Contenu du sommaire : Narrative emotions

The social world is full of images that impregnate sociality and impact our experience of noticing a real aestheticization of daily life. This aestheticization is the sign of an epiphany of the real with the centrality of iconophilia. We can understand it as the emergence of signs such as the frivolous, the appearance, and the emotional, all of which shape the social imaginary and structure a hedonism of the everyday life founded on emotional communions.

Drawing on the works of Walter Benjamin and Kenneth Burke, this essay argues that the philosophical conditions and conclusions of rhetoric and translation are the same: both trace their origins to the primal fall of language, whether after the Fall from Eden or the curse of Babel, and both find their horizons in an ultimate linguistic motive that, oddly enough, typifies ordinary language use.

The paper focuses on Walter Benjamin's conception of physical pain and its important relationship to language, especially to storytelling. The paper also discusses one of the central images Benjamin uses to describe storytelling: that of water (rivers, sea, waves, and so on) and his metaphor for pain as the staudamm, a dam blocking the flow of language. Benjamin's understanding of pain is always coupled with a consideration of the question of expression. This indicates that even though the relationship between pain and linguistic expression seems at first to be contradictory, for Benjamin pain's self-definition is inherently dependent upon the establishment of its relationship to expression. In Benjamin's conceptualization of pain, relief or healing is achieved when language has the upper hand, when its flow is powerful enough to tear down the opaque, blocked inexpressibility of pain.

This article examines a case of censorship of an advertisement deemed to be sexist and to denigrate the female body, and looks at the aesthetic and social stakes of the image in question and at the more general problem of the acceptability of the image of a sexualized body exhibited in public. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the article aims to highlight the complexity of the controversy that can arise when faced with an image accused of being sexist.

This paper provides the first thoroughgoing history of Latinxs in mainstream TV shows. It archives the willful misrepresentations in mainstream media of Latinxs from Speedy Gonzalez and to today's TV shows like Modern Family. At the same time, it also provides a roadmap through a history of mediatized representation of Latinxs that rupture stereotypes and provide willful and nuanced reconstructions of Latinx subjectivities and experiences. Here we consider yesteryear's TV shows such as CHiPs and Chico and the Man as well as today's shows such as Cristela, Orange Is the New Black.

Although sociology has as its purpose the analysis of human behavior, it has always had an ambivalent attitude with some key concepts for this kind of analysis. One of the most significant examples is that of conscience. On the one hand, the centrality of this concept for sociological analysis is showed by the spread of its use, both in classical authors and in contemporary authors; on the other, a clear and shared definition of it is considered out of the question, since it cannot be reduced to the empirical methods of scientificity that are still prevalent in contemporary sociology. The essay proposes a possible alternative approach that, stimulated by the influence of neuroscience and cognitive sciences, can lead to a new approach to the sociological study of consciousness

This essay explores the evolution of the relationship between aesthetics and media in the social environment of the metropolis. Aesthetics, historically conceived as the domain of art, rediscovers its techno-aesthetic nature and shifts in the social domain by tying itself to the everyday life of people. The novelties of the creative processes manifest themselves in the fields of photography, fashion and seriality, which test the elaborative capacities of human sensitivity and show the coincidence between life and media.

This article investigates both the themes of ambivalence and allegory in the tv series “The Sinner”, showing the crucial importance of ambivalence in creating narratives and ways of keeping the audience involved until the last frame. Indeed, this study starts from sociological considerations in order to highlight the importance of allegory in the tv series' universe and also the value of ambivalence as plot device to keep a story alive.

The following paper, through its selection and subsequent analysis of the most important scenes from the TV series Mad Men, aims to highlight the increasingly intimate relationship that is established between the narration and the viewer via the medium of nostalgia, which turns out to be in opposition to pleasure. Don Draper's character and the role of advertising allows us to analyze the figure of the homme traqué, a myth that can be traced back to the end of the nineteenth century, and the conceptual tool of the mimetic system. Finally, taking up the sentiment of nostalgia and pleasure, reference is made to Campbell's theories and to the figure of the modern hedonist.

The aim of this paper is to retrace the steps involved in the process of the postmodern individual's construction of the self, using the analysis of the TV series Mr Robot as a starting point. In the following paragraphs, the difficulties and obstacles encountered in the construction of a stable and unified self and the various strategies adopted from time to time to try to cope with them will be presented. Specific reference is made to the literary sensitivity of Kafka, a writer of the early twentieth century who, with his writings, has masterfully anticipated the contemporary feeling.