XXV World Congress of Philosophy: PHILOSOPHY ACROSS BOUNDARIES (2024)

ROSSONI-NOTTER E., NOTTER O., SIMONP. et SIMONE S. « Comportements techniques des acheuléens de la grotte d’Aldène (Cesseras, Hérault, France) », Session B10-The interglacialHolsteinian eldorado and the onset of the Middle Palaeolithic (400-300 ka), UISPP, Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques, International Union of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Unión Internacional de CiencasPrehistoricas y Protohistoricas, 1er au 7 septembre 2014,Burgos (Espagne)

Celiberti, Vincenzo, Barroso Ruíz, Cecilio,Grégoire, Jiménez-Cobos, Francisca Cauche, Dominique, Notter, Olivier Rossoni-Notter, Elena García Solano, José Antonio Moigne, Anne-Marie

In una memoria inviata ai delegati del Terzo Congresso degli Scienziati Italiani riunitosi a Firenze nel 1841, Filippo Parlatore (1816-1877) propose un rinnovamento generale della sistematica botanica e degli studi fitogeografici, in risposta allo stato di degrado delle collezioni botaniche italiane. Questo cambiamento richiedeva una nuova politica di incremento delle collezioni allora esistenti: è con questo obiettivo che nel 1842, a Firenze, nacque l’Erbario Centrale Italiano (Herbarium Centrale Italicum), di cui Parlatore fu primo Direttore. Uno dei grandi sostenitori di questo progetto fu il botanico e naturalista inglese Philip Barker Webb (1793-1854), che promise in lascito la sua enorme raccolta botanica conservata a Parigi. L'intervento ricostruisce il soggiorno parigino di Parlatore e le fasi di preparazione della collezione per la spedizione a Firenze nel 1856.

With this intervention, I would like to undertake a revaluation of the concept of matter from the philosophical perspective of Gilbert Simondon and Mikel Dufrenne, taking Merleau-Ponty's concept of Nature as an ontological framework. The aim is to rethink the expressivity proper to the material dimension of Nature, grasped from what Merleau-Ponty proposes as the ontological rehabilitation of the sensible.Taking as my starting point some Merleau-Pontian reflections on the material object, understood as a stream of relations, I will try to explain how his late philosophy lays the foundations for an ontological rethinking of our material involvement in the world. This perspective set the field within which certain resonances between Simondon's and Dufrenne's philosophy regarding the notion of matter can emerge.I will first dwell on Simondon's philosophy, pointing out how a reconsideration of the technical object, caught in its process of concretization, is inconceivable with a merely human understanding of agentivity. The technical modulation that man imposes on Nature is possible only because matter already carries its own contingent structure and energetic charge. To explore these aspects, I will consider Simondon's critique of hylomorphism elaborated in Individuation, and some passages from Du mode d'existence des objets techniques, in which the inexhaustible anchoring of objects to the natural dimension is highlighted.Thereafter, I will consider Dufrenne's philosophy, illustrating how his reflections are based on a pre-theoretical affective understanding of our relationship with materiality. In this perspective, I will consider some passages from Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique, in which the author describes the aesthetic objects as quasi-subjects, thus proposing a reconsideration of the material from the point of view of its inherent expressivity.In conclusion, by explaining some conceptual intersections that weave Simondon's and Dufrenne's approaches, I propose to reconsider matter as always affectively, sensibly, and thus expressively connoted. In this regard, to consider the expressivity of matter is to reconceive it as a generative source of meaning, thus questioning the very foundations of cultural practices. Therefore, the actual status of philosophy itself is at stake, making crucial a reassessment of our expressive involvement in the material layer of experience.

Convegno SISS 2024. Book of Abstract, 2024

Il contributo ha per oggetto il genere bibliografico dei libri interattivi anatomici e cosmografici, come veicolo delle nuove conoscenze scientifiche fondate sul primato della visione. Nei trattati anatomici e cosmografici cinquecenteschi si riflette, infatti, la delicata transizione in atto fra la scienza antica e la scienza moderna, rappresentata – com’è noto - da due figure emblematiche, Andreas Vesalius e Niccolò Copernico. Vesalius, in particolare, inaugura un’innovativa stagione epistemologica fondata sulla scomposizione e ricomposizione dell’oggetto osservato (il corpo umano), dando vita alla nuova tipologia bibliografica del libro illustrato e interattivo. Vesalius e Copernico sono gli autori che preludono al cambio di paradigma della rivoluzione scientifica, sebbene le teorie di quest’ultimo avrebbero tardato ad affermarsi. Tuttavia, a partire da Regiomontanus e poi con Petrus Apianius, anche la vecchia scienza astronomica avrebbe scoperto strumenti innovativi di comunicazione scientifica che, grazie alla sinergia tra autori, tipografi e illustratori, avrebbero aperto nuove frontiere di consumo dell’oggetto libro e inedite modalità didattiche di trasmissione della conoscenza scientifica. L’inserimento negli apparati paratestuali di espedienti cartotecnici come flap* (nei trattati anatomici, per rivelare realisticamente la complessa topografia del corpo umano) e volvelle** (in quelli astronomici, per calcoli di misurazione del tempo e del movimento degli astri) avrebbe introdotto il lettore in una narrazione per immagini, un viaggio interattivo di intima comprensione fenomenica all’interno di uno spazio “virtuale” di auto-apprendimento. La dimensione multimodale dei libri interattivi, che oggi definiremmo a “realtà aumentata”, finì per alterare il rapporto autore-testo-lettore, travalicando i limiti della testualità e attivando differenti codici di fruizione (lettura, visione, manipolazione, interazione).

Mercoledì 17 Dicembre, h. 11, Aula VUniversità di Roma La SapienzaDipartimento di Studi Greco-latini, italiani, Scenico-Musicali

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Finding Room for Religion and Mysticism in Trans-/Posthuman Philosophies.(4H).The “horizontal” dimension of the posthumanist reflection on the equal dignity between all living beings – which together constitute “life” understood as “zoe”, without prevarications, hierarchies or privileges of species –, leads to what we could call an “immanent mysticism”. Within the posthuman “mysticism of immanence”, one can paradoxically find strong similaritiesor analogies with some mystical/religious experiences belonging to various traditions, even very distant in terms of place or time. Inside the neo-materialist framework of Transhumanism and, even more so, of Posthumanism – radically anti-hierarchical and anti-dualist –, we wantto highlight the points in common and the main differences with both the mystical doctrines of the Western tradition (Franciscanism, Meister Eckhart, the speculation about the doctrines of kenosis etc.) and some oriental religious traditions (Buddhism, Jainism, etc.). These comparativeanalyses raise many challenging questions: is a “not exclusively materialistic” posthumanism possible? To what extent can we speak of openess to a “spiritual” dimension within the many trans-/posthumanist proposals? This also raises the question of whether there is still room for theproprium of religious experience within trans/posthumanist movements and by virtue of what this room can find its own justification.

« La presencia fotográfica en la novela gráfica: ¿reflejo de la cultura visual contemporánea o distanciamiento crítico? », Congreso Internacional de Cultura Visual, Global Knowledge Academics, Rome, mai 2018.