Category Archives: value

Airspacing the City. Where Technophysics meets Atmoculture

By admin | Published: April 4, 2018

(with Andrea Pavoni) NOW PUBLISHED in Azimuth 10.   In this paper, we seek to show how the notion of technophysics can be applied to better understand the experience of contemporary urbanism. We argue that technophysics exists in dynamic relation to an atmoculture of urban space, whereby the technological and the cultural meet on a […]

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The social life of measures

By admin | Published: December 16, 2017

Now published in Theory, Culture & Society 35(1) http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcsa/35/1 Abstract Issues of measure and measurement, and their relation to value and values, are of concern in several major threads in contemporary social theory and social research. In this paper, the notion of ‘measure-value environments’ is introduced as a theoretical lens through which the life of […]

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Discussing Debt and Indebetedness with Jean-Clet Martin

By admin | Published: October 25, 2017
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FROM VISIBILITY TO THE VISIBLE. A SOCIAL-THEORETICAL EXPLORATION

By admin | Published: April 25, 2017

A Lecture delivered at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Vortrag. + info | https://www.aau.at/event/from-visibility-to-the-visible-a-social-theoretical-exploration/ Full video here (a bit boring, though) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtK0nfA5r50&t=1s

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Expressive Measures: An Ecology of the Public Domain

By admin | Published: January 20, 2017

Published in Graffiti and Street Art. Reading, Writing and Representing the City. Edited by Konstantinos Avramidis, Myrto Tsilimpounidi. London: Routledge, 2017. https://www.routledge.com/Graffiti-and-Street-Art-Reading-Writing-and-Representing-the-City/Avramidis-Tsilimpounidi/p/book/9781472473332 Paginated pdf version

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Value – Inquiries into a Polymorphous Magic Substance

By admin | Published: May 17, 2016

A Lecture I’m giving at The Debt Complex Spring School  – 19-21 May 2016, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano http://prev.unibz.it/EN/ECONOMICS/EVENTS/Spring-School.html  

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Gabriel Tarde: logica sociale e teleologia sociale – A seminar

By admin | Published: May 16, 2016

    martedì 24 maggio 2016 ore 13:00 AULA SEMINARI SPS (stanza 215, lato Passione) Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Economiche e Sociali – via Conservatorio 7, Milano  

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Il valore dello spazio pubblico. Qualche declinazione giuridica, politica ed economica

By admin | Published: April 19, 2016

Una relazione al seminario Giustizia, architettura, diritti. Visioni e pratiche della città contemporanea, Napoli, 29 aprile 2016.

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Graffiti, Street Art and the Divergent Synthesis of Place Valorisation in Contemporary Urbanism

By admin | Published: March 1, 2016

A chapter recently appeared in the Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art, Edited by J.I. Ross. Also on Googlebooks & here

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A Conversation with Roderick Macdonald

By admin | Published: July 21, 2015

Published in The Unbounded Level of the Mind. Rod Macdonald’s Legal Imagination. Edited by Richard Janda, Rosalie Jukier and Daniel Jutras. McGill University Press, 2015. My tribute to the great scholar and professor Rod Macdonald (1948-2014), a questioner and an inspirer by all means. A_conversation_with_Rod

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Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: Rethinking the Social Conference at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 28–29 May 2015

By admin | Published: May 8, 2015

+ info | http://info.cbs.dk/crowds/conference_imitation_contagion_suggestion_rethinking_the_social

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Urban Verwertung. Conceptualizing the adventures of value in contemporary urbanism

By admin | Published: September 26, 2014

A Keynote Speech to be delivered at Competing Urbanisms: The New Politics Of Public Space, 5 November 2014, University of Melbourne   The aim of this lecture is to puzzle about the creation and transformation of value in contemporary urban space. Far from being a mere correlate of economic processes, ‘value’ can be understood as […]

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Ἐνα-δυο Πράγματα που Ἐμαθα για τον Σεβασμό Χάρη στους Γραφιτάδεϛ [One or Two Things I’ve Learnt about Respect, thanks to Graffiti Writers]

By admin | Published: July 22, 2014

published in “No Respect” Exhibition Catalogue. Curated by Marilena V. Karra. Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, 2014. Greek/English version

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Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between

By admin | Published: October 21, 2013

Introduction Book available at : http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472410016 Fulltext also here A couple of reviews published in : Urban Research & Practice and IJURR

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Two old papers on Dogville & Manderlay by Lars von Trier

By admin | Published: July 30, 2013

2008: (with Alessandro Castelli) “Fondamenti. Da Dogville a Manderlay”, in Pierpaolo Antonello (ed.) La violenza allo specchio. Massa (I): Transeuropa, pp. 121-137. Also in English: “Foundations: Dogville to Manderlay” 2006: “Dogville, or, the Dirty Birth of Law”. Thesis Eleven, no. 87(1): 96-111.

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La dimensione aurale. Nota per un’urbanistica sensoriale

By admin | Published: June 12, 2013

or, listening carefully to the asphalt… Now published in Studi Culturali, 1, 2013. Full text here.

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Graffiti and Place Value

By admin | Published: June 3, 2013

A speech I’m delivering at: Street Art in the Changing City: Theoretical Perspectives – Moscow, June 7–8, 2013 – http://igiti.hse.ru/en/hsestreetart/announcements/74150089.html In a sense, both graffiti and street art share humble origins. While the first emerged as an essential expressive form of disadvantaged inner city youth in the late 1960s, the second originated from a more […]

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