Grasseni

Art and innovation

This is the first of a series of reviews that Valentina Porcellana will present on the anthropology of art as innovation. Many aspects of artistic practice are linked to the anthropological dimension of innovation. Here, she highlights the relationship between the social responsibility of art and community enterprise, as well as on the many possible ... Art and innovation

Arte e innovazione

Segnalo il seguente intervento a cura di Valentina Porcellana, che si prefigge di essere il primo di una serie di post sull’antropologia dell’arte come innovazione. Sono molti gli aspetti della pratica artistica che si riconnettono alla dimensione antropologica dell’innovazione. In questo intervento ci si sofferma sui rapporti tra mediazione di comunità e responsabilità sociale dell’arte, ... Arte e innovazione

Cristina Grasseni
Valentina Porcellana

‘Audit Cultures’, a cura di Marilyn Strathern

Nella sua raccolta Audit Cultures, pubblicata da Routledge nel 2000, una delle figure più eminenti della comunità antropologica britannica, Marilyn Strathern, si propone di mappare “una nuova cultura emergente”, in altre parole una forma di innovazione socialmente, moralmente e politicamente pervasiva, che chiama la cultura delle “new accountabilities” – cioè l’introduzione di protocolli standard per ... ‘Audit Cultures’, a cura di Marilyn Strathern

Cristina Grasseni
Marilyn Strathern

Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (2)

(continua da “Slow food, fast genes… (1)”) Timescapes of authenticity Innovation or creativity: which is the best concept for explaining the kind of novelty that affects our daily consumption of food? We can take innovation to mean “the improbable made real” (see Piero Bassetti’s LSE lecture on Innovation, social risk and political responsibility; in italian: ... Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (2)

Cristina Grasseni

Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (1)

In apertura della rubrica sull’antropologia dell’innovazione ho ritenuto opportuno segnalare ai lettori del sito la recente conferenza annuale dell’Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA), tenutasi ad Aberdeen dal 4 al 7 aprile 2005, sul tema “Creativity and cultural improvisation”. In particolare il panel su “Creativity and temporality”si proponeva di trovare risposte antropologiche alle seguenti questioni (riportate ... Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (1)

Cristina Grasseni

Introduction

This space is devoted to the anthropology of innovation and strives to offer both a service to the readers and a scientific contribution. The aim is precisely to try and define this relatively unexplored and undefined field, drawing the readers’ attention to related publications and web sites. The first post is a paper presented at ... Introduction