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Homo comfort
Stefano Boni
To question comfort, identifying its mostly disregarded or silenced side effects, is something that shakes the foundations of what we consider our indispensable sensorial wellbeing. This questioning allows us to understand not just what we've gained but also what we have irremediably lost.
Everybody likes a comforting life, but is precisely this general and uncritical acceptance that should be investigated in order to understand the historical changes induced by an overpowering hyper-technology. Having arrogantly entered our daily routine, comfort has not just become a lifestyle but also a way of knowing that has moulded material culture, cognitive processes and the systems of evaluation themselves. Comfort takes the form of a totally social affair that allows us to inquire into the anthropological caesura that has given birth – at least in the western and westernised world – to an unprecedented type of humanity: Homo comfort. A humanity on the way of overcoming fatigue and pain, who at the same time however accepts an existential illness evermore widespread and the loss of sensual and cognitive abilities that were crafted over the course of centuries. This is a loss tht makes humanity more and more dependant on an omnipresent technology of which humans have little or no awareness.
Stefano Boni obtained his PhD in anthropology at Oxford and has carried out field-researches firth in Ghana, then in Venezuela and Italy. He is presently teaching cultural anthropology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He's the author of numerous essays, among which Le strutture della disegualianza [The Structures of Inequality] (2003), Allineamento Istituzionale [Institutional alignment] (2013) Technologically-propelled comfort. Some theoretical implications of the contemporary overcoming of fatigue (2015) Poder Popular in socialist Venezuela in the XXI century (2017), he has also published with elèuthera Vivere senza padroni, antropologia della sovversione quotidiana [To live with no Master, an Anthropology of daily subversion] (2006) and Culture e poteri, un approccio antropologico [ Cultures and Powers, an anthropological approach] (2011).
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 Sun 11 Jul 2021 - La lettura
La frontiera del webfare |
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Thu 01 Apr 2021 - Viver sani e belli
Homo comfort |
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Tue 10 Jul 2018 - La croce
Homo comfort |
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Thu 21 May 2015 - La Valsusa
Homo Comfort |
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Sun 08 Feb 2015 - Terra Nuova
Homo Comfort |
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Wed 28 Jan 2015 - Almanacco della Scienza
Homo Comfort |
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Sat 22 Nov 2014 - Left
Homo comfort |
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Thu 23 Oct 2014 - KalashnikovCollective
Homo Comfort |
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Thu 23 Oct 2014 - Donne e cultura
Homo Comfort |
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Fri 05 Sep 2014 - Il Manifesto
Homo Comfort |
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Mon 25 Aug 2014 - La Gazzetta di Mantova
I cambiamenti forzati dalla iper tecnologia |
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Sun 17 Aug 2014 - La Lettura
E se la comodità facesse male? Basta comfort! |
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Fri 11 Jul 2014 - Il Venerdì
Così Homo Sapiens si trasformò in Homo Comfort |
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Homo comfort indice e premessa edizione 2019 - pdf |
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Torino, 12 maggio 2019 - Homo comfort - Librincontro |
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Milano, 3 dicembre 2019 - Dall'homo faber all'homo comfort - Fondazione Pini |
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Monza, 10 luglio 2019 - Homo comfort - Giardini pubblici P. Della Francesca |
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Venezia, 5 novembre 2019 - Homo comfort - biblioteca IUAV |
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Cuneo, 15 settembre 2022 - Il mondo è troppo comodo? - Salone d'onore del municipio |
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Pisa, 6 maggio 2023 - Homo comfort - Polo porta nuova |
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Trento, 10 giugno 2023 - Homo comfort - Libreria due punti |
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