Mind,
Consciousness,
and
Language

 

Giorgio Marchetti is a theorist of mind. He took his university degree in foreign languages and literatures at IULM, Milan, in 1989, under the supervision of Silvio Ceccato. Member of the Scuola Operativa Italiana from 1989 to 1994, in 1995 he began his collaboration with the Laboratory for the Culture of the Artificial directed by Massimo Negrotti at the University of Urbino. Since 1997 he is contract teacher at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Urbino, and scientific secretary of the European Society for the Sociology of Art and Design directed by Danila Bertasio.

 


 
PUBLICATIONS


Books:

1993, The mechanics of the mind, Espansione, Roma (to download, click here ).

1994,
L’iconema calciatiano: per la genesi di una nuova cultura estetica, Ktema, Pieve del Cairo.

1997,
La macchina estetica. Il percorso operativo nella costruzione dell’atteggiamento estetico, Franco Angeli, Milano.

2000, (edited with D. Bertasio)
Fra ombre e autoritratti Il critico presenta se stesso, Franco Angeli, Milano.

2003, (ed.) Quel centimetro in meno, by Giuseppe Gabriele, Foreword by Elia Boccara, Mimep-Docete, Pessano c. Bornago (Milano).


Articles:

1991, “Dalla linguistica all’estetica”, in Campi immaginabili, 1/2, 175-191.

1991,
“Estetica e linguistica”, in Methodologia, 9, 84-108.

1994,
“A Mind Theory for the Human-Centredness Paradigm”, in AI & Society, 8, 363-376 .

1994,
“Il principio generativo nell’opera di Romolo Calciati”, in Poli F. (ed.) Nuovi territori, IP, Pieve del Cairo.

1994,
“Analisi della congiunzione ‘e’”, in Working Papers della Società di Cultura Metodologico-Operativa, 50, 1-14.

1997,
“Conoscenza e rappresentazione”, in Braga Illa F. (ed.) Livelli di rappresentazione, QuattroVenti, Urbino.

1997,
“Arte, Artista, Bello, Creatività, Estetica: come li concepiscono gli artisti contemporanei?”, in Bertasio D. (ed.) Professione Artista. Un’indagine sociologica sulla creatività in pittura, Clueb, Bologna.

1997,
“L’importanza che l’opera di Romolo Calciati riveste per uno studioso della mente”, in Caprile L. (ed.) La Musa trasdotta. Romolo Calciati. Opere 1975-1995. La.Musa. IMES - LCA- Università di Urbino.

1998,
“Sociologia dell’arte e obiettività scientifica: un binomio non impossibile”, in Bertasio D. (ed.) Immagini sociali dell’arte, Dedalo, Bari.

1998, (with D. Bertasio)
“Da Urbs Artis ’97”, in Bignardi M, Fiorillo A. P., Bertasio D. and Marchetti G (eds.) Alfabeti. Narrazioni di segni, Università degli Studi di Urbino - Ente Provinciale Per il Turismo di Salerno, Salerno.

1999,
“Sulla creatività”, in Studi Urbinati, anno LXIX, 847-884.

1999,
“Mind design: some considerations in the light of the theory of the artificial”, in Informatologia. Science and Technology, 32, 9-15.

2000, (with D. Bertasio)
“Il critico contemporaneo: un’indagine sociologica”, in Bertasio D. e Marchetti G. (eds) Fra ombre e autoritratti Il critico presenta se stesso, Franco Angeli, Milano.

2000,
“Il critico visto dal critico”, in Bertasio D. e Marchetti G. (eds) Fra ombre e autoritratti Il critico presenta se stesso, Franco Angeli, Milano.

2000,
“Observation Levels and Units of Time: A Critical Analysis of the Main Assumption of the Theory of the Artificial”, in AI & Society, 14, 331-347.

2000, (with D. Bertasio)
“For a Sociology of Art and Artists”, in Culture: Newsletter of the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, Vol. 15, N. 1, 14-17.

2001, “A Theory of Consciousness”, http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles giorgio.htm.

2002, (with D. Bertasio)
"Invisibility revealed by visibility", in Negrotti M. (ed.) Yearbook of the Artificial. Nature , Culture & Technology, Vol.1, pag. 53-66.

2002,
"The role attention plays in building our subjective experiences", in  The Journal of Non-Locality and Remote Mental Interactions, Vol. 1, nr. 2, http://www.emergentmind.org/marchettiI2.htm.

2002, (with D. Bertasio) "Specchio delle mie brame, chi è la più bella del reame?", in Porrello A. (ed.) L'industria culturale e il prodotto moda, QuattroVenti, Urbino.

2003, “Foundations of Attentional Semantics”, http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles giorgio2.htm.

2005, “The importance of non-attentional operations for Attentional Semantics”, http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles giorgio3.htm.

2006, “A criticism of Leonard Talmy's Cognitive Semantics”, http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles giorgio4.htm.

2006, “A presentation of Attentional Semantics", Cognitive Processing, Vol. 7, No. 3, 163-194

2007, “Time is energy. A hypothesis on the attentional origin of the conscious experience of time,
http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles giorgio6.htm

 

Reviews and Commentaries:

1989, review of Lingua e linguaggio nei testi, by H. Weinrich, Feltrinelli, Milano (1988), in Methodologia, 6, 108-110.

1991, review of Défense et Illustration de l’Introspection. Au service de la Gestion Mentale, by A. de La Garanderie, Édition du Centurion, Paris (1989), in Methodologia, 8, 120-122.

1998, review of Saggio sul cervello e la mente, by A. Civita, Guerini e Associati, Milano (1993), in Imes news, 0/98.

2003, commentary on How Children Learn the Meanings of Words, by P. Bloom, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. (2000), in http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm

2004, commentary on A Grammar of Attention. A Treatise on the Problem of Meaning, by Todd Oakley (2003),
www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/oakley/aga.html, in http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm.

2004, commentary on Semantica operativa. La semantica in termini di operazioni mentali. Parte prima. Principi generali, metodologia e tecnica di analisi, by Giulio Benedetti (2001), www.mind-consciousness-language.com/articles benedetti1.htm, in http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm.

2005, commentary on Mind Time. The Temporal Factor in Consciousness, by B. Libet, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. (2004), in http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm

2006, commentary on Il tempo. Saggio di psicologia sperimentale, by G. B. Vicario, il Mulino (2005), in http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm

2006, commentary on The Structure of Time. language, meaning and temporal cognition by Vyvyan Evans, John Benjamins Pub. Com., Amsterdam/ Philadelphia (2004), in http://www.mind-consciousness-language.com/comm.htm



Translations:


1997, “Simmetria e rottura di simmetria nelle strutture naturali e artificiali” by G. Caglioti, in Braga Illa F. (ed.) Livelli di rappresentazione, QuattroVenti, Urbino.

1998,
“L’arte e la società dei multimedia interattivi: lo shaping socio-estetico dei multimedia” by L. Qvortrup, in Bertasio D. (ed.) Immagini sociali dell’arte, Dedalo, Bari.


Various:


1998, (edited with M. Bignardi, A. P. Fiorillo and D. Bertasio) Alfabeti. Narrazioni di segni, Università degli Studi di Urbino - Ente Provinviale Per il Turismo di Salerno, Salerno.

2001,
Costruzioni, Edizioni Pulcinoelefante, Osnago.

 

 

 

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