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Routledge eBooks, Jul 21, 2022
International Gramsci Journal, 2021
This is the abstract of a review by Roberto Dainotto of the book by Francesca Antonini, Caesarism... more This is the abstract of a review by Roberto Dainotto of the book by Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci. Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity (Leiden and Boston, Brill 2020).
Narrativa, 2017
Introduction: The Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health crisis and surg... more Introduction: The Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health crisis and surgeons are at increased occupational risk of contracting COVID-19. The impact of the disease on prevalent general surgical practice is uncertain and continues to evolve. Aims/Objectives: To study the impact of COVID-19 on general surgical practice in India and the future implications of the pandemic. Methods: A survey questionnaire was designed and electronically circulated one month after India entered a national lockdown during covid-19 pandemic, among members of Indian Association of Gastro-intestinal Endosurgeons (IAGES), a surgical association with nearly eight thousand members. Survey questions pertaining to pre-COVID era surgical practices, impact on current practice and nancial implications were asked. Responses were collected and statistically analyzed. Results: 153 surgeons completed the survey, of which only 9.2% were females. 41% surgeons were more than 20 years into practice. 36.6% were into private practice at multiple hospitals (free-lancers). 41.8% had mainly laparoscopic practice with mean outpatient consultation of 26 patients/day and elective surgeries of 43 cases /month prior to lockdown. Post lock-down, daily outpatient consults reduced to 4 patients/day and 77% had not performed even a single elective procedure. 52% were taking hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as chemoprophylaxis. 56.9% stated they are using personal protective equipment for all cases while 71.5% stated there are insu cient guidelines for future surgical practice in terms of safety. 52% surgeons stated a drop of more than 75% of their monthly income while 22% faced 50-75% reduction. 33% of respondents own a hospital and are expecting a monthly nancial liability of 2.25 Million rupees (nearly 30,000 US dollars). Conclusion: COVID 19 has led to a drastic reduction in outpatient and elective surgical practices. There is a de nite need for guidelines regarding safety for future surgical practices and solutions to overcome the nancial liabilities in the near future.
Through a close reading of Q1§47, “Hegel and Associationism”, the essay delves into a dominant pr... more Through a close reading of Q1§47, “Hegel and Associationism”, the essay delves into a dominant problematic of the Prison Notebooks: how to organize a revolutionary mass movements when the modern “integral State” establishes its hegemony by organizing public opinion and disorganizing dissent? The question entails, from a Gramscian perspective, the possibility of resolving and organically synthesizing a series of antinomies that State hegemony tends to keep separated, both conceptually and practically: coercion and consent; intellectuals and masses; theory and practice.
The present essay understands the work of the so-called 'late Lukács' as an attem... more The present essay understands the work of the so-called 'late Lukács' as an attempt to answer, through the tools of historical materialism, the very same problematics already raised in the writings of the 'early' Lukács. Focusing primarily on the issue of historicist relativism gleaned first in the Theory of the Novel, the essay argues for a dialectical Lukács intent in avoiding the pratfalls, to paraphrase from History and Class Consciousness, of a dogmatic metaphysics on the one hand, and an equally dogmatic relativism on the other.
The Global South, 2017
ABSTRACT:This paper looks at the epistemic and practical possibilities that the notion of a "... more ABSTRACT:This paper looks at the epistemic and practical possibilities that the notion of a "Global South" may open. Drawing from works on the subject such as Anibal Quijano's "Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America" (2000), Raewyn Connell's Southern Theory (2007), and Boaventura de Sousa Santos's Conocer desde el Sur (2006) but also from a long Italian Marxist tradition that goes from Antonio Gramsci's "Some Aspects of the Southern Question" (1926) through Franco Cassano's Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean (1996) to Franco Piperno's workerist Elogio dello spirito pubblico meridionale [Praise of the Southern Public Spirit] (1997), this essay considers the Global South as a possible commonplace where European Marxism and global post-colonial and de-colonial movements may meet.
European History Quarterly, 2006
Expelled from Spain in 1779, the Jesuit Juan Andrés moved to Parma in Italy, and published a seve... more Expelled from Spain in 1779, the Jesuit Juan Andrés moved to Parma in Italy, and published a seven-volume history of nothing less than the literatures of the whole world – ‘Of the Origins and Progress of all Literatures’. Andrés attempted to found literary historiography as a critical method opposed to the Francocentrism of classicist aesthetics. If French classicism had labeled southern literatures (Spanish and Italian) as unreasonable and unworthy of entering modern Europe's republic of letters, historicism was the conviction that every civilization and every period has its own possibilities of aesthetic perfection. In so doing, Andrés was pitting a method of critical historiography against Montesquieu's and the philosophers’ own philosophy of history.
The essay looks at the production, distribution, and consumption of the Italian novel in the glob... more The essay looks at the production, distribution, and consumption of the Italian novel in the global editorial market in the context of what Mark McGurl has called “the age of Amazon.” By drawing from studies on so-called “platform capitalism,” but also from those concerning the restructuring of the editorial market, the essay considers the increasing importance of branding, and in particular of national brands, in the editorial policies of the last two decades.
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2016
This chapter attempts to frame European Romanticism against the background of that ‘somewhat enig... more This chapter attempts to frame European Romanticism against the background of that ‘somewhat enigmatic event’ which, between the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, was said by Foucault to have begun European modernity: the discovery of ‘the historicity of knowledge’. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the monogenetic assumption that humankind was of a single Adamitic origin, created by one God, and universally attending to one divinely ordained natural law, had already fallen into disrepute under the attack of Reason; once Reason too, along with its presumption of one ‘unchanging human nature’, was relativized after the European discoveries of different cultures and ancient civilizations, a new outlook on life, which Meinecke called historismus, ‘rose’ to change once and for all European culture’s very understanding of its world.
Zum Verhältnis von Raum und Öffentlichkeit, 2013
California Italian Studies, 2010
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Feb 22, 2011
... Prison Notebooks , Edited by: Buttigieg, JA New York: Columbia University Press. ... of impor... more ... Prison Notebooks , Edited by: Buttigieg, JA New York: Columbia University Press. ... of importance, to him, was the development of Gramsci's own methodological relations to such bibliographies: from the 'interest in philology' blossomed at Cagliari's Liceo Giovanni Maria Dettori ...
The Global South, 2011
The paper looks at the emergence of a new conception of “border†in the heyday of what Enriqu... more The paper looks at the emergence of a new conception of “border†in the heyday of what Enrique Dussel has called “Eurocentric modernity.†Such new understanding of borders inaugurated not only a new ius publicum europaeum (Carl Schmitt) and a “modern†Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu), but also a new epistemic category—the “southâ€â€”conceived (from the European north) as the necessary antithesis for that self-understanding of Europe and the West that we call “Eurocentrism.†In this sense—this paper proposes—the European south is intimately tied to a global south and inseparable from it: they are both the “state of exception†defining by antithesis the spirit and identity of Europe.
Routledge eBooks, Jul 21, 2022
International Gramsci Journal, 2021
This is the abstract of a review by Roberto Dainotto of the book by Francesca Antonini, Caesarism... more This is the abstract of a review by Roberto Dainotto of the book by Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci. Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity (Leiden and Boston, Brill 2020).
Narrativa, 2017
Introduction: The Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health crisis and surg... more Introduction: The Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health crisis and surgeons are at increased occupational risk of contracting COVID-19. The impact of the disease on prevalent general surgical practice is uncertain and continues to evolve. Aims/Objectives: To study the impact of COVID-19 on general surgical practice in India and the future implications of the pandemic. Methods: A survey questionnaire was designed and electronically circulated one month after India entered a national lockdown during covid-19 pandemic, among members of Indian Association of Gastro-intestinal Endosurgeons (IAGES), a surgical association with nearly eight thousand members. Survey questions pertaining to pre-COVID era surgical practices, impact on current practice and nancial implications were asked. Responses were collected and statistically analyzed. Results: 153 surgeons completed the survey, of which only 9.2% were females. 41% surgeons were more than 20 years into practice. 36.6% were into private practice at multiple hospitals (free-lancers). 41.8% had mainly laparoscopic practice with mean outpatient consultation of 26 patients/day and elective surgeries of 43 cases /month prior to lockdown. Post lock-down, daily outpatient consults reduced to 4 patients/day and 77% had not performed even a single elective procedure. 52% were taking hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as chemoprophylaxis. 56.9% stated they are using personal protective equipment for all cases while 71.5% stated there are insu cient guidelines for future surgical practice in terms of safety. 52% surgeons stated a drop of more than 75% of their monthly income while 22% faced 50-75% reduction. 33% of respondents own a hospital and are expecting a monthly nancial liability of 2.25 Million rupees (nearly 30,000 US dollars). Conclusion: COVID 19 has led to a drastic reduction in outpatient and elective surgical practices. There is a de nite need for guidelines regarding safety for future surgical practices and solutions to overcome the nancial liabilities in the near future.
Through a close reading of Q1§47, “Hegel and Associationism”, the essay delves into a dominant pr... more Through a close reading of Q1§47, “Hegel and Associationism”, the essay delves into a dominant problematic of the Prison Notebooks: how to organize a revolutionary mass movements when the modern “integral State” establishes its hegemony by organizing public opinion and disorganizing dissent? The question entails, from a Gramscian perspective, the possibility of resolving and organically synthesizing a series of antinomies that State hegemony tends to keep separated, both conceptually and practically: coercion and consent; intellectuals and masses; theory and practice.
The present essay understands the work of the so-called 'late Lukács' as an attem... more The present essay understands the work of the so-called 'late Lukács' as an attempt to answer, through the tools of historical materialism, the very same problematics already raised in the writings of the 'early' Lukács. Focusing primarily on the issue of historicist relativism gleaned first in the Theory of the Novel, the essay argues for a dialectical Lukács intent in avoiding the pratfalls, to paraphrase from History and Class Consciousness, of a dogmatic metaphysics on the one hand, and an equally dogmatic relativism on the other.
The Global South, 2017
ABSTRACT:This paper looks at the epistemic and practical possibilities that the notion of a "... more ABSTRACT:This paper looks at the epistemic and practical possibilities that the notion of a "Global South" may open. Drawing from works on the subject such as Anibal Quijano's "Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America" (2000), Raewyn Connell's Southern Theory (2007), and Boaventura de Sousa Santos's Conocer desde el Sur (2006) but also from a long Italian Marxist tradition that goes from Antonio Gramsci's "Some Aspects of the Southern Question" (1926) through Franco Cassano's Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean (1996) to Franco Piperno's workerist Elogio dello spirito pubblico meridionale [Praise of the Southern Public Spirit] (1997), this essay considers the Global South as a possible commonplace where European Marxism and global post-colonial and de-colonial movements may meet.
European History Quarterly, 2006
Expelled from Spain in 1779, the Jesuit Juan Andrés moved to Parma in Italy, and published a seve... more Expelled from Spain in 1779, the Jesuit Juan Andrés moved to Parma in Italy, and published a seven-volume history of nothing less than the literatures of the whole world – ‘Of the Origins and Progress of all Literatures’. Andrés attempted to found literary historiography as a critical method opposed to the Francocentrism of classicist aesthetics. If French classicism had labeled southern literatures (Spanish and Italian) as unreasonable and unworthy of entering modern Europe's republic of letters, historicism was the conviction that every civilization and every period has its own possibilities of aesthetic perfection. In so doing, Andrés was pitting a method of critical historiography against Montesquieu's and the philosophers’ own philosophy of history.
The essay looks at the production, distribution, and consumption of the Italian novel in the glob... more The essay looks at the production, distribution, and consumption of the Italian novel in the global editorial market in the context of what Mark McGurl has called “the age of Amazon.” By drawing from studies on so-called “platform capitalism,” but also from those concerning the restructuring of the editorial market, the essay considers the increasing importance of branding, and in particular of national brands, in the editorial policies of the last two decades.
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2016
This chapter attempts to frame European Romanticism against the background of that ‘somewhat enig... more This chapter attempts to frame European Romanticism against the background of that ‘somewhat enigmatic event’ which, between the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, was said by Foucault to have begun European modernity: the discovery of ‘the historicity of knowledge’. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the monogenetic assumption that humankind was of a single Adamitic origin, created by one God, and universally attending to one divinely ordained natural law, had already fallen into disrepute under the attack of Reason; once Reason too, along with its presumption of one ‘unchanging human nature’, was relativized after the European discoveries of different cultures and ancient civilizations, a new outlook on life, which Meinecke called historismus, ‘rose’ to change once and for all European culture’s very understanding of its world.
Zum Verhältnis von Raum und Öffentlichkeit, 2013
California Italian Studies, 2010
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Feb 22, 2011
... Prison Notebooks , Edited by: Buttigieg, JA New York: Columbia University Press. ... of impor... more ... Prison Notebooks , Edited by: Buttigieg, JA New York: Columbia University Press. ... of importance, to him, was the development of Gramsci's own methodological relations to such bibliographies: from the 'interest in philology' blossomed at Cagliari's Liceo Giovanni Maria Dettori ...
The Global South, 2011
The paper looks at the emergence of a new conception of “border†in the heyday of what Enriqu... more The paper looks at the emergence of a new conception of “border†in the heyday of what Enrique Dussel has called “Eurocentric modernity.†Such new understanding of borders inaugurated not only a new ius publicum europaeum (Carl Schmitt) and a “modern†Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu), but also a new epistemic category—the “southâ€â€”conceived (from the European north) as the necessary antithesis for that self-understanding of Europe and the West that we call “Eurocentrism.†In this sense—this paper proposes—the European south is intimately tied to a global south and inseparable from it: they are both the “state of exception†defining by antithesis the spirit and identity of Europe.
Gramsci in the World, 2020