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In this paper, I critically discuss Riggle’s definition of street art. I argue that his definition has important limitations, and is therefore unsuccessful. I show that his view obscures a defining feature of street art, that is, its subversive power. As a significant consequence of ignoring that essential aspect, Riggle is incapable of fully understanding how street art transforms public space by turning one corner of the city at the time into contested ground. I also suggest that, when appreciating street art's subversiveness, its challenge against the Modern separation of art and life appears more radical than Riggle foresees.

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This paper discusses street art's possibilities as a strategy of social resistance against financial power. I focus on artworks that were part of a recent project of street art in Frankfurt, "Under Art Construction."

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In this paper, I begin to fashion a theory of musical form that I call historical formalism. Historical formalism is the view that our perception of a musical work’s formal properties is informed by considerations not only of artistic categories, but also of the historical, sociopolitical, and cultural circumstances within which that work was composed.

Here, you can access the paper. (Contemporary Aesthetics is an open access journal.)

In this interview, Oscar Farinetti, founder of Eataly, examines Italian excellence in the agribusiness. He discusses how the introduction of the wide-ranging geographical indication “Italia” and a school reform could promote Made in Italy and, more in general, the country's welfare. 

How do the (diverse) geographical indications function? And how should they function? These two questions, the first descriptive and the second normative, are the focus of this paper. Our aim is to foster a public debate on issues that, though often considered of interest only for specialists, have larger consequences in terms of public good. As such, those issues should be of general concern. After the introduction, in section 2 we examine the descriptive question and analyze how geographical indications function today. In particular, we discuss the philosophical and conceptual foundations of those indications. In section 3, we highlight few shortcomings of current geographical indications. In section 4, by introducing an “ecological parameter of production,” we develop the conceptual foundations of a proposal that does not suffer from the same shortcomings. Such a parameter is intended to enhance our understanding of geographical indications by incorporating quantitative limitations on food production. Section 5 considers an objection to our proposal and clarifies how we position our contribution within the discussion of Made in Italy with respect to the promotion of Italian excellence in the agribusiness.

This paper discusses public art and how contextual considerations influence its identity and interpretation. I argue that intentionalism fall shorts in understanding how a public artwork acquires the property that it has and how we should interpret it.

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Silvio Berlusconi once remarked that ‘soccer is a metaphor for life'. Taking this claim at face value, the essay explores some of the logics at play when soccer is linked to other domains. In particular, by considering the circumstances of three Italian clubs, the essay throws light on different ways the image of a patron may be mirrored. A preliminary philosophical apparatus is introduced in the first part of the essay, clarifying the notion of a metaphor and how the authors see this applying to the case under consideration. Afterwards, such apparatus is put to use to explain the instances of Juventus FC, AC Milan, and US Città di Palermo.

Part I and Part II

Translated into Italian by Andrea Baldini. It is available here.

The volume has been reviewed several times both in newspapers and academic journals. You can find here and here two detailed and informative reviews.

Forthcoming for JAAC. Stay tuned!