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Leonardo Distaso, Imma De Pascale — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

L’overtourism come momento dell’attuale industria culturale

Leonardo V. Distaso — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A reflection on some aspects of mass tourism in regard to some of Adorno’s remarks on the subject of leisure and the reification of cultural heritage within the processes of the cultural industry. The bourgeois form of life that develops in the phase of late capitalism has transformed the tourist experience into an ideological confirmation of the forms of domination that mark the territories of culture along with the socio-economic ones. “The touristic man” becomes one more form of the contemporary consumer.

Il turismo come regime an-estetico

Imma De Pascale — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article proposes a reflection on mass tourism in relation to “art cities” taken by storm by millions of visitors intent on capturing on camera their presence in places conventionally recognized as having cultural value. In particular, the object of investigation is the mechanisms inflicted by capitalist culture that deceives the tourist into an aesthetic experience free from the constraints of everyday life. The purpose is to highlight the dark side of the tourism industry: tourism, as we know it today, is a vehicle of social control, an institutional vent that the capitalist system grants citizens as a reward to better endure oppression.

L’alienazione estetica nell’overtourism e nel turismo 4.0

Roberto Terrosi — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper examines how contemporary tourism practices, particularly overtourism and Tourism 4.0, represent a profound alienation of the aesthetic experience. Starting from the historical origins of tourism in the Grand Tour tradition, we analyze how the aesthetic dimension of travel has undergone multiple stages of alienation, from the initial commodification of cultural experiences to the current situation where the experience itself becomes a commodity. The article argues that while overtourism and Tourism 4.0 appear to be opposing phenomena, they are two sides of the same coin, both resulting from a degradation of the aesthetic dimension despite their connection to experiences that maintain a fundamental relationship with aesthetics. Through a theoretical framework that draws from classical alienation theory (from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School), we demonstrate how the current tourism industry not only alienates the aesthetic experience but reduces it to waste, transforming portions of tourists’ lives into mere packaging devoid of the promised emotional content. This analysis reveals how the commodification of experience in contemporary tourism represents a new frontier in the alienation of human experience.

Benvenuti nella città delle attrazioni

Dario Bonifacio — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The phenomenon of global mass tourism is strongly affected by a complex of socio-cultural dynamics that can be summarized under the term “Disneyfication”. The modern tourist is essentially a consumer of emotions and experiences to be documented, and his view of art, landscape, and history is deeply shaped by a set of icons and desires acquired through permanent exposure to the forms of the entertainment industry. As the historic center acquires the functions and appearance of a theme park, i.e., a space apart from the rest of the city, protected by a series of control devices and stocked with a variety of paid family entertainment products centered on edutainment technology, the new urban redevelopment projects materialize the utopia of a perfect world, where luxury and well-being meet the needs of an individual in search of personal fulfillment.

Il turismo di massa “come ornamento” nella prospettiva critica di Siegfried Kracauer. Con due brevi focus cinematografici

Domenica Spinosa — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article aims to address the issue of modern tourist travel, by first, reconsidering Siegfried Kracauer’s critical positions from an article written in 1925. Kracauer insists that among the goals of bourgeois society, which tends more and more towards capitalism and the perfection of the means of mass production, is a veritable transformation of both the form and the content of travel, which is reduced to a mere and simple movement from one place to another. The Kracauer’s theses is also useful as premise for the second part of the article, in which he proposes a brief analysis of two films in which tourist travel is a central experience: WestWorld (1973) by Micheal Crichton and Le vacanze intelligenti (1978) by Alberto Sordi. The filmic occasion attempts to show how cinema has tried to narrate the subject in question from a critical-social point of view.

‘Io ho abbastanza spirito per il Sud’: Nietzsche tra Napoli e Sorrento

Andrea Bocchetti — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article aims to illustrate, through the story of the events surrounding Nietzsche’s first trip to Italy, the key moments that marked the German philosopher’s distancing from his ‘master’ Wagner. Between the summer and early autumn of 1876, the two met first in Bayreuth, then in Sorrento: this brief period was enough for a long and deep friendship to come to an end, due to the divergent spiritual paths the two took from that moment on.

Per un’estetica del turismo gastronomico: dall’autenticità dell’esperienza turistica alla qualità dell’esperienza estetica

Pietro Bertino — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper explores the phenomenon of mass tourism from an aestheticological standpoint, focusing specifically on gastronomic tourism as a case study. The goal is to demonstrate that the tourist experience is not merely about the diverse range of activities associated with tourism, but rather reflects a broader framework for understanding experience, deeply rooted in modern Western thought. The emergence of philosophical aesthetics shares with tourism not only a chronological overlap but also the modern drive to epistemologize reality. From the Grand Tour to its massified contemporary counterpart and the current trend of compulsive gastronomic consumption, the modern subject seeks to know—or recognize —the world, deriving social benefits from this knowledge. Thus, it can be argued that tourist experiences do not inherently possess aesthetic value; rather, their aesthetic potential is subordinated to a (re)cognitive imperative. In addition, we must question whether tourism is evolving into a perceptual habitus that shapes our overall mode of experience.

Tra le maglie della rete. Aree interne, anarchivio e pedagogie radicali per un’estetica del capitale turistico

Paolo Bosca — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article reflects on the ways in which the phenomenon of archiving cultural elements, which is essential for the acquisition of touristic capital in the global market, is transformed in the context of so-called inland areas. I will try to highlight how the idea of the anarchive, in the elaboration offered by The SenseLab, is particularly fertile for these kinds of areas. Alongside this practical-theoretical device, I will take some elements of the Global Tools research, carried out in the 1970s by a group of architects and theorists who, provocatively abandoning cities, turned to rural areas to configure a pedagogical practice that coincided with life, moving away from any idea of detached fruition. In conclusion, I will offer an example of the anarchiviation of inland areas: Reminescenza by the collective Spazio Vacante. A concrete cue for the creation of tourist surplus value rooted in the life that flows even where it seems to have stopped long ago.

Il teatro greco e le basi logiche della persona

Marcello La Matina — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this article, I would like to formulate a theory of the πρόσωπον by investigating the role Greek drama may have played in laying the foundations, not only conceptual and expressive, but above all logical, of the notion of the person. The Attic drama, flourished in classical Antiquity, took on the task of translating the content of traditional myths into a language suitable for representation. This task could only be accomplished by adapting the expressive resources of the available language: mimetic gestures. It was necessary to translate the mythical Doing of traditional heroes into an action that would show its structure, reasons and, at the same time, its genesis and life. The central role in this work was assumed by the πρόσωπον. The term, which had a long and varied fortune, indicated both the mask and the person of a myth, and those of the verb, but above all it indicated the persons involved in the enunciation. By virtue of this semantic polysemy, the πρόσωπον was able to operate the catalysis necessary for a content analysis of traditional tales and for the transformation of the diegetic-mythic Doing (which is always attributive, because it is linked to the Hero’s proper name) into a mimetic-dramatic Doing (on principle capable of stimulating a ‘polemical’ syntax). It is from the theatre and its ‘camouflage’ – and especially through the contribution of the philosophical and theological speculation of the Greek Fathers – that the path starts leading to the modern notion of person.

Multistability as virtuality. Technology as a layer of the flesh

Alessio Martino — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Il concetto di multistabilità rappresenta uno dei punti teorici più importanti nella postfenomenologia, attraverso il quale è possibile intendere la tecnologia come né neutrale né orientata in modo deterministico. Uno strumento, essendo multistabile, si apre a una molteplicità imprevedibile di configurazioni, senza essere caratterizzato da un’essenza metafisica. Questo contributo prende in considerazione alcuni aspetti critici della multistabilità, sostenendo che essa non può trovare un fondamento adeguato all’interno di una filosofia incentrata esclusivamente sull’analisi del contesto. Per offrire un’alternativa a questa impasse, si approfondisce l’ontologia della carne sviluppata da Merleau-Ponty, fornendo un’interpretazione che ne evidenzia la virtualità, intendendo la carne come deiscenza del significato. Attraverso il pensiero di Merleau-Ponty, l’obiettivo è delineare un quadro concettuale più ampio su cui radicare il concetto di multistabilità, senza rinchiuderlo in un fondamento sostanzialistico nel senso classico.

La ricerca dell’unità: idealismo ed estetica nel giovane Dewey

Matteo Cherubini — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the intellectual and philosophical influences that shaped Dewey’s formative years (1859-1887), particularly with regard to the American romantic and Hegelian currents of his era. To this end, following a concise introduction outlining the interpretative challenge of the enduring Hegelian influence in Dewey’s philosophy, the article will proceed to examine the various stages of Dewey’s education, tracing his philosophical and personal movements between the two universities he attended (the University of Vermont and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore) and the encounters he had with prominent American idealists and romantics (J. Torrey, Harris, Morris). The subsequent section of the article is dedicated to an enquiry into the identification of aesthetic themes in two seminal works by Dewey: Kant and the Philosophical Method (1884) and Psychology (1887). The ultimate objective is to demonstrate how a hybrid approach to Dewey’s early work (combining historical-biographical and theoretical elements), inspired by the theory of the permanent Hegelian deposit, can generate novel possibilities for interpreting Dewey’s aesthetics.

“Das natürliche Phänomen” and its fourth co-ordinate. The kinship between the phenomenological doctrines of Goethe and Florensky

Jacopo Rossi Angelini — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

L’obiettivo di questo scritto è quello di definire, sulla base dei numerosi riferimenti a Goethe presenti nell’opera di Florenskij, la somiglianza tra alcuni presupposti fenomenologici della loro ricerca filosofica, dimostrandone la relazione strutturale. Questo testo si basa quindi sull’avversione teorica di Florenskij per l’istante chiuso (момент) e sull’avversione di Goethe per il puro dato di fatto (das Faktum): la comune diffidenza verso la vuota puntualità di questo dato fornisce un collegamento tra il modus investigandi dei due autori e, di conseguenza, tra la definizione dell’oggetto a cui è orientata la loro ricerca. Diventa così possibile mostrare che proprio l’aspetto vitale del fenomeno, che lo pone in incessante connessione con ciò che è altro da sé, è la chiave adottata da entrambi gli Autori per mostrare come il fenomeno percepito sia in realtà concepito come una manifestazione necessariamente aperta e vivente all’interno della stessa ricerca che cerca di indagarne il senso.

La costruzione del visibile: sperimentazioni luminose tra arte e scienza

Federica Porcheddu — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper explores the turning point made by twentieth-century experimental photography through the research of Man Ray (Electricité photograms and series) and László Moholy-Nagy (Light-Space Modulator), in which light is conceived as an active principle in image formation. He then delves deeper into the thought of György Kepes at the New Bauhaus Institute in Chicago, where in the volumes Language of Vision (1944) and The New Landscape in Art and Science (1956) he combines Gestalt psychology, scientific methods and creativity, proposing light as a generating principle of form and meaning. Analyzing photograms, kinetic installations, and macroradiographs, the article demonstrates how light shapes perception and symbols, proposing a multidisciplinary method for navigating the algorithmic “invisible” of the contemporary digital landscape.

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