A Walk in Naples
With many thanks to Cristina for touring me around.
Presentiamo Terrae\X @ Perditempo
Lo spazio del visibile…
Looking forward to join the colleagues in Rome for a seminar on visibility & related matters. With many thanks to Lorenzo Sabetta for setting up the event!
Visibilità e Governanza
A walk in Düsseldorf
penséesauvage_encore!
Theories of Meaning in the Social and the Natural World
Fosse così, cara…
« Fosse così, cara, che in realtà nulla si perde o si divide. In questi strani giorni, qui a casa sua, mi sembra di essere “nel vero” – non ne so il perché, ma ho una sensazione di vero, di verità, forse perché noi due siamo persone senza più giovinezza. Le dispiace, questo?»
Anna Maria Ortese, Alonso e i visionari
A World of Pregnances. Researching the Visible
A keynote speech to be given at Jahrestagung DigiKomm22, Düsseldorf, 10-11 Nov 2022
In this short talk, I briefly introduce what I regard as the major social-theoretical challenges today in the study of inter-visibility relations, as specifically applicable to the digital domain. In a nutshell, my argument is that, besides the architectures and infrastructures of visibility, we also need to take into account what I call the world of pregnances, that is, the intensive states associated with the visible. If we follow this avenue, a few fault-lines in our categorical apparatus need to be rearranged.
+ info : https://in-visibility.net/digikomm22/
Event beautifully hosted at Haus der Universität, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf : https://www.sozwiss.hhu.de/institut/abteilungen/kommunikations-und-medienwissenschaft/beispielseite
…something else the same
“We go on living, we permit ourselves
to continue—but certainly
not for the university, what they publish
.
severally or as a group: clerks
got out of hand forgetting for the most part
to whom they are beholden.
.
spitted on fixed concepts like
roasting hogs, sputtering, their drip sizzling
in the fire
.
Something else, something else the same.”
William Carlos Williams
…Yet I still believe…
“Yet I still believe in another possible perspective on life: one that does not separate the whole and the parts, one for which the category of the whole and parts is not applicable to life at all but that takes life to be a unified process whose nature it is to exist only in moments that can be differentiated by their qualities or contents. Life … is an absolute continuity in which there is no assembly of fragments or parts. Life, moreover, is a unity, but one that at any moment expresses itself as a whole in distinct forms. This cannot be deduced further because life, which we attempt to formulate here in some way, is a basic fact that cannot be constructed. Each moment of life is the whole life whose steady stream — which is exactly its unique form — has its reality only at the crest of the wave in which it respectively rises. Each present moment is determined by the entire prior course of life, is the culmination of all preceding moments; and already, for this reason, every moment of life is the form in which the whole life of the subject is real.”
Georg Simmel, Rembrandt
My Review of Dominik Bartmanski’s «Matters of Revolution» (2022)
Magic portal…
Tesserae Dialogues – Tuesday 20 September, 9pm
Happy to join a Tesserae Dialogues online, with Stavros, Laura & Lorenzo:
http://www.tesserae.eu/tesserae-dialogues-7-stavros-stavridis-and-andrea-mubi-brighenti/
Register free at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tesserae-dialogues-7-stavros-stavridis-andrea-mubi-brighenti-tickets-419499824267
“Animated Lands” reviewed
Thankful for Gordon Waitt’s review of Animated lands, recently published in Social & Cultural Geography, www.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2077571
La vita dei territori
Happy to be included witha short feature in Coabitare l’isola. Spazio pubblico e cura dei luoghi, Edited by Giorgio Azzoni and Pasquale Campanella (Mimesis, 2022).
Les aventures du graffiti dans les villes – Commentaire
A discussion of Julie Vaslin’s book Gouverner les graffitis (2021). Published in metropolitiques: https://metropolitiques.eu/Les-aventures-du-graffiti-dans-les-villes.html
Rendre visible l’invisible
I have been invited to the the “Rendre visible l’invisible” symposium, Paris, 24 June 2022.
That side of the city – New Playlist !
IL FASCINO DISCRETO DELL’INTERSTIZIO URBANO – review essay
Alex Langer’s Legacy
Toblach/Dobbiaco, EUREGIO Kulturzentrum ‘Gustav Mahler’, June 8-10, 2022
Preliminary Programme
Territories collection
le monde qui n’a pas été créé une fois
“Les gens de goût nous disent aujourd’hui que Renoir est un grand peintre du XVIIIe siècle. Mais en disant cela ils oublient le Temps et qu’il en a fallu beaucoup, même en plein XIXe, pour que Renoir fût salué grand artiste. Pour réussir à être ainsi reconnus, le peintre original, l’artiste original procèdent à la façon des oculistes. Le traitement par leur peinture, par leur prose, n’est pas toujours agréable. Quand il est terminé, le praticien nous dit : « Maintenant regardez. » Et voici que le monde (qui n’a pas été créé une fois, mais aussi souvent qu’un artiste original est survenu) nous apparaît entièrement différent de l’ancien, mais parfaitement clair. Des femmes passent dans la rue, différentes de celles d’autrefois, puisque ce sont des Renoir, ces Renoir où nous nous refusions jadis à voir des femmes. Les voitures aussi sont des Renoir, et l’eau, et le ciel : nous avons envie de nous promener dans la forêt pareille à celle qui le premier jour nous semblait tout excepté une forêt, et par exemple une tapisserie aux nuances nombreuses mais où manquaient justement les nuances propres aux forêts. Tel est l’univers nouveau et périssable qui vient d’être créé. Il durera jusqu’à la prochaine catastrophe géologique que déchaîneront un nouveau peintre ou un nouvel écrivain originaux.”
Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu