generate new models of power, capable to set new standards by means of intrisic capabilities of overcoming social distortions the political power could not overtake. Elvis Presley, its myth, and the fetishisms derived from his stardom, condensed a number of Western stereotypes, subsuming counterposed social consciousnesses. In Presley’s figure, social antinomies are smoothed out through the delusion of a revolutionary pledge, that eventually comes out to be socially reassuring and equitable with an epiphany.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"93-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45588162","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":"Culture ultime dentro culture ultime. Note dalla Calabria dei paesi = Outermost cultures inside outermost cultures. Notes from Calabrian villages","authors":"Alberto Gangemi","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N10P185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N10P185","url":null,"abstract":"Outermost cultures inside outermost cultures. Notes from Calabrian villages Calabria is one of the poorest regions in Europe. Because of its history, marked by a massive emigration, its geographical position and is geological situation, it also became an internal frontier, faraway from the rest of the continent. From the last decade of the XX century it is one of the most important landing place of the Mediterranean sea for migrants, refugees, exiles coming from Africa and Middle East. At the same time Calabria is a land of emigration and abandonment. Most of its villages risk of remaining empity. Using the Cesare Pavese’s novel Il carcere, set in a Calabrian village called Brancaleone during the fascist regime as a fictional example of the contradictory role of the stranger inside an outermost and closed culture, the article focus on two opposite models of interaction between migrants and inhabitants applied in two close and almost empty villages, Rosarno and Riace.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"185-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1285/I22840753N10P185","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43628458","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":"Divenire penultimo. Per una biopolitica semiotica delle culture ultime = Become a penultimate. For a semiotic biopolitics of the last cultures","authors":"C. Paolucci","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N10P203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N10P203","url":null,"abstract":"Become a penultimate. For a semiotic biopolitics of the last cultures. In this paper I will try to build a Semiotic Biopolitics, in order to deal with the problem of cultural domination and integration. I will do that from the point of view of the theory of systems, especially the Theory of Complexity. I will work on the economical crisis of these recent years, trying to avoid an anthropocentric point of view.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"203-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1285/I22840753N10P203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45770350","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":"La vita (sociale) “cucita a fil doppio” col conflitto: il programma della Lebenssoziologie di Georg Simmel = The (social) life \"double warp sewn\" with the conflict: Georg Simmel's Lebenssoziologie program","authors":"D. Ruggieri","doi":"10.1285/i22840753n10p125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/i22840753n10p125","url":null,"abstract":"The (social) life \"double warp sewn\" with the conflict: Georg Simmel's Lebenssoziologie program. The essay intends to highlight the role and value that the theme of the Leben (\"life\") takes on in the sociology of culture and in the philosophy of values of Georg Simmel. The aim of the paper is also to test the relevance and validity of the Simmelian perspective, starting from the established fact of Simmel's unavoidability, up to the possible use of the program of his Lebenssoziologie, term indicating, faithfully to the teachings of the Berlin sociologist, the science that investigates the \"vital social forms\". The characteristic feature of modern society is the progressive proliferation of catalyst semantic centers, for which the \"hidden king\" of our age seems lost. The extreme paradox that we live is given by the coexistence on the one hand of a very refined rationality and technology making the other ever closer (in a social, political, anthropological, biological, astronomical, etc. sense), and on the other hand, of an inability to \"represent\", \"imagine\" this other. The \"tragic\" dialectic of the social structuring, and therefore of the cultural production, indicated and studied masterfully by Simmel, is the fulcrum of the Lebenssoziologie that underpins his last works and which still shows all its freshness, its argumentative vigor and its relevance.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"125-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48187849","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":"L’immaginario pop: archetipologia delle forme del Re nascosto contemporaneo = The imaginary pop: archetypology of the forms of contemporary hidden King","authors":"F. Rocca","doi":"10.1285/i22840753n10p45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/i22840753n10p45","url":null,"abstract":"The imaginary pop: archetypology of the forms of contemporary hidden King. Where is concealed the contemporary hidden king? Where to find in the crypts of sociality the representative figures of the contemporary imaginary? In the immersion of social world we explore, through and hermeneutic of the surface, the deep universe of the culture, specifically the essence of the pop, to find a quantity of figures that represents the essential types characterizing our social imaginary.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"45-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1285/i22840753n10p45","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48715942","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":"Ernesto de Martino: la fine del mondo e la paura dell’eterno ritorno=Ernesto de Martino: The end of the world and the fear of the eternal return","authors":"E. Imbriani","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N9P153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N9P153","url":null,"abstract":"Ernesto de Martino: the end of the world and the fear of eternal return. The book La fin du monde recently published in France is not only the translation of the posthumous work of Ernesto de Martino, but a true new edition that provides the texts with a more effective order than the Italian editions and makes the reflection of the ethnologist more Linear and coherent, clearer for readers.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"153-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1285/I22840753N9P153","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46883169","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":"Trans Adriatic Pipeline: un gasdotto al centro del conflitto sociale e un movimento in lotta per fermarlo=Trans Adriatic Pipeline: a gas pipeline at the Centre of a social struggle and a movement in conflict to stop it","authors":"Gabriel N. Maggio","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N9P91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N9P91","url":null,"abstract":"Trans Adriatic Pipeline: a gas pipeline at the Centre of a social struggle and a movement in conflict to stop it. The Trans Adriatic Pipeline project, (Tap), concerns the construction of a gas pipeline that would transport natural gas from Azerbaijan to Italy. The project, supported by the Italian Government and the European Union, has been the subject of protests and opposition – developed into a social conflict ¬– by communities of Salento, that should accept the work. This paper describes the main controversial tracts concerning the project, the reactions of the local population, the importance of the sense of community, and the citizen’s feeling of distrust and disappointment for the institutions","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"91-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1285/I22840753N9P91","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42054476","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":"Street art in Urbe. Arte urbana nelle periferie romane=Street art in Urbe. Urban art in the suburbs or Rome","authors":"Ilaria Renna","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N9P197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N9P197","url":null,"abstract":"Street art in Urbe. Urban art in the suburbs or Rome. Rome in the past was the undisputed cradle of the arts, the imperative destination of the eighteenth-century grand tourists for its constant combination of old and new, humble and magnificent. Recently, Rome is playing once again that key role in the 21st century world. The scenario is mostly regarding the Roman suburbs, borderline not only geographically, but also culturally and socially, where external ugliness is often due to an original lack of aesthetic design or frequently subjects to carelessness and degradation. On this type of urban contest many street artists are involved with their works, directly in contact with the territory and its inhabitants. In this essay the focus is on the connection born from the involvement of artists and citizens, which leads to a legal, programmatic and connected artistic production. So, Art becomes a means of communication in places that are often voiceless and, at the same time, it always performs its function: trough the Beauty, Art re-qualifies and educates","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2017 1","pages":"197-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1285/I22840753N9P197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47352715","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}