Andrea Pitasi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4193567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Pitasi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitasi |
| SIGNATURE | PITASI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chieti-Pescara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3195-7502 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Complex Is Easy. A Complex Evolutionary Social System Approach to Global Governance
The goal of this paper is to provide a research based and policy focused general view of a Complex Evolutionary Social System Approach to Global Governance. From this perspective, to frame complex system evolution and global governance it is pivotal to outline two key epistemological distinctions: the one between complex and complicate, and the one between easy and simple. These distinctions will be explained below. Complex is whatever horizon of…
The welfare system supermyth
This paper is aimed at deconstructing a myth that damages every attempt to design effective, win-win public, specifically welfare, policies. Such a myth is named the ‘Welfare System Myth’ (WSM) and it is linked to three other lesser myths as corollaries. The WSM states that there is a specific welfare system, while welfare is a topic in the political system agenda. According to the evolutionary complex social system theory, welfare is just a form…
La trasformazione silenziosa della globalizzazione giuridica. L’evoluzione del diritto da localismo antropologico a linguaggio logico-matematico formalizzato
The transformation of law from an anthropological shape of habits, traditions, beliefs on a local community scale to a much more logical, abstract, formal, deductible, general and artificial conception of law is one of the mirrors through which globalization emerges. To be very simple: community law is much more a matter of socio-anthropological habits of which local moral values affect law making, on the contrary the abstract general, artificial…
Introduction: Identity in an open world order
This study is a brief introduction to the themed issue titled Identity In An Open World Order, for which we are guest editors. With this introduction, we intend to review each paper of the themed issue and state how each contributes to debates and advance knowledge and explains what they add to social science until drawing out avenues for future research. The special issue is focused on the shift of identity from maximum opening to maximum radica…
Turkey as an Eu Member State Candidate in a Hypercitizen European Union Perspective
This is a legal and political sociology essay with the objective of a strategic geopolitical, legal and economic analysis of the pros and cons of Turkey's potential entry as a member state of the European Union. The essay is placed on the side of the policies, more in detail on the side of politics making, it starts with the analysis of the state of art, to move towards the need for structural coupling between Turkey and the European Union and th…
Identity and citizenship in a cosmopolitan open world
In this work, we focus on the idea of identity strictly linked to the idea of citizenship. It is the subject of a profound revision and an innovative proposal. Due to globalisation, global citizenship and global identity are currently the object of an attempt at a profound re-elaboration in light of the new contemporary scenarios globalisation has generated. This study provides a reading of and an important step toward cosmopolitan sociology as a…
Civilizzazione, globalizzazione e le differenze che fanno la differenza. In onore e memoria di Johan “Joop” Goudsblom
Un saggio in onore di Johan Goudsblom
Smart Cities: Who is the Main Observer
This paper is based on the paradigm that a smart city is a part of the intellectual framework of second-order cybernetics and considers social communication in terms of the management and use of different data channels. Planning as a political practice is replaced by environmentally-behavioral control, in which subjectivity is articulated above-individually (permeating the city with sensitive nodes) and infra-individually (transforming citizens i…
Legislative innovation. Towards a global law. Making process: The case of global citizenship policy modelling
The main reference for twentieth century politics is the Nation-state, whose territory-citizens were the unique and only target of norm production. Furthermore, the function of norm production was commitment of public bodies, whose legitimacy – at least in democratic countries – depends on the ‘people’. i.e. the citizens that were the target of the law production itself. An important fact, is that national production of norms slowly shifted from …
The technological convergence innovation
This essay discusses the acceleration and integration of everything (AIE), i.e. of all forms of electronic devices into a distributed communications grid that will, inexorably, ubiquitously change the way we exist towards a convergent singularity of robotics, informatics, genetics and nanotechnology. The changes may be more than the collective or individual human psyche is prepared to engage, and will require that societies get used to these chan…
Politics, Law & Complexity: The Case of the Academic Policies in the European Union
The theoretical goal of this paper is the development of the connection between politics and law within the model of the complex system especially in the perspective of Niklas Luhmann, in a viewpoint linked with the economic analysis of law. The aim is to describe the differences that truly make the difference in the setting problem of policy or legal decisions more formalized by the subject with their values instead of in a system. Therefore, th…
The Sociological Semantics of Complex Systems
The concept of complex systems is one of the most common and abused by sociological semantics. Both complexity and system are epistemological terms which contribute to reshape the scientific research design and conceptual frames. Nevertheless, complexity and system are often used by everyday life in several misleading ways: for example complex is often meant by common sense as a synonym for difficult, complicate, hard to understand, obscure and s…
“Hypercitizenship” And The Evolution Of A Global Identity
The idea of the paper moves from the consideration of autonomous agents and global flows eventually converging by means of autopoietic systems. This work reframes the topic of the reconfiguration in the evolving social scenarios within Pitasi’s concept of HYPERCITIZENSHIP, sketched out by designing a muldimensional and multipolar convergence among different kinds of citizenship. With its four conceptual dimensions, Hypercitizenship, features the …
What is Sociology For
While the Berlin Wall was falling, Bryant and Becker edited a prestigious book entitled What Has Sociology Achieved? (1990), which focused on the most relevant contributions of contemporary sociolo
Authors as Strategic Constructions in the Multimedia Age
What does it mean to be an author as the practices associated with connective and/or collective intelligence continue spreading through the world of the mass-media? More specifically, how are authors, and publishers as well, already undergoing important transformations as new information and communication technologies allow the capitalization of knowledge? The diverse philosophical and sociological implications of this question are explored below…
A portrait of Italian visual sociology∗
Part one is a brief history of Italian Visual Sociology. Andrea Pitasi sketches his main hypothesis: as a complex middle range theory, visual sociology might become a specific discipline. The theoretical concepts and proposals to create it are summarized in the conclusion. In part two, Patrizia Faccioli deals with the Italian sociological mainstream's conception of visual sociology. From this perspective, visual sociology is considered a methodol…
A portrait of Italian visual sociology∗
Part one is a brief history of Italian Visual Sociology. Andrea Pitasi sketches his main hypothesis: as a complex middle range theory, visual sociology might become a specific discipline. The theoretical concepts and proposals to create it are summarized in the conclusion. In part two, Patrizia Faccioli deals with the Italian sociological mainstream's conception of visual sociology. From this perspective, visual sociology is considered a methodol…
The technological convergence innovation
This essay discusses the acceleration and integration of everything (AIE), i.e. of all forms of electronic devices into a distributed communications grid that will, inexorably, ubiquitously change the way we exist towards a convergent singularity of robotics, informatics, genetics and nanotechnology. The changes may be more than the collective or individual human psyche is prepared to engage, and will require that societies get used to these chan…
A portrait of Italian visual sociology∗
Part one is a brief history of Italian Visual Sociology. Andrea Pitasi sketches his main hypothesis: as a complex middle range theory, visual sociology might become a specific discipline. The theoretical concepts and proposals to create it are summarized in the conclusion. In part two, Patrizia Faccioli deals with the Italian sociological mainstream's conception of visual sociology. From this perspective, visual sociology is considered a methodol…
Authors as Strategic Constructions in the Multimedia Age
What does it mean to be an author as the practices associated with connective and/or collective intelligence continue spreading through the world of the mass-media? More specifically, how are authors, and publishers as well, already undergoing important transformations as new information and communication technologies allow the capitalization of knowledge? The diverse philosophical and sociological implications of this question are explored below…
What is Sociology For
While the Berlin Wall was falling, Bryant and Becker edited a prestigious book entitled What Has Sociology Achieved? (1990), which focused on the most relevant contributions of contemporary sociolo
“Hypercitizenship” And The Evolution Of A Global Identity
The idea of the paper moves from the consideration of autonomous agents and global flows eventually converging by means of autopoietic systems. This work reframes the topic of the reconfiguration in the evolving social scenarios within Pitasi’s concept of HYPERCITIZENSHIP, sketched out by designing a muldimensional and multipolar convergence among different kinds of citizenship. With its four conceptual dimensions, Hypercitizenship, features the …
The Sociological Semantics of Complex Systems
The concept of complex systems is one of the most common and abused by sociological semantics. Both complexity and system are epistemological terms which contribute to reshape the scientific research design and conceptual frames. Nevertheless, complexity and system are often used by everyday life in several misleading ways: for example complex is often meant by common sense as a synonym for difficult, complicate, hard to understand, obscure and s…
Politics, Law & Complexity: The Case of the Academic Policies in the European Union
The theoretical goal of this paper is the development of the connection between politics and law within the model of the complex system especially in the perspective of Niklas Luhmann, in a viewpoint linked with the economic analysis of law. The aim is to describe the differences that truly make the difference in the setting problem of policy or legal decisions more formalized by the subject with their values instead of in a system. Therefore, th…
Legislative innovation. Towards a global law. Making process: The case of global citizenship policy modelling
The main reference for twentieth century politics is the Nation-state, whose territory-citizens were the unique and only target of norm production. Furthermore, the function of norm production was commitment of public bodies, whose legitimacy – at least in democratic countries – depends on the ‘people’. i.e. the citizens that were the target of the law production itself. An important fact, is that national production of norms slowly shifted from …
The technological convergence innovation
This essay discusses the acceleration and integration of everything (AIE), i.e. of all forms of electronic devices into a distributed communications grid that will, inexorably, ubiquitously change the way we exist towards a convergent singularity of robotics, informatics, genetics and nanotechnology. The changes may be more than the collective or individual human psyche is prepared to engage, and will require that societies get used to these chan…
Civilizzazione, globalizzazione e le differenze che fanno la differenza. In onore e memoria di Johan “Joop” Goudsblom
Un saggio in onore di Johan Goudsblom
Smart Cities: Who is the Main Observer
This paper is based on the paradigm that a smart city is a part of the intellectual framework of second-order cybernetics and considers social communication in terms of the management and use of different data channels. Planning as a political practice is replaced by environmentally-behavioral control, in which subjectivity is articulated above-individually (permeating the city with sensitive nodes) and infra-individually (transforming citizens i…
Turkey as an Eu Member State Candidate in a Hypercitizen European Union Perspective
This is a legal and political sociology essay with the objective of a strategic geopolitical, legal and economic analysis of the pros and cons of Turkey's potential entry as a member state of the European Union. The essay is placed on the side of the policies, more in detail on the side of politics making, it starts with the analysis of the state of art, to move towards the need for structural coupling between Turkey and the European Union and th…
Identity and citizenship in a cosmopolitan open world
In this work, we focus on the idea of identity strictly linked to the idea of citizenship. It is the subject of a profound revision and an innovative proposal. Due to globalisation, global citizenship and global identity are currently the object of an attempt at a profound re-elaboration in light of the new contemporary scenarios globalisation has generated. This study provides a reading of and an important step toward cosmopolitan sociology as a…
La trasformazione silenziosa della globalizzazione giuridica. L’evoluzione del diritto da localismo antropologico a linguaggio logico-matematico formalizzato
The transformation of law from an anthropological shape of habits, traditions, beliefs on a local community scale to a much more logical, abstract, formal, deductible, general and artificial conception of law is one of the mirrors through which globalization emerges. To be very simple: community law is much more a matter of socio-anthropological habits of which local moral values affect law making, on the contrary the abstract general, artificial…
Introduction: Identity in an open world order
This study is a brief introduction to the themed issue titled Identity In An Open World Order, for which we are guest editors. With this introduction, we intend to review each paper of the themed issue and state how each contributes to debates and advance knowledge and explains what they add to social science until drawing out avenues for future research. The special issue is focused on the shift of identity from maximum opening to maximum radica…
Complex Is Easy. A Complex Evolutionary Social System Approach to Global Governance
The goal of this paper is to provide a research based and policy focused general view of a Complex Evolutionary Social System Approach to Global Governance. From this perspective, to frame complex system evolution and global governance it is pivotal to outline two key epistemological distinctions: the one between complex and complicate, and the one between easy and simple. These distinctions will be explained below. Complex is whatever horizon of…
The welfare system supermyth
This paper is aimed at deconstructing a myth that damages every attempt to design effective, win-win public, specifically welfare, policies. Such a myth is named the ‘Welfare System Myth’ (WSM) and it is linked to three other lesser myths as corollaries. The WSM states that there is a specific welfare system, while welfare is a topic in the political system agenda. According to the evolutionary complex social system theory, welfare is just a form…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Globalization (4 works) · Interdisciplinary Studies and Sociocultural Dynamics (4 works)