Frigerio, Vittorio. Révolution !

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Vittorio Gallese

We live in a meaningful world. Our capacity to deal with the ‘external world’ is constituted by the possibility of modifying the world by means of our actions; by the possibility of representing the world as an objective reality; and by the possibility of experiencing phenomenally this same objective reality, from a situated, self-conscious perspective. It is tempting to address these different...

Vittorio Gallese -selected References

1 Gallese, V. (2014). Bodily selves in relation: embodied simulation as second-person perspective on intersubjectivity. Philos.Trans.R.Soc.Lond B Biol.Sci., 369, 20130177. Notes: This article addresses basic aspects of social cognition focusing on the pivotal role played by the lived body in the constitution of our experience of others. It is suggested that before studying intersubjectivity we ...

Web 2.0, la révolution connectique

RÉSUMÉ. Le web 2.0 a longtemps été considéré comme une entité aux contours flous, à michemin entre un phénomène social et un essor technologique. La relation complexe entre l’aspect technique et les usages qui découlent de ce writable web a engendré l’émergence de termes polysémiques tels que le peer-to-peer dont l’usage premier dans le vocable quotidien ne représente que la partie émergée d’un...

Vittorio Gallese The Two Sides of Mimesis

Crucial in Girard’s Mimetic Theory is the notion of mimetic desire, viewed as appropriative mimicry, the main source of aggressiveness and violence characterizing our species. The intrinsic value of the objects of our desire is not as relevant as the fact that the very same objects are the targets of others’ desire. One could in principle object against such apparently negative and one-sided vi...