Papers by Ottavio Marzocca
Scienze del Territorio, Nov 26, 2023
The article traces back the intellectual and personal story of Alberto Magnaghi, identifying in i... more The article traces back the intellectual and personal story of Alberto Magnaghi, identifying in it a series of focuses that, before and beyond the memory, may be of seminal importance in guiding the development of eco-territorialist science.
Éditions Kimé eBooks, Sep 1, 2017
Many authors, although they express very different positions on the use of public property in def... more Many authors, although they express very different positions on the use of public property in defending common goods, in any case consider juridical rationality to be a fundamental tool in pursuing this aim. Therefore, they undervalue the supremacy that economic rationality is exercising today both on juridical rationality and the predominant ways of dwelling in the world. In this regard, it is not simply a question of replacing common goods as things with the common as a political principle. Indeed, the movements that claim the collective or public ownership of certain "things" also shed light on the crucial crisis of our dwelling relationship with the common world, first of all as a material world.
He has for many years been concerned with the contemporary French thought, Italian neo-Marxism an... more He has for many years been concerned with the contemporary French thought, Italian neo-Marxism and issues of geo-philosophy. He also has been working on the issues of governmentality and biopolitics. Furthermore, currently, he devotes his attention to the relationship between ethical and political issues and problems of space, the environment and territory. His most recent books are:
Soft Power: Revista Euro-Americana de Teoría e Historia de la Política, 2017
Sus intereses científicos han sido el pensamiento francés contemporáneo, el neomarxismo italiano ... more Sus intereses científicos han sido el pensamiento francés contemporáneo, el neomarxismo italiano y las problemáticas de la geofilosofía. Lleva trabajando desde hace muchos años sobre los temas de la gubernamentalidad y la biopolítica. Hoy día, se ocupa de la relación entre cuestiones ético-políticas y problemas del espacio, del ambiente y del territorio. Sus últimos trabajos son: Perché il governo,
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Apr 1, 2014
SCIENZE DEL TERRITORIO 1/2013 pag. 245 litical action of the free citizen and his access to land ... more SCIENZE DEL TERRITORIO 1/2013 pag. 245 litical action of the free citizen and his access to land as an agricultural resource, a typical feature of the Greco-Roman civilization. Tracing the parable of this relationship through the writings of authors such as Marx, Weber, Brunner and Smith, the main factors of its dissolution can be identified in the separation between 'rural lordship' and 'urban community' that occurred in the Middle Ages, and in the rise of the liberal market in which land was transformed into a commercial property and a means of unlimited production, whereas the state became a political authority which had to constantly satisfy the action of the 'invisible hand' .
Prisma, Aug 1, 2013
The environmentally and socially destructive effects of the global economy make it urgent that lo... more The environmentally and socially destructive effects of the global economy make it urgent that local territories and communities become fundamental contexts for forms of democracy and active citizenship that are aimed at sustainability. In this paper, I consider the supremacy of liberalism and neoliberalism over all other political cultures as one of the major obstacles for this perspective, because, historically, they have essentially limited the freedom of citizens to the pursuit of private interests, and the main function of governments to the promotion of the market economy. In this context, active citizenship aiming at trans-economic goals such as the defense of a territory as a common good, encounters radical difficulties in being politically legitimized, because it is irreconcilable with the idea of a public interaction between the interests that governments should politically represent and economically satisfy. Today, the prevalence of neoliberal policies makes this situation even more serious, since, on the one hand, they tend to address territorial problems primarily when they become environmental emergencies, while, on the other hand, they openly favor the eagerness of private economic players to pursue strategies of urban redevelopment and regeneration, aimed above all at making cities and regions economically competitive on the global scene. In order to regenerate the destiny of democracy and sustainability in such a framework, we need to answer questions like the following: is it possible today to promote and make permanent, democratic politics and governmental practices that are fully entitled to limit the autonomy of the economic?
Territori, 2023
Una costellazione di saperi per l'autogoverno e la cura dei luoghi come beni comuni Questo volume... more Una costellazione di saperi per l'autogoverno e la cura dei luoghi come beni comuni Questo volume ha come obiettivo lo sviluppo multidisciplinare del quadro concettuale e operativo della Società dei Territorialisti e delle Territorialiste (SdT), sintetizzato nel Manifesto della Società 1 e nel testo collettaneo Il territorio bene comune (Magnaghi 2012), sviluppato nei numeri della Rivista Scienze del Territorio (2013-2022) 2 e infine ripreso nel libro Il principio territoriale (Magnaghi 2020). Il volume nasce dall'invito a scrivere rivolto ai relatori di una Giornata di studi svoltasi a Firenze il 9 Giugno 2022, organizzata insieme a diversi Dottorati di ricerca italiani. 3 Molti di loro hanno accettato l'invito ed elaborato i testi che qui presentiamo. 1 V. <https://bit.ly/SdT-manifesto> (02/2023). 2 La lista completa dei numeri pubblicati si trova alla pagina <https://oajournals. fupress.net/index.php/sdt/issue/archive> (02/2023). 3 Nell'ambito del proprio convegno nazionale annuale, la Società dei Territorialisti e delle Territorialiste ONLUS ha promosso, il 9 Giugno 2022, una Giornata di studi sul tema "L'approccio eco-territorialista: principi e metodi". Essa si è svolta (in presenza e a distanza) presso la sede di Santa Teresa del Dipartimento di Architettura dell'Università di Firenze, ed è stata copromossa con i Dottorati di ricerca delle Università: • di Firenze, Sostenibilità e innovazione per il progetto dell'ambiente costruito e del sistema prodotto (Coordinatore prof. G. Lotti; Curriculum in Progettazione urbanistica e territoriale, Referente prof .Iacopo Zetti);
Foucault Studies, Jan 16, 2013
This article highlights that ancient philosophy regenerated the practice of parrêsia following th... more This article highlights that ancient philosophy regenerated the practice of parrêsia following the crisis into which it had fallen in the polis. Through this, it established a strong relationship between freedom, truth, and politics, constantly eluding the risk of using "true speech" as a tool of rationalizing the exercise of power. The primary outset for the argument will be the course held by Foucault in 1982-1983 (Le gouvernement de soi et des autres). The paper holds that philosophical parrêsia asserted itself as a practice that could not be anything but "transpolitical," while remaining similar to the ideal of freedom as active participation in public life-at least in the case of Socrates and the Cynics. According to Foucault, after a long period of disuse due to the predominance of theology and pastoral power, philosophical parrêsia was able to flourish in modernity. This occurred above all with Kant through the critical ontology of the present. On my part, I try to show how philosophical parrêsia in liberal society runs the risk of being neutralized by the predominance of economic "true speech" and by the prevalence of the idea of freedom as the pursuit of private interests. This is done by rereading certain indications provided by Foucault himself in his course of 1978-1979 (Naissance de la biopolitique). Moreover, in the last sections of this paper I suggest lines of research that could grasp the difficulties that philosophical parrêsia encounters in the age of neoliberal hegemony and global media coverage. 1
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