Papers by Delio Salottolo
S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2023
Starting from the horizon of ethical, economic, political and climatic crisis that characterises ... more Starting from the horizon of ethical, economic, political and climatic crisis that characterises our epoch, this essay aims to propose an analysis of the concept of revolution and its positioning among the fundamental concepts that define the conditions of possibility of the historical and temporal experience of the human in Modernity. The exploration moves from Platonov’s novel, Čevengur, in which it is possible to explore the constraints and possibilities of the concept of revolution in Modernity, its complex reasons and contradictions, and then to propose a reconstruction of what we define as the first two epochs of this conceptualisation, starting from the indications of Koselleck and Marramao. In the conclusions, we move from Bruno Latour’s reflection and try to go beyond our never having been modern, to try to define the contours of a possible third epoch of the concept of revolution, in which we need to rethink the very structures through which we think about our belonging to the world and time.
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DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), 2021
Faced with the current pandemic situation, many thinkers examined not only the relationship betwe... more Faced with the current pandemic situation, many thinkers examined not only the relationship between the political dimension and the present health emergency, and the related social and economic transformations, but also and above all the changes in the construction of identity and the self-perception that it has determined and will continue to determine. Giorgio Agamben and Byung-Chul Han, although starting from different analyses (disciplinary society / performance society), agree on the return and on the tightening of devices that limit personal freedoms. The provocative question from which we are starting is whether neoliberalism really wants a pandemic. The answer is particularly complex and is divided into three passages: the first part, in fact, is critically confronted with Agamben’s reflection; the second part starts from the analysis of Byung-Chul Han’s thought, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses; in the last part, the fallout from the point of view of identity processes is discussed above all through a critical analysis of the paradigms of resilience and victimization.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2019
HUMAN, ALL TOO (LITTLE) HUMAN? The expression "Anthropocene" hit the headlines when the... more HUMAN, ALL TOO (LITTLE) HUMAN? The expression "Anthropocene" hit the headlines when the chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Jozef Crutzen on 22nd February 2000, during a meeting of the scientific committee of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP), interrupted the interlocutors using for the first time this word, the only one capable of defining the impact that the human species is having on the environment and on the biosphere. From that moment an important debate appares and it immediately went beyond the boundaries of the hard sciences to flow into different fields, from epistemology to anthropology, from philosophy to sociology of science, passing through economics and politics. The dossier of the n. 21/2019 of S&F_ intends to examine the expression "Anthropocene" as a concept that refers both to an insufficiency of human being as we know it faced with the crisis of the Modernity and its superabundance – an excess of intervention, in the sense o...
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2020
How long can a culture persist without the new? TINA and the research of a "cosmology" ... more How long can a culture persist without the new? TINA and the research of a "cosmology" worthy of the Anthropocene The essay intends to analyze the possibility of building/imagining a new cosmology in the time of the Anthropocene. This will be the path: first, deconstructing the mainstream and fashionable narrative of the Anthropocene, highlighting all the ideological aspects whose it is formed, consciously and unconsciously; secondly, showing the limits of the ability to make philosophy and to imagine the new because of "capitalist realism", which represents an asphyxiating, pervasive and all-encompassing imagine of reality; finally, outlining the profile of a new cosmology, capable of reactivating the power to imagine and act, beyond the TINA (there is no alternative) and in order to create the radically new, the only possible way out of the suffocating atmosphere of the fashionable Anthropocene and of "capitalist realism".
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2012
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2017
The Power venerated for its Impotence: Pierre Clastres and the "savage" (An)Archaeology... more The Power venerated for its Impotence: Pierre Clastres and the "savage" (An)Archaeology of the Political The paper aims to analyse the crux of the reflection of the anthropologist Pierre Clastres within the discursive regime of late modernity: is a stateless society really conceivable? And the image of a non-coercive power that goes beyond the image of Western power as a connection between command and obedience? A journey within a splendid dream, that of the most mature anthropology, and a reflection that places us before a very particular answer to those that are the two fundamental questions of modernity: what is man and what is society.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2013
There was a time when the study on the origin of human verbal language caused scandals and prohib... more There was a time when the study on the origin of human verbal language caused scandals and prohibitions, as in 1866 when the Société de Linguistique de Paris forbade to present contributions on this issue. Nowadays, instead, this is one of the more controversial and widely studied topics, as if this question would hide some additional value, something that deals with the deep meaning of mankind and with its place in the world. Thus, since fossils can't speak, and even the monkeys, which are so close to us, do not seem to have any intention to do it, biologists, neuroscientists, palaeontologists, and philosophers discuss about it.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2011
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2019
Living with the Robots. A Conversation about social Robotics This interview aims at focusing some... more Living with the Robots. A Conversation about social Robotics This interview aims at focusing some aspects of an intriguing discipline known as social Robotics. In particular, we try to get familiar with concepts and philosophical frameworks which deal with this new human enterprise. Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano will help us to get in contact with a scenario in which emotions, reason and ethics will be partially revised by a somehow different perspective about human-robot interaction and sociality.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2017
Life and The Useful: the Parable of the Sow The notion of life and the notion of utile represent ... more Life and The Useful: the Parable of the Sow The notion of life and the notion of utile represent a sort of paradigm of modernity: the conflict that invests them can be deconstructed to show the trend lines of our time. The individual/property/contract triad undergoes a fundamental decentralization that leads to a rethinking of political categories of modernity. La limite de l'utile, the invention of the human person and the multiple overflow of life, even in terms of belief in freedom, are the essential keys to this path, according to seraphic Durkheim and extreme Bataille.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2016
THE "NEUROSCIENCE OF THE RACE". REMARKS ON NATURE, CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY In this paper w... more THE "NEUROSCIENCE OF THE RACE". REMARKS ON NATURE, CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY In this paper we intend to analyse the topic of the "Neuroscience of the race" and the relationship between "nature" and "culture" in this respect. After analyzing an important paper on the topic by Jennifer T. Kubota, Mahazarin R. Banaji and Elizabeth Phelps, the key issue is here identified as the mechanism that produces the relationship between nature and culture in late modernity. The path that will be followed is divided into three stages: first, we will analyze the relationship between the "Neuroscience" and the so‐called "human nature"; second, we will approach the relationship between "Neuroscience" and "medical device" by analyzing the theoretical, practical and political roles of the medical concept of "prevention"; finally, will touch upon the "centrifugal" aspect of human being that emerges from such s...
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2019
The extended Experience. Reflections on the Anthropocene The debate on the so-called Anthropocene... more The extended Experience. Reflections on the Anthropocene The debate on the so-called Anthropocene represents the emergence of a problematization that calls into question the whole system of modernity, which is to be understood as a combination of reflective rationality and a capitalist mode of production. The essay intends to analyze the contradictions that arise from the "discovery" of the Anthropocene: that between anthropocentrism and post-anthropocentrism, and that between origin and outcome of modernity. If Latour's studies are important to understand the epistemological status of unfinished modernity, we must go to the material origin of the problem and understand the implications of the capitalist and modern world-ecology. Once the places of the emergency of the problematization have been identified, it is possible to think about an intervention in reality that has at its center the dynamics of the conflict and the determination of an extended experience.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2014
In this paper we intend to analyze the devices and conceptual strategies fielded by Claude Bernar... more In this paper we intend to analyze the devices and conceptual strategies fielded by Claude Bernard, trying to figure out what was the contribution of the physiologist to the life sciences and vitalistic metaphysics of our time. The basic idea is that the originality and importance of his work consists not so much in the experimental method applied to living organisms, but rather in having inserted old and new concepts within an epistemological framework expertly re‐determined. The analysis will focus on a few key points – the re‐ positioning of the dichotomy vitalism/mechanism, the question of heredity and individual variation, the analysis of the level of "latent life" and the relationship between physiology and morphology – and the horizon within which will be included will be that of the dialectic between conditions and expressions.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2013
In this essay we analyze more philosophico the impact of the research on the origin of human verb... more In this essay we analyze more philosophico the impact of the research on the origin of human verbal language. Starting from suggestions deriving from the work of Agamben and Lévi-Strauss, two discontinuists, we face a double contradiction. The first relates to the inability to define the birth date of human language and of human world. This consideration makes us suspect that behind the passion for this issue there is a hidden need. The second concerns the mix of fascinans and tremendum linked to human mutism, which suggests, from the dominator point of view, an attitude to human animalization, and, from the dominated point of view, a form of resistance or survival instinct. Under these lenses we will read the enfant sauvage by Itard and the Foe by Coetzee. Finally we will discuss the issue of the need for origin as modern mankind melancholia and as unresolved tension towards the future.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2018
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF (AND "US") IN THE TIME OF DATAISM The essay intends to analyze... more THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF (AND "US") IN THE TIME OF DATAISM The essay intends to analyze some elements concerning the crux of the construction of Self (and "Us") in the age of the so-called Dataism. The analysis moves, first of all, from epistemological considerations, and then goes on issues concerning the crux of identity and subjectivation within the conceptual couple Neoliberalism/Dataism: taking the cue from the observations of Goffman and Foucault, we intend to identify the heart of the problem within the impossibility of a narrative and temporalized construction of Self. The conclusions will attempt critical work around the notion of Populism as a dominant political aspect in the age of Dataism.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2012
The aim of this article is to show how important is the idea of "apocalypse" in the pre... more The aim of this article is to show how important is the idea of "apocalypse" in the present age and discuss if it is possible to develop any strategies of "survival". After discussing some elements of de Martino's thought about the temporal, psychopathological and political meaning of "apocalypse", we'll analyze the sense of Lars von Trier's Melancholia as a symptom of the contemporary situation. After that, we'll point out the importance of 11/9, the biggest and most shocking event of our time, debating the opinions of Baudrillard and Girard. Both thinkers consider 11/9 a fundamental event in order to understand the meaning of our time, Baudrillard debating the problem of our virtual society and Girard talking about the signs of a next "apocalypse". Finally, we'll try to introduce the concept of a "politics of survival", such as it has been recently discussed by Didi-Huberman in his important book, Survivance des...
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L'articolo intende analizzare la relazione tra la riflessione del fondatore della clinica mod... more L'articolo intende analizzare la relazione tra la riflessione del fondatore della clinica moderna Claude Bernard e la letteratura di Emile Zola. Partendo dalla riflessione del medico francese e passando per la “scena” del laboratorio (Bernard, ma anche Charcot) e la costruzione di cio che puo essere definito “personaggio fisiologico”, si cerca di identificare allo stesso tempo la trasformazione nella lettura del (e nello “sguardo” sul) fenomeno umano, avutasi a partire dalla rivoluzione della biologia moderna, e il passaggio determinante per la costruzione del “protagonista” del grande romanzo moderno. The paper aims to analyse the relationship between the thought of the founder of the modern clinic Claude Bernard and the literature of Emile Zola. Starting from the “philosophy” of the French clinician and passing through the “scene” of the laboratory (Bernard, but also Charcot) and the construction of what can be defined as “physiological character”, the paper tries to identify ...
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2019
Considerations on the concept of world and of relationship to the world in the age of Anthropocen... more Considerations on the concept of world and of relationship to the world in the age of Anthropocene: essay on XXI century philosophy The essay intends to analyze the notion of "world" and "relationship to the world" as a crucial problem connected to the symbolic, economic and ecological crisis. The reflection starts from the analysis of the complex notion of "Anthropocene" (and why it should be conserved) and from the analysis of the notion of "world" (and why it should be conserved as a "relationship to the world"). The essay then proposes four theses on how to understand the "world" and the "relationship to the world" through a critical discussion especially with the theories of Bruno Latour, Quentin Meillassoux and Donna Haraway. The development of the essay leads to the central question of the need for conflict and for overcoming of the modern imaginary and the capitalist mode of production as the only possible...
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language caused scandals and prohibitions, as in 1866 when the Société de Linguistique de Paris forbade to present contributions on this issue. Nowadays, instead, this is one of the more controversial and widely studied topics, as if this question would hide some additional value, something that deals with the deep meaning of mankind and with its place in the world. Thus, since fossils can’t speak, and even the
monkeys, which are so close to us, do not seem to have any intention to do it, biologists, neuroscientists, palaeontologists, and philosophers discuss about it.
Biosphere Program (IGBP), interrupted the interlocutors using for the first time this word, the only one capable of defining the impact that the
human species is having on the environment and on the biosphere. From that moment an important debate appares and it immediately went beyond the boundaries of the hard sciences to flow into different fields, from epistemology to anthropology, from philosophy to sociology of science, passingmthrough economics and politics.
The dossier of the n. 21/2019 of S&F_ intends to examine the
expression “Anthropocene” as a concept that refers both to an insufficiency of human being as we know it faced with the crisis
of the Modernity and its superabundance – an excess of intervention, in the sense of expropriation, exploitation and destruction of Nature, Earth and Other.
became the epicenter of an unprecedented health
crisis. SARS-CoV-2 is marking a watershed
moment for sapiens. On the one hand, we are
facing the most serious health emergency of the
21st century, on the other hand we are beginning
to experience the negative effects of our
development models that do not take into account
the welfare of non-human animals and the
systemic effect that our actions have on the
balance of the biosphere. In the contributions
hosted in this Dossier, the plurality of issues
raised by SARS-CoV-2 comes to light clearly and
distinctly. From bioethical questions to
biopolitical issues, including an in-depth
examination of the effects that the pandemic is
having on society and on the capacity for selfperception
of sapiens, we try to shed light on
the countless consequences that this pandemic
is bringing with it.