The essay moves from an exploration of an elusive but increasingly compelling field: the pervasiveness of autobiography in the contemporary media landscape. From artistic and experimental practices to non-fiction film, from collaborative digital projects to confessional modes of self-representation in television and internet, such a personalisation of art and the media may be seen, in broad philosophical terms, as a consequence of postmodern discourse and as a result of the growing fragmentation of the human experience in a globalized world. Nevertheless, as many media projects show, such focus on subjectivity does not imply a definitive displacement of the self, neither a closure within the horizon of one’s self. On the contrary, the impulse of self-investigation and self-reflection is linked to a real desire of communication, where the addresser engages with the addressee within a shared space of embodied subjectivity. Finally, the contemporary proliferation of first-person modes of expression in audiovisual and digital media responds to a common vocation to attest the social nature of the I, which means the essential embeddedness in his or her life world.
I nuovi assetti mediali hanno contribuito a rafforzare la percezione che la soggettività abbia definitivamente perso il proprio baricentro, a causa di una continua dispersione di rappresentazioni frammentarie la cui stessa ricomposizione appare oggi uno sforzo privo di tenuta. Nell’epoca attuale, grazie alla crescente diffusione di dispositivi maneggevoli e applicazioni estremamente accessibili, l’insopprimibile impulso all’autoesposizione non solo si concilia facilmente con la maggiore condivisibilità dei contenuti sulla scena sociale delle piattaforme web, ma va incontro a un processo che sembra rendere irrisolvibile la scissione del sé con le sue molteplici, disperse proiezioni. A fronte di tale panorama, il numero monografico vuole intrecciare una serie di riflessioni che convergono verso un campo di indagine capace di rilanciare in chiave differente lo studio e la lettura dei fenomeni di autorappresentazione: l’autoetnografia. Tale metodo di ricerca, proponendosi di connettere l’elemento personale a quello culturale, consentirà di studiare e ripensare le forme di autorappresentazione nell'epoca intermediale contemporanea.
Cati, A., Franchin, G. (eds.), L'impulso autoetnografico: radicamento e riflessività nell'era intermediale, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2012: 185 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/63106]
L'impulso autoetnografico: radicamento e riflessività nell'era intermediale
Cati, Alice;Franchin, Glenda
2012
Abstract
The essay moves from an exploration of an elusive but increasingly compelling field: the pervasiveness of autobiography in the contemporary media landscape. From artistic and experimental practices to non-fiction film, from collaborative digital projects to confessional modes of self-representation in television and internet, such a personalisation of art and the media may be seen, in broad philosophical terms, as a consequence of postmodern discourse and as a result of the growing fragmentation of the human experience in a globalized world. Nevertheless, as many media projects show, such focus on subjectivity does not imply a definitive displacement of the self, neither a closure within the horizon of one’s self. On the contrary, the impulse of self-investigation and self-reflection is linked to a real desire of communication, where the addresser engages with the addressee within a shared space of embodied subjectivity. Finally, the contemporary proliferation of first-person modes of expression in audiovisual and digital media responds to a common vocation to attest the social nature of the I, which means the essential embeddedness in his or her life world.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.