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and I receive more than happy to place on our blog Canevacci the open letter that Max sent to the Faculty of Communication Sciences.
The matter is close to my heart: the deep friendship toward Canevacci Massimo, who is also author of the highly esteemed publishing house, and my passion for cultural anthropology.
The Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of Rome has long embraced a highly questionable profile, locking all too often the reflections of greater depth and complexity of the universe in the meshes of infotainment and communication of a vision of the cultural crushed tivvù on. This has also resulted in more or less directly, marginalization, exclusion or autoespulsione of many teachers, researchers, scholars who nurture their academic life with passion for research and teaching and they do from each other and relations with students. That they lead to the elimination of teachings that have in part been the story of that possibility, and that they certainly have scored among the highest peaks, not only for Oceanic student participation in courses, if ever we needed it, another sign of the times. Cupissimi times, when the university seems to be destined to become the executor of itself and in which demand more and more burning regards assuring the flow of ideas in our country. A matter of freedom, rather than a right to.
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Open Letter to the Faculty of Communication Sciences, University "La Sapienza" of Rome

Max Canevacci

New choices of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, University "La Sapienza" force me to make public some concerns, because, in the face of an undeniable crisis of the three-year, it was decided to restructure the order of the studies according to a vision of restorative and crushed on the existing communication.
In this way, the science of communication is likely to shrink to a professional cutting journalism; connections trans-disciplinary and experimental with the results in digital communication (extended mix of design, architecture, advertising, performance, music, fashion, art, etc..) are often misunderstood, "uncontrolled" or neutralized in "technical" and are ignored, the Consequently, those researchers who are trying to change paradigms exhibition, expressive compositions, narratives multisequential. This trend
shut himself in communication and journalism feeble apology for the media weakens the faculty, staff changes in the teachers of the 'culture industry', trains students for the innovation waiver of assent and disciplined closes at new professional skills through visions, styles, languages, is indifferent to the prospect that some time in universities abroad are applied in this context (see the role of cultural anthropology in Media Studies in many foreign universities - MIT , Humboldt Universität, Escola de Comunicação e Arte University of São Paulo, with whom I established a trade agreement between teachers and students). All this is likely to set up provincial disciplinary endogamy mass-media, distrust of the emerging, digital subtraction of the potential.
The material that I taught per più 20 anni – Antropologia Culturale , materia fondamentale per gli studenti di primo anno – è stata soppressa, mentre a Roma, in Italia e ovunque, sarebbe necessario moltiplicare le ricerche con questo orientamento, per contrastare le pericolosissime onde razziste, le chiusure localistiche, i decisionismi verticistici, le grettezze mediatiche.
Si è preferito, invece, puntare su materie “classiche” (diritto e storia), eliminando la prima delle tre discipline fondamentali delle scienze sociali (antropologia, sociologia, psicologia). Il docente che la insegnava viene “esiliato” al terzo anno del corso di laurea di Cooperazione e Sviluppo , con una materia called Intercultural Communication. In the title of course expresses the continuity of a neo-colonial domination of the West to an "other" world: the "cooperation" is focused to give financial aid to students and to their countries of residence, rather than to the ' other ", should now be evident, and the criticism of the concept of" development "have been written so many essays before and after the '68 just remember that it is boring. So you create a field as Intercultural Communication, which strengthens closures since the name of identity and cultural, scientific and educational regressions, which unfortunately appear to be inconsistent with those policies, "league Roman" appropriate to the prevailing climate in which a sticky Catholicism seeks to control governments and oppositions, colleges, faculties, teachers. References
that my chair was inspired is located, among others, in the tradition inaugurated by Gregory Bateson anthropology: that based on his anticipatory research in Bali, have helped to develop the "double bind" concept among the most overtime is applied to the statement "normally" psycho-pathology that the nascent mass media, until his collaboration with Wiener on cybernetics for the first few searches. Rather than engage in saints and madonnas, processions and proverbs - themes too often exclusive teaching of this subject from us - the anthropological research of Bateson is inserted in the flow time were already emerging communication technology, otherness.
Finally, this letter does not claim nothing personal (I retire next year and then leave this Faculty). It expresses a political and cultural positioning that locates in the growing and seemingly irreversible crisis of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, a problem to address critical reflection in the interests of teachers, students, office workers: those living and breathing the air of a university that seeks to make sense of possible futures and not merely replicate il peggio dei presenti mediatizzati.

maxx.canevacci@gmail.com


La lettera è pubblicata qui sul sito della Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione di dell'Università La Sapienza di Roma.

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Ho partecipato

Da vicentino che vive a Roma, insieme alla rappresentanza del Comitato No Dal Molin di Vicenza, ho partecipato alla manifestazione di Chiaiano e dei comuni limitrofi (Marano, Mugnano) mobilitati contro la riapertura della discarica dei rifiuti di Cava (“Io speriamo che me la Cava”, recitava speranzoso e serafico uno dei cartelli sulle spalle di un ragazzino del corteo).

Tra i vicentini No Dal Molin, especially among younger people, there are those who had never been before in Naples. In Step by bus from the train station in Naples in Chiaiano, are glued to the windows with exclamations of despair to comment the images of mountains of waste and those of the termite mound of Sails Scampia, some already known last night at the cinema in Gomorrah. And then all rush to photograph the sudden appearance of the stump of the highway stopped in front of an unexpected and immovable property. One result of participation in the battles of this supportive network of committees to defend the values \u200b\u200bof health, peace, grassroots democracy, protection of common goods and the integrity of the territory, is an opportunity to have direct knowledge of significant realities of the country.

Yes, there were also at the event and Casarin Luca Oreste Scalzone and the young men of social centers, and the representation of the Piedmontese No Tav (I would have also appreciated the Bridge of No - that will combine the two "gangs", as mockingly said Nichi Vendola -, and Scaiola No Nuke, and no SUV, but in life you can not have everything). Yes, there were the banner of Legambiente and WWF, and that of the Cub and Cobas, and even a tiny squad and fighting under the banner of Friends of Beppe Grillo. There was deparlamentarizzato Rizzo to watch the parade from the sidewalk as a cocotte that there is still politically seductive - and there was Tano D'Amico, enduring great photographer, and journalist Ruoppolo greedily sucking pictures and interviews for Year Zero. But what is important, beyond all expectation, and expectation, was the presence of all the people leading in procession shouting slogans cyanide equally divided between Berlusconi and Bassolino, to peel his hands on the doors of the houses and balconies, to laugh fill your ears and sing, and enlarge my heart.

E 'was a great celebration of the people, the sun beat down, her mouth was burnt to the cries and turned his head a little, but the joy and satisfaction were so strong among the thousands of people in the parade and those who attended the sides, which will surely echo came to patients of five hospitals that operate within a few miles from Cava. (By the way: you know who owns the land on which you open the site chosen by Bertolaso \u200b\u200b/ Berlusconi as a dump? The Curia Cardinal Sepe of Naples! What will derive from renting a beautiful river of money. ... When you say the curious coincidences! )

So it went well beyond every optimistic forecast, and without the feared aggravations, tensions and violence. Many of the youth, women, families with children, scooters that fit and roaring as dragonflies dart everywhere. The slogans shouted and repeated throughout the parade? "The rubbish must not be burned. Yes to the collection. "And then some other fancy 'more aggressive here is not the case back. Berlusconi did not say loved, but Bassolino and Iervolino target are reviled. What people will not forgive Mr Berlusconi is the sudden and unexpected declaration of steps in activating the landfill Cava with military force, even when Bertolaso \u200b\u200bdid not complete the task to assess their suitability. That was like throwing a bucket of gasoline on a bed of embers .. He wanted to be a provocation, the result of spontaneous arrogance, or is heading resulted from a congenital stupidity? The appeal

with which the Committee has summoned the organizers of the event is much more depth. "The struggles that have inflamed many environmental reality of Campania are not born, as told by the mainstream disinformation, by" the selfishness of the people no. " These outbreaks are a response to an expropriation of that ten years of democracy, as happened to the long season of the Commissioner's business after the earthquake, has given our lands to economic and financial speculation, the most indecent ecomafie and interests of political bureaucracies. The strategies of shock-economy category of the emergency bell made of a control and profit with which to blackmail continually freedom collective censor dissent and possible alternatives to a Zero Waste Strategy is essential to protect the environment and collective health, also opening new opportunities. "
And again:" The institutions and that broad political class that today are exploiting rhetorically collective good, worked for 14 years to the crushing of the opposition between this concept and the community, by obscuring the existence of practical alternatives focused on the doorstep, recycling, reducing packaging, composting plants and cold. "
And finally: "The decree of the Berlusconi government-waste is the consecration of this process and requires the opening landfills and incinerators of ten four that devastated large areas of the Region. This is a model of profit increasingly aggressive toward people and nature, which it considers to survive the crisis destroying the country. The struggles against mega landfills and incineration sites have made instead of sharing, often authentic "self-government councils, maybe even confused and transient, but able to create networks between the public and re-weave new patterns from the bottom of the common good."

In short, the people of neighboring towns Chiaiano and know to be right and to fight a battle not selfish or purely local. The quarry is Chiaiano forest ecratere - already waste receptacle in the past avalanche - around which arise between class areas and five major hospitals of Naples and the region. To restore the function of the landfill is to accept, for the generations of their territory in a future of danger. This can not be decided from above, so arrogant and contradictory, crushing dissent by military force. If such an operation in Italy goes over the next few years may pass, in spite and irrespective of the principles of democracy, authoritarian everything. Indeed, the political manifesto of the Committee and Networks Chiaiano bells against environmental devastation, it is stated:
"We are in the presence of the trial, with a bipartisan consensus in practice, a model of social relations increasingly militarized, a real breakthrough in the patterns of governance of the territory: there is a production of criminal laws" just in time for affect social figures of dissent, which combines symbolically the government's decision and reject those who oppose the area of \u200b\u200bcrime and "anti-national behavior." The "state of exception" category thus becomes crucial to sustaining the quality of the decision, against the light, revealing his own weakness, his social discredit. The generalization of the tested mechanism of the "fear factory" with ghettos where entire social groups such as migrants and Roma, is expanding to intimidate all forms of social conflict. "

Some people - wisely, sensibly - notes that the authority State can not stop on the threshold of a single yard of those who feel threatened occasion. But today there is someone willing to host in his garden the nuclear waste or leachate, the bridge megagalattico or duplicate a foreign military base, or high-speed tunnels in the territory of Piedmont sufficiently devastated, AI Berlusconi Bassolino?

Who shrugs and says: this is a matter of fact, give or take, is to meet with La Repubblica Giorgio Ruffolo that a few days ago says, "now dominates a pattern of irresponsible manufacturing, consumer style simply immoral. " Then: fatalistic acceptance, or patient and radical questioning of the "existing disorder?

Bassolino, in particular, more fatalistic acceptance that the existing stands out for the praise of the political muscle against inaugurated by the Berlusconi government as the best confirmation that the "Neapolitan Renaissance" has been transformed into industrial power system-gangster ? We would therefore, trooped into a subordinate role, obscuring a season of compromise and ineptitude?

Meanwhile, a disturbing counterpoint, comes the news that the Camorra of camorra killed a farmer who had decided to cooperate with the judicial investigation of the impact on illegal dumping of toxic waste in Campania in the industrial north. The state also will stand quickly militarizing the governance of the territory, or celebrating the Roman Forum, with patriotic parades, June 2, but where is it when it comes to protecting those who repent and cooperate to hunt criminals?