Maurizio Vito

The New Italian Epic: Un'ipotesi di Critica Letteraria, e d'Altro

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Conversazione con Wu Ming 1

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Teoria e pratica in un "tempo devastato e vile"

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Spettri di Wu Ming

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A Discursive Construct of XXI Century: The New Italian Epic

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Ch 3: Sea and Land: Domains of Power

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Ch 2 The Political Agency: The Helmsman

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Ch 1 The Sea, the Land, the Community, the Individual

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My dissertation analyzes the political unconscious of the metaphors of sea and land in works that range from Hesiod to Carl Schmitt, it is a study of how these metaphors, singly and in the interplay between them, are scattered through a wide variety of discourses. It examines the influence that cultural contexts exert on the allegorization of sea and land from ancient Greeks and Romans (Alcaeus, Virgil, Horace, first chapter) to the Italian Renaissance epic (Orlando Furioso and Gerusalemme Liberata, second chapter), and in the “Mediterranean question.” While the third chapter analyzes how nomos – a notion that concerns lawmaking authority and land-appropriation – defines “order and orientation” of the earth in Schmitt’s world order and philosophy, the last chapter underlines how spatial categories continue to shape Mediterranean imaginary and thinking today. An expression of hegemonic discursive power, the nomos entails a scenario in which metaphors of sea and land embody a rhetoric of conflict throughout Western culture.

Epica Moderna e New Italian Epic

Maurizio Vito — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:18:33 PDT

La Storia di Zenone

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Chapter from my Italian Thesis "Marguerite Yourcenar: Memoria e Politicita' del Narrare"

Il Tempo di Adriano

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Chapter from my Italian Thesis "Marguerite Yourcenar: Memoria e Politicita' del Narrare"

Lombroso's La Donna Delinquente

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The Anti-Rhetoric of Resistenza

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Pensiero Meridiano

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Discipline and Punish

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Aeneid and Furioso

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Terra e Mare, Collettività e Individuo: Metafore a Confronto in Campo Politico

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Maurizio Vito’s Prospectus is entitled “Sea, Land, Collectivity, Individual: Metaphors at Odds in the Political Field” and scrutinizes works in Classic and Italian literary tradition. Works of both poetry and philosophy are analyzed, and their symbolic connotations are cast in a larger political horizon, conceived as the basic scenario against which all the texts ultimately project their shadow and acquire their full significance. Sea and land being the literary stages upon which collectivity and individual operate, Vito’s goal is to delineate form and function of the subjects described, explicitly or implicitly, by the rhetoric of the texts.

Oltre il Pensiero Meridiano- What is Called Meridian Thinking?

Maurizio Vito — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:37:51 PST

In Italy, the last decade staged the blooming of a debate about Franco Cassano’s book Il Pensiero Meridiano, although ideas and questions he addressed come from far and have been running underneath since long ago. “The question of Il Pensiero Meridiano” is in fact the question of modernity. Cassano maintains that Mediterranean States ought to turn to their geopolitical and watery axis in order to reconsider their space-temporal (and, accordingly, political) priorities, insofar as they culturally and historically come from a Meridian cradle: in other words, they first of all belong to a non-Western paradigm that they eventually left behind. While this standpoint reveals suggestive insights (which find new vigor in Bruno Pinchard’s works), I deem it fails to openly acknowledge-hence, consequently, to successfully scrutinize-the role of power and history in modern political-economical state. My paper will emphasize in depth the above mentioned limits, obliterating the cons and strengthening the pros through a close reading of works such as, for example, Mario Tronti’s La politica al tramonto and Con le spalle al futuro, in which the Author shrewdly analyzes the state-of-art of political debate while providing unusual and uncannily secular “prophetic” outlooks. Moreover, Massimo Cacciari’s Geophilosophy will provide a mythical and philosophical support around which buoy further political viewpoints. In sum, the main concern of my paper will be to put side by side the differences embodied by “meridian” and “engaged” philosophers (because “il rapporto tra le differenze (con le loro dinamiche complesse, conflittuali e spesso tragiche) è qui sin dall’inizio il problema,” as Cassano states) while suggesting how they can cross-fertilize each other.

Il destino di Zora: filosofia della non-cittadinanza

Maurizio Vito — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:12:24 PST

Nell’articolo si giustappongono due diverse prospettive: da una parte l’ideale rapporto essere umano/città, dall’altra la difficoltà che presenta oggi vivere nelle città ed alcune delle ragioni fondanti tale difficoltà. Le due prospettive sembrano poi trovare terreno comune nell’ipotesi dell’inesistenza di una originaria armonia cittadino/città, il cui connubio si fonda, invece, sulla violenza e l’esclusione.

La morte come pena: Law, Death Penalty, and State of Exception

Maurizio Vito — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:56:40 PST

My paper deals with a peculiar form of the State of Exception, namely the one that came to light with the death penalty, when this punishment first appeared in Italy during the Middle Ages. In his book La morte come pena. Saggio sulla violenza legale, Italo Mereu analyzes the main reasons that led to its introduction into the Italian penal system up to the moment in which, some six centuries later, it was banned. The point I will make is that a state punishment, such as the death penalty is possible only if the law opens up a space that has been defined as a “state of exception,” which is “a borderline concept.” (Schmitt 1985, 5) That the space at issue inherently belongs to law or is opened by law is an argument I will discuss as well.