02383nam 22003492 4500 1572cea8-8045-45ff-b030-6fd605a80425 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869774966 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Paci, Bernardo, author. A Materialist Conception of Knowledge : The Colonial Roots of Cognitive Capitalism / Bernardo Paci. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (286 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Philosophy ; 3103-3865 Available through Mimesis International. This book develops a materialist conception of knowledge by uncovering its entanglement with the history of colonial capitalism. Against accounts that frame cognitive capitalism and the knowledge economy as recent developments, it argues that these formations are rooted in long-standing processes of dispossession, extraction, and exploitation inaugurated during colonial modernity. Drawing on postcolonial critique, Marxian categories, and case studies from New Spain, it reframes concepts such as human capital, intellectual labour, and knowledge accumulation. The work highlights how colonial power structured hierarchies of knowledge through race, labour, and difference, and how these structures persist in contemporary capitalism. Attention is given to struggles over knowledge, from early colonial encounters to present-day resistance against its commodification. This book offers an original contribution to the critique of political economy, proposing a historically grounded account of knowledge as a site of both exploitation and struggle. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Colonial capitalism Exploitation Modernity Marxism Mimesis International, publisher. Philosophy ; 3103-3865 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/9788869774966.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02254nam 22003612 4500 13af0290-79c9-40eb-8681-a43ce15029c8 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869775048 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Beyond Catastrophes : Visions and Perspectives on Post-Anthropocenic Italy / edited by Simona Busni, Angela Maiello. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (222 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Italian Frame ; 3103-3830 Available through Mimesis International. The history of the Italian peninsula is characterized by exposure to natural hazards due to geological fragility, intense volcanic and seismic activity, and hydrographic vulnerability associated with the Mediterranean climate. This volume aims to explore how Italian cinema, audiovisual imagery, and visual culture have reflected on this distinctive feature of the Italian territory and landscape. In doing so, it questions the very concept of catastrophe, beginning with its being visible: can catastrophe actually be seen? In what ways can it be represented? And how do images of catastrophe contribute to the development of a collective identity? Through different disciplinary approaches — primarily film studies, but also philosophy and sociology — the volume seeks to offer a new perspective on Italian cinema and visual culture. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Italy Climate Catastrophes Cinema Busni, Simona, editor. Maiello, Angela, editor. Mimesis International, publisher. Italian Frame ; 3103-3830 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/mimesis-international-busni-beyond-catastrophes-1.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02242nam 22003612 4500 542cba98-b548-4a46-9f15-82f9cf3db1dd m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869774799 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Scognamiglio, Anna Maria, author. Chess Moves in the Energy Market : West German Strategical Use of Energy Trade with the East during the Cold War / Anna Maria Scognamiglio. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (158 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier History ; 3103-4314 Available through Mimesis International. In 1984, the Siberian natural gas pipeline was completed on schedule. This was unexpected, given that the pipeline had been a contributing factor in a “trade war” between the USA and Western European countries, led by West Germany, in the previous years. For the first time in two decades, Germany and the wider European community collectively succeeded in asserting their right to freedom of energy choice in their negotiations with the USSR, despite the United States maintaining its trade and energy-related commodities embargo against Moscow.Chess Moves in the Energy Market is the story of how this happened, how for thirty years West Germany used energy trade as a strategic tool for economic and political rapprochement between East and West, prioritized energy security over Cold War dynamics, and ultimately became dependent on Russian natural gas. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Cold war Trade war Gas USSR Geopolitics Mimesis International, publisher. History ; 3103-4314 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9788869774799.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03528nam 22003732 4500 2bf5ad14-7a4a-453e-ada2-375d27fc848c m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869775000 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local QD thema Neri, Veronica, author. Ethics and the Artificial Image : Accountability and Reliability for a New Status of the Visual / Veronica Neri. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (210 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Philosophy ; 3103-3865 Available through Mimesis International. Premise Chapter 1. The Techno-Artificial Image1.1. The Visual Turn and New Ethical Scenarios1.2. The Image Between Natural and Artificial1.3. Generative Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Images 1.4. Artificial Intelligence and the Facets of ImaginationChapter 2. Imagining and Predicting with (and Through)Artificial Images in the Society of Uncertainty2.1. Imagining, Predicting and Suggesting in the ‘Artificial’ Society2.2. Big Data and “Dataism” Between Bias and Cognitive Distortion2.3. (A)moral Strategies and AI Image GeneratorsChapter 3. Artificial Images and Horizons of Meaning3.1. Ethics and Regulations: Data Protection, Transparency, Accountability, and Deception3.2. (Co)authorship and the Potential Endlessness of a Dialogic Transformative Process3.3. A New Linguistic Turn? The Role of Prompting Between Ethics, Imagination and Ambiguity3.4. Ethics by and in Design, and the Concept of Vulnerability3.5 Risk and UncertaintyConclusionsBibliography The book focuses on the emerging ethical issues related to the dissemination of images produced by artificial intelligence. With the introduction of generative AI, it has become necessary to rethink the status of the image and the concept of imagination from an ethical perspective. The author discusses, in particular, the role of visual generative AI in advertising communication and in the domain of visual information, focusing on the polarizing power and biasing effects of certain images. Many ethical issues intersect with European regulations concerning technoartificial images, for example in relation to copyright, co-authorship, bias, privacy, liability, etc. In conclusion, a reflection is offered on the fundamental role of ethics in the design of AI and on the ways in which generative AI models are used and brought into relation. The vulnerability of systems and individuals to the risk of an increasingly simulacral reality, and to the anesthetization of our gaze, is analyzed. Will technological progress, then, remain at the service of humanity, fostering ethical awareness, or will it lead us toward uncertainty and radical nihilism? Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. AI Ethics Algorithm ethics Bias Mimesis International, publisher. Philosophy ; 3103-3865 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/international-neri-ethics-artificial-image-1.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02638nam 22003492 4500 67e72dbd-f494-4e06-b8b9-c81924f1bb5c m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869774959 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Gentile, Giovanni, author. Genesis and Structure of Society : Essay on Practical Philosophy / Giovanni Gentile; translated by Spartaco Pupo. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (188 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Philosophy ; 3103-3865 Available through Mimesis International. Genesis and Structure of Society, Giovanni Gentile’s last work, was based on a university course and published posthumously in 1946. Between August and September 1943, Gentile proposed it as a means of providing comfort during a period of profound personal and national distress. In addition to fulfilling a special “civic duty” to the “future Italy” to which he had dedicated his life, the work was also intended as a contribution to the broader discourse on the nation’s future. It represents an extension of themes that Gentile had previously addressed, including the relationship between the individual and society, the idea of the State as an inalienable precondition of social life, the primacy of ethics in overcoming particularity, and the importance of human character formation as one of the fundamental tasks of education. But this work is also a significant intellectual testament, introducing original ideas such as the rejection of economics as a mere utilitarian or individualistic mechanism, the affirmation of religion as an intrinsic aspect of moral conduct rather than an imposition, and the advocacy of a “humanism of labor” that, in contrast to the materialistic standpoint, elevates labor as the supreme expression of the human spirit. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Practical Philosophy Society Humanism Pupo, Spartaco, translator. Mimesis International, publisher. Philosophy ; 3103-3865 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/9788869774959.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02444nam 22003492 4500 55b17d13-7c7b-4d88-b70f-45ec8961c22f m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869775116 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local QD thema Kozljanič, Robert Josef, author. Genius Loci : On Neophenomenology and Hermeneutics of a Multi-Layered Appearance / Robert Josef Kozljanič. Sesto San Giovanni (MI), Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Atmospheric Spaces ; 3103-4322 Available through Mimesis International. This book introduces the concept, history and phenomenon of the genius loci (spirit of a place). It spans an arc from the Roman concept of “genius loci” to today’s (mainly) neophenomenological debate on the concept of place-based “atmospheres” (H. Schmitz et al.). In this way, the author demonstrates that places with character and “aura” (W. Benjamin) promote a sense of home and local history. He repeatedly explores the question of what this means for urban and landscape planning, and which genius loci-related criteria should be taken into account. Numerous concrete examples and experiences are used to show that two methods are decisive for sensing and deciphering places that have an impact on our lifeworld: the neophenomenological and the hermeneutic. This means that a diachronic historical-hermeneutic approach is used alongside the synchronous bodily-phenomenological approach. Finally, the author revises Hermann Schmitz’s aesthetic-phenomenological method. With reference to Bettina von Arnim, Ludwig Klages and Tonino Griffero, he develops a three-step process – a pathic dialogue with nature: resonating – corresponding – poeticising. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Atmosphere Neo-Phenomenology Hermeneutics Genius Loci Mimesis International, publisher. Atmospheric Spaces ; 3103-4322 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03091nam 22003612 4500 9410df3f-b023-4d24-aacf-b77d8c2bb1a1 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869774843 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local QD thema Bina, Federico, author. Hardwired Psychology and Moral Change : Evolution and the limits of human cognition and cooperation / Federico Bina. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (160 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Philosophy ; 3103-3865 Available through Mimesis International. Evolutionary psychology claims that human cognition results from adaptations to ancestral environments. We have computational limits that make us myopic because farsighted traits made no sense when humans had limited technologies and chances of interaction. We are biased and tribalistic because in small, closely genetically related tribal groups, limited prosocial traits like kin altruism and in-group reciprocity increased survival and reproduction, while greater inclusivity and cooperation was costly and dangerous. Several scholars argue that shortsightedness and tribalism are rigidly embedded in our genes and hard-wired into our brains: in a world that changed dramatically and rapidly, our Stone Age minds struggle to address problems that are vastly different from those they evolved to meet. This book challenges the view that human psychology is fixed by our evolutionary past, highlighting the fallacies of an adaptationist approach to the moral mind. Human cognition has changed significantly since the Pleistocene, especially over the last few centuries and decades. There is no fixed and universal psychology, and no reason to believe that further shifts toward greater cooperation, inclusivity, and trust cannot occur in the future.Federico Bina is Research Fellow in Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy of Biology at the University of Genoa. He works on theoretical, practical and experimental ethics, the psychology of moral values and decision-making, the philosophy of evolutionary theory, and the social epistemology of trust. He holds a Ph.D. from S. Raffaele University (Milan) and has been Visiting Research Fellow at the Faculty of Psychology of Harvard University. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Evolutionary psychology Technology Social psychology Cognition Mimesis International, publisher. Philosophy ; 3103-3865 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9788869774843.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02322nam 22003612 4500 eb6d17ef-cf44-48e4-8e2c-dffdabca2350 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869774928 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Naraku : Discord, Dysfunction, Dystopia / edited by Christopher Craig, Olga Kopylova. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (320 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions ; 3103-3709 Available through Mimesis International. The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011 was a complex event. It was a disaster of multiple dimensions, unleashing the linked forces of seismic shock, tsunami, and nuclear radiation. This confluence left a varied array of damage in its wake. The personal traumas of death and loss combined with the social trauma of ruptured families, the economic trauma resulting from the physical destruction, and the psychic trauma arising from an uncertain future. Such a complex disaster demands a multifaceted exploration into its nature, implications, and meaning. The essays in this collection cross academic and geographic boundaries to explore the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami from a wide range of perspectives and to apply the analytical and interpretive tools of multiple disciplines to the study of the disaster and the various forms of trauma it inflicted. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Japan Naraku Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Craig, Christopher, editor. Kopylova, Olga, editor. Mimesis International, publisher. Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions ; 3103-3709 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/9788869774928-1.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02176nam 22003492 4500 d006074c-04a6-4a90-9aea-6b2a04840e03 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869774980 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Ingarra, Nicolò Maria, author. The Critique of Labour in the Neoliberal Era : On the Metamorphoses of a Concept between Pathology and Power / Nicolò Maria Ingarra. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (250 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Politics ; 3103-3857 Available through Mimesis International. Labour shapes contemporary life not only as an activity or institution, but as a mode of thought — a framework that organises time, structures society, and defines value. This book examines labour as a political force that produces subjectivity and sustains social legitimacy, moving beyond its conventional economic definitions. It develops a critical method to trace labour’s conceptual metamorphoses, analyse its contemporary crises, and open space for alternative imaginaries. In the age of algorithmic governance, fractured subjectivities, and performative selfhood, this is an invitation to pause: not to reject labour, but to rethink its centrality, trace its boundaries, and approach its transformations as a site of struggle, critique, and possibility. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Neo-liberism Global Studies algorithmic governance Labour Mimesis International, publisher. Politics ; 3103-3857 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/politics-ingarra-critique-labour-neoliberal-era.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02605nam 22003492 4500 aca4b61a-c8f6-4c64-86ae-3cc37d3dcb38 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869775086 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local De Blasis, Fabio, author. The Making of Global Exploitation Chains : Farmers, Workers, and Export-oriented Horticulture in Tanzania / Fabio De Blasis. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (218 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Sociology ; 3103-3849 Available through Mimesis International. In recent years, export horticulture for European markets has been promoted across sub-Saharan Africa as a rural development strategy. International donors and local governments argue that expanding fruit-and-vegetable exports can spur economic transformation and reduce poverty—by linking smallholders to exporters and European supermarkets through contract farming, and by creating wage employment in farms and packhouses. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Tanzania, this book challenges that narrative, revealing widespread exploitation within supermarket-driven supply chains, alongside deepening rural inequalities and forms of resistance. Foregrounding the dynamics of unequal incorporation, it advances the concept of global exploitation chains: vertically coordinated systems that systematically shift risks and costs downward—from supermarkets in the Global North to exporters, to farmers, and ultimately onto the most vulnerable in the Global South, namely (female) workers impoverished by decades of failed development policies. Ultimately, the book offers fresh insights into agrarian transformation and uneven development trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa under globalisation. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Sociology sub-Saharan Africa Exploitation Workers Mimesis International, publisher. Sociology ; 3103-3849 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/international-sociology-de-blasis-marking-global-exploitation-chains.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02473nam 22003612 4500 bcaff865-6959-493a-9116-686defcc8c80 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869774997 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Lauri, Zoe, author. The Nature of the Risorgimento : Science, Environment and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Italy / Zoe Lauri. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (330 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cultural History of Science ; 3103-1838 Available through Mimesis International. Following Italy’s unification in 1861, the new state faced the complex task of achieving political, administrative and cultural cohesion, which also required a unified body of knowledge about the national territory and its natural environment. This book explores how knowledge of Italian nature was produced, circulated, and institutionalised in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as part of the broader nationbuilding project, and how it contributed to the symbolic and material construction of the nation. Scientists played a crucial role in articulating a naturalistic unity of the peninsula, mapping its resources, and defining the idea of a distinct ‘Italian’ landscape. Through a critical analysis of scientific practices, actors, and institutions, the study reveals how Italian nature served as a symbol of national identity, an instrument of political legitimacy, and a means of shaping and consolidating a shared vision of Italy as Il Bel Paese – an image that remains deeply embedded in the country’s cultural imagination today. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Risorgimento Bel Paese Italy Nature landscape Mimesis International, publisher. Cultural History of Science ; 3103-1838 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/international-lauri-nature-risorgimento-scaled.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 01732nam 22004092 4500 fbaf060b-e235-4893-b16c-66e0fbba9845 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869774911 (Paperback) UkCbTOM eng local The Power of Stories : An Interdisciplinary Approach in Addressing Gender Bias / edited by Valeria Cammarata, Giuseppina D'addelfio, Maria Stella Epifanio, Maria Rita Infurna, Sabina La Grutta, Lavinia Spalanca, Maria Vinciguerra. Sesto san Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (186 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Psychology ; 3103-4306 Available through Mimesis International. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Gender Studies Pedagogy Bell Hooks Elena Ferrante Cammarata, Valeria, editor. D'addelfio, Giuseppina, editor. Epifanio, Maria Stella, editor. Infurna, Maria Rita, editor. La Grutta, Sabina, editor. Spalanca, Lavinia, editor. Vinciguerra, Maria, editor. Mimesis International, publisher. Psychology ; 3103-4306 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/9788869774911.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02382nam 22003492 4500 658c8915-4ccf-489c-b1c5-d7456618fde9 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869775017 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Gregory, Paola, author. The Quest for Empathic Architecture : Prospects, Concepts and Critical Aspects / Paola Gregory. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (224 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Architecture ; 3103-4063 Available through Mimesis International. Starting from the emotional turn in the understanding of reality, the book retraces some thematic core concepts of aesthetic, philosophical and neuroscientific thought that have thematized empathy as a fundamental way of relating to otherness. From this point of view, we can consider the relationship between us and architecture, rethought as an incorporated medium of our emotional experience, where empathy –as a multi-component experience, characterized by both an affective response towards the other and the cognitive capacity to assume the subjective perspective of the other person – opens the space to the other-than-self. The transition from object to experience in rethinking the work of architecture in terms of relationship and no longer of simple form therefore appears crucial, because it means considering as a priority function of architecture something that does not belong to the work itself but to its consequences, the emotions and behaviors that can be engendered in the users. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Empathy Architecture Emotional Turn Spatial Turn Mimesis International, publisher. Architecture ; 3103-4063 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/international-architecture-gregory-quest-empathic-architecture.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02172nam 22003612 4500 b3fb1e85-83b7-41d9-a346-d56fb84ef5d8 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869774973 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Ricci, Elena, author. The Virtuous Patient : Cultivating Character Amidst Adversity / Elena Ricci. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (196 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Philosophy ; 3103-3865 Available through Mimesis International. Despite the significance of suffering, illness, and disability, for long time little attention has been devoted to the moral flourishing of individuals living with chronic diseases. Instead, philosophers have primarily focus on examining healthcare providers’ virtues as well as those traits that are relevant to patient-caregiver relationships. This work aims to prioritize patients’ experiences, exploring the compatibility between illness and individual moral progress, while also identifying virtues that can help them in coping with their condition and enhancing their overall well-being. In summary, the book offers a nuanced understanding of the role of character in fostering functional coping and positive adaptation and promoting “illfullness”, the flourishing of the sick person amidst their illness. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Suffering Disability Patient Caregiver Moral Philosophy Mimesis International, publisher. Philosophy ; 3103-3865 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/international-ricci-virtuous-patient-1.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02286nam 22003372 4500 f3cfb37b-f70f-4637-bf67-1951f931c7f3 m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 ger d 9788869774942 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Updating Roland Barthes’ Mythologies : Positionen aus Design, Architektur und Kunst / edited by Hans Leo Höger. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (276 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Design Meanings ; 3103-3873 Available through Mimesis International. In Anlehnung an Roland Barthes’ Mythologies von 1957 widmet sich dieses Buch dem Vorhaben, fast sieben Jahrzehnte nach Erscheinen des berühmten Klassikers heutige Mythen des Alltags zu benennen und näher zu erkunden. Diese ‚Aktualisierung’ aus Sicht des 21. Jahrunderts geschieht – wie damals bei Barthes selbst – in Form kurzer, pointierter Texte zu Alltagsphänomenen der Gegenwart. Die mehr als 30 Autorinnen aus dem In- und Ausland konzentrieren sich dabei auf Themen und Fragestellungen, die den Bereichen Design, Architektur, Kunst und Umwelt zugeordnet sind oder für diese in besonderer Weise relevant erscheinen: Gestalterinnen und Gestalter sind zum einen die Urheberinnen der versammelten Beiträge. Zum anderen zählen Interessierte an Fragen des Designs, der Kunst und generell der Umweltgestaltung – darunter insbesondere Studierende – zur vorrangigen Zielgruppe dieses Projekts. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Roland Barthes Mythologies Design Höger, Hans Leo, editor. Mimesis International, publisher. Design Meanings ; 3103-3873 https://mimesisinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Design-meanings-Hoger-Updating-Roland-Barthes-Mythologies-ok-1.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02336nam 22003492 4500 53cd7b00-fd7e-45ee-88a7-19c6432ff60d m o d cr n 260401t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9788869775024 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local Crescentini, Noemi, author. When Science Belongs to Everyone : A Sociological Exploration of the Innovative Process of Citizen Science / Noemi Crescentini. Sesto San Giovanni, Italy : Mimesis International, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (176 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Sociology ; 3103-3849 Available through Mimesis International. Science and technology have become inextricably intertwined with people’s daily lives, profoundly influencing social relations, habits, lifestyles and work activities, and exerting a substantial influence on public opinion. In response to these changes, institutions are required to reformulate communication models and knowledge governance strategies. In this scenario, Citizen Science emerges as a participatory tool that actively involves citizens in scientific production, thereby redefining the concept of openness in science and promoting more inclusive forms of knowledge construction. The present study proposes a sociological reflection on these dynamics, investigating the Italian case through a mixed methodological approach. The analysis focuses on the potential of Citizen Science to contribute to the definition of public policies, highlighting the social and political implications of this participatory change. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Science Technology Citizen Science Science and Technology Mimesis International, publisher. 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