{"title":"Economizing as Exploring Valuations","authors":"Alexandra Bidet","doi":"10.3384/vs.2001-5992.2020.7.1.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3384/vs.2001-5992.2020.7.1.123","url":null,"abstract":"This study deals with the building of a specific set of economic valuations throughout the work of French telephone engineers between 1880 and 1938. In so doing, it contributes to our understanding of the complex interplay between economization and valuation. Tracing the changing practices that facilitated a shift from valuation aimed at minimizing force losses to valuation aimed at assessing and enhancing subjective utility, economizing is considered as an epistemic process, through which managers, engineers and workers are exploring, representing and transforming the world. From saving work and minimizing losses to creating value, engineers went from evaluating (telling what is worth, within an economy of force, optimizing the ratio of losses over total work) to valorizing (framing value as possibly produced and not only saved, the production of utility). This new concern for valorization points to the development of new ideas on what could create economic value. In this process, the very acts of measuring, optimizing and calculating, appeared as both “subversive” and “subverted”.","PeriodicalId":41258,"journal":{"name":"Versus-Quaderni di Studi Semiotici","volume":"5 1","pages":"123-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74277200","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":"Embodying the Form of Life: The Exemplariness of Karate-Do","authors":"Donata Chiricò","doi":"10.14649/97037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14649/97037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41258,"journal":{"name":"Versus-Quaderni di Studi Semiotici","volume":"24 1","pages":"161-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74832572","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":"Premediated Imaginaries. The Future and the Consumption of the Present in Serial Narratives","authors":"C. Demaria, Francesco Piluso","doi":"10.14649/99090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14649/99090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41258,"journal":{"name":"Versus-Quaderni di Studi Semiotici","volume":"12 1","pages":"295-311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84552932","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":"\"Tell the Facts as They Are Not\". The Use of Euphemism in Contemporary Public Discourse","authors":"Alessandro Prato","doi":"10.14649/97036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14649/97036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41258,"journal":{"name":"Versus-Quaderni di Studi Semiotici","volume":"82 1","pages":"139-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78937484","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":"Humorous Ambiguity and Dissimulation as Discursive Vehicles for Political and Social Critique in Chinese Society","authors":"Lut Lams, Wen Zhou","doi":"10.14649/99093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14649/99093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41258,"journal":{"name":"Versus-Quaderni di Studi Semiotici","volume":"25 1","pages":"347-360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72895501","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":"Unprecedented: Donald Trump’s Endless Rupture","authors":"Robin Wagner-Pacifici","doi":"10.14649/99086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14649/99086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41258,"journal":{"name":"Versus-Quaderni di Studi Semiotici","volume":"7 1","pages":"213-236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75717519","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":"Duration and catastrophe. Temporality regimes and ecological conflicts in the age of environmental globalization","authors":"C. Tassinari","doi":"10.14649/99088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14649/99088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41258,"journal":{"name":"Versus-Quaderni di Studi Semiotici","volume":"24 1","pages":"255-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80869012","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":"Future. A Time of History","authors":"Daniele Salerno, Jorge Lozano","doi":"10.14649/99084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14649/99084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41258,"journal":{"name":"Versus-Quaderni di Studi Semiotici","volume":"9 1","pages":"189-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79916102","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 Secret Scriptures and Their Translation","authors":"C. Marrone","doi":"10.14649/97030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14649/97030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41258,"journal":{"name":"Versus-Quaderni di Studi Semiotici","volume":"48 1","pages":"33-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86723192","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}