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author: Silvia Pizzocaro (Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano (IT))

In forma narrata. Quando la narrazione costruisce le cose

language: italian

abstract: This essay proposes a review of short literary extracts that exemplify the background and figures of everyday stories in which things – while captured in their ordinary functional capacity – are loaded with multiple layers of meaning beyond use value and exchange value.
The concerned narration of things addresses the observation of the humble levels of human action – living, cooking, eating, cleaning, working – to contemplate a universe of unimportant things belonging to minor realities. These narratives can offer food for thought to semioticians, designers, sociologists, anthropologists, scholars and theorists of material culture, when committed to observe and study people’s gestures, actions, behaviors with objects rather than objects per sé.

citation information: Silvia Pizzocaro, In forma narrata. Quando la narrazione costruisce le cose, "Ocula", vol.22, February 2021. DOI: 10.12977/ocula2021-1

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