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Based on an empirical research on Foxconn plants in the Czech Republic, the aim of this article is to analyze how global production networks enable a time and space compression of the production process. In this way Foxconn is able to respond to the just-in-time requests of the market, while at the same time keeping the conflicts with the plant at minimum. We suggest that such a working of the global production networks is contingent on the socio-institutional context and on the composition of the workforce. These two aspects are key for the fulfilment of Foxconn's production needs as they offer necessary conditions for the compression of space and time of the workforce. The time-space compression is upheld by the international recruitment agencies that select, recruit and transport workers from their countries of origin to the Czech plants and manage the workforce both inside and outside the factories. The article examines three key nodes of this space-time compression: the recruitment of the workforce, the organization of production, and the management of reproduction.

Cover -- Occhiello -- Dedica -- Indice -- Esperienza comune e fisica contemporanea -- Capitolo I - Rapporto vita-scienza -- Capitolo II - Il continuum spazio-tempo -- Capitolo III - Implicazioni filosofiche della scienza relativistica e postmoderna -- Capitolo IV - Implicazioni sociali dello sviluppo e della fisica moderna -- Esperienza giuridica e fisica contemporanea -- Capitolo V - Diritto e spaziotemporalità -- Capitolo VI - Realtà quadrimensionale e principio di causalità -- Capitolo VII - Criticità dell'ordinamento giuridico -- Capitolo VIII - Continuum nella disciplina giuridica e continuum einsteiniano -- Capitolo IX - Il cronotopo einsteniano alla base della scienza giuridica -- Capitolo X - Ontologia relativistica e diritto -- Capitolo XI - "Tempo di vita" e lavoro -- Capitolo XII - Nomose democrazia -- Riferimenti bibliografici -- Finito di stampare -- Volumi pubblicati.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Filippo Del Lucchese , Fabio Frosini and Vittorio Morfino -- 1 Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani /Jean-Louis Fournel -- 2 'Uno piccolo dono': A Software Tool for Comparing the First Edition of Machiavelli's The Prince to Its Sixteenth Century French Translations /Jean-Claude Zancarini -- 3 Of 'Extravagant' Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX /Romain Descendre -- 4 'Italia' come spazio politico in Machiavelli /Giorgio Inglese -- 5 Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War  /Gabriele Pedullà -- 6 Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli's Ethic /Alison Brown -- 7 Corpora Caeca: Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince  /Jacques Lezra -- 8 The Five Theses of Machiavelli's 'Philosophy' /Vittorio Morfino -- 9 Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli /Sebastián Torres -- 10 Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince  /Tania Rispoli -- 11 Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief /Thomas Berns -- 12 Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion /Fabio Frosini -- 13 'Uno Mero Esecutore': Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in The Prince  /Warren Montag -- 14 Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence /Miguel Vatter -- 15 Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origin of Political Economy: An Introduction /Jérémie Barthas -- 16 Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising /Yves Winter -- 17 Machiavelli's Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer /John P. McCormick -- 18 Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in Machiavelli's Epistemology /Etienne Balibar -- 19 The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelli's Political Topography /Stefano Visentin -- 20 Machiavelli Was Not a Republicanist – Or Monarchist: On Louis Althusser's 'Aleatory' Interpretation of The Prince  /Mikko Lahtinen -- 21 Lectures machiavéliennes d'Althusser /Mohamed Moulfi -- 22 Machiavelli after Althusser /Banu Bargu -- 23 Gramsci's Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince  /Peter D. Thomas -- Index /Filippo Del Lucchese , Fabio Frosini and Vittorio Morfino.

The conventional nature of Italian Constitution, adopted in 1947, contribuited to emprove the openness of its provisions so that its constitutional principles can be interpreted with different hermeneutical instruments. An open constitution can be rigid relating to its modifiability: infact it 's idoneus to last in times, more than a univocal one. This type of act gives to the Parliament more discretion and in this way it's more compatible with several political policies. According to this, it's not necessary to modify the Constitution when the Parliament majority changes. In other words, an open constitution can be easily interpreted with an evolving method so that in this activity it will be possible considering the various social, economic, scientific, technological, cultural and political circumstances. These characteristics, conventionality, rigidity and flexibility are the reasons for which actually the Italian republic an Constitution is in full force, without it has lost its actuality and vitality, thanks to the unremitting work of constitutional jurisprudence, that contribuited to encrease the making- process of transnational integration, also considering the importance of hight European Courts in the adaptation of evolving Constitution. ; La natura convenzionale della Costituzione italiana, adottata nel 1947, ha contribuito a rendere aperte le sue previsioni nel senso che le stesse possono essere assoggettate a diversi itinerari ermeneutici. Una Costituzione aperta può tuttavia ben essere rigida quanto alla sua modificabilità: infatti è idonea a durare nel tempo proprio perché non è univoca. Questa caratteristica consente al legislatore di esercitare la sua discrezionalità potendo sciegliere tra diversi indirizzi politici compatibili con la Costituzione. Proprio per questo, non è necessario cambiare la Costituzione quando cambia la maggioranza. In altre parole, una Costituzione elastica può essere interpretata in senso evolutivo, tenendo conto dei mutamenti sociali, economici, scientifici, tecnologici e culturali. Questi caratteri - convenzionalità, elasticità e rigidità – sono i fattori che rendono attuale la Costituzione della Repubblica italiana e ne preservano la vitalità, grazie soprattutto all' opera incessante della giurisprudenza costituzionale che ha contribuito al progredire del processo di integrazione europea anche riconoscendo un rilievo significativo alla giurisprudenza delle alte corti europee nell'interpretazione evolutiva della Costituzione

Although in comparison to other key Gramscian concepts, ideology has not been among the most studied, this is beginning to change. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a diffuse and variegated usage of the term in the Prison Notebooks, as well as an innovative extension of the concept, which is articulated around a network of closely correlated terms and concepts. Nevertheless, debates remain over how to understand its meaning in Gramsci's carceral discourse, with some arguing that his distinctive conception of ideology has a "neutral", and arguably, also "positive" meaning, while others contend that it is neither "neutral", nor "positive", but a critical concept. This essay argues that Gramsci's conception of ideology is neither neutral nor positive, but rather, an eminently critical and differentiated analysis of the diverse ideological forms of consciousness through which the popular masses are enveloped within the web of a class's hegemony through the mediation of the philosophers' philosophies, the fruit of his attempt to rethink philosophy politically. In short, understanding Gramsci's conception of ideology in the full sense can only be ascertained by following the threads of his philosophical investigations in their shifts and re-elaborations. Keywords: Gramsci, Politics, Philosophy, Ideology

Questo saggio mira a presentare un modello in divenire volto ad analizzare gli spazi pubblici urbani (UPS), fondato su quattro dimensioni localmente situate –socioeconomica, socioculturale, socio-ambientale e politico-amministrativa – e una dimensione esterna, strutturale. In quanto modello relazionale, si concentra sul modo in cui le istituzioni capitaliste/statali e le loro rappresentazioni dello spazio plasmano luoghi e possibilità disuguali e sul modo in cui i cittadini percepiscono, vivono e si appropriano di questi luoghi, conformandosi in misura maggiore o minore allo spazio sociale della città. Un caso studio incentrato sulle persone di Rio de Janeiro che hanno fatto della strada un mezzo di produzione/riproduzione esaminerà il valore euristico del modello, rivelando come gli utenti si sentono nello spazio pubblico urbano, lo pensano e come reagiscono allo spazio "astratto". This essay aims at presenting a model with four non-exhaustive local content dimensions – socioeconomic, sociocultural, socio-environmental, and political-administrative – with an external dimension as a base to analyze urban public spaces (UPS). As a relational model it focus on how capitalist/state institutions and their representations of space conform unequal places and possibilities and how citizens perceive, live and appropriate these places, conforming to greater or lesser degree the city social space. A case study focusing on those who depend on the streets as means of production/reproduction in Rio de Janeiro examines the heuristic value of the model, revealing how users feel and think about UPS and how they react to the abstract space

In literature in English, and in the popular imagination in English-speaking countries generally, the Minoan period is a kind of golden age, an Atlantis or Garden of Eden before the Fall. And, in such a construction, the Fall comes with the Mycenaeans, who are represented as a tough, militaristic people who destroyed Troy for trade reasons. This chapter traces the emergence of the idealistic depiction of the Minoans in response to the circumstances before, during, and after World War II. While some recent authors have begun to challenge the image of happy and peaceful Minoans, it suggests that the Minoans and Mycenaeans are still locked into antithetical perceptions that hinder real understanding of the cultures.

In order to answer the call of Agenda 2030 (UN, 2015), higher education must assist in giving form to a new society in which democracy is cultivated in both the minds and practices of our society. A democratic education is the answer to the challenges of contemporary society, which is characterized by indifference and an unwillingness to engage for the common good. Educational practices are often aligned to this trend so that they are planned with the aim of developing competences useful for individual success and the economic improvement of society. It is necessary to envision a new design for higher education that promotes in people the disposition to engage in the construction of a society where everyone has an equal opportunity to live a good and fulfilling life. Useful for this purpose can be a rediscovery of the classical position of Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle that present virtue and ethics as a theoretical framework for education. This framework can be used as a foundation upon which to renew academic practices by planning and designing experiences able to translate theory into actions. Service learning is an interesting model that would allow for this and would guide practices that support a democratic education informed by virtue and ethics. If useful for redirecting higher education, service learning is particularly suitable for educating teachers, the practitioners who have a great responsibility for transforming society through education. In this paper, after developing the appropriate theoretical framework, we present, as an example of service learning, the Community Research Service Learning experience carried out at the University of Verona in the Primary Teacher Education master's degree program.