Simone Weil was a sustained and trenchant critic of Marxism from 1930 till her death. In her writings as a philosopher she proposes a rereading of the Marxist analysis of the alienation of work, pointing to the inadequacies and illusions of Marx’s project. Whereas Marx locates the origins of alienation (defined as the human subject’s incapacity to comprehend its work) in the structure of the capitalist market, Weil is convinced that alienation stems from the very nature of the organization of (...) work. The points of convergence between Marx and Weil are essential to an understanding of the philosophy of Simone Weil and to a fuller grasp of its originality and current relevance. (shrink)

The combination of single material elements characterises Nespolo’s artworks since the 60s. The primacy of art factuality - to do art manually - emerges both in his geometrically structured works and in his machines and wooden uniconic structures. These are all combined and based on the strategy of puzzle and on a reflection about the mental attitude to do art. For these reasons, it is possible to consider Nespolo as a forerunner of Conceptual Art.

Educazione o sublimazione estetica? : il "bello" in Schiller -- Dionisio contro Socrate : la "Nascita della tragedia" di Nietzsche.

A partir de uma afirmação feita por Achille Mbembe no ensaio Necropolítica, situando a Palestina como o exemplo mais bem organizado do necropoder, nós vamos analisar o seu duplo opositor, o Estado de Israel enquanto projeto filosófico-político da Terra prometida. O pano de fundo implícito de sustentação teórica de um dos conceitos mais célebres da filosofia mbembeana, a necropolítica, está nas contribuições decisivas da tese de Frantz Fanon presente nos Condenados da Terra. O objetivo é investigar como os processos de (...) colonização estão assentados sob uma fantasia responsável pelo surgimento da raça, analisando sua conexão com o capitalismo neoliberal e, em paralelo, como o estabelecimento de uma tribo eleita com direito natural de habitar a Terra prometida vincula-se ao exercício de necropoder. (shrink)

The aims of the present paper is to analyse the specific visual regime of some never-before-exhibited photographs displayed at the photographic exhibition organised for the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Mauthausen camp in 2005. I will proceed accordingly to a three steps process. First of all, I will try to show how photographs can be considered as a form of writing, namely a “light writing”. I will then provide a general overview of the catalogue of the exhibition but through (...) a decomposition and reassembly of the photographic images, trying to work for a decentralization of the gaze beyond the documentary value of these photographs. Finally, I will draw some conclusions, proposing further reflections on photography as “trace” and “supplement” of the visible. (shrink)