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The Tristes Tropiques Levi-Strauss

Nico Carlucci

In October of 2009 left a big 's Anthropology: Claude Levi-Strauss. The scholar of the "savage mind" is experienced by dedicating his work to people, the indigenous tribes of Brazil, which apparently, according to many, are "different" from us. Certainly, his approach to the "other" is the result of an impassive where often missing man. In this, perhaps, its limit. But, of course, his comments, his ratings, his analysis of cultural systems are essential for those who want to approach this "strange" that science and anthropology. How can we forget, then, a monument which the series mythology in which his "look away" shows the structures of the cultures, the system of myths and the symbolic figures of many stories that the anthropologist and learn, "he writes." The cold
"structuralism" of Levi-Strauss, mechanical treatment, does not allow, however, the birth of his own school of thought.
When working on his essay, "The Raw and the Cooked," he certainly supported the work of Marcel Mauss on the gift. What mattered to him, however, was the formal aspect, the structure "Savage" myth, in fact, objections, the archetypal image of "timeless" because, ultimately, no story. And then the cold I mentioned earlier, the "nostalgia" for the lands of Mato Grosso, for Nambikwara.
But the timing and intuition of structuralism of Levi-Strauss, they forgot the soul, the diachrony of cultural models with their "long duration".
Other anthropologists have found, conversely, the history of cultures, the "spreads" silent constants, roles, values, symbolic and concrete people.
But Levi-Strauss is certainly a classic of science culture.
arise, the day after his death questions, new and "old" at a time: where is Anthropology? where do we stand with the subject?
I hope to address in their web with the web and the thousand questions that culturology brings with it the era of the global, in a permanent becoming.

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Through the Looking Glass: Parnassus between magic and illusions

Nico Carlucci


In these days comes out in Italian cinemas movie "Parnassus: the man who would cheat the devil" by Terry Gilliam. It 'a show of Wonderland, factories desires and visual toys. About a man, Parnassus is played immortality with the underworld and wins give up immediately after love. Now wanders in search of men and women to seduce, with its fairy-rich bandwagon spells. Stunning is the interpretation of Tom Waits that is just the devil. The film is an extraordinary cast of dwarves, angels, dancers and lovers of magic and melancholy. And what about Heath Ledger that sets hanged under a London bridge? Here life and death of the match. We remember his death in January of 2008, just 28 years for drug overdose. "Parnassus" is the last movie that Ledger did not finish the work (or has ended?) Because of his death. The friends-actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrel in the movie take its place and not even because you know it part of the game mirrors that of the characters and the extras crossing during the "show". Phantasmagoria of colors, surrealism of the secret depths of concrete representation of the character of Tony-fiction that will return and eventually hanged again, really (the death of Ledger that the "interpretation").
Who is the actor? Well, by definition, he "reads" the beginning and then accepts the fiction of representation. He has a "party" that stores and re-creates through its "interpretation". The role of the actor is born and dies with him that the delivery to "posterity". The latter, in turn, re-interpret wholesale-finished by the tragedy that goes beyond the show. The viewer is in and out with the actor that "applauds and says" fine "if he says it. And 'what happened to Heath Ledger?
The actor is delicate because he lives the fiction of what" is "on the scene, on the set, the cinema.Ciò also explains the feeling that accompanies the personality that "pretends" a character that goes by, therefore, from one role to another. And 'this, I think, the fragility of those who "re-flex" the soul. I think Ledger it was just that. The actor had played the figure of the joker in another movie "premonition", "The Dark Knight where Heath lives insomnia," bravery "and the anxiety of one who goes away too early (Oscar post-mortem) to "complete" the Life

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Rainbows and Networks: exploring the Web

Nico Carlucci


manages a network of some speeches I have made this summer in the forum in which I participated. The anthropologist makes his "field research", original, full of stimuli. My actions are enriched by meeting with the participants on issues relating to the Rock of which they are a great lover. It 'was an exchange of "views" virtual, as will be delivered to the web.
I could not speak of Italy, the culture in which I live, but also the global Earth-country where I live.
The main theme of the exchange in the network are: the "death" of the rock genre, a few concerts to which I took in July, the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, the end of the "young" with the triumph of the "young" media,

U2
I write about a country, Italy, which produced the tunes in the past most beautiful, the song of poets and art as "truth" of the Absolute. Today, the model is that, unaware, ill-communist, non-invention in the arts and music. Italy "delenda est" write the anthropologists. U2 and their gospel "contemporary" re-proposed, last July, also at San Siro in a spiritual song that "kiss" the funeral of Michael Jackson.


To rob:

Rock music dies dies because the culture he had seen her birth. Internet creates the "non-places." As a consequence, the cultural model in which we live it is "informed". We are witnessing the fratumazione of time and space and thus of rock music with its sense of direction and his "dream". Myths become fragile, the gods have no more "kind". There is a vagueness that refers to the digit and how much is said about the supermodernity "which, unfortunately, sees the disappearance of the" big names "music.

About the death of Rock, I speak of a cultural model that is always A summary of traits. Noon I refer, of course, to a single cause, but to several causes. Today the art out of museums, becomes graffiti, "nowhere", running along the railway stations, metro lines. Of course, the anthropologist Marc Augé has theorized the "non-places", but in his latest book is rethinking them unless superando.La network is a sign of a kind of epistemological leap that is changing once again. The time that we live in is accelerating, not saving more as they did at the time of Myth. We are faced with new questions with the knowledge that even a change in the digital soul. Ah , it's U2, Madonna in July revived the dream in Milan, the chorus that I have called a "secular sacred". But what we have in the future?
wrote on 08/10/2009 10:34

Again Radiohead:

Yesterday, some newspapers gave the news that Radiohead will in future only single. Ends the "concept album"?
Well, it's the i-pod that makes the end, the music is downloaded from the internet that makes him stop. And back at the death of rock, the "dream" in a changing world with its sounds that become "precipitate" the model of "network".
They were not just Radiohead to promote their latest work on the Internet, through "non-places", exactly? I refer to "In Rainbows" that cost or less what he wanted to give those who sailed on the web to look for it. So skip the old economic law of supply and demand, the record company that now has no more "Ubi consistam. From genius Thom Yorke has understood well today "are" notes ", the light beams of the architecture. Some call it" panic time "(see Virilio), who" ambient ", Digital those who" new utopia " .
wrote on 8/13/2009 7:27

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But a Communist Italy will ever be able to love the rock? There is a bewildering provincialism in the country that proposes a neo-realism in the arts movie " dumb and out of time. But this does not happen in "Patria-world" music.
wrote on 10/07/2009 15:40 Happy birthday

Woodstock

Yes, Woodstock invented "Youth" that existed in the past under different "bare". But today what is left? Nothing! There is a "juvenile" non-creative, stupid sponsored by the media, journalists, educators and psychologists on duty. After the rebellion of the verse, "Hey, teachers leave the kids alone" by Pink Floyd, they have come, alas, the showgirls, the girls with their "daddy", the models of the Milanese aperitif rampant. Madonna cries, in one of his songs that students violate their teachers! Do you remember what happened in "Columbine High School" which we also talked about Michael Moore in his film?
Where, then, are the "flowers" by Pete Seeger, where did they go?
wrote on 15/08/2009 10:27

What Victor says is true. The flower children are not belonged to Italy, "sin"! "Hair" is a musical "American." Italy in those years was too political, too "communist." Unfounded, the artistic creativity that we got lost because of it. Just think of all 'architecture' socialist 'in Rome with his "Corviale" true umanomostro. There, however, where the "proletarian struggle" was absent (I speak of the USA and England) were born folk, rock, pop. The protest, of course, there was a protest, however, does not party, not of "parishes", possibly linked to the Church and its speakers. I recognize the merits of some Italian singers of the 70 that expressed the aspiration of a revolt in Italy, but the Rock is something else. Speak of it, even today, the American and British music magazines that are almost always "copy" from some of the Italian ones. In the beautiful country, in fact, there are several: "Q," Mojo, "" Spin "," Rolling Stones "because, ultimately, there is rock.
wrote on 08/16/2009 8:22

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The Land of Never: Michael Jackson, and new memorabilia

Nico Carlucci

Tuesday, August 4, 2009, in the middle of summer. It 's the birthday of Obama and one in which some newspapers publish the photo of the bed where he slept in Michael Jackson before he died. The picture is also track left on the pillow from the head of the artist.
Yes, the pop star Michael Jackson in the eighties world becomes star of a musical signature to which we bow down those who did not believe in the kind of music too "light", and moreover, as in this case, " black.
The image of the "double agony" that we see here was taken on the morning of June 25, the last day of life of the singer. On the bed there are signs of a man who felt "child" means a diaper for incontinence, a doll that usually "sat" on the deck, the box of toothpaste, prayer beads, similar to a rosary, a string hemostatic. While next to the bed are what the artist uses for his "clean" compulsive: rubber gloves, sterile cotton balls, tape patch. Child and "cleansing" compulsive we said, we already highlighted the roles of infantile regression and were experienced by the phobic Michael. But we do not. My goal is another.
I was impressed by the appearance, through this picture, certain categories of the sacred that spoke again of "power". Yes, the power brought to light by the historian of religion Gerardus van der Leeuw that wonderful pages devoted to the subject of his work.
The storm roars, the lightning pulsing spasmodically, the sea swells and the world is loaded, so power through objects, things, crowns belonged to those who died in myth. How can we not recognize the "signs" that the singer has left the relics of the powerful Sacred studied by phenomenologists?
The image of the bed of Michael, taken dall'obbietivo, "stop" the moment of the sacrifice of the victim, the shadow of Jack's head on the pillow is an eloquent symbol of what we are saying. In this regard, he returned with a different mood, memory, the "Holy Shroud", which gives Christ on the sheet, in death, the features of the Son of God
Even the "little" Therese of Lisieux during the shooting extreme hour fatal passage, right on his bed of agony "no comfort". It became the place, a symbolic and concrete, representation and a recording of "last" words of the powerful Santa (it was his sister Pauline who gathered in the journal entitled Novissima Verba ).
The dead man is powerful, the figure of dead-live of Jacko has a corporeal office of miraculous power that infects the items belonged to him becoming, in fact, saving relics, or as will be before long, "memorabilia". They should practice to fans and those who continue to look for in a "Neverland" (name of the park created by the singer) in a "Land of Never", which is not exists only in the uncertainty of the dream. In the Middle Ages
grabbed the living dead to lead them in dances or lamentable horrible marriage. By Michael
, stands, however, his songs in the classic international, will be "fabricated" video-film "unprecedented" in which dancers will appear in his footsteps.
Someone in the future will wonder if the artist is truly dead as has already happened on other American stars because, you know, the characters of myth does not die. This will happen because no one knows yet where the body was brought after the singer's funeral. But a body that is not dead, it belongs to the gods in the savings the corruption of the "tomb". We'll see!