SPEAKERS: ABSTRACTS AND BIOS "VORTEX – Varieties of Radicalization, Terrorism and Extremism"
ABSTRACTS AND BIOS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE IN PROGRAM Massimo Leone : https://unito.academia.edu/MassimoLeone Title: An Antidote to Extremism: Intimism Abstract : “Extremism” is a term and a concept that does not designate a precise, determined, and definitive location in the semiosphere (the abstract area in which a community produces, handles, and circulates meaning). As the etymology of the word itself suggests, its meaning is intrinsically topological and relational. Something can be extreme only by situating itself at the periphery of a spectrum, at the border of an area of potentialities. The term and the corresponding concept, moreover, signal that this spectrum, as well as this area, are not neutrally arranged but contain at least one dialectics and, as a consequence, one polarization. In other words, “extremism” implicitly refers to an axiology, which includes also the impossibility not to adopt a perspective on it, a point of view. Thus, when something is q