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Una sorta di familiarità con la fine del mondo: Alvaro, Morselli, Volponi, Cassola e l’Utopia in Italia nel Novecento
2020Co-Authors: Pellegrino GiuliaAbstract:Il pensiero utopico, attitudine e completamento della mente umana soprattutto a partire dall\u2019et\ue0 moderna, ha visto una significativa trasformazione nel corso del XX secolo. Questa nuova fase \ue8 caratterizzata dall\u2019opposizione tra un\u2019Utopia problematica, che sembrava dapprima aver raggiunto una soddisfacente espressione socio-politica, e una progressiva delusione che porta all\u2019affermazione della distopia come nuovo genere letterario. Sebbene la distopia possa essere considerata a lungo come la narrazione della modernit\ue0, gli ultimi decenni hanno mostrato come essa possa essere superata. Di fatto la coscienza collettiva, priva di qualsiasi residuo delle utopie passate, depotenzia il valore rivoluzionario della distopia, tanto pi\uf9 quando le ansie millenarie che la fondavano rischiano di materializzarsi: la distruzione della vita, del pianeta e della civilt\ue0 ha gi\ue0 superato il peggio possibile prefigurato dalla distopia. A partire da tale quadro, questa tesi di dottorato analizza come la letteratura italiana ha affrontato il passaggio dalla distopia al genere apocalittico attraverso quattro autori novecenteschi: Corrado Alvaro e la sua distopia dispotica; il mondo solipsistico di Guido Morselli; la critica alla fabbrica e al capitalismo di Paolo Volponi; la terra desolata descritta dall\u2019ultimo Carlo Cassola. \uc8 importante notare che la cultura italiana del Novecento non era molto incline ad accettare ed accogliere la forma letteraria distopica e i suoi sottogeneri come, ad esempio, l\u2019ucronia. Proprio questa resistenza rende interessante tracciare un\u2019ipotetica evoluzione, non solo legata alla storia italiana ma anche alle trasformazioni del pensiero occidentale. La ricerca condotta considera le relazioni tra Utopia e distopia nei quattro autori esaminati come radicate nella loro biografia, caratterizzate da diverse strategie di straniamento e centrata su due figure ricorrenti, lo straniero e il reduce. L\u2019esito \ue8 un peculiare approccio alla persistenza e al fallimento dell\u2019Utopia da un lato, e all\u2019emergere della distopia dall\u2019altro, fino all\u2019apocalisse come rappresentazione estrema e allo stesso tempo svuotamento del genere distopico.Utopian thinking as complement of human mind, especially in Modern Age, reached a major landmark in the 20th century. This period was characterised by the opposition between a problematic Utopia, which seemed at first to have found a perfect socio-political expression, and a progressive discontent whose result was the affirmation of Dystopia as a new literary genre. Although Dystopia can be considered for a long time as the narration of modernity, the last decades have shown how it can be outdated. Actually, collective consciousness, void of any fragment of past Utopias, deprives Dystopia of its revolutionary value. Futhermore, nowadays the millenary anxieties at the basis of Dystopia risk to materialize: the actual destruction of human life, planet and civilization has already overcome the \u2018worst possible\u2019 of Dystopia. Departing from such overview, this Ph.D thesis analyses how Italian literature faced the turn from Dystopia to the advent of the Apocalyptic genre through four writers in the 20th century: Corrado Alvaro and his \u2018despotic dystopia\u2019; Guido Morselli\u2019s solipsistic world; Paolo Volponi\u2019s critique of factory and capitalism; and the \u201cwaste land\u201d described by the last Carlo Cassola. Notably, Italian culture at the time was not very prone to accept and implement the dystopian literary form and its various sub-genres (such as Uchronia). Therefore, it is interesting to trace a hypothetical evolution that not only is deeply rooted in national history but also reflects current developments throughout Western thinking. The research carried out takes in consideration the relationships between Utopia and dystopia in the four writers as rooted in the authors\u2019s biography, characterized by different modalities of estrangement and centred on the recurrent figures of the stranger and the homecomer. The result is a peculiar approach to the persistence and failure of Utopia on the one hand and the emergence of dystopia on the other, to the point of Apocalypse as extreme representation of the genre and its concurrent weakening
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Una sorta di familiarità con la fine del mondo: Alvaro, Morselli, Volponi, Cassola e l’Utopia in Italia nel Novecento
2020Co-Authors: Pellegrino GiuliaAbstract:Il pensiero utopico, attitudine e completamento della mente umana soprattutto a partire dall’età moderna, ha visto una significativa trasformazione nel corso del XX secolo. Questa nuova fase è caratterizzata dall’opposizione tra un’Utopia problematica, che sembrava dapprima aver raggiunto una soddisfacente espressione socio-politica, e una progressiva delusione che porta all’affermazione della distopia come nuovo genere letterario. Sebbene la distopia possa essere considerata a lungo come la narrazione della modernità, gli ultimi decenni hanno mostrato come essa possa essere superata. Di fatto la coscienza collettiva, priva di qualsiasi residuo delle utopie passate, depotenzia il valore rivoluzionario della distopia, tanto più quando le ansie millenarie che la fondavano rischiano di materializzarsi: la distruzione della vita, del pianeta e della civiltà ha già superato il peggio possibile prefigurato dalla distopia. A partire da tale quadro, questa tesi di dottorato analizza come la letteratura italiana ha affrontato il passaggio dalla distopia al genere apocalittico attraverso quattro autori novecenteschi: Corrado Alvaro e la sua distopia dispotica; il mondo solipsistico di Guido Morselli; la critica alla fabbrica e al capitalismo di Paolo Volponi; la terra desolata descritta dall’ultimo Carlo Cassola. È importante notare che la cultura italiana del Novecento non era molto incline ad accettare ed accogliere la forma letteraria distopica e i suoi sottogeneri come, ad esempio, l’ucronia. Proprio questa resistenza rende interessante tracciare un’ipotetica evoluzione, non solo legata alla storia italiana ma anche alle trasformazioni del pensiero occidentale. La ricerca condotta considera le relazioni tra Utopia e distopia nei quattro autori esaminati come radicate nella loro biografia, caratterizzate da diverse strategie di straniamento e centrata su due figure ricorrenti, lo straniero e il reduce. L’esito è un peculiare approccio alla persistenza e al fallimento dell’Utopia da un lato, e all’emergere della distopia dall’altro, fino all’apocalisse come rappresentazione estrema e allo stesso tempo svuotamento del genere distopico.Utopian thinking as complement of human mind, especially in Modern Age, reached a major landmark in the 20th century. This period was characterised by the opposition between a problematic Utopia, which seemed at first to have found a perfect socio-political expression, and a progressive discontent whose result was the affirmation of Dystopia as a new literary genre. Although Dystopia can be considered for a long time as the narration of modernity, the last decades have shown how it can be outdated. Actually, collective consciousness, void of any fragment of past Utopias, deprives Dystopia of its revolutionary value. Futhermore, nowadays the millenary anxieties at the basis of Dystopia risk to materialize: the actual destruction of human life, planet and civilization has already overcome the ‘worst possible’ of Dystopia. Departing from such overview, this Ph.D thesis analyses how Italian literature faced the turn from Dystopia to the advent of the Apocalyptic genre through four writers in the 20th century: Corrado Alvaro and his ‘despotic dystopia’; Guido Morselli’s solipsistic world; Paolo Volponi’s critique of factory and capitalism; and the “waste land” described by the last Carlo Cassola. Notably, Italian culture at the time was not very prone to accept and implement the dystopian literary form and its various sub-genres (such as Uchronia). Therefore, it is interesting to trace a hypothetical evolution that not only is deeply rooted in national history but also reflects current developments throughout Western thinking. The research carried out takes in consideration the relationships between Utopia and dystopia in the four writers as rooted in the authors’s biography, characterized by different modalities of estrangement and centred on the recurrent figures of the stranger and the homecomer. The result is a peculiar approach to the persistence and failure of Utopia on the one hand and the emergence of dystopia on the other, to the point of Apocalypse as extreme representation of the genre and its concurrent weakening
Hanmer-lloyd Stuart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Critiquing a Utopian idea of sustainable consumption: A post-capitalism perspective
2021Co-Authors: Dermody Janine, Koenig-lewis Nicole, Zhao Lifen, Hanmer-lloyd StuartAbstract:This paper proposes and critiques the idea of a post-capitalism sustainable consumption Utopia to improve the ecological and human wellbeing of the planet. Such a notion can stimulate new imaginative thinking on a future sustainable world not dominated by neoliberalism. It can also strengthen SDG-12: responsible consumption and production. To do so, it examines the influence of pro-environmental self-identity, market-based barriers, and knowledge barriers on sustainable consumption buying, product lifetime extension, and environmental activism. Survey data was collected via online panels in Sweden (n=504) and the USA (n=1,017). Richly varied and complex findings emerge supporting the merit of this Utopian idea. In particular, the importance of pro-environmental self-identity. This study illustrates how the post-capitalism notions of radical incrementalism and people power can initiate change using the civic, political, and environmental activism in sustainable consumption behaviours. Emerging implications for the viability of SDG-12 are also considered. This work offers rich opportunities for further research
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Critiquing a Utopian idea of Sustainable Consumption: A Post-Capitalism Perspective
'SAGE Publications', 2021Co-Authors: Dermody Janine, Koenig-lewis Nicole, Lifen Anita, Hanmer-lloyd StuartAbstract:This paper proposes and critiques the idea of a post-capitalism sustainable consumption Utopia to improve the ecological and human wellbeing of the planet. Such a notion can stimulate new imaginative thinking on a future sustainable world not dominated by neoliberalism. It can also strengthen SDG-12: responsible consumption and production. To do so, it examines the influence of pro-environmental self-identity, market-based barriers, and knowledge barriers on sustainable consumption buying, product lifetime extension, and environmental activism. Survey data was collected via online panels in Sweden (n=504) and the USA (n=1,017). Richly varied and complex findings emerge supporting the merit of this Utopian idea. In particular, the importance of pro-environmental self-identity. This study illustrates how post-capitalism radical incrementalism and people power can initiate change using the civic, political, and environmental activism in sustainable consumption behaviours. Emerging implications for the viability of SDG-12 are also considered. This work offers rich opportunities for further research
Dermody Janine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Critiquing a Utopian idea of sustainable consumption: A post-capitalism perspective
2021Co-Authors: Dermody Janine, Koenig-lewis Nicole, Zhao Lifen, Hanmer-lloyd StuartAbstract:This paper proposes and critiques the idea of a post-capitalism sustainable consumption Utopia to improve the ecological and human wellbeing of the planet. Such a notion can stimulate new imaginative thinking on a future sustainable world not dominated by neoliberalism. It can also strengthen SDG-12: responsible consumption and production. To do so, it examines the influence of pro-environmental self-identity, market-based barriers, and knowledge barriers on sustainable consumption buying, product lifetime extension, and environmental activism. Survey data was collected via online panels in Sweden (n=504) and the USA (n=1,017). Richly varied and complex findings emerge supporting the merit of this Utopian idea. In particular, the importance of pro-environmental self-identity. This study illustrates how the post-capitalism notions of radical incrementalism and people power can initiate change using the civic, political, and environmental activism in sustainable consumption behaviours. Emerging implications for the viability of SDG-12 are also considered. This work offers rich opportunities for further research
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Critiquing a Utopian idea of Sustainable Consumption: A Post-Capitalism Perspective
'SAGE Publications', 2021Co-Authors: Dermody Janine, Koenig-lewis Nicole, Lifen Anita, Hanmer-lloyd StuartAbstract:This paper proposes and critiques the idea of a post-capitalism sustainable consumption Utopia to improve the ecological and human wellbeing of the planet. Such a notion can stimulate new imaginative thinking on a future sustainable world not dominated by neoliberalism. It can also strengthen SDG-12: responsible consumption and production. To do so, it examines the influence of pro-environmental self-identity, market-based barriers, and knowledge barriers on sustainable consumption buying, product lifetime extension, and environmental activism. Survey data was collected via online panels in Sweden (n=504) and the USA (n=1,017). Richly varied and complex findings emerge supporting the merit of this Utopian idea. In particular, the importance of pro-environmental self-identity. This study illustrates how post-capitalism radical incrementalism and people power can initiate change using the civic, political, and environmental activism in sustainable consumption behaviours. Emerging implications for the viability of SDG-12 are also considered. This work offers rich opportunities for further research
Souza, Luis Eugenio - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Uma protopia para a universidade brasileira
'Education Policy Analysis Archives', 2020Co-Authors: Almeida-filho Naomar, Souza, Luis EugenioAbstract:From a historical-critical perspective and based on the semantic series Utopia-atopy-dystopia-protopy, we analyse the “Future-se”, a project presented by the Ministry of Education of Brazil for the reform of federal universities. From this perspective, firstly, we propose the characterization of two distinct models of the university, which emerged at the moment of the consolidation of the political power of the bourgeoisie, one of them being Utopian and the other atopic. Secondly, we describe the historical evolution of the university in Brazil, until arriving at the “Future-se” proposal. Finally, we present an alternative proposal for university reform as part of the strategy of agglutination of forces to resist the “Future-se” and advance towards strengthening of the university as a necessary element for the sovereign, inclusive and sustainable development of the country.Desde una perspectiva histórico-crítica, y basado en la serie semántica Utopia-atopia-distopía-protopia, se analiza el proyecto "Future-se" presentado por el Ministerio de Educación de Brasil para la reforma de las universidades federales. Desde esta perspectiva, en primer lugar, proponemos la caracterización de dos modelos distintos de Universidad, que surgieron en el momento de la consolidación del poder político de la burguesía, uno de ellos utópico y el otro atópico. En segundo lugar, describimos la evolución histórica de la Universidad en Brasil, hasta llegar a la propuesta “Future-se”. Finalmente, presentamos una propuesta alternativa para la reforma universitaria como parte de la estrategia de aglutinación de fuerzas para resistir el "Future-se" y avanzar hacia el fortalecimiento de la Universidad como un elemento necesario para el desarrollo soberano, inclusivo y sostenible del país.Numa perspectiva histórico-crítica e com base na série semântica Utopia-atopia-distopia-protopia, analisa-se o projeto Future-se apresentado pelo Ministério da Educação do Brasil para a reforma das Universidades Federais. Nessa perspectiva, em primeiro lugar, propõe-se a caracterização de dois modelos distintos de Universidade, surgidos no momento de consolidação do poder político da burguesia, sendo um desses modelos utópico e o outro, atópico. Em segundo lugar, descreve-se a evolução histórica da Universidade no Brasil, até chegar à proposta do Future-se. Por fim, apresenta-se uma proposta alternativa de reforma universitária, como parte da estratégia de aglutinação de forças para resistir ao Future-se e avançar no sentido do fortalecimento da Universidade como elemento necessário ao desenvolvimento soberano, inclusivo e sustentável do país
Koenig-lewis Nicole - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Critiquing a Utopian idea of sustainable consumption: A post-capitalism perspective
2021Co-Authors: Dermody Janine, Koenig-lewis Nicole, Zhao Lifen, Hanmer-lloyd StuartAbstract:This paper proposes and critiques the idea of a post-capitalism sustainable consumption Utopia to improve the ecological and human wellbeing of the planet. Such a notion can stimulate new imaginative thinking on a future sustainable world not dominated by neoliberalism. It can also strengthen SDG-12: responsible consumption and production. To do so, it examines the influence of pro-environmental self-identity, market-based barriers, and knowledge barriers on sustainable consumption buying, product lifetime extension, and environmental activism. Survey data was collected via online panels in Sweden (n=504) and the USA (n=1,017). Richly varied and complex findings emerge supporting the merit of this Utopian idea. In particular, the importance of pro-environmental self-identity. This study illustrates how the post-capitalism notions of radical incrementalism and people power can initiate change using the civic, political, and environmental activism in sustainable consumption behaviours. Emerging implications for the viability of SDG-12 are also considered. This work offers rich opportunities for further research
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Critiquing a Utopian idea of Sustainable Consumption: A Post-Capitalism Perspective
'SAGE Publications', 2021Co-Authors: Dermody Janine, Koenig-lewis Nicole, Lifen Anita, Hanmer-lloyd StuartAbstract:This paper proposes and critiques the idea of a post-capitalism sustainable consumption Utopia to improve the ecological and human wellbeing of the planet. Such a notion can stimulate new imaginative thinking on a future sustainable world not dominated by neoliberalism. It can also strengthen SDG-12: responsible consumption and production. To do so, it examines the influence of pro-environmental self-identity, market-based barriers, and knowledge barriers on sustainable consumption buying, product lifetime extension, and environmental activism. Survey data was collected via online panels in Sweden (n=504) and the USA (n=1,017). Richly varied and complex findings emerge supporting the merit of this Utopian idea. In particular, the importance of pro-environmental self-identity. This study illustrates how post-capitalism radical incrementalism and people power can initiate change using the civic, political, and environmental activism in sustainable consumption behaviours. Emerging implications for the viability of SDG-12 are also considered. This work offers rich opportunities for further research
