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Papers in English by Laura Gherlone

Gherlone, L. & Restaneo, P. 2024. Universality and conflict as a decolonial and culturological problem. In: D. Monticelli, M. Maran & F. Sedda (Eds.), Semiotics of Conflict. A Lotmanian Perspective. Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, pp. 120-148., 2024

Authors and ideas from the post-Soviet world witnessed a prosperous encounter with post-colonial ... more Authors and ideas from the post-Soviet world witnessed a prosperous encounter with post-colonial studies for some time now. At the same time, contact with the so-call “decoloniality” – a body of thinking that emerged from the Latin American context – is still in its infancy. Some dialogues, however, have already been initiated in the belief that a decolonial framework could help to clarify the political, social, cultural history and dynamics of the post-Soviet space. Such an encounter could also contribute in retrospectively interpreting the intellectual tradition of the Soviet Union, and its tensions between imperialist policies and discourses of freedom and equality. This hypothesis has been strengthened by recent studies that highlighted the cultural entanglement that bonded the USSR and the Third World, with Latin America playing a key role, as well as the Soviet Orientalism’s precocious awareness about “coloniality”, which would anticipate the very birth of a (anti/post/de)colonial theory. The work is divided into four parts. After a general introduction of postcolonialism and decoloniality in relation to the Soviet and post-Soviet intellectual tradition (Section 1), we will address “universalism” and “conflict” from the decolonial (Section 2) and Lotmanian (Section 3) perspectives. Finally, we will pinpoint the contributions that Lotman’s theory could offer to decoloniality, in order for the latter to contribute more effectively to an analysis of the post-Soviet.

Gherlone, L. 2023. On binary opposition and binarism: A long-distance dialogue between decolonial critique and the Lotmanian semiotics. Sign System Studies, 51(2), pp. 254-279., 2023

https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2023.51.2.03 While addressing the decolonial critique of Eurocent... more https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2023.51.2.03

While addressing the decolonial critique of Eurocentric modernity and the call for alternative cosmo-visions, this article retraces Juri Lotman's culturological exploration towards the concept of ternarity [тернарность]: the scrutiny of the so-called binarism is what connects-without overlapping-the two perspectives. This long-distance dialogue will be built starting with the key notion of binary opposition, which will be analysed as a decolonial problem (Part I) and as a culturological problem (Part II). The analysis will focus on two central issues that stem from the either-or logic: the "othering mindset", and the culture-nature dualism.

Gherlone, L. 2023. Semiotics and cultural affect theory. In: A. Biglari (Ed.), Open Semiotics. Vol. 2: Culture and Society. Paris: Éditions L’Harmattan, pp. 89-103. https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/livre-open\_semiotics\_volume\_2\_culture\_and\_society\_amir\_biglari-9782140305221-77443.html, 2023

This chapter considers “open semiotics” as a science of interrelatedness, taking Juri Lotman’s de... more This chapter considers “open semiotics” as a science of interrelatedness, taking Juri Lotman’s decentralizing, semiospheric thought as a starting point. The paper is divided into two parts: the first one addresses the theoretical foundations underpinning the key idea of explosion (highly topical for the Anthropocene debate). The second part covers its methodological exploration according to cultural affect theory, considering the concepts of “atmosphere” and “affective arrangement” in a decolonial key.

Laura Gherlone (2022) Affectivization of borders in the digital sphere: migration-related online narratives in Argentina, Social Semiotics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2157172, 2022

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https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2157172

The topic of borders is an active research area in Lotmanian studies. Starting from this scholarship, the article aims to open up fresh possibilities for interpretation of Lotman's spatial-driven theory, making it dialogue with the cultural affect studies and the current communication-focused research on the digital sphere. This theoretical framework underpins the case study covered in the essay, that is, the linguistic analysis of online narratives on migration during the COVID-19 pandemica prolonged situation of high-intensity relational affect in which emotions played a pivotal (agentive) role in the perception of a widespread and multidimensional crisis. Argentina is the cultural milieu of sociosemiotic scrutiny, in which distant reading and close reading cross-pollinate each other.

Gherlone, L. & Restaneo, P. 2022. Semiotics and decoloniality: A preliminary study between Ju. Lotman and W. Mignolo. Lexia, 39-40, pp. 245-262. DOI: 10.53136/979122180426314, 2022

The goal of the present paper is to reflect upon the possibility for Lotman’s cultural semiotics ... more The goal of the present paper is to reflect upon the possibility for Lotman’s cultural semiotics to contribute to the ongoing discussion on decoloniality. This area of study gathers the ideas elaborated by a tradition of thinkers exploring how colonial relationships engendered by modernity are not limited to the realm of political domination but are seeped into our global culture, mode of production of knowledge and way of conceiving history. Within the Latin American school, we will focus on the works of Argentinian semiotician Walter Mignolo. We will show how Lotman’s multi–perspectivist epistemological approach offers analogies and points of convergence with the approach to decolonial reflection by Mignolo. The goal is not to frame Lotman as a decolonial thinker – he most certainly did not belong in that tradition, nor shared the same theoretical agenda and political goals. The similarities that we will attempt to highlight in the present paper, however, are not the result of a mere coincidence nor of an abstract, metatheoretical convergence of ideas. Rather, they are the result of Lotman’s engagement with the Russian and Soviet critique of Eurocentrism, which led him to reflect upon the need to delink from the promises made in the name of modernity, such as the ideas of progress, development, destiny.In the first part of the paper, we will discuss how Lotman elaborates, through an engagement of Soviet Oriental Studies among others, a multi–perspectivist epistemology. In the second part of the paper, we will discuss how he develops his theoretical approach into a critique of a “universal” and “unilinear” notion of history. Finally, in the third part, we will highlight certain points of convergence between Lotman and Mignolo, hinting at possible future contamina tion between cultural semiotics and the decolonial tradition.
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Gherlone, L., Gramigna, R. & Leone, M. 2022. Introduction. Lexia, 39-40, pp. 9-23. DOI: 10.53136/97912218042631. , 2022

Anyone wishing to explore the universe of contemporary semiotics will necessarily have to reckon ... more Anyone wishing to explore the universe of contemporary semiotics will necessarily have to reckon with the founding father of the Tartu and Moscow school of semiotics, Juri M. Lotman (1922-1993). A specialist in modern Russian literature, comparatist and philologist, impeccable archival researcher, brilliant speaker and prolific writer, Lotman laid the foundations of contemporary semiotics, inaugurating the strand of research focused on the typological study of cultures, the semiotics of culture. Lotman's original contributions are also appreciable outside the boundaries of semiotics itself, testifying to the multifaceted nature of his thought. On the occasion of the centenary of Juri Lotman's birth, Lexia dedicates a special issue to this internationally renowned scholar. The legacy of Juri Lotman in the 21 st century and the theoretical challenge it represents for the future generations of semioticians constitute the main subject of this volume. See the entire issue here: https://www.aracneeditrice.eu/it/pubblicazioni/lexia-rivista-di-semiotica-re-thinking-massimo-leone-laura-gherlone-remo-gramigna-9791221804263.html

Gherlone, L. 2022. The center-periphery dynamics in Yuri Lotman’s later works: A way forward for new epistemological dialogues. RUS. Revista de Literatura e Cultura Russa, 13(23), pp. 132-143., 2022

In this contribution I will explore an aspect of Lotman’s culturological method, which consists o... more In this contribution I will explore an aspect of Lotman’s culturological method, which consists of his unwavering focus on the conflictual-energetic dimension of the semiotic life of human beings: a dimension he identified, since the 1970s works, in a kind of “original” tension, that is, the center-periphery dynamics.Taking up this idea extensively in his later writings and emphasizing the concept of “conflict” (конфликт) with all its synonymic variants (бинарность, противоречие, столкновение, борьба, драка, etc.), the Russian-Estonian semiotician seems to suggest that oppositional tension (difference) is a primary, maybe ancestral, energy that drives the semiosphere. In this perspective, the vision of conflict in Lotman, in addition to finding its highest expression in the conceptualization of the “explosion”, can be a way forward for new epistemological dialogues.

Gherlone, Laura (2022) "Explosion", in Marek Tamm & Peeter Torop (eds.) The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. Bloomsbury Academic, 282-295.

In this chapter I will address the concept of explosion in relation to two problem areas: knowled... more In this chapter I will address the concept of explosion in relation to two problem areas: knowledge and evolution. I will make use of both theoretical writings and documents such as Lotman’s letters, autobiographical interviews and television lectures for the general public. This array of sources will contribute to showing how his scientific thought, feeding on metaphorical images and ‘explosive’ insights, is inseparable from his aesthetic sensibility and, in general, from real life understood as ongoing creativity.

Gherlone, L. (2021) Propaedeutics and semiosphere. DEGRÉS, 186-187: 1-11, 2021

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In this paper I intend to retrace Yuri Lotman’s intellectual journey to develop the idea of propaedeutics. I will highlight how his fascination with the hard sciences led the Russian semiotician to adopt at first a highly formal approach to human language studies (and, in particular, to verbal artwork), and then to progressively abandon this perspective in order to embrace the idea of interrelatedness. It was this switch that allowed him to develop a genuinely interdisciplinary thought, seeing semiotics as a propaedeutic approach to the world, i.e., as a predisposition of thought able to grasp the intimate bond that unites things in their wholeness—a sort of “semiospheric” pre-understanding of the world (open and never finished in itself), producing and at the same time feeding back knowledge which is necessary for integrally understanding and diagnosticating reality. It is no coincidence that Lotman, in the last years of his life, glimpsed the future of semiotics in another concept, always drawn from the Greek tradition, in which the idea of a “preparatory attitude” to knowledge with pedagogical-formative implications is likewise embedded: the Socratic maieutics, through which, he pointed out (Lotman 2005 [1988]: 442), « [w]e will rediscover the culture of the conversation, the dialogical form of the pursuit of truth », thus breathing new life into communication between people—one of the great challenges of our time.

GHERLONE Laura (2020) In the Footsteps of the Semiotic School of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow: Evaluations and Perspectives. SEMIOTICA, https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0065\. , 2020

This open access review article intends to retrace, analyze and enrich the corpus of polyvocal re... more This open access review article intends to retrace, analyze and enrich the corpus of polyvocal reflections offered by Ekaterina Velmezova (ed.) in the collection of essays entitled L’École sémiotique de Moscou-Tartu / Tartu-Moscou: histoire, épistémologie, actualité (2015). In particular, I will focus on three central points: the when and where of the School; the question of the School’s representativeness and leadership; the “physiognomy” of the School as a dialogical space of truth-seeking, where the figure of Yuri Lotman played a crucial role.
This is an expanded version of GHERLONE Laura, “Siguiendo los pasos de la Escuela Semiótica de Moscú-Tartu/Tartu-Moscú. Evaluaciones y perspectivas”, ESLAVIA, № 1 (mayo), Buenos Aires: Editorial Sociedad Argentina Dostoievski, 2018, ISSN 2618-2440.

Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso, SPECIAL ISSUE on Yuri Lotman, I. Machado & S. Barei (eds.), 14(4), October/December, São Paulo: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São, 2019, pp. 163—183, ISSN 2176-4573, 2019. , 2019

Between 1988 and 1993, Yuri Lotman composed a series of reflections on "the voice of the anonymou... more Between 1988 and 1993, Yuri Lotman composed a series of reflections on "the voice of the anonymous mass": a collective voice that, in particular situations linked to a cultural crisis, is the bearer of striking passions, which can deeply influence history. In his late works, the Russian semiotician postulated, therefore, the idea of a semiotics of emotions as an object of study to understand the dynamics of culture, especially during periods perceived as revolutionary or transitional-namely, when the anonymous mass manipulates the events or, when looking back, gives them a distorted interpretation. Lotman focused in particular on the relationship between great historical fractures, the self-propagating mechanisms of fear, and the cultural creation of scapegoats. This paper is devoted to framing Lotman's reflection on persecution, paying particular attention to women during the phenomenon of the witch hunt.

Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso, 14(2), April/June, São Paulo: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São, 2019, pp. 7—24, ISSN 2176-4573., 2019

In the midst of the Soviet Perestroika process, Yuri Lotman wrote his reflections on the concept ... more In the midst of the Soviet Perestroika process, Yuri Lotman wrote his reflections on the concept of boundary. Having witnessed massive migrations, forced expulsions and unprecedented ethno-geographical reconfigurations, he knew how much a border can be loaded with a cultural meaning that transcends its spatial dimensions. To be aware of this was all the more urgent at a historic time of transition, rebuilding and opening, when linguistic-cultural policies could be a means of promoting integration and accepting the "foreigner." This contribution takes this historical and conceptual framework as its starting point and aims to analyze a cultural phenomenon of great current interest in contemporary Italian literature: the increasingly "intrusive" presence of women writers from the former colonies who choose to produce their works in a "foreign" language (Italian), using writing as a field of experimentation, cultural hybridization, and generation of a public discursive space, bearer of the female migrant gaze.

The scientific dialogue in Lotmanian semiotics. From language to languages, Sep 2012

Since writings of the ’60s, which prefigure the birth of the semiotics of culture, we can find in... more Since writings of the ’60s, which prefigure the birth of the semiotics of culture, we can find in Lotmanian thought – namely in his heuristic approach and in his methodology – a particular attention to the scientific dialogue: a dialogue that becomes the very foundation of his semiotic research and that expresses itself through a vital tension to interdisciplinarity.
This paper would like to retrace the Russian semiotician’s footsteps, from the receipt of the structural-linguistic heritage to the theorization of a science of signs, just trying to cast light on that crossroads that led him to explorer scientific unpredictable paths. We can already now state that the acknowledgment of this alterity – the various ways through which human though creates the language of science: myth, art, mathematics and logic, etc. – guarded Lotman against the risk of a self-retreating of semiotics, thus enabling him to theorize models of culture more and more suited to express the complexity of the real, prismatic like the different languages of the world of sciences.

Lotman’s epistemology. Analogy, culture, world , Nov 2013

According to Jeanne Parain-Vial and others, humans are characterized by their need for analogy, t... more According to Jeanne Parain-Vial and others, humans are characterized by their need for analogy, together with the need for logic and intelligibility, and this need is expressed by a continuous research of models in the scientific field that can, in some aspects, bring to light some properties of reality, namely be analogous of them. The knowability of things is founded on analogy; thus, they are not exhausted by a single model of knowledge but rather through multiple and autonomous forms of comprehension.
As also pointed out by Yuri M. Lotman and Boris A. Uspensky, mythical thought was the first to postulate the possibility of establishing a relationship of likeness among very different realities, as in the archetypical cosmological model of world: a possibility that, as they explain, has survived in post-archaic man, constituting a fundamental component of cognitive activity and scientific modelling.
The article is dedicated to the use of analogy in Lotmanian semiotic theorization and to its heuristic and epistemological value.

Semiotics and interdisciplinarity: Lotman’s legacy , Dec 2013

"A particular aspect of Jurij Lotman’s semiotic theory is, without a doubt, the acknowledgment of... more "A particular aspect of Jurij Lotman’s semiotic theory is, without a doubt, the acknowledgment of the impossibility of adopting a single scientific language for the comprehension of processes underlying the cultural dynamic.
In his last work, Unpredictable Mechanisms of Culture, Lotman underlines that natural sciences and humanities have to search for the unity of the incompatible through a profound meta-linguistic dialogue. This can happen only considering the reality in its antinomies, or as informed by a plurality of languages reciprocally aimed to express the real movement of objects – a heterogeneous and contradictory movement: hence, Lotman’s suggestion (which is also his ethical legacy) that the Aristotelian polyhedral unity of science can be recovered.
The aim of this paper is to retrace Lotman’s relationship with the ideas of science, scientificity and interdisciplinary method, stressing his last reflections concerning the urgency of returning to the Aristotelian unified structure of knowledge, or a form of knowledge in which different and never completely mutually translatable scientific languages coexist autonomously, while being in a dialogue. "

Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Lotman: Towards a theory of communication in the horizon of the other, Dec 2016

Shortly before his death, Yuri Lotman (1922–1993), by now blind, dictated some considerations on ... more Shortly before his death, Yuri Lotman (1922–1993), by now blind, dictated some considerations on the concept of 'alien,' 'stranger' (chuzhdoe): a concept that de facto weaves all of his thirty-year reflections on the relationship between language, meaning, and culture and that, until the end, appears as the mark of a speculative orientation focused on the ethics of otherness. A profound influence on Lotman's thinking in this direction was exercised by two leading figures of the Russian intellectual tradition: the psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) and the philosopher, critic, and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975). The horizon of otherness, and the consequent emphasis on the relational nature of man, fill in fact as much of Vygotsky's theoretical reflection on the human mind as does Bakhtin's on literary creation (slovesnost'). This article intends to explore the concept of "dialog " as thematized in Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's studies, theoretical roots of the Lotmanian idea of communication as a dialogical semiotic act.

WAITING FOR HISTORY. ON THE EVE OF EXPLOSION, 2016

In 1989 Yuri M. Lotman, together with his Tartu semiotic School's colleagues, proposed a space of... more In 1989 Yuri M. Lotman, together with his Tartu semiotic School's colleagues, proposed a space of reflection about " The great French Revolution and the Ways of the Russian Liberation Movement " , in commemoration of the 200 th anniversary of the great event: as if to assess the situation, he underlined the necessity to anchor the semiotic research in the horizon of historical sciences, in order to comprehend the deep links that exist between culture and history, language and plot, world view and conception of time. Lotman dwelt in particular upon the concept of " mechanism of Troubles " [mekhanizm Smuty], hypothesizing a comparative historical semiotics [istoricheskaya semiotika] able to elaborate macrotypologizations of the historical movements (or rhythms). This paper intends to deal with Lotman's vision about the relations between cultural semiotics and cultural history, referring in particular to the textual corpus of Lotman's last thought (1988‒1993).

Papers in Portuguese by Laura Gherlone

Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso, EDIÇÃO ESPECIAL: Em memória da Iúri Lotman, I. Machado & S. Barei (eds.), 14(4), outubro/dezembro, São Paulo: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São, 2019, pp. 170—191, ISSN 2176-4573, 2019., 2019

Entre 1988 e 1993, Iúri M. Lótman formulou algumas proposições sobre “a voz da massa anônima”: um... more Entre 1988 e 1993, Iúri M. Lótman formulou algumas proposições sobre “a voz da massa anônima”: uma voz coletiva que, em certas situacões ligadas a crises de caráter cultural, é portadora de paixões violentas que podem produzir interferências profundas no curso da história. Em seus últimos trabalhos, o semioticista russo postulou, diante disso, a noção de uma semiótica das emoções como objeto de estudo para entender a dinâmica cultural, em especial de períodos tidos como revolucionários ou de transição, a saber, quando a massa anônima é capaz de manipular os eventos ou quando, revendo o passado, confere aos eventos uma interpretação distorcida. Lótman focalizou, principalmente, a relação entre as grandes fraturas históricas, os mecanismos de autopropagação do medo e a criação cultural de bodes expiatórios. O presente estudo visa abordar a reflexão de Lótman sobre perseguição, com especial atenção à figura da mulher durante o fenômeno de caça às bruxas.

Olho D’água, 10(2) Jun–Dez, Tradução de Pedro Henrique Pereira Graziano & Maria Celeste Tommasello Ramos, São José do Rio Preto: Universidade Estadual Paulista, 2018, pp. 177—190, ISSN 2177-3807.

Desde os anos quarenta do século XX, as vozes femininas na Literatura italiana contemporânea vêm ... more Desde os anos quarenta do século XX, as vozes femininas na Literatura italiana contemporânea vêm ocupando um espaço cada vez mais amplo, marcando a produção literária com um estilo próprio. Ainda assim, frequentemente, mesmo quando se trata de autoras consagradas (como Natalia Ginzburg ou Elsa Morante), sua presença ainda é marginal em nível de divulgação, pois a maior parte das antologias que tratam da literatura italiana do século XX e do início do século XXI se limitam a fazer menção à produção artística das escritoras mais notórias sem, no entanto, levar em consideração o mais amplo fenômeno da escrita feminina, do qual este trabalho trata, com particular atenção à koinè, narrativa judaica, no aniversário de oitenta anos das leis raciais fascistas.

Since the 1940s, female voices in contemporary Italian literature have taken a wider space, marking literary productions with their own styles. However, even when regarding renowned authors (such as Natalia Levi Ginzburg or Elsa Morante), their presence is often still marginal in terms of dissemination. Most of the anthologies that deal with Italian literature from the twentieth century and the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century are limited to mentioning the artistic productions of the most well-known female writers without accounting for the broader phenomenon of women’s writing, a phenomenon with which the present contribution is concerned, in particular the Jewish narrative koine, on the anniversary of the fascist racial laws (1938).

Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso, Tradução de Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Júnior, 14(2), April/June, São Paulo: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São, 2019, pp. 6—24, ISSN 2176-4573. , 2019

Durante o processo da Perestroika soviética, Iuri Lotman escreveu reflexões sobre o conceito de f... more Durante o processo da Perestroika soviética, Iuri Lotman escreveu reflexões sobre o conceito de fronteira. Como testemunhou migrações em massa, expulsões forçadas e reconfigurações etnogeográficas sem precedentes, sabia o quanto uma fronteira pode ser carregada de significado cultural que transcende sua dimensão espacial. Ter esse tipo de consciência era ainda mais urgente tendo em vista ser esse um período histórico de transição, reconstrução e abertura, quando as políticas linguístico-culturais poderiam ser um meio de promover integração e aceitação do "estrangeiro". Esta contribuição parte desse quadro histórico-conceitual e busca analisar um fenômeno cultural de grande interesse na literatura italiana contemporânea: a presença "intrusa" crescente de escritoras das antigas colônias que escolheram escrever suas obras em uma língua estrangeira, o italiano, usando a escrita como um campo de experimentação, hibridismo cultural e criação de um espaço discursivo público que traz o olhar da mulher migrante.

Gherlone, L. 2023. On binary opposition and binarism: A long-distance dialogue between decolonial critique and the Lotmanian semiotics. Sign System Studies, 51(2), pp. 254-279., 2023

https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2023.51.2.03 While addressing the decolonial critique of Eurocent... more https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2023.51.2.03

Laura Gherlone (2022) Affectivization of borders in the digital sphere: migration-related online narratives in Argentina, Social Semiotics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2157172, 2022

https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2157172

Gherlone, L. & Restaneo, P. 2022. Semiotics and decoloniality: A preliminary study between Ju. Lotman and W. Mignolo. Lexia, 39-40, pp. 245-262. DOI: 10.53136/979122180426314, 2022

Gherlone, L., Gramigna, R. & Leone, M. 2022. Introduction. Lexia, 39-40, pp. 9-23. DOI: 10.53136/97912218042631. , 2022

Gherlone, Laura (2022) "Explosion", in Marek Tamm & Peeter Torop (eds.) The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. Bloomsbury Academic, 282-295.

Gherlone, L. (2021) Propaedeutics and semiosphere. DEGRÉS, 186-187: 1-11, 2021

GHERLONE Laura (2020) In the Footsteps of the Semiotic School of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow: Evaluations and Perspectives. SEMIOTICA, https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0065\. , 2020

Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso, 14(2), April/June, São Paulo: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São, 2019, pp. 7—24, ISSN 2176-4573., 2019

The scientific dialogue in Lotmanian semiotics. From language to languages, Sep 2012

Lotman’s epistemology. Analogy, culture, world , Nov 2013

Semiotics and interdisciplinarity: Lotman’s legacy , Dec 2013

Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Lotman: Towards a theory of communication in the horizon of the other, Dec 2016

WAITING FOR HISTORY. ON THE EVE OF EXPLOSION, 2016

Estudos de Religião, Tradução de Irene Machado, 29, No 1 (2015). Dossiê: Semiótica da Cultura e as Ciências da Religião, Aug 2015

Iúri M. Lótman (1922-1993) estava consciente de que o período entre 1990-1993 era visto como matu... more Iúri M. Lótman (1922-1993) estava consciente de que o período entre 1990-1993 era visto como maturação de outro pensamento relacionado com a produção intelectual
anterior. De fato, embora houvesse uma linha temática clara de continuidade, no início dos anos 90 (devido também a seu precário estado de saúde) seu modo de exprimir e especular – cada vez mais fez uso da intuição, analogias, sugestões e memórias: explosões
reflexivas. Ele estava particularmente interessado na “linguagem” dos períodos de crise (ou de processos explosivos) de modo a entender como a humanidade podia
reconhecer e fazer sentido das transições históricas. Embora as conceptualizações de Lótman sobre o tema tenham ficado inacabadas, ele deu uma visão profética do que definiu como “fisiologia da explosão”.

GHERLONE Laura, “Atmósferas (de)coloniales en la era del Antropoceno”, en María José Punte (ed.), ATLAS PRECARIOS: cartografías afectivas en la literatura, el cine y el arte de América Latina. Buenos Aires: UCA Editorial, 2024, pp. 21—32. , 2024

El capítulo pretende leer la teoría cartográfico-afectiva de Giuliana Bruno a través de la lentes... more El capítulo pretende leer la teoría cartográfico-afectiva de Giuliana Bruno a través de la lentes decoloniales. Se pondrá de relieve como el estrecho vínculo identificado por la crítica ítalo-estadounidense entre la materialidad (visual), el espacio y los afectos puede enriquecerse con las reflexiones ecocríticas “desde el Sur” enfocadas en la idea de Antropoceno (extractivismo, injusticia hídrica, etc.).

MOLINA, P., GHERLONE, L. & SÁNCHEZ ORTÍZ, J. W. (2023) “Formas de violencia y discriminación en la semiosfera imago-céntrica. Un caso de estudio...". En: M. T. Olalde Ramos et al. (eds). Interacciones semióticas entre el diseño, el arte y la cultura. UAM, pp. 55—69.

A partir de un abordaje teórico enfocado en la visualidad digital el pensamiento decolonial, esta... more A partir de un abordaje teórico enfocado en la visualidad digital el pensamiento decolonial, esta contribución analiza el género del videojuego bélico de disparo en primera persona como un dispositivo semiótico emblemático de la cultura contemporánea por su capacidad de modelizar afectiva y efectivamente a determinadas características de lo bélico en el contexto actual de la llamada “semiosfera imago-céntrica”.
Más específicamente, considerando aquellas investigaciones abocadas al estudio de la visualidad en el contexto de la cultura digital, nuestro abordaje propone un análisis de los mecanismos que despliegan los videojuegos de la trilogía bélica Modern Warfare, parte de la exitosa franquicia comercial Call of Duty. Nuestra argumentación sostiene que ese modo de construcción semiótica se fundamenta y debe ser comprendido con relación a formas de comprender y modelizar la guerra en el contexto de guerra al terrorismo declarada por EEUU tras los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001.

Gherlone, Laura (2023) Identidades migrantes en tiempo de crisis: Narrativas digitales y mitos nacionales. En: Cristina Voto, Elsa Soro, José Luis Fernández y Massimo Leone (Eds.), ROSTROTOPÍAS. Mitos, narrativas y obsesiones de las plataformas digitales. Roma: Aracne, pp. 143-162.

Why today is the study of the migration issue, in an affective key, a significant and perhaps und... more Why today is the study of the migration issue, in an affective key, a significant and perhaps underestimated research area in the field of communication? In the present article, this RQ will be addressed by linking it to the notion of “digital shared stories” and the current scholarship on narrative approach(es) in social media studies.
This framework will prove to be beneficial for understanding digital migration stories from the perspective of migrants and host society, considering spatial “imaginary” a key concept.
Finally, the main results of a digital ethnographic research on the topic —having Argentina as the cultural context of exploration— will be presented.

Gherlone, Laura (2022) Sobre la semiótica de la muerte para pensar en el tiempo presente. deSignis, Hors Serie 02, 261-271. https://www.designisfels.net/hors-serie/semiotica-de-la-cultura-de-yuri-lotman-al-futuro/, 2022

El ser humano coexiste con la muerte, raíz de un universo emocional que ha dado lugar a una varie... more El ser humano coexiste con la muerte, raíz de un universo emocional que ha dado lugar a una variedad cultural sorprendente de expresiones simbólico-materiales. En la actualidad, este universo se hace cuerpo al desmaterializarse en el ambiente digital, lo cual permite a los estados afectivos propagarse espacial y temporalmente. Además, convierte la muerte en un “problema” (una presencia difundida) que tipologiza nuestro tiempo. La presente contribución pretende abordar este fenómeno, enfocándose en la relación entre la muerte impredecible y el imaginario colectivo. Se hará específica referencia a un constructo audiovisual muy popular, el Coffin Dance Meme, creado en la red durante la explosión de la pandemia por COVID-19.

Gherlone, L. (2022) ¡MigrEmos! Emociones y migraciones en un mundo imago-céntrico. Un estado del arte. En L. Anapios y C. Hammerschmidt (eds.) Política, afectos e identidades en América Latina. CLACSO; CALAS; UNSAM; Universitat Jena; BMBF, pp. 359-382.

¡MigrEmos! articula los estudios sobre las migraciones y los abordajes desde la teoría de los afe... more ¡MigrEmos! articula los estudios sobre las migraciones y los abordajes desde la teoría de los afectos culturales para pensar el cruce entre desplazamiento(s), movilidad, emociones y ciberespacio.

Gherlone, L. (2022) Historia. El tiempo cultural entre narraciones osificadas y fuerzas latentes. En: S. Barei & A. Gómez Ponce (eds.) LOTMAN REVISITADO. Perspectivas latinoamericanas. Córdoba: EDICEA, pp. 131-144. https://rdu.unc.edu.ar/handle/11086/22698

Para explorar la visión de Lotman sobre el concepto de historia sería necesario recorrer sus escr... more Para explorar la visión de Lotman sobre el concepto de historia sería necesario recorrer sus escritos siguiendo la red de nudos −descubrimientos, consideraciones críticas, préstamos teóricos− que él mismo, en sus últimos escritos, sugiere que fueron vitales para tejer su “último” pensamiento: la reflexión sobre el mito y el tiempo circular; el análisis del vínculo (típicamente ruso) entre el proceso forzado de europeización, el hegelianismo filosófico y el escatologismo; la denuncia de la mistificación de la idea de tiempo lineal en términos de una trayectoria inevitablemente evolutiva; las observaciones sobre el alcance lingüístico-retórico de la historia, entendida como narración o construcción lógico-argumentativa; la complejización (усложнение) de la idea de desarrollo a la luz del concepto de no linealidad postulado en el ámbito físico-químico.
Esta trama entreteje lo que podría haber sido la línea de investigación llevada adelante por Lotman, si el tiempo se lo hubiera permitido: tras su reflexión sobre el “tiempo sígnico”, su aspiración científica era aunar la historia y la antropología con la comunicación, para comprender mejor los fenómenos de masas y, en particular, las pasiones colectivas: una perspectiva holística que incorporaría así el enfoque más cultural-antropológico con el cognitivo (la psicología de los fenómenos de masas), que Lotman había encaminado a finales de los años setenta con el estudio de la actividad cerebral humana.
Aquí me centraré en particular en la idea lotmaniana de que la historia, con sus esquemas narrativos, es parte integrante de la autoconciencia cultural, que es a la vez una forma de memoria colectiva y una forma de conocimiento del mundo (episteme). Dicha idea, puesta en relación con el concepto de “reconstrucción de lo perdido” (Lotman, 1991) se hará dialogar entonces con la teoría decolonial.

Gherlone, L. (2021). Atmósferas y emociones colectivas: descolonizar los espacios emocionales. En M. L. Puppo (Ed.), ESPACIOS Y EMOCIONES. Textos, territorios y fronteras en América Latina (pp. 17-34). Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila., 2021

Las humanidades y las ciencias sociales han asistido recientemente al desarrollo de una amplia re... more Las humanidades y las ciencias sociales han asistido recientemente al desarrollo de una amplia reflexión sobre la “atmósfera”, entendida come una calidad del espacio (material o inmaterial) que emerge del flujo continuo y particular de configuraciones de personas, objetos, lugares, sentimientos e imaginarios (Sumartojo y Pink 2018) –una realidad que se experimenta a nivel colectivo e individual y que, apelando a la percepción, la sensorialidad y los recuerdos encarnados, puede activar intuiciones estéticas, conocimientos anticipados y nuevos horizontes de sentido, pero también puede desencadenar antiguas experiencias sedimentadas en la memoria colectiva–.
La atmósfera se presenta entonces como un objeto de investigación clave para entender la relación que existe entre espacio, afectos culturales y cuerpo(s) y se convierte en un terreno fecundo para profundizar la mirada descolonial en el campo de los estudios culturales.

Introducción al Dossier: "Iuri Lotman (Primera parte)" - Revista Eslavia Un número especial dedic... more Introducción al Dossier: "Iuri Lotman (Primera parte)" - Revista Eslavia
Un número especial dedicado a Iuri Lotman, con artículos inéditos en castellano sobre literatura y cultura rusas.
https://eslavia.com.ar/

Gherlone, Laura. 2021. “Compasión colectiva, esfera digital e imágenes de pathos en tie... more Gherlone, Laura. 2021. “Compasión colectiva, esfera digital e imágenes de pathos en tiempo de COVID-19”. En Tristeza eterna: representaciones de la muerte en la cultura visual desde la Antigüedad a la actualidad, editado por Luis Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez. Monográfico temático, Eikón Imago 10: 79-91. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIKO/article/view/74138/4564456556731

El presente artículo pretende indagar cómo, durante la explosión de la pandemia del COVID-19, la esfera digital ha proporcionado un espacio afectivo para la manifestación del dolor colectivo frente a la muerte de multitudes de personas. Se hará particular referencia a una serie de imágenes viralizadas por las redes sociales durante los meses de febrero-abril de 2020 e interpretadas a la luz de la teoría de las Pathosformeln de Aby Warburg −imágenes que, usando el rostro patético como interfaz, han hecho visible y real el drama en curso, procurando un modelo de expresión universal de la compasión−. El artículo se divide en tres partes. En primer lugar, se introducirá la idea de "cultura imago-céntrica" para plantear un rasgo saliente de las sociedades contemporáneas. En segundo lugar, se destacará la actualidad del concepto de Pathosformel (nacido originariamente en la historia del arte) para explicar la asociación imagen-emoción que caracteriza el tiempo presente. En tercer lugar, se proporcionará una interpretación de las imágenes de pathos en tiempo de COVID-19 recurriendo a la fórmula expresiva patética de la imago pietatis: un modelo visuo-afectivo "reavivado" en la contemporaneidad y capaz de universalizar y con-mover la interioridad del observador, haciendo hincapié en el dolor empático.

This article aims to investigate how, during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital sphere afforded an affective space for the manifestation of collective pain in the face of the death of multitudes of people. A special attention will be given to a series of images viralized by SNSs during February-April 2020 and interpreted in the light of Aby Warburg's theory of Pathosformeln −images which, through the mediation of the pathetic face, made visible and real the ongoing drama, providing a model of universal expression of compassion−. The article is divided into three parts. First, the idea of "image-centric culture" will be introduced to raise a salient feature of contemporary societies. Second, the topicality of the concept of Pathosformel-originally conceived within the history of art-will be highlighted in order to explain the association between image and emotion that characterizes the present age. Third, the article will provide an interpretation of the images of pathos in the time of COVID-19 through the pathetic expressive formula of the imago pietatis: a visuo-affective model "revived" in contemporaneity and able to universalize and move the interiority of the observer, placing emphasis on empathic pain.

Gherlone, Laura (2020) "De Iuri Lotman a Bertrand Westphal: hacia una representación multifocal de las culturas", Universum 35(2) 80-94. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-23762020000200080, 2020

La presente contribución pretende recorrer y explorar el anticipatorio aporte del semiólogo y teó... more La presente contribución pretende recorrer y explorar el anticipatorio aporte del semiólogo y teórico de la literatura Iuri Lotman al llamado giro espacial y, en particular, al enfoque geocrítico. Tomando en cuenta las palabras de Bertrand Westphal, según el cual "la geocrítica está muy presente en el análisis de las supuestas áreas 'periféricas', el que contribuye a relativizar la 'marginalidad'" (Westphal 2015: 126), se buscará aquí poner énfasis en la visión espacio-textual de Lotman y su relación inseparable con el concepto semiótico-literario y cultural de frontera y espacio "propio-ajeno" -visión que da como resultado lo que el académico francés llamaría una representación multifocal de la realidad-.
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MOLINA Pablo & Laura GHERLONE 2019 “Ciberespacio y semiótica de la otredad // Cyberspace and semiotics of otherness”, Eliseo R. COLÓN ZAYAS (Ed.), deSignis: Journal of the Latin American Federation of Semiotics, Barcelona: Gedisa Editorial, n. 30, pp. 53-62. ISSN 1578-4223., 2019

El ciberespacio se presenta en la cultura contemporánea como un territorio complejo que habilita ... more El ciberespacio se presenta en la cultura contemporánea como un territorio complejo que habilita prácticas inéditas de representación para la relación identidad-otredad, a partir de la mediación digital de lo cognitivo, corporal, emocional y lingüístico-comunicativo potenciado semióticamente con el fin de plasmar esa tensión constitutiva de lo humano yo-otro. A partir del estudio de la cara digital (Leone 2018) y la semiótica de los emojis (Danesi 2016), y el abordaje del enlace específico que propone el videojuego entre jugador, avatar y mundo virtual, este artículo intenta sugerir claves de interpretación frente a las nuevas posibilidades semióticas del ciberespacio con respecto al problema de la identidad-otredad.

In contemporary culture, cyberspace is presented as a complex territory that enables unprecedented representational practices regarding the identity/otherness relationship through the digital mediation of the cognitive, corporeal, emotional and linguistic-communicative dimensions –dimensions semiotically potentiated to capture the constitutive tension between the I and the alterity. Based on the studies on digital face (Leone 2018) and on negotiation of emotions through emoji (Danesi 2016), as well as the specific connection between player, avatar and the virtual world proposed by video games, this article intends to suggest keys of interpretation in the face of the new semiotic possibilities of cyberspace, observing the issue of identity/otherness.

GHERLONE Laura (2019) “Espaciotiempo y límite en el pensamiento ruso. Algunas notas sobre Iu. M. Lotman, M. M. Bajtín y P. A. Florenski”. In: Magdalena CÁMPORA & Lucía PUPPO (Eds.), Dinámicas del espacio: Reflexiones desde América Latina, Buenos Aires: EDUCA, pp. 31—43, ISBN 978-987-620-389-0., 2019

El espacio es una categoría fundamental en la tradición cultural rusa y constituye un eje central... more El espacio es una categoría fundamental en la tradición cultural rusa y constituye un eje central de la reflexión teórica de Mijaíl Bajtín y Iuri Lotman en el ámbito de la estética y crítica literaria. El teólogo y filósofo Pavel Florenski dedica a este tema una obra entera, Analiz prostranstvennosti i vremeni v judozhestvenno-izobrazitel’nyj proizvedeniiaj (Análisis de la espacialidad y el tiempo en las obras artísticas-figurativas, 1924-1925), considerando el espacio creativo a la luz de su visión integral del hombre-cosmo. La literatura rusa moderna profundiza de forma inédita la relación entre espacio y tiempo, siendo expresión de una cultura que se caracteriza por tener una “mirada espacial” sobre la realidad (Strada, 2005; Salizzoni, 1992): no por casualidad, el viaje, el exilio, la migración representan tópicos importantes de su legado.
El objetivo de esta contribución es, entonces, el de ofrecer una reflexión sobre la interpretación que distintos representantes de la cultura rusa han dado al concepto de “espacio” y sus aplicaciones eurísticas.

Prólogo, in Juana Lorena Campos Bustos, ERRANCIA. Migrantes y vagamundos judíos en la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea, Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores, 2018, pp. 9—11, ISBN: 978-956-01-0602-5.

From the book: La experiencia judía latinoamericana de múltiples exilios, diásporas y migraciones... more From the book:
La experiencia judía latinoamericana de múltiples exilios, diásporas y migraciones podría contenerse en la palabra errancia. A través de las figuras de Isaac Goldemberg, José Emilio Pacheco, Margo Glantz y Marcos Aguinis, la autora de este volumen muestra de forma inédita cómo en el acto escritural de estos autores se inscribe en esta figura. Si bien cada una de las novelas analizadas plantea una errancia particular, hay un punto en común en estos textos, y es que la escritura se vuelve una búsqueda por los recovecos de la memoria, y es allí donde el autor judío latinoamericano intenta la fundación de un espacio propio que lo contenga, cobije y otorgue pertenencia.

Eslavia, Nº 1 (Mayo), Buenos Aires: Editorial Sociedad Argentina Dostoievski, 2018, ISSN 2618-2440, https://eslavia.com.ar/siguiendo-los-pasos-de-la-escuela-semiotica-de-moscu-tartu-tartu-moscu-1-evaluaciones-y-perspectivas/

Short version in Spanish of the book review entitled “In the Footsteps of the Semiotic School of ... more Short version in Spanish of the book review entitled “In the Footsteps of the Semiotic School of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow: Evaluations and Perspectives”, Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019, pp. xx—xx [forthcoming, ISSN 0037-1998].

La presente contribución pretende ofrecer una evaluación transversal de aquel fenómeno que, dependiendo de la perspectiva histórica, geográfica-espacial y epistemológica adoptada por el observador, toma el nombre de Escuela semiótica de Moscú-Tartu o Tartu-Moscú. Una nomenclatura, en otras palabras, que está íntimamente ligada a la posición adoptada por el iniciador-testigo, el discípulo, el adherente o simplemente por el investigador interesado en estudiar el fenómeno de la "semiótica" soviética.Esta doble, y al mismo tiempo alternativa, mirada es abordada aquí como una oportunidad para hacer un balance de la multiplicidad de puntos de vista y reflexiones acerca de esta historia científica y humana de la época soviética: porque, como señala Ekaterina Velmezova, si mucho se ha escrito, aún no todo se ha dicho sobre la Escuela.

Lecciones sobre la cultura y las formas de la vida, in Silvia Barei & Ariel Gómez Ponce (Eds.), Córdoba: Editorial del Centro de Estudios Avanzados (Colección Libros: Debates, pensadores y problemas socioculturales), UNC, 2018, pp. 69—91, ISBN 978-987-1751-52-5., 2018

La presente contribución se inspira en dos textos de Iuri M. Lotman publicados recientemente: por... more La presente contribución se inspira en dos textos de Iuri M. Lotman publicados recientemente: por un lado, el ensayo «Universidad, Ciencia, Cultura», que Lotman redactó en 1982 en ocasión de los 350 años de la fundación de la Universidad de Tartu (publicado en el volumen Lotman y Uspenski: Correspondencia 1964-1993); y, por otro lado, el escrito «Acerca de la semiótica de la vida y de la evolución», que contiene la entrevista hecha a Lotman por Kalevi Kull en junio de 1992. Estos dos textos introducirán la visión científica que subyace a la teoría semiótica y culturológica de Lotman, con particular énfasis en su última producción científica.

This contribution is inspired by two recently published texts: on the one hand, the speech «University, Science, Culture», written by Lotman in 1982 on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the foundation of the Tartu University (published in Lotman & Uspensky: Correspondence 1964-1993), and, on the other hand, the writing «About the Semiotics of Life and Evolution» which contains the interview conducted by Kalevi Kull to Lotman in June 1992. These two texts will introduce us to the scientific vision that underlies Lotman’s semiotic and culturological theory, with particular attention to his late scientific production.

Actas de la Primera Jornada Nacional de Estudios Eslavos, Dec 27, 2016

La presente contribución pretende ofrecer una mirada sobre la recepción de la obra de Iuri Lotman... more La presente contribución pretende ofrecer una mirada sobre la recepción de la obra de Iuri Lotman (Leningrado 1922 — Tartu 1993) – lingüísta, semiólogo e histórico de la cultura rusa – en América Latina y, en particular, en Argentina. El objetivo es, de hecho, delinear el estado de la cuestión tanto en lo relativo a la recepción bibliográfica (traducciones y vicisitudes editoriales) en lengua española, como en lo referido al abordaje del pensamiento del autor en los ambientes de la reflexión literaria y crítico-literaria argentina.
El “primer” Lotman, más ligado a la experiencia formalista y estructuralista, es ciertamente lo que ha arraigado más en dichos ambientes, aunque dicho éxito haga referencia a un período limitado y no exhaustivo de su parábola teórico-intelectual: parábola que, desde los años ochenta, y, en particular, durante el trienio 1990-1993, presenta notables cambios, poco conocidos por vía de la escasez de traducciones.
La presente contribución tiene como segundo objetivo el de ofrecer también una visión panorámica del “último” Lotman y del rico corpus de inéditos, portadores de remarcables novedades teóricas y de reflexiones sobre la cultura rusa a través de la voz de Gógol, Pushkin, Baratynski, Blok y otros.

L’Italia è stato uno dei Paesi ad accogliere con più anticipo e attenzione l’eredità della Scuola... more L’Italia è stato uno dei Paesi ad accogliere con più anticipo e attenzione l’eredità della Scuola semiotica di Mosca-Tartu e, in particolare, del suo padre fondatore Jurij M. Lotman. L’impostazione lotmaniana si profila oggi un campo di studi in progress, che lascia trasparire incoraggianti prospettive d’indagine per gli studi culturali ma che necessita ancora di una profonda riflessione sulla sua ultima parabola intellettuale, la fase teorica meno conosciuta, per la quale si propone al lettore italiano la traduzione di cinque saggi inediti.
A vent'anni dalla sua morte, possiamo dunque accingerci a rileggere e in certo modo riscoprire quello che l’insigne maestro ancora ci vuol dire, cercando di attualizzare il suo pensiero esplosivo e disarticolante all’oggi: si presenta qui il lascito di Lotman, con le sue potenzialità in nuce, ovvero la cosiddetta semiotica della cultura alla luce del pensiero complesso.

Jurij M. Lotman (1922-1993): fondatore della Scuola semiotica di Mosca-Tartu e indiscusso protagonista delle scienze del linguaggio del Novecento. Russo di nascita, ebreo di origini, Lotman visse la maggior parte della sua vita a Tartu, in Estonia, a seguito delle purghe pietroburghesi del 1949-’51. I suoi quarant’anni di ricerche interdisciplinari sui sistemi segnici hanno sancito la nascita della semiotica della cultura.

GHERLONE Laura (2019) “Letteratura di frontiera. Un caso didattico per l’Argentina”. In: Pierangela DIADORI & Laura MARRAZZO (Eds.), La Nuova DITALS Risponde 2, Roma: Edilingua, pp. 318—328, ISBN 978-889-935-851-8. , 2019

Per chi si occupa di letteratura (italiana e non), l´orizzonte di pensiero dischiuso da una visio... more Per chi si occupa di letteratura (italiana e non), l´orizzonte di pensiero dischiuso da una visione complessa e "planetaria" della realtà pone diverse sfide, giacché nell´articolazione del canone letterario la visione storicista di nazione ha giocato tradizionalmente un ruolo definitorio. Non solo. Uno sguardo rivolto, per così dire, verso l"interno" - alla ricerca d´una sorta di autodescrizione cultural-patriottica per mezzo della letteratura - rischia oggi di porre ai margini del canone fenomeni che invece ne rappresentano una parte vitale. È necessario, come ha scritto l´italianista polacca Hanna Serkowska, che oggi la letteratura «pensi contro se stessa, ammetta e pratichi la molteplicità e la contraddittorietà, sperimenti diversi e irriducibili modi e forme del raccontare, cambi di prospettiva, di ricerche di lingua». Questo contributo è dedicato a una letteratura in cerca dell´"altro", che vede nella frontiera lo spazio per riflettere creativamente sulla molteplicità e la contraddittorietà del nostro tempo.

“Sperimentalismo e cultura popolare italiana in Umberto Eco", AdVersuS. Revista de Semiótica, XV, № 35 (December), Buenos Aires: Centro di Ricerca Semiotica/Istituto Italo-Argentino di Ricerca Sociale, 2018, pp. 97—111, ISSN 1669-7588. , 2018

Può un libro incarnarsi? Divenire «memoria vegetale»? Essere frammento vivente dell’intelletto co... more Può un libro incarnarsi? Divenire «memoria vegetale»? Essere frammento vivente dell’intelletto collettivo culturale? «Tutti si voltarono a guardare Franti. E quell’infame sorrise»: così si inaugura (insieme a una citazione di Joyce sul music-hall) la prima raccolta di pastiches e parodie di Eco, Diario minimo, ricordando il furfantello Franti del romanzo Cuore di Edmondo De Amicis: un libro che formò almeno mezzo secolo di italiani e che Eco riprende nel suo terzultimo romanzo, La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana (in parte autobiografico), per sottolineare come un mero oggetto cartaceo fosse riuscito a educare al sacrificio, al patriottismo e alla guerra intere generazioni. Tanto nelle sue opere narrative quanto in quelle di riflessione teorica, Eco mette a nudo e decostruisce i congegni della «macchina narrativa», e lo fa ―com’è notorio― con uno sguardo omnicomprensivo, semiotico: i romanzi, i fumetti, i programmi televisivi, le canzoni diventano il campo di sperimentazione linguistico-testuale per addentrarsi nella cultura contemporanea e gettar luce su di essa. Di questo sguardo omnicomprensivo si è scelto qui di dedicare particolare attenzione all’interesse di Eco per la musica: un interesse che ―da Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) a Pippo non lo sa― è stato oggetto di analisi nella parabola letteraria dello scrittore italiano e un «pretesto» per sviluppare i temi a lui cari: la memoria, l’ironia e il riso, l’estetica del quotidiano nella cultura pop.

Can a book become incarnate? Become “vegetal memory”? A living fragment of the collective cultural intellect? “Everyone turned around to look at Franti, and that infamous boy was smiling”. This is how (together with Joyce’s quotation on music-hall) Eco’s first collection of pastiches and parodies, Diario Minimo (Misreadings), is introduced, recalling the little scoundrel Franti in Edmondo De Amicis’s novel, Cuore (The Heart of a Boy): a book that formed at least half a century of Italians and that Eco calls to mind in one of his last (partly autobiographical) novels, The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana, to underline how a mere paper object had managed to educate whole generations on sacrifice, patriotism and war. Both in his narrative works and those of theoretical reflection, Eco exposes and deconstructs the devices of the “narrative machine”, and does so ―as it is very well known―with an all-embracing, semiotic look. Novels, comics, television programs, and songs become his fields for linguistic-textual experimentation to penetrate and throw light on contemporary culture. With regard to this comprehensive look, this work pays particular attention to Eco’s interest in music, an interest that―from Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) to Pippo non lo sa―has been an object of analysis in the literary parable of the Italian writer and a “pretext” for developing those themes so dear to him: memory, irony and laughter, the aesthetics of everyday life in pop culture.

Olho D’água, 10(2) Jun–Dez, São José do Rio Preto: Universidade Estadual Paulista, 2018, pp. 163—176, ISSN 2177-3807., 2018

Dagli anni quaranta del Novecento le voci femminili nella letteratura italiana contemporanea si s... more Dagli anni quaranta del Novecento le voci femminili nella letteratura italiana contemporanea si sono prese uno spazio sempre più ampio, marcando la produzione letteraria con uno stile proprio. Spesso, però, anche quando si tratta di autrici già storicizzate (come Natalia Ginzburg o Elsa Morante), la loro presenza è ancora marginale a livello divulgativo: la maggior parte delle antologie che trattano la letteratura italiana del XX secolo e del primo quindicennio del XXI secolo si limitano ad accennare alla produzione artistica delle scrittici più note senza però dar conto del più ampio fenomeno della scrittura femminile: fenomeno di cui si occupa il presente contributo, con particolare attenzione per la koinè narrativa ebraica, a ottant’anni dalle leggi razziali fasciste.

Il silenzio della metafora, Sep 2013

Saying metaphorically the unspeakable, giving voice to what had to remain silent. This was the di... more Saying metaphorically the unspeakable, giving voice to what had to remain silent. This was the discursive strategy adopted by that particular collective subjectivity called Moscow-Tartu Semiotic School, birthplace of the so-called “semiotics of culture”. This paper retraces firstly the concept of cultural “subjectivity”, as dealt with by the School founder, Jurij M. Lotman, in his thirty years of theoretical reflections; and then it explains the relationship between this cultural subjectivity and the “silence”, as metaphorical-textual figure and scientific discursive stratagem used by the School in order to erode noiselessly the soviet epistemology.

Le Muse fanno il girotondo: Jurij Lotman e le arti , 2015

Partito da una visione formale e immanente di struttura testuale, con l’adozione di una prospetti... more Partito da una visione formale e immanente di struttura testuale, con l’adozione di una prospettiva sempre più marcatamente culturologica Lotman arrivò ad “aprire” il testo alla pragmatica della ricezione. Questo rappresentò un passaggio fondamentale poiché proprio lo studio dei meccanismi di interpretazione fece emergere la natura eminentemente dialogica dei risultati empirici della comunicazione umana: per mettere in moto la sua dinamica comunicativa, il testo – arrivò a sostenere Lotman – ha sempre bisogno di un altro, ossia di ricevere qualcosa dall’esterno (un altro contesto culturale, un’altra coscienza umana o anche semplicemente un altro testo).
Lotman passò dunque dalla ricerca delle tipologie culturali – ove il testo era concepito come deposito storico di codici in relazione tra loro sotto forma di reciproca dipendenza, secondo una logica distintiva/oppositiva – alla semiotica della cultura, ove un ruolo fondamentale venne assunto dall’“intraducibilità”. Questo concetto assunse un ruolo particolarmente rilevante negli scritti degli anni Ottanta-Novanta. Secondo Lotman, infatti, la semiosi culturale, in quanto processo dinamico, prende vita non certo da una comunicazione perfettamente simmetrica quanto piuttosto da quegli scarti semantici fra linguaggi che, al primo acchito, possono apparire delle imperfezioni nella traduzione inter- e intralinguistica, ma che si rivelano poi l’humus stesso della crescita informativa della cultura.
Lotman finì col raffigurasi la realtà conoscibile – la realtà fenomenica o culturale, in una parola: la semiosfera – come l’insieme spaziotemporale di mondi semiotici risultanti dalla complessa intersezione di strati testuali, a loro volta frutto di un rapporto rizomatico fra testi che tendono a tradursi con diversi gradi di successo.

Le Muse fanno il girotondo: Jurij Lotman e le arti, 2015

Indice INTRODUZIONE 8 Silvia Burini | Jurij Lotman e le arti: l'originalità come forma di coraggi... more Indice INTRODUZIONE 8 Silvia Burini | Jurij Lotman e le arti: l'originalità come forma di coraggio MODELLI DI APPROCCIO TRA PAROLA E IMMAGINE 20 Сергей Даниэль | Лотман о взаимоотношениях изображения и слова в художественных текстах 28 алекСанДр ДанилевСкий | Об актуальности аналитической методологии Лотмана в статье «Текст и структура аудитории» 40 laura Gherlone | La cultura come intreccio. Testo e testualità in Jurij Lotman DALLA SEMIOTICA DEL COMPORTAMENTO ALL'ESPLOSIONE 52 GiuSeppe BarBieri | Pinze e cacciaviti nel dibattito storico-artistico del secondo Novecento 62 Gianfranco Marrone | Le arti in cucina, girotondo in sala da pranzo 74 franciScu Sedda | Le poetiche del comportamento fra arte e vita quotidiana LA RETORICA ICONICA: ARTI VISIVE, ARCHITETTURA E CINEMA 90 Matteo Bertelé | La cartolina illustrata come modello dello spazio quotidiano sovietico 104 anGela MenGoni | Retorica esplosiva. Per una lettura lotmaniana di Adel Abdessemed 118 iSaBella pezzini | Ecce homo. La riflessione di Lotman tra icone, caricature e ritratti 132 НИКОЛАЙ ПОСЕЛЯГИН | Кинонарратология и кинофеноменология Лотмана

Gherlone, L. & Restaneo, P. (2023). The Soviet and the Post-Soviet in Dialogue with (Post-/De-)Colonial Studies. Special Issue. Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso.

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We particularly encourage reflection on key ideas such as Orientalism, imperialism, universalism, identity, minority, race and gender, addressing them from various disciplinary perspectives.

The year 2022 marks the centenary of the birth of Juri Lotman (1922–1993). For this occasion, and... more The year 2022 marks the centenary of the birth of Juri Lotman (1922–1993). For this occasion, and for the very first time, the journal "Lexia. Rivista Internazionale di Semiotica" devotes a special issue to such an internationally renowned scholar, semiotician, literary theorist and historian of Russian culture.
In the domain of semiotics, but also in the neighboring disciplines such as literature, cultural studies, history, cultural anthropology, as well as the arts, the name of Juri Lotman evokes a plethora of concepts. Textuality of culture, semiotic modelling, semiosphere, everyday behavior as a complex form of communication, typology of cultures, translation of untranslatable languages and cultural polyglotism, text memory, predictability and unpredictability in cultural processes, explosion, to mention but a few, have become Lotman’s unmistakable signature but also the “passing of the torch” to the new generations. Thus, Lotman’s anniversary is a unique opportunity to re-think the legacy of Lotman’s theoretical development in the twenty-first century and to contextualize his thought. It is also an opportunity to deepen, discuss and unpack the constellation of his ideas and track the numerous paths of investigation that his work has opened up, hinted or inspired throughout his life. In light of this, we invite contributions around the theme: “Re-thinking Juri Lotman in the Twenty-First Century”.
Re-thinking Lotman’s ideas in the precise historical moment we now dwell, takes on a very special meaning. Because humankind, indeed, lives and experiences an epoch of tremendous uncertainty and unpredictability, of explosive developments, fast and dramatic socio-environmental changes, not least the tragic experience of a global pandemic — a situation in which Lotman would undoubtedly see a collective crisis (or a widespread state of bewilderment affecting also, and perhaps first and foremost, the communicative sphere). In this perspective, a particularly productive path of investigation seems to be Lotman’s invitation to think about the world relationally.
Lotman’s kaleidoscopic mind, as it were, equipped him with a proclivity to cross disciplinary boundaries and to dialogue with the hard sciences. A case in point is the terminological and conceptual invention of “semiosphere”: a “toolbox” which was the result of a fruitful cross-pollinations of ideas and assumptions from biology to the humanities, which today, as yesterday, is still epistemologically very productive. It suffices to think of the cyberspace: the pervasive use of digital media, the increase of visual modes of communication, the rise of internet culture and the increasing connection between human, machine and environment don’t do anything but highlight the relational mesh that wholly binds living and non-living beings — that is, an idea that underlies the concept of semiosphere and that gives us a picture of Lotman’s far-sighted outlook. Most importantly, in his late reflections, by considering culture as a particular ecology of human society (marked by the symbiotic relationship between humankind and its surroundings), Lotman shows a profound awareness of the semiotically dense culture-nature relationship, against the background of growing concerns: how can one really account for “evolution”? What is the place of humans within the universe (or semiosphere)? Have we truly made the intellectual resources with which we are endowed flourish? When there was still no talk of Anthropocene, the Russian scholar had sensed that there was need for a new and ancient way of thinking and living (intelligentnost'), based on non-aggressive, non-hierarchical and polyvocal relationality . Especially in Lotman’s late works, culture becomes a term to express the mutual and circular communicative relationship of the human being with the universe that hosts and in-forms him/her, and that involves concepts such as dialogue, creativity, development of consciousness, tolerance, but also vulnerability and destruction (it is not surprising that Lotman speaks on several occasions of the weak, fragile, marginalized, defenseless, humiliated, despised subject).
Perhaps, we have not yet fully understood, analyzed nor integrally capitalized on such a perspective and foreseen its implications. Hence, the need to revisit Lotman’s thought, to recontextualize it in the contemporary world — a struggling world in search for new meanings and equilibria — and expand upon it. On the centenary of his birth, this issue of "Lexia. Rivista Internazionale di Semiotica" intends to embrace the Lotmanian legacy by exploring the anticipatory insights of this great thinker of the twentieth century with respect to a crisis that is above all the crisis of hierarchical, classificatory, consumption- and domination-oriented knowledge, where there is no room for contradiction, uncertainty, unpredictability and heterogeneity. Whilst it will be still essential to systematize Lotman’s ideas looking in retrospect, it will be equally important to branch out, extrapolate, and apply his ideas in new directions, the more so if we conceive of Lotman’s scholarship as an intellectual endeavor in progress, always on the verge of novelty.
The main topics of interest for this special issue, while not being exclusive, are the following:
1. Semiosphere, human agency, agency of the environment (living and non-living beings), materiality, interrelatedness and interconnectedness, mesh, collective (or communal) intelligence, digital sphere;
2. Interdisciplinarity and nature-culture binomial in Lotman’s thought also through a comparative exploration with other theorists;
3. Narrativization of the Anthropocene and the human-nonhuman relationship or human-machine-environment relationship (narratives and counter-narratives or parallel histories);
4. Historical discourse on evolution and civilization, entangled history and memory, semiotic forms (visual, architectural, etc.) of reproduction of vulnerability, affective sphere, explosion.

Tapia, María Nieves; Gherlone, Laura (2021) L'apprendimento-servizio nel mondo. Radici e obiettivi. Quaderni di Pedagogia della scuola, 1: 7-22.

L’articolo presenta il concetto di apprendimento-servizio solidale, inteso come un progetto, una ... more L’articolo presenta il concetto di apprendimento-servizio solidale, inteso come un progetto, una metodologia, una pedagogia e una forma specifica di ricerca della trasformazione della realtà. Si descrivono brevemente alcuni tratti caratteristici di questo movimento globale nella sua diversità in termini di radici teoriche e culturali, così come in termini di unità nelle pratiche e nel networking. Tra i dibattiti ancora in corso a livello globale, si presenta quello concernente la nozione di “servizio” come beneficenza o come solidarietà finalizzata alla trasformazione sociale.

Lexia, 2022

Anyone wishing to explore the universe of contemporary semiotics will necessarily have to reckon ... more Anyone wishing to explore the universe of contemporary semiotics will necessarily have to reckon with the founding father of the Tartu and Moscow school of semiotics, Juri M. Lotman (-). A specialist in modern Russian literature, comparatist and philologist, impeccable archival researcher, brilliant speaker and proli c writer, Lotman laid the foundations of contemporary semiotics, inaugurating the strand of research focused on the typological study of cultures, the semiotics of culture. Lotman's original contributions are also appreciable outside the boundaries of semiotics itself, testifying to the multifaceted nature of his thought. On the occasion of the centenary of Juri Lotman's birth, Lexia dedicates a special issue to this internationally renowned scholar. e legacy of Juri Lotman in the st century and the theoretical challenge it represents for the future generations of semioticians constitute the main subject of this volume.

Semiotica, Sep 17, 2016

Shortly before his death, Yuri Lotman (1922-1993), by now blind, dictated some considerations on ... more Shortly before his death, Yuri Lotman (1922-1993), by now blind, dictated some considerations on the concept of 'alien,' 'stranger' (chuzhdoe): a concept that de facto weaves all of his thirty-year reflections on the relationship between language, meaning, and culture and that, until the end, appears as the mark of a speculative orientation focused on the ethics of otherness. A profound influence on Lotman's thinking in this direction was exercised by two leading figures of the Russian intellectual tradition: the psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) and the philosopher, critic, and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975). It is no wonder the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School dedicated to them volumes IV (1969) and VI (1973), respectively, of the Trudy po znakovym sistemam, the review on sign systems launched in 1964 by the Department of Russian Literature of the University of Tartu. The horizon of otherness, and the consequent emphasis on the relational nature of man, fill in fact as much of Vygotsky's theoretical reflection on the human mind as does Bakhtin's on literary creation (slovesnost'). This article intends to explore the concept of "dialog" as thematized in Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's studies, theoretical roots of the Lotmanian idea of communication as a dialogical semiotic act.

Sign Systems Studies

While addressing the decolonial critique of Eurocentric modernity and the call for alternative co... more While addressing the decolonial critique of Eurocentric modernity and the call for alternative cosmo-visions, this article retraces Juri Lotman’s culturological exploration towards the concept of ternarity [тернарность]: the scrutiny of the so-called binarism is what connects – without overlapping – the two perspectives. This long-distance dialogue will be built starting with the key notion of binary opposition, which will be analysed as a decolonial problem (Part I) and as a culturological problem (Part II). The analysis will focus on two central issues that stem from the either-or logic: the “othering mindset”, and the culture–nature dualism.

¡MigrEmos! Emociones y migraciones en un mundo imago-céntrico

Política, afectos e identidades en América Latina

Durante o processo da Perestroika soviética, Iuri Lotman escreveu reflexões sobre o conceito de f... more Durante o processo da Perestroika soviética, Iuri Lotman escreveu reflexões sobre o conceito de fronteira. Como testemunhou migrações em massa, expulsões forçadas e reconfigurações etno-geográficas sem precedentes, sabia o quanto uma fronteira pode ser carregada de significado cultural que transcende sua dimensão espacial. Ter esse tipo de consciência era ainda mais urgente tendo em vista ser esse um período histórico de transição, reconstrução e abertura, quando as políticas linguístico-culturais poderiam ser um meio de promover integração e aceitação do "estrangeiro". Esta contribuição parte desse quadro histórico-conceitual e busca analisar um fenômeno cultural de interesse na literatura italiana contemporânea: a presença "intrusa" crescente de escritoras das antigas colônias que escolheram escrever suas obras em uma língua estrangeira, o italiano, usando a escrita como um campo de experimentação, hibridismo cultural e criação de um espaço discursivo público q...

La cultura fra alterità e complessità. La lezione di Jurij M. Lotman

Pensatore di punta della Scuola semiotica di Mosca-Tartu, Jurij M. Lotman (1922-1993) può essere ... more Pensatore di punta della Scuola semiotica di Mosca-Tartu, Jurij M. Lotman (1922-1993) può essere considerato il padre teorico della cosiddetta semiotica della cultura – prospettiva euristica che si identifica talvolta con la culturologia sovietica (kulturologija/Культурология) –. Grazie ai suoi studi sul mondo russo (dalla letteratura al cinema, dalla teoria sociale e comunicazionale alla storia del comportamento quotidiano o byt/быть), Lotman ha “accompagnato” l’universo culturale a lui contemporaneo nella transizione dal sovietismo al post. Gli scritti lotmaniani, stesi in pieno disgelo ideologico, sono una realtà particolarmente originale nel panorama umanistico sovietico per almeno tre motivi: 1) si radicano profondamente nella tradizione russa e, per questo, si configurano come una cultura liminale; 2) si aprono all’Europa, facendo penetrare il pensiero filosofico occidentale nelle pieghe di quello russo-orientale; 3) si presentano come una “strategia” scientifico-culturale sil...

Letteratura di frontiera. Un caso didattico per l'Argentina

La NUOVA DITALS risponde 2, 2019

Explosion

The Companion to Juri Lotman, 2021

Eikon / Imago, 2021

El presente artículo pretende indagar cómo, durante la explosión de la pandemia del COVID-19, la ... more El presente artículo pretende indagar cómo, durante la explosión de la pandemia del COVID-19, la esfera digital ha proporcionado un espacio afectivo para la manifestación del dolor colectivo frente a la muerte de multitudes de personas. Se hará particular referencia a una serie de imágenes viralizadas por las redes sociales durante los meses de febrero-abril de 2020 e interpretadas a la luz de la teoría de las Pathosformeln de Aby Warburg –imágenes que, usando el rostro patético como interfaz, han hecho visible y real el drama en curso, procurando un modelo de expresión universal de la compasión–. El artículo se divide en tres partes. En primer lugar, se introducirá la idea de “cultura imago-céntrica” para plantear un rasgo saliente de las sociedades contemporáneas. En segundo lugar, se destacará la actualidad del concepto de Pathosformel (nacido originariamente en la historia del arte) para explicar la asociación imagen-emoción que caracteriza el tiempo presente. En tercer lugar, s...

This study focuses on the role of spatiality in the semiotic making of society. Society functions... more This study focuses on the role of spatiality in the semiotic making of society. Society functions in and by interaction. It is created, maintained and designed in and by meaningful interaction, especially communication. At the same time, interactions are spatial and involve spatial semiotic systems. Interrelating organismic, social and cultural aspects of spatiality and interaction enable a multidimensional perspective on the making of society. The study integrates two domains in semiotics: sociosemiotics and the semiotics of space. I begin by outlining a framework for studying spatiality from a sociosemiotic perspective and end with an example of how participative governance (as a part of community-making) has been developed by employing spatial strategies in the city of Tartu, Estonia.

La cultura come intreccio

Le Muse fanno il girotondo: Jurij Lotman e le arti, 2019

Language and Historic Plots . LotmanÊs Critical Vision of Historic Text Constructions in the Russian Culture

At the end of his life, Lotman proposed to converge the cultural studies on the semiotics of hist... more At the end of his life, Lotman proposed to converge the cultural studies on the semiotics of history, as a science for an analysis of the Weltanschauung of the human unity [chelovecheskaja edinitsa] produced by a culture who has to make choices for the future, namely to open new paths. Through this perspective, he intends to deconstructs a such idea of historic track that influenced deeply the course of events in Russian world: idea which transformed the human unity „in an all-embracing totality‰ (Lotman 1991, p. 170). This paper intends to retrace LotmanÊs vision of history and his critical thought about logicargumentative strategies that underlie the historic text constructions. Particular attention will be given to the rhetoric-textual „contaminations‰ between the Russian idea of „history‰ and the European Hegelianism, cause of the imitation of the French Revolution in Russian – event that had repercussions up to the post-soviet world.

From binarism to ternarity: Yuri Lotman's theoretical vision of the post-Sovietism

In the early sixties, the Jewish-Russian philosopher gave life in Estonia–where he was exiled bec... more In the early sixties, the Jewish-Russian philosopher gave life in Estonia–where he was exiled because of his origins–to the academic axis Tartu-Moscow, becoming one of its maximum theorists and impressing in it an ethical habitus based (not coincidentally) on ...

Olho d'água, 2019

Dagli anni quaranta del Novecento le voci femminili nella letteratura italiana contemporanea si s... more Dagli anni quaranta del Novecento le voci femminili nella letteratura italiana contemporanea si sono prese uno spazio sempre piu ampio, marcando la produzione letteraria con uno stile proprio. Spesso, pero, anche quando si tratta di autrici gia storicizzate (come Natalia Ginzburg o Elsa Morante), la loro presenza e ancora marginale a livello divulgativo: la maggior parte delle antologie che trattano la letteratura italiana del XX secolo e del primo quindicennio del XXI secolo si limitano ad accennare alla produzione artistica delle scrittici piu note senza pero dar conto del piu ampio fenomeno della scrittura femminile: fenomeno di cui si occupa il presente contributo, con particolare attenzione per la koine narrativa ebraica, a ottant’anni dalle leggi razziali fasciste. Since the 1940s, female voices in contemporary Italian literature have taken a wider space, marking literary productions with their own styles. However, even when regarding renowned authors (such as Natalia Levi Gin...

EnglishCan a book become incarnate? Become “vegetal memory”? A living fragment of the collective ... more EnglishCan a book become incarnate? Become “vegetal memory”? A living fragment of the collective cultural intellect? “Everyone turned around to look at Franti, and that infamous boy was smiling”. This is how (together with Joyce’s quotation on music-hall) Eco’s first collection of pastiches and parodies, Diario Minimo (Misreadings), is introduced, recalling the little scoundrel Franti in Edmondo De Amicis’s novel, Cuore (The Heart of a Boy): a book that formed at least half a century of Italians and that Eco calls to mind in one of his last (partly autobiographical) novels, The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana, to underline how a mere paper object had managed to educate whole generations on sacrifice, patriotism and war. Both in his narrative works and those of theoretical reflection, Eco exposes and deconstructs the devices of the “narrative machine”, and does so ―as it is very well known―with an all-embracing, semiotic look. Novels, comics, television programs, and songs become his...

Olho d'água, 2019

Desde os anos quarenta do seculo XX, as vozes femininas na Literatura italiana contemporânea vem ... more Desde os anos quarenta do seculo XX, as vozes femininas na Literatura italiana contemporânea vem ocupando um espaco cada vez mais amplo, marcando a producao literaria com um estilo proprio. Ainda assim, frequentemente, mesmo quando se trata de autoras consagradas (como Natalia Ginzburg ou Elsa Morante), sua presenca ainda e marginal em nivel de divulgacao, pois a maior parte das antologias que tratam da literatura italiana do seculo XX e do inicio do seculo XXI se limitam a fazer mencao a producao artistica das escritoras mais notorias sem, no entanto, levar em consideracao o mais amplo fenomeno da escrita feminina, do qual este trabalho trata, com particular atencao a koine, narrativa judaica, no aniversario de oitenta anos das leis raciais fascistas. Since the 1940s, female voices in contemporary Italian literature have taken a wider space, marking literary productions with their own styles. However, even when regarding renowned authors (such as Natalia Levi Ginzburg or Elsa Moran...

Storie interrotte dalla lingua. Da alcuni scritti inediti di Jurij M. Lotman

espanolLa actitud hacia el dialogo y la adopcion de la distincion entre lo «propio» y lo «ajeno» ... more espanolLa actitud hacia el dialogo y la adopcion de la distincion entre lo «propio» y lo «ajeno» (svoe y cužoe) como un metodo de investigacion y discernimiento de la dinamica cultural, se ha traducido en los ultimos escritos lotmanianos en una cada vez mas pronunciada atencion por los mecanismos culturales de la traduccion, la resemantizacion de la memoria, la semiosis de las pasiones colectivas, la heterogeneidad del lenguaje humano y la alteridad como termino fundamental de la cultura. Por lo tanto el topic de este trabajo es el interes del «ultimo» Lotman por la dinamica de la historia, que se perfila como una mezcla de gradualidad e imprevisibilidad, de linealidad y ciclicidad, donde lo discontinuo es tan importante como lo continuo, frente a la vision hegeliana de la «unidad superior» de resolucion sintetica de las diferencias y la vision escatologica de la historia, a menudo traducida en la ideologia del pensamiento unico. Estas consideraciones han nacido despues de la experi...

Waiting for History. On the Eve of Explosion

Semiotica, 2015

Ciberculturas, 2019

El ciberespacio se presenta en la cultura contemporánea como un territorio complejo que habilita ... more El ciberespacio se presenta en la cultura contemporánea como un territorio complejo que habilita prácticas inéditas de representación para la relación identidad-otredad, a partir de la mediación digital de lo cognitivo, corporal, emocional y lingüístico-comunicativo potenciado semióticamente con el fin de plasmar esa tensión constitutiva de lo humano yootro. A partir del estudio de la cara digital (Leone 2018) y la semiótica de los emojis (Danesi 2016), y el abordaje del enlace específico que propone el videojuego entre jugador, avatar y mundo virtual, este artículo intenta sugerir claves de interpretación frente a las nuevas posibilidades semióticas del ciberespacio con respecto al problema de la identidad-otredad

Bakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso, 2019

Resumo Entre 1988 e 1993, Iúri M. Lótman formulou algumas proposições sobre “a voz da massa anôni... more Resumo Entre 1988 e 1993, Iúri M. Lótman formulou algumas proposições sobre “a voz da massa anônima”: uma voz coletiva que, em certas situacões ligadas a crises de caráter cultural, é portadora de paixões violentas que podem produzir interferências profundas no curso da história. Em seus últimos trabalhos, o semioticista russo postulou, diante disso, a noção de uma semiótica das emoções como objeto de estudo para entender a dinâmica cultural, em especial de períodos tidos como revolucionários ou de transição, a saber, quando a massa anônima é capaz de manipular os eventos ou quando, revendo o passado, confere aos eventos uma interpretação distorcida. Lótman focalizou, principalmente, a relação entre as grandes fraturas históricas, os mecanismos de autopropagação do medo e a criação cultural de bodes expiatórios. O presente estudo visa abordar a reflexão de Lótman sobre perseguição, com especial atenção à figura da mulher durante o fenômeno de caça às bruxas.