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Il paper riflette sull’atto di rivalutazione che Benjamin effettua di tutto ciò che viene conside... more Il paper riflette sull’atto di rivalutazione che Benjamin effettua di tutto ciò che viene considerato residuale e insignificante, riconoscendone un ruolo fondamentale nella comprensione e nella rappresentazione della realtà. Questa rivalutazione è stata individuata all’interno del pensiero del filosofo nei confronti di due principali categorie, quella dell’oggetto e quella dello spazio neutro, intermedio. Si analizza come queste due categorie di marginalità si ritrovino più volte in molti degli scritti del filosofo, e si riassumano infine nel contenuto e nella configurazione dell’opera dei Passages, in cui Benjamin presenta alcuni dei temi principali della sua filosofia. Il paper si conclude con una riflessione sul lascito del filosofo sulla contemporaneità, in particolare nell’ambito del design post-antropocentrico, in cui tutt’ora viene messa in discussione la centralità dell’idea del progresso e dell’essere umano stesso.
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A collection of articles and essays on the birth and developments of the photomontage technique. ... more A collection of articles and essays on the birth and developments of the photomontage technique. Writing and research assignment in the "History of visual communication" course at Politecnico di Milano.
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Il paper riflette sull’atto di rivalutazione che Benjamin effettua di tutto ciò che viene conside... more Il paper riflette sull’atto di rivalutazione che Benjamin effettua di tutto ciò che viene considerato residuale e insignificante, riconoscendone un ruolo fondamentale nella comprensione e nella rappresentazione della realtà. Questa rivalutazione è stata individuata all’interno del pensiero del filosofo nei confronti di due principali categorie, quella dell’oggetto e quella dello spazio neutro, intermedio. Si analizza come queste due categorie di marginalità si ritrovino più volte in molti degli scritti del filosofo, e si riassumano infine nel contenuto e nella configurazione dell’opera dei Passages, in cui Benjamin presenta alcuni dei temi principali della sua filosofia. Il paper si conclude con una riflessione sul lascito del filosofo sulla contemporaneità, in particolare nell’ambito del design post-antropocentrico, in cui tutt’ora viene messa in discussione la centralità dell’idea del progresso e dell’essere umano stesso.
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MA Thesis, 2023
The thesis deals with the collection of images that characterizes the design process mediated by ... more The thesis deals with the collection of images that characterizes the design process mediated by digital tools, especially with those applications that can be defined as “curatorial” projects. The diffusion of the Internet allows easy access to every kind of image, at the same time encouraging an uncontrolled scattering that tends to empty them of meaning and context. Moreover, the current socio-economic system requires the continuous production of new material, impacting both the environment and the already overloaded flow of visual culture. Therefore, in view of an ever-increasing visual “pollution”, it is important to define and value those practices that can give images context and a key to understanding. This can take place without having to create new ones but, in an increasingly topical perspective of “design ecology”, reusing those already available.
The reproduction of archival materials may therefore represent an important starting point for design projects, which can be based on the specific skills of visual professionals, or on the other hand, on the dissemination of digital tools that allow a productive use of images even outside the profession.
We intend to frame the practices of recontextualization and reuse of images implemented through social networks – Instagram specifically –, which facilitate the realization of collection projects and their dissemination to a potentially large audience. These practices are located on the one hand in the current pool of possibilities for actions on images and the tools that allow them (for which the design process of visual designers provides an interesting lens of analysis), on the other hand, in a tradition of historical and artistic applications of the principles of the collection and the montage of iconic material.
The value of these practices is recognized not as the production of marketable artifacts, but of narrations that reproduce in a new and authorial key residual elements from the visual culture past and contemporary, thus con- tributing to the construction of a discourse linked both to a perspective of “ecology of images”, as well as, more generally, to the questioning of temporal, productive and communicative models linked to an increasingly questionable and less sustainable system.
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The reproduction of archival materials may therefore represent an important starting point for design projects, which can be based on the specific skills of visual professionals, or on the other hand, on the dissemination of digital tools that allow a productive use of images even outside the profession.
We intend to frame the practices of recontextualization and reuse of images implemented through social networks – Instagram specifically –, which facilitate the realization of collection projects and their dissemination to a potentially large audience. These practices are located on the one hand in the current pool of possibilities for actions on images and the tools that allow them (for which the design process of visual designers provides an interesting lens of analysis), on the other hand, in a tradition of historical and artistic applications of the principles of the collection and the montage of iconic material.
The value of these practices is recognized not as the production of marketable artifacts, but of narrations that reproduce in a new and authorial key residual elements from the visual culture past and contemporary, thus con- tributing to the construction of a discourse linked both to a perspective of “ecology of images”, as well as, more generally, to the questioning of temporal, productive and communicative models linked to an increasingly questionable and less sustainable system.
The reproduction of archival materials may therefore represent an important starting point for design projects, which can be based on the specific skills of visual professionals, or on the other hand, on the dissemination of digital tools that allow a productive use of images even outside the profession.
We intend to frame the practices of recontextualization and reuse of images implemented through social networks – Instagram specifically –, which facilitate the realization of collection projects and their dissemination to a potentially large audience. These practices are located on the one hand in the current pool of possibilities for actions on images and the tools that allow them (for which the design process of visual designers provides an interesting lens of analysis), on the other hand, in a tradition of historical and artistic applications of the principles of the collection and the montage of iconic material.
The value of these practices is recognized not as the production of marketable artifacts, but of narrations that reproduce in a new and authorial key residual elements from the visual culture past and contemporary, thus con- tributing to the construction of a discourse linked both to a perspective of “ecology of images”, as well as, more generally, to the questioning of temporal, productive and communicative models linked to an increasingly questionable and less sustainable system.