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In the second half of the past century, new processes of subjectivation brought on new modes of conceiving and practicing politics in the democratic countries. Critical attention addressed the transformation of the representative government model into the development of the so-called populisms and of the more advanced forms of participatory democracy. In order to comprehend the specificities of such tendencies, this essay will analyze the complex relations between the categories of politicsand desire. The analysis will first look at such semantics in those philosophers who contributed to full Modernity: Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Hegel. The focus will then shift to the analysis and comparison of the theories by exceptional contemporary authors: Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault., I castelli di Yale online, volume VI, numero 1, 2018

—The ROBIN project was a joint effort that involved private and public entities, aimed to develop a computer-based software platform to promote a multi-faceted representation of data to build learning exercises supported with a feedback provided constantly by an anthropomorphic robotic system. The platform was devised in order to build a playful and stimulating learning environment able to support children affected by dyslexia.

The Living Labs approach represents a new way to address the research activities where innovations, such as new services, products or application enhancements, are validated in empirical environments within specific regional contexts. Apulia Region decided to foster this approach in Apulian ICT Living Labs and the follow-up programme Living Labs Smart Puglia 2020 to facilitate the growth and the development of Apulia SMEs specialized in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) field, digital services and contents. This paper introduces the Living Lab approach and stresses its key principles. It aims to describe how this approach has been implemented in two projects, namely ASTRO and ROBIN, which provide a humanoid robot for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and dyslexia. The developed advanced tools for education and rehabilitation, are useful in terms of socialization of children, reducing stress due to emotional inference. Fundamental role of end users in the co-design of the learning module through computer interaction between children and robot is underlined. It also includes a platform of learning management system, based on use of Tablet, PC, Smartphone e robotic multimedia systems for individual learning and for the contents production aimed at students with learning disabilities, in particular students with dyslexia

In order to investigate the series of relations between the tradition of so-called realism and the writing/practices of utopia in Western philosophical-political culture, it is first necessary to look at the meanings that realism itself takes inside the theoretical reflections on the experience and category of limit. We must therefore look closely at the essential elements of the structural ambiguity of the discourses/practices that refer to utopia as the set of modes of utopic conversion of the subject of modernity. Only then, will we be able to trace the multiple ideologies that presuppose horizons of an (impossible) perfect happiness, as well as the different ways of generating forms of unutterable grief; on one hand, the tragic dystopias produced by the cruelty of the human beast, on the other, the various forms of heterotopias fashioned and practiced by human beings in order to provide sense and relief to the ordinary sorrows of life., Governare la paura. Journal of interdisciplinary studies, 2016: Itinerari dell’utopia, a 500 anni da Thomas More

The expression “Reason of State” belongs to the language and the political culture of the late Renaissance period. Still today this expression is commonly used to mean recourse to force or, to exceptional instruments on the part of a subject holding political power who acts out of the need to keep personal command and to guarantee law and order within society. Raison d'État, Ragion di Stato, Razon de Estado, Staatsräson: from the end of the sixteenth century onwards, the various European languages translate this expression, with the intention of applying the meanings which it contains to the particular regional situations. The article presents the reasons and the relevance of a series of studies published between the ’80s and the ’90s that marked a new sensibility toward Reason of State, diverging from the classic definition by Friedrich Meinecke of Ration status as machtsstaat. The apparent crisis of democratic societies and the changing role of the State in the post ’89 global order are two of the main feature of a historiographical and intellectual effort to understand the politics of globalization., Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici, Vol 4, No 2 (2015): “80s & 90s (per una mappa di concetti, pratiche e pensatori politici)”

L'analyse scientifique des passions et des comportements humains conduit Hobbes à imaginer une puissance tutélaire sans précédent, le Léviathan, à savoir un dispositif artificiel en capacité de délivrer l'homme de ses souffrances, véritable symbole de la modernité., The scientific analysis of human passions and behaviour led Hobbes to imagine a tutelary power without precedent, Leviathan, namely an artificial machine with the capacity to deliver humans from their suffering, a true symbol of modernity.

Ragion di Stato, gouvernamentalité, governance. Politiche di mondializzazione e trasformazioni del neoliberalismo

Il saggio prende in considerazione le opere dei più importanti scrittori appartenenti alla trattatistica della ragion di Stato (Boterò, Frachetta, Ammirato, Zinano, Settata, Frezza, Zuccolo e Sammarco) al fine di ricostruire le modalità diverse di intendere le pratiche di congiura. Innanzitutto, emerge la sicura attenzione di questi autori nei confronti dei dispositivi di congiura, che vengono descritti nel dettaglio delle tecniche dissimulative e simulative utilizzate al fine della loro messa in opera ; insieme, risulta esplicito il preciso intento di condannare le pratiche di congiura poiché sicuramente pericolose alla conservazione del potere principesco. Infine, alcuni di questi scrittori giustificano - per motivazioni e casi particolari - l'utilizzazione della congiura contro il soggetto che detiene il comando politico : per questo aspetto la congiura viene considerata strumento normale e mezzo necessario per la finalità della conservazione politica, da applicare a condizione di non mettere in crisi la sostanza conservativa del dominio., Borrelli Gianfranco. La necessità della congiura nelle scritture italiane della ragion di Stato. In: Complots et conjurations dans l’Europe moderne. Actes du colloque international organisé à Rome, 30 septembre-2 octobre 1993. Rome : École Française de Rome, 1996. pp. 81-91. (Publications de l'École française de Rome, 220)