Philology and Anarchy

La filologia, nata in epoca moderna come opposizione all’oscurantismo e al dogmatismo sui testi sacri, ha perduto via via questa sua vocazione libertaria, sostituendosi di fatto all’autorità che avrebbe dovuto combattere. Questo saggio, in forma di semplici appunti, mette provocatoriamente in luce quali potrebbero essere, negli anni futuri, le prospettive di una filologia che non rinunci ai propri originari slanci eversivi.Philology, born in opposition to obscurantism and dogmatism in the Scriptures, progressively lost this libertarian vocation, and ended up replacing the authority that it had intended to contrast. This article, in the form of a memorandum, provocatively points out the possible future perspectives of a philology able to maintain its original subversive impulse.Humanidade

L’edizione del “Tristan et Lancelot”. Ovvero: sull’utilità e il danno delle edizioni critiche

A Clemente Mazzottain memoriam Parte prima: sull’utilità e il danno delle edizioni critiche Comincio questo mio intervento, rovesciando il titolo che gli ho voluto dare, con una confessione franca: se non fosse per il ricordo di due bei giorni trascorsi a Torino lo scorso febbraio, nel trasogno di cose solo mie, e per l’amabile ospitalità delle organizzatrici del colloquio sul nostro Pierre Sala, non avrei accettato di spedire un mio contributo per questi atti congressuali. La ragione è sempl..

Questioning data and data becoming: Rhizomatic data-trail experimentations with bridge/briging

In the current presentation, we pose a series of questions and share provocations on how qualitative researchers interact with data and how data traces research possibilities. We play – follow our ambitious wonderings about data – with researchcreation possibilities to interrogate how data may become in various forms and timespaces. In our work, we depart rhizomatically from the inspiration we had during past experiences of data trails, i.e., a specific mode of thinking and doing for research-creation possibilities. These experiences with experimentation make us question research practices and the discourses around them; they invoke us to ponder a series of ethical-onto-epistemological turns with data. In this presentation, we let the concept of “bridge/bridging” help us with this pondering. Additionally, we share and create provocations about data without any ambition to solve ‘the data question”. Rather, we approach the question about data and their functions as we propose a series of wonderings and data points with the hope of inspiring colleagues to debate about data. The session is, eventually, an offer for an alternative reading of data

Data Becomings: Bridge/Bridging Data-Trails in Qualitative Inquiry

This article plays with research-creation possibilities to interrogate data, data trails, and their becomings in qualitative inquiry. It arises through the inspiration of the authors’ experiences in experimenting with data-trails: a specific mode of thinking-doing for speculative research-creation possibilities. By placing these experiences alongside conventional discourses and protocols of research practice, the article ponders on a series of ethico-onto-epistemological questions about data becomings. We wonder about how qualitative researchers find and trace interconnected data? We approach this timeless question and adopt the concept of bridge/bridging to help us in considering the ontological sites that such data-trail research-creation possibilities afford

Prediction performances of portable near infrared instruments for at farm forage analysis

The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to analyze maize silage with a portable instrument. The instrument was a Zeiss Corona 45 working between 960 and 1700 nm which was used in Italy, Czech Republic and Poland. Best prediction performances were obtained using the Italian data set. Prediction error were 1.0, 0.16 and 0.4 respectively for DM, CP and NDF on a as is basis. With the instrument from Poland and Czech Republic there were lower accuracy of prediction compared to the Italian dataset, probably for their limited (less than 100 samples) calibration data set. Merging all the data set improved prediction accuracy for CP but not DM. It would appear that some form of instrument standardization is needed before merging data set

Linguistica, etnolinguistica, dialettologia (vol. 1 di Il giro del mondo in ottanta saggi. Scritti scelti di linguistica, filologia ed etnofilologia)

Ottanta saggi per una filologia terracquea e libertaria, concepita come cartografia, viaggio di esplorazione, a scapito delle filologie formali e nazionali e a vantaggio di una filologia del mondo, simile in parte alla Philologie der Weltliteratur, la \u201cfilologia della letteratura mondiale\u201d, propugnata da Erich Auerbach. Tra indagini etnodialettologiche ed etnofilologiche, quest\u2019opera intende testimoniare anzitutto quella stessa voracit\ue0 e curiosit\ue0 che animarono, al suo nascere, la grande tradizione filologica ottocentesca, indicando possibili direzioni di indagine verso territori en plein air in genere poco battuti dai filologi

Recensione di P. Mac Cana, The Cult of the Sacred Centre. Essays in Celtic Ideology [Dublin, Institute for Advanced Studies, 2011]

Lo studio di Mac Cana offre spunti interessanti per le concezioni sciamaniche dell'Europa preistorica; la recensione ne mette in evidenza la portata epistemologiv

The 90th Birthday of a Revolutionary

Un breve ritratto del glottologo Mario Alinei scritto per il suo novantesimo compleann