Nel riflettere sui modi attraverso cui si costruisce la conoscenza del Covid 19, anche alla luce ... more Nel riflettere sui modi attraverso cui si costruisce la conoscenza del Covid 19, anche alla luce delle passate, storiche esperienze epidemiche, abbiamo gia avuto modo di osservare come la pandemia sia un ambiente di apprendimento. E questo, sembra, il cardine epistemico per costruire qualche profilo stabile e percio riconoscibile di questa “Grande Crisi”, di la dalle letture frammentarie, aleatorie, locali che se ne possono dare. Dall’osservazione sistematica, per quanto possibile, cosi come dalla concreta sperimentazione di plurime situazioni singolari, stiamo scoprendo molto. Ancora molto rimane da scoprire, vista la particolare natura epidemiologica di Covid 19, che ci propone oltretutto prospettive di convivenza non brevi.
Edgar Degas: from public space to landscape. For a configurative geography of the Belle époque. ... more Edgar Degas: from public space to landscape. For a configurative geography of the Belle époque. – Edgar Degas geographer. The artist “does” geography, that is, he gives territorial meanings to the spaces that he crosses and that he repre- sents. The impressionist painter participates in artialisation, which is an es- sential cultural ingredient in the construction of emotional territoriality. And he also contributed to the strengthening of the spirit of the Belle époque, thanks to the landscaping that the society of the time equipped itself with. Once again proposing geography as the outcome and condition of the territorialization process, in its triple articulation: constitutive, configura- tive and ontological.
En novembre 2018, dans toute la France, des hommes et des femmes se sont mobilises pour dire non ... more En novembre 2018, dans toute la France, des hommes et des femmes se sont mobilises pour dire non a l’augmentation des taxes et enclencher un mouvement unique dans l’Histoire du pays : celui des « gilets jaunes » avec leurs blocages, leurs manifestations et leurs actions. Au fi l des semaines ils se sont appropries les ronds-points des zones peri-urbaines pour en faire les lieux de vie, les places publiques, les medias, les ateliers et les totems d’une autre France. Ensemble ils ont participe a la fabrique d’une utopie concrete ou il est souvent question de fraternite et de fi erte retrouvee. Avec d’autres ils ont etoffe leurs revendications, experimente la democratie, s’engageant en politique tout en se defendant d’en faire. C’est la vie de l’un de ces ronds-points, le parcours des femmes et des hommes qui l’occupent, l’habitent, leurs histoires, leurs productions, leurs rapports avec les autres, leurs espoirs et leurs doutes qui sont racontes ici. De novembre 2018 a avril 2019, cinq mois de la vie d’un groupe en resonnance avec d’autres ailleurs en France et dans le monde, defi lent. Des temoignages et des refl exions pour rendre compte de l’energie d’un groupe et des aspirations de celles et ceux qui un jour ont decide de dire non. Ensemble ils ont reussi le tour de force de rendre visible le combat d’une partie de la population que l’on disait « invisible », imposant certains sujets sur l’agenda politique, amenageant et habitant des lieux aussi inhospitaliers que les rondspoints, developpant un art populaire et contribuant a un nouveau « design democratique ».
África y Europa han construido su modernidad en el nombre de un destino común. Pero las relacione... more África y Europa han construido su modernidad en el nombre de un destino común. Pero las relaciones entre los dos continentes y sus pueblos se han desplegado en formas altamente disimé- tricas. La trata de esclavos, la territorialización de América, la acumulación capitalistica que dio origen a la revolución burguesa en Francia y a la revolución industrial en Inglaterra, han producido, como otra cara, un inmenso sufrimiento para África, el agotamiento demográfico, el empobrecimiento económico, la aniquilación de los procesos de elaboración política en el continente. El colonialismo, por su parte, ha destruido los fundamentos mismos del derecho (ius) en África, sustituyéndolos por el conjunto de las normas importadas de las potencias dominantes y impuestas a las poblaciones locales (lex). Es tiempo para recuperar los fundamentos culturales y las posibilidades económicas y políticas de este destino común, apoyándose en una cooperación finalizada a obtener una alta formación académica y...
A public geography note. Not exactly encouraging signs on ecological transition in Italy. – There... more A public geography note. Not exactly encouraging signs on ecological transition in Italy. – There is quite a lot of narrative around ecological transition (ET) these days, especially with reference to the post-covid 19 economic recovery. In Italy, within the Draghi’s gov, a special Ministry has been established to that purpose. We shall clarify, however, that the ET approach is not only a sequence of actions to fix what was damaged on the territory, or a number of punctual works here and there. It’s rather a wide prospect with multiple sub-sets that will evolve in the long term through a coher-ent set of transcalar measures. Two events oppose this ET idea, both happening in Italy during the course of May 2021: i) the return of the “nuclear discourse”; ii) the re-duction of the Sirente-Velino Regional Park size. We will discuss about this shortly, looking at it from a public geography perspective. In addition, we will summarize some of those critical ele-ments of the ET ongoing imple...
Un libro sorprendente, non c'è che dire, come da tempo non ne leggevo. Di che si tratta? Beh,... more Un libro sorprendente, non c'è che dire, come da tempo non ne leggevo. Di che si tratta? Beh, se vi dicessi che è un libro di storia e critica della letteratura russa contemporanea, potrei avervi detto la verità: ma si tratterebbe di una di quelle "piccole" verità che ne occulta una più "grande". Forse, paradossalmente, è proprio un libro sulla "verità", allora: sul meccanismo di costruzione di una verità staliniana, potremmo dire. No no: non di una verità menzognera, come un comodo ossimoro potrebbe suggerirci; piuttosto, una verità ideologica.
The process of Augustan geography reflects the numerous changes introduced by the Princeps civita... more The process of Augustan geography reflects the numerous changes introduced by the Princeps civitatis's reforms. It embeds the cultural, social, political, economic, technological and religious events of the age with varying degrees of speed and stability. At the same time, Augustan geography is a fundamental condition for the paths of transformation that would assail the late Roman world in every field. Imperial geography inaugurated new territorial profiles on the threefold plane of constitutive, configurative and ontological territoriality. This paper focuses specifically on the ontological content of Augustan geography, pivoting around the birth of Jesus Christ. The troubled but unstoppable advent of Christianity introduced new forms of spatial representation, which gradually permeated the Roman world and outlived it. On the one hand, these new representations influenced territorial acts in their material, symbolic and organizational aspects, and on the other, created the per...
Globalitarian capitalism develops a network of contradictions of geographical nature. Among these... more Globalitarian capitalism develops a network of contradictions of geographical nature. Among these contradictions it may shows the transcalarity heterotopias and competitive homologation, both linked to the dialectic unhomogeneity/homogeneity analyzed by D. Harvey. The capitalism devel-ops a peculiar relation with ontological territoriality through its sacredness. The economic theology (Weber, Benjamin) linked with political theology (Schmitt) and to the state production modes (Lefebvre), lays the foundations for a ontological desaster that meet the ecological desaster, developing the eighteenth contradiction of capitalism.
A workshop was held in Rome in May 2015 based on David Harvey's last book Seventeen Contradic... more A workshop was held in Rome in May 2015 based on David Harvey's last book Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. Considering different research perspectives on the topic, this essay proposes a change of perspective in the analysis of the capitalist relation moving from the concept of contradiction to the concept of crisis. Embracing this novel perspective will only be possible understanding the process of territorialization in its broad articulation. Above all, this will imply to move beyond constitutive territoriality while bringing other articulations of the territoriality into the foreground, especially configurative and ontological territorialities. This allows reflecting on the globalitarian capitalistic relation in a specifically geographical perspective.
Towards a Configurative Geography of the Gilets Jaunes: Weak Values and the New Social Pacts . – ... more Towards a Configurative Geography of the Gilets Jaunes: Weak Values and the New Social Pacts . – This article will focus on the territorial dimension of the Gilets Jaunes, taking as their geographic formation par excellence that of the roundabout. A community, political, emotional space of solidarity. But also a political space, in its own way original and surprising. Why do the “jaunes” create topoi? Why is their geography configurative and emotional, one which cannot be simply mapped? What in the last resort, do the GJ want by occupying the limelight so persistently? Why do they do so and what are they aiming at?
EnglishEssay on the tendency of the quality of the landscape to fall. - Capitalist relation is hi... more EnglishEssay on the tendency of the quality of the landscape to fall. - Capitalist relation is historically developed on constitutive territoriality. It also reduces to the constitutive territoriality other spaces, which have different genesis and developments related to emotionality (configurative territoriality) and sacredness (ontological territoriality). Globalitarian capitalism seems unable to consider these geographic forms that are irreducible to others, and not assessable with metric parameters such as money or distance. Globalitarian capitalism leans toward the impoverishment of landscaping qualities not only throughout the reification of its immaterial elements. It also happens because of the weakening of based populations capacity to recognize themselves as emotional communities. francaisEssai sur la chute tendancielle de la qualite paysagere du territoire. - La relation capitaliste s'organise historiquement sur l'articulation constitutive de la territorialite, en...
Nel riflettere sui modi attraverso cui si costruisce la conoscenza del Covid 19, anche alla luce ... more Nel riflettere sui modi attraverso cui si costruisce la conoscenza del Covid 19, anche alla luce delle passate, storiche esperienze epidemiche, abbiamo gia avuto modo di osservare come la pandemia sia un ambiente di apprendimento. E questo, sembra, il cardine epistemico per costruire qualche profilo stabile e percio riconoscibile di questa “Grande Crisi”, di la dalle letture frammentarie, aleatorie, locali che se ne possono dare. Dall’osservazione sistematica, per quanto possibile, cosi come dalla concreta sperimentazione di plurime situazioni singolari, stiamo scoprendo molto. Ancora molto rimane da scoprire, vista la particolare natura epidemiologica di Covid 19, che ci propone oltretutto prospettive di convivenza non brevi.
Edgar Degas: from public space to landscape. For a configurative geography of the Belle époque. ... more Edgar Degas: from public space to landscape. For a configurative geography of the Belle époque. – Edgar Degas geographer. The artist “does” geography, that is, he gives territorial meanings to the spaces that he crosses and that he repre- sents. The impressionist painter participates in artialisation, which is an es- sential cultural ingredient in the construction of emotional territoriality. And he also contributed to the strengthening of the spirit of the Belle époque, thanks to the landscaping that the society of the time equipped itself with. Once again proposing geography as the outcome and condition of the territorialization process, in its triple articulation: constitutive, configura- tive and ontological.
En novembre 2018, dans toute la France, des hommes et des femmes se sont mobilises pour dire non ... more En novembre 2018, dans toute la France, des hommes et des femmes se sont mobilises pour dire non a l’augmentation des taxes et enclencher un mouvement unique dans l’Histoire du pays : celui des « gilets jaunes » avec leurs blocages, leurs manifestations et leurs actions. Au fi l des semaines ils se sont appropries les ronds-points des zones peri-urbaines pour en faire les lieux de vie, les places publiques, les medias, les ateliers et les totems d’une autre France. Ensemble ils ont participe a la fabrique d’une utopie concrete ou il est souvent question de fraternite et de fi erte retrouvee. Avec d’autres ils ont etoffe leurs revendications, experimente la democratie, s’engageant en politique tout en se defendant d’en faire. C’est la vie de l’un de ces ronds-points, le parcours des femmes et des hommes qui l’occupent, l’habitent, leurs histoires, leurs productions, leurs rapports avec les autres, leurs espoirs et leurs doutes qui sont racontes ici. De novembre 2018 a avril 2019, cinq mois de la vie d’un groupe en resonnance avec d’autres ailleurs en France et dans le monde, defi lent. Des temoignages et des refl exions pour rendre compte de l’energie d’un groupe et des aspirations de celles et ceux qui un jour ont decide de dire non. Ensemble ils ont reussi le tour de force de rendre visible le combat d’une partie de la population que l’on disait « invisible », imposant certains sujets sur l’agenda politique, amenageant et habitant des lieux aussi inhospitaliers que les rondspoints, developpant un art populaire et contribuant a un nouveau « design democratique ».
África y Europa han construido su modernidad en el nombre de un destino común. Pero las relacione... more África y Europa han construido su modernidad en el nombre de un destino común. Pero las relaciones entre los dos continentes y sus pueblos se han desplegado en formas altamente disimé- tricas. La trata de esclavos, la territorialización de América, la acumulación capitalistica que dio origen a la revolución burguesa en Francia y a la revolución industrial en Inglaterra, han producido, como otra cara, un inmenso sufrimiento para África, el agotamiento demográfico, el empobrecimiento económico, la aniquilación de los procesos de elaboración política en el continente. El colonialismo, por su parte, ha destruido los fundamentos mismos del derecho (ius) en África, sustituyéndolos por el conjunto de las normas importadas de las potencias dominantes y impuestas a las poblaciones locales (lex). Es tiempo para recuperar los fundamentos culturales y las posibilidades económicas y políticas de este destino común, apoyándose en una cooperación finalizada a obtener una alta formación académica y...
A public geography note. Not exactly encouraging signs on ecological transition in Italy. – There... more A public geography note. Not exactly encouraging signs on ecological transition in Italy. – There is quite a lot of narrative around ecological transition (ET) these days, especially with reference to the post-covid 19 economic recovery. In Italy, within the Draghi’s gov, a special Ministry has been established to that purpose. We shall clarify, however, that the ET approach is not only a sequence of actions to fix what was damaged on the territory, or a number of punctual works here and there. It’s rather a wide prospect with multiple sub-sets that will evolve in the long term through a coher-ent set of transcalar measures. Two events oppose this ET idea, both happening in Italy during the course of May 2021: i) the return of the “nuclear discourse”; ii) the re-duction of the Sirente-Velino Regional Park size. We will discuss about this shortly, looking at it from a public geography perspective. In addition, we will summarize some of those critical ele-ments of the ET ongoing imple...
Un libro sorprendente, non c'è che dire, come da tempo non ne leggevo. Di che si tratta? Beh,... more Un libro sorprendente, non c'è che dire, come da tempo non ne leggevo. Di che si tratta? Beh, se vi dicessi che è un libro di storia e critica della letteratura russa contemporanea, potrei avervi detto la verità: ma si tratterebbe di una di quelle "piccole" verità che ne occulta una più "grande". Forse, paradossalmente, è proprio un libro sulla "verità", allora: sul meccanismo di costruzione di una verità staliniana, potremmo dire. No no: non di una verità menzognera, come un comodo ossimoro potrebbe suggerirci; piuttosto, una verità ideologica.
The process of Augustan geography reflects the numerous changes introduced by the Princeps civita... more The process of Augustan geography reflects the numerous changes introduced by the Princeps civitatis's reforms. It embeds the cultural, social, political, economic, technological and religious events of the age with varying degrees of speed and stability. At the same time, Augustan geography is a fundamental condition for the paths of transformation that would assail the late Roman world in every field. Imperial geography inaugurated new territorial profiles on the threefold plane of constitutive, configurative and ontological territoriality. This paper focuses specifically on the ontological content of Augustan geography, pivoting around the birth of Jesus Christ. The troubled but unstoppable advent of Christianity introduced new forms of spatial representation, which gradually permeated the Roman world and outlived it. On the one hand, these new representations influenced territorial acts in their material, symbolic and organizational aspects, and on the other, created the per...
Globalitarian capitalism develops a network of contradictions of geographical nature. Among these... more Globalitarian capitalism develops a network of contradictions of geographical nature. Among these contradictions it may shows the transcalarity heterotopias and competitive homologation, both linked to the dialectic unhomogeneity/homogeneity analyzed by D. Harvey. The capitalism devel-ops a peculiar relation with ontological territoriality through its sacredness. The economic theology (Weber, Benjamin) linked with political theology (Schmitt) and to the state production modes (Lefebvre), lays the foundations for a ontological desaster that meet the ecological desaster, developing the eighteenth contradiction of capitalism.
A workshop was held in Rome in May 2015 based on David Harvey's last book Seventeen Contradic... more A workshop was held in Rome in May 2015 based on David Harvey's last book Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. Considering different research perspectives on the topic, this essay proposes a change of perspective in the analysis of the capitalist relation moving from the concept of contradiction to the concept of crisis. Embracing this novel perspective will only be possible understanding the process of territorialization in its broad articulation. Above all, this will imply to move beyond constitutive territoriality while bringing other articulations of the territoriality into the foreground, especially configurative and ontological territorialities. This allows reflecting on the globalitarian capitalistic relation in a specifically geographical perspective.
Towards a Configurative Geography of the Gilets Jaunes: Weak Values and the New Social Pacts . – ... more Towards a Configurative Geography of the Gilets Jaunes: Weak Values and the New Social Pacts . – This article will focus on the territorial dimension of the Gilets Jaunes, taking as their geographic formation par excellence that of the roundabout. A community, political, emotional space of solidarity. But also a political space, in its own way original and surprising. Why do the “jaunes” create topoi? Why is their geography configurative and emotional, one which cannot be simply mapped? What in the last resort, do the GJ want by occupying the limelight so persistently? Why do they do so and what are they aiming at?
EnglishEssay on the tendency of the quality of the landscape to fall. - Capitalist relation is hi... more EnglishEssay on the tendency of the quality of the landscape to fall. - Capitalist relation is historically developed on constitutive territoriality. It also reduces to the constitutive territoriality other spaces, which have different genesis and developments related to emotionality (configurative territoriality) and sacredness (ontological territoriality). Globalitarian capitalism seems unable to consider these geographic forms that are irreducible to others, and not assessable with metric parameters such as money or distance. Globalitarian capitalism leans toward the impoverishment of landscaping qualities not only throughout the reification of its immaterial elements. It also happens because of the weakening of based populations capacity to recognize themselves as emotional communities. francaisEssai sur la chute tendancielle de la qualite paysagere du territoire. - La relation capitaliste s'organise historiquement sur l'articulation constitutive de la territorialite, en...
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