Alessio Ponzio
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1127186 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alessio Ponzio |
| PRENOMES | Alessio |
| SOBRENOME | Ponzio |
| ASSINATURA | PONZIO A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bari Aldo Moro |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8073-7675 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Translation in Semiosis of Life/Translation in Globalisation
Translation converges with life. And life constitutionally is to interpret and translate signs. Consequently, a symptom can be variously interpreted; and it is vital that it be interpreted correctly. Hunger and providing food is a condition for survival, not only in anthroposemiosis, but also in zoosemiosis overall; not only one’s own survival, but that of future generations. This type of vital interpretation is translation. Translation is vital …
Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France
Semioethics and global communication
In the sign of homaging Paul Cobley as part of this Festschrift for him, we will consider two of his edited volumes: the first The Routledge companion to semiotics , 2010, to which we contributed a text titled “Semioethics,” and the second (co-edited with Kristian Bankov), Semiotics and its masters , 2017, to which we contributed the text “Semioethics as a vocation of semiotics.” Particular reference is made to Paul’s observations in his “Introdu…
Emmanuel Lévinas y la crítica de la Ontología
Rossi-Landi e il pragmatismo
As already emerges in his 1961 book, Significato, comunicazione e parlare comune, Rossi-Landi reflects on sign and language relatedly to the American tradition in pragmatism from Peirce to Morris (he published a monograph on Morris in 1953). He also recovers the contribution made by Giovanni Vailati, who was among the first in Italy to recognize the importance of Peirce’s pragmatism. Through Peircean pragmatism, Rossi-Landi oriented his work from…
Queer Citizenship
The life of signs and the signs of life
Thomas Sebeok is a major representative of contemporary semiotics who dedicated his entire academic career to weaving his semiotic web, aware from the outset of the interdisciplinary nature of the field. On the belief that wherever there is life there are signs , he extended the scope of the discipline well beyond verbal language and culture. The sign–life relationship is vital for all lifeforms on Earth, human and nonhuman, and demands close att…
Precarity and Insecuritas, between Fear of the Other and Apprehension for the Other
The sense of precarity is specifically human. It accompanies the consciousness that “what is” is in becoming and can stop being. All lifeforms live through signs, but we humans are also endowed with a capacity for metasemiosis. As semiotic animals, we have self-consciousness, feel responsibility, and feel apprehension: we are consciously aware of our subjection to precarity. G. Semerari called it insecuritas, in relation to both self and others. …
R.H. Cleves, Unspeakable
Signs Of The Other Despite Their Removal In The World Today
What They Had between Their Legs Was a Form of Cash”
This article, showing how ubiquitous male youth prostitution was in 1950s Italy, exposes the pederastic and (homo)sexual vivacity of this decade. Moreover, this article also suggests that even if police, the media, and medical institutions were trying to crystallize a rigid chasm between homo- and heterosexuality, there were still forces in Italian society that resisted such strict categorization. The young hustlers described by contemporary obse…
Goran Miljan. Croatia and the Rise of Fascism
Goran Miljan’s book aims at filling a historiographical lacuna and at offering materials for future comparative and transnational studies of fascism. The Croatian youth organization Ustaška mladež (Ustasha Youth) has been analyzed in a small number of academic articles, but Miljan’s book is the very first monograph specifically devoted to this subject. Croatia and the Rise of Fascism emphasizes how the young Ustashas were seen as key components f…
Benjamin G. Martin. The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture
Based on impressive archival research, Benjamin G. Martin’s book The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture traces how Nazis and Fascists, relying on a transnational organizing of European writers, filmmakers, and composers, intended to revolutionize the cultural system consolidated after the Great War. European Fascists, standing up against Bolshevism, Judaism, liberal internationalism, Western cosmopolitanism, and the French concept of civ…
Literary Writing and Linguistic Disalienation
In Geogre Orwell’s 1984 (1948), literary writing is the last stronghold against “Newspeak” \nwhere the latter represents the limit point of the hypothesis concerning the homologation of \nreality. In a homologated world everything is subject to control by those responsible for social \nplanning, consequently for communication-production in a world where the nonfunctional \nand the superfluous have been eliminated. But Newspeak can translate anyth…
Il Colore della Nazione
Gaia Giuliani begins this very fascinating book with one question: ‘Is racism, which is grudgingly recognized in Italy, an invisible social phenomenon?’ [‘E il razzismo, che si nomina malvolentieri
Otherness, Intercorporeity and Dialogism in Bakhtin’s Vision of the Text
In Bakhtin, dialogism and intercorporeity are closely interconnected by a relation of reciprocal implication: there cannot be dialogue among disembodied minds, nor can dialogism be understood separately from a biosemiotic conception of the sign. Bakhtin's monograph on Rabelais forms an organic part of his writings, including those produced by his collaborators and friends Voloshinov and Medvedev. According to Bakhtin, dialogue concerns literature…
Comparing the incomparable and legal discourse
It is not with the State that personal responsibility arises towards the other. According to Emmanuel Levinas, the other is every single human being I am responsible for, and I am this responsibility for him. The other, my fellow, is the first comer. But I do not live in a world with just one single “first comer”; there is always another other, a third, who is also my other, my fellow. Otherness, beginning with this third, is a plurality. Proximi…
Interpretation and Iconicity in the Translation Process
Translation is a structural part of modelling devices, the very condition even for creativity, innovation, simulation, ultimately for what with Peirce we may indicate as the "play of musement" in the human world.Iconicity, as amply demonstrated by Peirce, carries out a decisive role in all such processes.Canonical translation is based on the code, convention, authority, authoriality, respect.Contrary to such an orientation, the task of the transl…
Modelling, dialogism and the functional cycle
Charles Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin and Thomas Sebeok all develop original research itineraries around the sign and, despite terminological differences, can be related with reference to the concept of dialogism and modelling. Jakob von Uexküll's biosemiosic "functional cycle", a model for semiosic processes, is also implied in the relation between dialogue and communication. Biological models which describe communication as a self-referential, autopo…
Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge
Welby and Vailati both have a special interest in problems relating to language, sign, meaning, and knowledge. Both evidence the relevance of sign and meaning to every sphere of human life and experience. Vailati was fascinated by Welby's significs with its focus on the relation between signs and values. In this essay I propose the term "ethosemiotics" for the first time, now developed in terms of "semioethics."
Man As a Sign
Biosemiotic scenarios
Mussolini's Concentration Camps for Civilians. An Insight into the Nature of Fascist Racism
Luigi Reale (2011) Mussolini's Concentration Camps for Civilians. An Insight into the Nature of Fascist Racism (Portland: Vallentine Mitchell), 204 pp., ISBN 9780853038849, $79.95, hard cover Post
Semantics and critique of political economy in Adam Schaff
Adam Schaff (b. March 10, 1913, Lwów — d. November 12, 2006, Warsaw) was a Polish Marxist philosopher with a special interest in philosophy of language and semiotics, in theory of knowledge and political economy. He focused on problems of semantics, theory of ideology, the relation between language and reality, formal logic, and dialectics. But he also showed a great interest in ethics dealing with the problem of the human individual and the rela…
L'Impero Fascista. Italia ed Etiopia (1935–1941)
Riccardo Bottoni (ed.) (2008) L'Impero Fascista. Italia ed Etiopia (1935–1941)(Bologna: Il Mulino), 615 pp., ISBN 9788815124760, [euro]34.50, paperback In October 2006, the Istituto Nazionale per l...
Il Colore della Nazione
Gaia Giuliani begins this very fascinating book with one question: ‘Is racism, which is grudgingly recognized in Italy, an invisible social phenomenon?’ [‘E il razzismo, che si nomina malvolentieri
Queer Citizenship
Modelling, dialogism and the functional cycle
Charles Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin and Thomas Sebeok all develop original research itineraries around the sign and, despite terminological differences, can be related with reference to the concept of dialogism and modelling. Jakob von Uexküll's biosemiosic "functional cycle", a model for semiosic processes, is also implied in the relation between dialogue and communication. Biological models which describe communication as a self-referential, autopo…
Bioethics, semiotics of life, and global communication
Ethical problems connected with biological and medical discoveries in genetic engineering, neurobiology and pharmaceutical research, reach a unified and critical point of view in bioethics as a specific discipline. But even before reaching this stage, ethical problems already belong to two totalities: the semiobiosphere. and the current social form of global communication. Coherently with its philosophical orientation, bioethics must necessarily …
Literary Writing and Linguistic Disalienation
In Geogre Orwell’s 1984 (1948), literary writing is the last stronghold against “Newspeak” \nwhere the latter represents the limit point of the hypothesis concerning the homologation of \nreality. In a homologated world everything is subject to control by those responsible for social \nplanning, consequently for communication-production in a world where the nonfunctional \nand the superfluous have been eliminated. But Newspeak can translate anyth…
Otherness, Intercorporeity and Dialogism in Bakhtin’s Vision of the Text
In Bakhtin, dialogism and intercorporeity are closely interconnected by a relation of reciprocal implication: there cannot be dialogue among disembodied minds, nor can dialogism be understood separately from a biosemiotic conception of the sign. Bakhtin's monograph on Rabelais forms an organic part of his writings, including those produced by his collaborators and friends Voloshinov and Medvedev. According to Bakhtin, dialogue concerns literature…
Interpretation and Iconicity in the Translation Process
Translation is a structural part of modelling devices, the very condition even for creativity, innovation, simulation, ultimately for what with Peirce we may indicate as the "play of musement" in the human world.Iconicity, as amply demonstrated by Peirce, carries out a decisive role in all such processes.Canonical translation is based on the code, convention, authority, authoriality, respect.Contrary to such an orientation, the task of the transl…
Biosemiotic scenarios
Semantics and critique of political economy in Adam Schaff
Adam Schaff (b. March 10, 1913, Lwów — d. November 12, 2006, Warsaw) was a Polish Marxist philosopher with a special interest in philosophy of language and semiotics, in theory of knowledge and political economy. He focused on problems of semantics, theory of ideology, the relation between language and reality, formal logic, and dialectics. But he also showed a great interest in ethics dealing with the problem of the human individual and the rela…
Metaphoric image and iconic likeness
This article concerns the following topics: image and verbal icon; metaphor and language; image and syntactics in metaphoric figure; metaphor and primary modeling device (Sebeok); metaphor and concept; assemblative likeness and attractive or agapastic (Peirce) likeness; poetic logic (Vico) and mathesis singularis (Barthes); metaphor and literary writing; likeness and otherness
Sign, dialogue, and alterity
Not only verbal signs, but any situation or semiosis is a relational process that presents different degrees of dialogism. In fact, the sign calls for a response from another sign, that is, the interpretant. Semiosis is an open dialogue among various interpreted and interpretant signs. In this sense, the sign is a dialectic unit of self-identity and otherness. All communication processes are based not only on modeling (Sebeok), but also on dialog…
Dialogism and biosemiotics
The notions of ‘modeling’ and ‘interrelation’ play a pivotal role in Sebeok’s biosemiotics. In dialogue with Thomas A. Sebeok’s doctrine of signs, we propose to inquire into the action of modeling and interrelation in biosemiosis over the planet Earth, developing the concept of interrelation in terms of ‘dialogism’. Indeed, in the light of Sebeok’s biosemiotics we believe that the concept of dialogism may be extended beyond the sphere of anthropo…
Global communication, proximity, and responsibility
Modeling, dialogue, and globality
With our paper we intend to offer a critical overview of state of the art in semiotics, with specific reference to theoretical problems concerning the relationship between culture and nature. In other words, we intend to focus on the relationship between the concepts of semiosphere (Lotman) and biosphere (Vernadsky) considering the various approaches to this issue and proposing our own point of view. An important reference for a valid overview vi…
Three dialogues on rhetoric, argumentation, and new media
Sous forme d'un dialogue entre les trois As., cet article porte sur les relations entre le dialogue, l'argumentation et la rhetorique et propose une typologie du dialogue essentiellement basee sur la communication dans les nouveaux medias et plus particulierement a la television
On Language as Work and Trade
Grammaire transformationnelle et idéologie politique
The symbol, alterity, and abduction
Le signe selon Peirce. Le symbole, l'icone, l'index, auxquels correspondent respectivement, dans la relation a l'interpretant, l'induction, l'abduction, la deduction. L'image concue non pas comme repetition, mais comme deplacement, ouverture a l'alterite. Le symbole, l'icone et l'alterite dans la perspective dialogique de Peirce
Toward the signs of Gaia and beyond
Three dialogues on rhetoric, argumentation, and new media
Sous forme d'un dialogue entre les trois As., cet article porte sur les relations entre le dialogue, l'argumentation et la rhetorique et propose une typologie du dialogue essentiellement basee sur la communication dans les nouveaux medias et plus particulierement a la television
Bioethics, semiotics of life, and global communication
Ethical problems connected with biological and medical discoveries in genetic engineering, neurobiology and pharmaceutical research, reach a unified and critical point of view in bioethics as a specific discipline. But even before reaching this stage, ethical problems already belong to two totalities: the semiobiosphere. and the current social form of global communication. Coherently with its philosophical orientation, bioethics must necessarily …
Telling Stories in the Era of Global Communication
Research in African Literatures - Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2001
Modeling, dialogue, and globality
With our paper we intend to offer a critical overview of state of the art in semiotics, with specific reference to theoretical problems concerning the relationship between culture and nature. In other words, we intend to focus on the relationship between the concepts of semiosphere (Lotman) and biosphere (Vernadsky) considering the various approaches to this issue and proposing our own point of view. An important reference for a valid overview vi…
Corps, langage, et altérité chez Emmanuel LÉvinas
Dialogism and biosemiotics
The notions of ‘modeling’ and ‘interrelation’ play a pivotal role in Sebeok’s biosemiotics. In dialogue with Thomas A. Sebeok’s doctrine of signs, we propose to inquire into the action of modeling and interrelation in biosemiosis over the planet Earth, developing the concept of interrelation in terms of ‘dialogism’. Indeed, in the light of Sebeok’s biosemiotics we believe that the concept of dialogism may be extended beyond the sphere of anthropo…
Global communication, proximity, and responsibility
Semiotics Unbounded
Semiotics Unbounded offers a new and original survey of the science of signs, evaluating it in relation to the problems of our time, not only of a scientific order, but also the problems concerning everyday social life
Dialogic Gradation in the Logic of Interpretation
Escritura de la novela y del cinema como crítica de la comunicación global
1 Este artículo reelabora, profundiza y desarrolla algunas consideraciones expresadas en dos de mis libros (Ponzio, 1995(Ponzio, y 1998)), que aparecen en español con traducción de Mercedes Arriaga Flórez, y en un libro más reciente (Ponzio, 2003)
Metaphor and poetic logic in Vico
This paper is part of ongoing research on metaphor conducted from a semiotic perspective, implementing, in particular, theoretical instruments as developed by Charles S. Peirce. According to Peirce, metaphor is a type of icon and, like all signs, is part of an interpretive route. The specific object of analysis is metaphor as studied by Giambattista Vico, who recovers the connection between verbal language and the senses, that is, the body. In hi…
Political ideology and the language of the European constitution
This paper interrogates the conditions of possibility of the European constitution and asks where we must search for these conditions. Beyond common historical and cultural traditions, beyond some pact or convention, a third possibility is considered: the idea that Europe has no future without a European constitution founded on awareness that all European nations participate in a common destiny, which in the era of globalization is the destiny of…
Hypertextuality and literary translation
In this paper, our focus is on the hypertext as the reading-text in a strong sense; that is, as privileging the reader. The hypothesis we intend to verify is whether or not the hypertext may become a method for translation. Taking the hypertext as our starting point, we shall delineate a methodics with important implications for translative practice. Destination of the text and, therefore, its intention of being translated concerns the text's rel…
Communication with the Other and Moral Answerability in Mikhail M. Bakhtin
When Bakhtin must qualify himself he calls himself a ‘philosopher’ and when he must name his research he calls it ‘philosophy of language.’ Bakhtin practices what we may call ‘philosophy of otherness’ which produces a real and proper revolution—the Bakhtinian revolution as recites the title of one of my monographs on Bakhtin—which consists in placing the other instead of the I at the centre of his thought system. Bakhtin says that in aesthetic te…
Signification and alterity in Emmanuel Lévinas
Returning to my monograph of 1996, Subjectivité et alterité dans la philosophie de Emmanuel Lévinas , I intend to illustrate an issue that is central in life and thought in today's world: the possibility that self has of justifying itself before the other. This possibility subtends the constitution of identity in relation to the individual, class, nation, and community. As regards Western thought, all its culture is a justification towards others…
The Dialogic Nature of Sign
Semiotica della metafora in Vico
According to Vico metaphor is a fundamental and primary instrument of thought. This concept was further developed by Du Marsais and Rousseau. Particularly important is Vico's concept of poetical logic. Linguistic creativity is the capacity to form new metaphorical associations, to propose new cognitive combinations, and invent new figurations. The species-specific trait of the human being is a modelling device capable of inventing an indeterminat…
Sign, dialogue, and alterity
Not only verbal signs, but any situation or semiosis is a relational process that presents different degrees of dialogism. In fact, the sign calls for a response from another sign, that is, the interpretant. Semiosis is an open dialogue among various interpreted and interpretant signs. In this sense, the sign is a dialectic unit of self-identity and otherness. All communication processes are based not only on modeling (Sebeok), but also on dialog…
Semiotics and philosophy
Four ages by John Deely contributes to demonstrating the centrality of the theory of sign to the history of philosophy. The notion of sign and its foundation in a theory of sign together constitute the vital context of the specific perspective of our present for a new understanding of the history of philosophy as a whole. Human understanding (Locke) is possible because man is a semiotic animal, but also a “political animal” (Aristotle). Otherness…
Metaphoric image and iconic likeness
This article concerns the following topics: image and verbal icon; metaphor and language; image and syntactics in metaphoric figure; metaphor and primary modeling device (Sebeok); metaphor and concept; assemblative likeness and attractive or agapastic (Peirce) likeness; poetic logic (Vico) and mathesis singularis (Barthes); metaphor and literary writing; likeness and otherness
L'Impero Fascista. Italia ed Etiopia (1935–1941)
Riccardo Bottoni (ed.) (2008) L'Impero Fascista. Italia ed Etiopia (1935–1941)(Bologna: Il Mulino), 615 pp., ISBN 9788815124760, [euro]34.50, paperback In October 2006, the Istituto Nazionale per l...
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