TY - CHAP
T1 - Symbolic Universes and (post)crisis scenarios
AU - Salvatore, Sergio
AU - Mannarini, Terri
AU - Avdi, Evrinomi
AU - Battaglia, Fiorella
AU - Cremaschi, Marco
AU - Davanzati, Guglielmo Forges
AU - Fini, Viviana
AU - Kadianaki, Irini
AU - Krasteva, Anna
AU - Kullasepp, Katrin
AU - Matsopoulos, Anastassios
AU - Mølholm, Martin
AU - Redd, Rozlyn
AU - Rochira, Alessia
AU - Russo, Federico
AU - Sammut, Gordon
AU - Santarpia, Alfonso
AU - Valmorbida, Antonella
AU - Veltri, Giuseppe Alessandro
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This chapter will deal with an interpretation of the current socio-political European scenario (populism, raise of ultra-right parties, Brexit) in the light of the cultural analysis provided in the previous chapters. The main thesis that will be discussed concerns the persecutory valence assumed by otherness and how such a semiotic process works as a device for satisfying a demand of “thinkability” of a context that is less and less cognitively graspable. On the other hand, symbolic universes are discussed in terms of their capability of working as semiotic capital, namely as cultural resource feeding civic and social development. In this perspective, the notion of “mentalization of the system” will be presented as a strategic perspective for dealing with a post-crisis scenario. The mentalization of the system consists of the embodied interiorization of the rule, i.e. the rule assumes the mental function of object of desire rather than limit to it (as it is now). This is possible once and as far as models of practices make the systemic rule (which is by definition abstract and impersonal) something that can be experienced as the mediator of desire (i.e. as the way through which the subject finds satisfaction to their demand of sense).
AB - This chapter will deal with an interpretation of the current socio-political European scenario (populism, raise of ultra-right parties, Brexit) in the light of the cultural analysis provided in the previous chapters. The main thesis that will be discussed concerns the persecutory valence assumed by otherness and how such a semiotic process works as a device for satisfying a demand of “thinkability” of a context that is less and less cognitively graspable. On the other hand, symbolic universes are discussed in terms of their capability of working as semiotic capital, namely as cultural resource feeding civic and social development. In this perspective, the notion of “mentalization of the system” will be presented as a strategic perspective for dealing with a post-crisis scenario. The mentalization of the system consists of the embodied interiorization of the rule, i.e. the rule assumes the mental function of object of desire rather than limit to it (as it is now). This is possible once and as far as models of practices make the systemic rule (which is by definition abstract and impersonal) something that can be experienced as the mediator of desire (i.e. as the way through which the subject finds satisfaction to their demand of sense).
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-19497-0_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-19497-0_9
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-030-19496-3
T3 - Culture in policy making: The symbolic universes of social action
SP - 257
EP - 270
BT - Symbolic Universes in Time of (Post)Crisis
PB - Springer Publishing Company
ER -