Az emlékezet szociológiája. A tudományos vizsgálódás főbb területei és problémái

A tanulmány az emlékezet szociológiájának kérdéskörét tekinti át; az egyéni emlékezet társas természete, a kollektív emlékezet, valamint a múlthoz való kulturális viszonyulás kapcsán röviden felvázolja a tudományos vizsgálódás főbb területeit és problémáit. A felsorolt kérdések ma elsősorban az idő szociológiájának perspektívájából relevánsak; a szerző bemutat néhány ebből fakadó elméleti problémát, valamint felvázol néhány olyan irányt, amelyben a továbblépés lehetséges. A fenti kérdések mindazonáltal a társadalmi diskurzusban, valamint az egyéni és kollektív emlékezetek formálásában is meghatározó szerepet töltenek be, jobb megértésük ugyanis nagyban elősegíti a társadalmi lét kontinuitásának és diszkontinuitásának tanulmányozását, illetve az aktuális konfliktusok és a kulturális kötődések vizsgálatát

Cinema europeo e memorie autocritiche

One way for debating about the European cultures is the analysis of the market of the cultural products. Among them, one of the most interesting points of view is that of the film market. Obviously, it is not easy to develop a debate on the “European cinema”. More than an half of the European films is an American production. The rest of the films is produced in the national borders. However, there is an interesting number of films produced in Europe that are viewed in other countries. About their stories, the theme of the memory is one of the most frequent in the last years. It is not only the individual memory, but, above all, the collective one. It is not in the sense of an attention for the problems of the disorientation or of the loss of the memory that modernization and de-traditionalization provoke, but in the sense of an attention for the removal process. They present this question in an autocritical point of view. They present stories also about the worrying past. After a recognition of the most famous European films of the last years, the paper stresses some of these films (produced in East and West European countries) and how they promote and present the autocritical memory

Moltiplicare la vita: Un’esperienza di lettura

Every narrative creates a new world. The pleasure of narrative is largely constituted by its capability of multiplying life. This is the main thesis of this short essay, based on field work with school teachers and young students. This kind of pleasure goes with some kind of knowledge: a knowledge referring to human experience and its range of possibilities. It is a kind of knowledge particularly useful for those committed both to social work and social sciences

Simmel sobre la memoria : Algunas observaciones sobre la memoria y la experiencia moderna

Publicado en la sección "Traslaciones".Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literari

Simmel sobre la memoria : Algunas observaciones sobre la memoria y la experiencia moderna

Publicado en la sección "Traslaciones".Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literari

Future as a horizon of expectations

Futures examines the relevance of futures studies to literary and social studies. It demonstrates how the growing interest in futures thinking is opening up multidisciplinary conversations and initiatives, examining historical and contemporary forms of futures knowledge, the methodologies and technologies of futures expertise, and the role played by different institutions on legitimising, deploying, and controlling anticipatory practices. Bringing together emerging perspectives on the future from diverse disciplinary perspectives including critical theory, design, anthropology, sociology, politics, and history, this book places the provocation of power at the heart of the book through an investigation of futures as both objects of science and objects of the human imagination, creativity, and will. A multidisciplinary team of contributors challenge and debate the varied ways in which futures are conjured and constructed, exploring issues as diverse as the utopian imagination, history and philosophy, literary and political manifestos, artefacts and design fictions, and forms of technological and financial forecasting, big data, climate modelling, and scenarios. The book positions the future as a question of power, of representations and counter-representations, and forms of struggle over future imaginaries. Forms of futures-making depend on complex processes of envisioning and embodiment. Each chapter investigates the critical vocabularies, genres, and representational methods - narrative, quantitative, visual, and material - of futures-making as deeply contested fields in cultural and social life