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.
Luisa Hair
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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