La normatività di Marx. Critica immanente, etica e politica

The paper aims to provide a critical analysis of Marx’s normative conception, both in terms of his economicistc mistakes and in relation to the normative principles implied in his general theoretical framework. The attention is then focused on Marx’s immanent critique of capitalism, also in relation to the normative interpretation of socialism recently presented by Axel Honneth; the Author highlights as Marx’s concept of freedom is linked to the idea of liberation from forced labour

Sulla recezione italiana della teoria critica di Rahel Jaeggi

The paper aims to introduce some fundamental features of the Italian Reception of Rahel Jaeggi’s Critical Theory, moving from the present discussion of the collection of essays entitled Forme di vita e capitalismo edited by M. Solinas. The attention is focused in particularly on Jaeggi’s peculiar actualization of the Links Hegelian tradition on two main fields: 1) the critique of capitalism as a form of life; 2) the priority given to the ethical life (Sittlichkeit) and the connected adoption of the method of immanent critiqu

Foucault's Darwinian Genealogy

This paper outlines Darwin’s theory of descent with modification in order to show that it is genealogical in a narrow sense, and that from this point of view, it can be understood as one of the basic models and sources—also indirectly via Nietzsche—of Foucault’s conception of genealogy. Therefore, this essay aims to overcome the impression of a strong opposition to Darwin that arises from Foucault’s critique of the “evolutionistic” research of “origin”—understood as Ursprung and not as Entstehung. By highlighting Darwin’s interpretation of the principles of extinction, divergence of character, and of the many complex contingencies and slight modifications in the becoming of species, this essay shows how his genealogical framework demonstrates an affinity, even if only partially, with Foucault’s genealog

Diagnosi sociale e eudaimonia. Platone e Honneth

The paper is devoted to develop a connection between the Sozialphilosophie of Axel Honneth and Plato’s Republic. The main point is that Honneth’s research of a non formal theory of justice, connected with the idea of good life or eudaimonia, which permits a diagnosis of social pathologies, finds fecund confluences in the Plato’s doctrine

Cache Architectures for Wire-Delay Dominated CMP Systems

Increasing on-chip wire delay and growing off-chip miss latency, present two key challenges in designing large Level-2 (L2) CMP caches. Currently, some CMPs use a shared L2 cache to maximize cache capacity and minimize off-chip misses. Others use private L2 caches, replicating data to limit the delay from slow on-chip wires and minimize cache access time. Ideally, to improve performance for a wide variety of workloads, CMPs prefer both the capacity of a shared cache and the access latency of private caches. In this context, NUCA caches have been proved to be able to tolerate wire delay effects while maintaining a huge on-chip storage capacity. In this thesis, we investigate the choice of the coherence strategy (MESI and MOESI) and the whole system topology as design tradeoffs for S-NUCA based CMP system, and propose and evaluate a novel block migration scheme for DNUCA based systems, in which are addressed two specific problems that can arise due to the presence of multiple traffic sources. Results show that, in S-NUCA based CMP systems, choosing between MESI and MOESI has not a significant impact on performance, while the system topology can lead to very different behaviors. Block migration is introduced in NUCA cache to reduce access latency in a shared cache. Our results show that the migration mechanism is effective in reducing the average L1 miss latency, but the impact on performance is smaller, as a consequence of the very little L1 miss rate

Immanent Critique of Capitalism as a Form of Life. On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critical Theory

An immanent critique of capitalism as a form of life: this is one of the crucial points of the new critical theory proposed by Rahel Jaeggi, and it is to this conceptual point, which includes various themes, that the present special issue of Critical Horizons is mainly devoted. This special issue offers some considerations above all of Jaeggi’s programme aimed at developing the key features of an immanent critique of capitalism as a form of life – rather than on topics like alienation, solidarity or progress. More particularly, at the heart of our critical discussions there are five basic theoretical elements to this research programme: immanent critique, the critique of ideology, the critique of capitalism, the concept of form of life, and the economy in a wide sense. In so doing, in the pages of Critical Horizons we have continued the critical discussion started in a workshop held at the University of Parma in 2017, which started from five of Jaeggi’s essays devoted to these five topics, collected by Marco Solinas in a book entitled Forms of Life and Capitalism.5Introduction to the Special Issue of the journal "Critical Horizons" dedicate do Rahel's Jaeggi social philosoph

Elementi per una teoria critica delle regressioni

The essay aims to offer a critical theory of psychosocial processes of regressive and depressive type. The Author starts by discussing the determining influence attributed to social suffering in the framework of the moral grammar of social struggle outlined by Axel Honneth, then he offers an analysis of the regressive reactions activate by disrespect experiences. The Author discusses some important points of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, in particularly Benjamin’s critique of traditional concept of progress, and the determining role attributed to suffering; points that are translated and moved in the framework of the analysis of regressive processes. Lastly, the Author shows how a critical theory that aims to reactivate the emancipatory potential immanent in the social suffering today frustrated may find an incisive and productive approach in a critical analysis of regressions. Il saggio mira ad offrire una teoria critica dei processi psicosociali di taglio regressivo e depressivo. L’autore muove dalla centralità attribuita alla sofferenza sociale nel quadro della grammatica morale delle lotte sociali delineato da Axel Honneth, concentrandosi poi sulle reazioni di carattere regressivo indotte dalle esperienze di spregio. Segue la ripresa di alcuni punti fondamentali della filosofia della storia di Walter Benjamin, in particolare della sua critica alla concezione tradizionale di progresso, e la sua peculiare valorizzazione della sofferenza; spunti tradotti e traslati nell’ambito dell’analisi dei processi regressivi. Infine, l’autore mostra come una teoria critica che voglia riattivare i potenziali emancipatori immanenti alla sofferenza sociale oggi frustrati possa trovare un approccio incisivo e fecondo in una analisi critica delle regressioni