LIBRI DI LUCA MORI

Come nell’immagine "Mani che disegnano" di Escher, in cui Varela trovò un esempio della circolarità che ci permette di evolvere, chi apprende "ridisegna" il proprio punto di vista e le proprie relazioni: con esempi ricavati dalla storia della filosofia, l’articolo propone la nozione di "triangolazione" per descrivere il processo di apprendimento quando un soggetto (gruppo, organizzazione) si trova alle prese con "figure ambigue" o "figure-rebus" che generano ansia e conflitto, sfidano il "sense-making".

At the Core of Life. The Medicalization of Society in Michel Foucault - In this article I try to describe Foucault’s conception of the medicalization process. After briefly outline the conception of power proposed by Foucault, I show the central role played by the biomedical devices. The main thesis of this interpretation are two. Firstly, I try to point out how medicine and the biological disciplines form a kind of knowledge which is essential to the birth of the modern State. Secondly, I consider how Foucault definition of biopolitics is the result of an overlap between political power and the specific regimes of truth entailed in biomedical sciences.

Keywords: Foucault, power, medicalization, biopolitics, state science, police.

Parole chiave: Foucault, potere, medicalizzazione, biopolitica, scienza dello stato, polizia.

Al centro della vita. La medicalizzazione della società secondo Michel Foucault - In this article I try to describe Foucault’s conception of the medicalization process. After briefly outline the conception of power proposed by Foucault, I show the central role played by the biomedical devices. The main thesis of this interpretation are two. Firstly, I try to point out how medicine and the biological disciplines form a kind of knowledge which is essential to the birth of the modern State. Secondly, I consider how Foucault definition of biopolitics is the result of an overlap between political power and the specific regimes of truth entailed in biomedical sciences.

Keywords: Foucault, power, medicalization, biopolitics, state science, police.

Parole chiave: Foucault, potere, medicalizzazione, biopolitica, scienza dello stato, polizia.

Il volume ricostruisce i luoghi e le culture delle droghe connesse alla scena dei parties, i quali si caratterizzano per una grande varietà rispetto al genere musicale, agli spazi, agli allestimenti, all’organizzazione, all’estetica nonché alle sostanze psicotrope fruite e alle loro combinazioni. Completano il testo alcune considerazioni sul tema della prevenzione e della riduzione del danno all’interno delle feste nonché alcune riflessioni sulle analogie e differenze tra i vari tipi di party.

Durkheim and Goffman theories’ concerning ritual practice shows a displacement of the sacred from the exceptional collective ritual to the ordinary world of everyday interaction. In this movement, what is lost is the role of the alteration of consciousness: for Durkheim the state of trance is the basis for the social tie, while for Goffman modernity proposes an organization of society in which individuals are asked for an opposite state of consciousness. Trust, in modern societies, is reserved to people capable of a good demeanour, that is to whom are able to close every ways of perception and penetration that others could use to reach him/her. Changing in MDMA consumptions sets and settings describe a similar movement. Ecstasy is no more confined in the exceptionalities of the great collective rituals (underground raves parties) but for the presentation of the self in the modern world of the loisir