Il dibattito degli esperti sul Covid-19: sintomi di decivilizzazione

Tipaldo, Giuseppe; Rocutto, Sara; Merlo, Carlotta; Bruno, Fabio

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“…While civilisation progressively leads to substituting trust for violence through increasing interdependence and mutual recognition, decivilisation represents the reverse process. Tipaldo et al (2022) have already linked pseudoscientific polemics and Elias' decivilisation, a dynamism due to decreasing social cohesion that goes hand in hand with the decrease in generalised trust. This social atmosphere is often instrumentalised by the polarising rhetoric that inspires populistic and conspiracist movements and their criticism of liberal-democratic institutions.…”

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Sociopolitical Genealogy of Populist Conspiracy Theories in the Context of Hyperpolitics

Esposito

2024

Genealogy

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The wide circulation of conspiracy narratives and their frequent intertwining with populist rhetoric is both an element of concern and a topic of intense scientific and philosophical debate. The depth of the link between conspiracy theories and populism represents a crucial issue whose comprehension can facilitate understanding their specific nature and the factors behind their diffusion in public communication. To this end, it is necessary to cultivate an interdisciplinary approach and great critical attention, eschewing monocausal explanations. This paper addresses the question of the essentially political nature of conspiracism, confronting the recent epistemological debate that, by putting the positivist paradigm aside, has sought to explore and understand the socio-cultural roots of conspiracy rhetoric, with its sceptical, antagonistic and hermetic traits. By integrating the reflections of epistemologists such as Cassam or Harris with the considerations of political scientists such as Taggart and with Schmitt’s radical reflections on politics, it is perhaps possible to reintegrate the different approaches to populist conspiracism into an overall social genealogical perspective, thanks also to recent demographic elaborations. Thus, we could ascribe the spread of conspiracism to the prevalence in societies of a hyperpolitical discursive regime, i.e., founded on the principle of opposition, without the possibility of compromise, between different groups and interests. At the basis of such Manichaeism, it is plausible to place in the first place the growing inequalities and related social disintegration, which hinder the circulation of trust and recognition between individuals and groups, thus ending up undermining democracy at its roots, as a political system that legitimises and thus peacefully regulates conflict.

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Sociopolitical Genealogy of Populist Conspiracy Theories in the Context of Hyperpolitics

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2024

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I rapporti dei giovani italiani con la scienza e la tecnologia. Analisi sui dati dell'Osservatorio Scienza Tecnologia e Società 2007-2023

Rubin,

Saracino

2024

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Il rapporto tra nuove generazioni, scienza e tecnologia è stato oggetto d'interesse crescente negli ultimi decenni e ha visto l'insorgenza di numerose iniziative volte a indagare i risultati scolastici, le motivazioni e, più in genera-le, l'orientamento nei confronti delle attività di ricerca e delle organizzazioni scientifiche da parte dei giovani. Comprendere il punto di vista delle nuove generazioni a proposito della scienza e della tecnologia rimane una questione di strategica rilevanza. Il contributo presenta i risultati di un monitoraggio annuale condotto dall'Osservatorio Scienza Tecnologia e Società di Observa Science in Society dal 2007 al 2023 su campioni rappresentativi della popo-lazione italiana. Le indagini restituiscono risultati rilevanti su sei ambiti: co-noscenze scientifiche e tecnologiche, esposizione alla scienza attraverso i media, partecipazione a manifestazioni ed eventi scientifici, credibilità delle fonti d'informazione, opinioni nei confronti della scienza e della tecnologia, fiducia nella scienza e negli scienziati. I dati evidenziano alti livelli di alfabe-tismo scientifico e di interesse nella scienza e nella tecnologia da parte dei giovani, ma anche opinioni articolate e ambivalenti sul ruolo della tecno-scienza nella società, sui rischi connessi alla ricerca scientifica e alle sue implicazioni.

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Il dibattito degli esperti sul Covid-19: sintomi di decivilizzazione

Cited by 2 publications

References 15 publications

Sociopolitical Genealogy of Populist Conspiracy Theories in the Context of Hyperpolitics

Sociopolitical Genealogy of Populist Conspiracy Theories in the Context of Hyperpolitics

I rapporti dei giovani italiani con la scienza e la tecnologia. Analisi sui dati dell'Osservatorio Scienza Tecnologia e Società 2007-2023

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