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The article analyses the novel Carnaio by Giulio Cavalli, published in 2018. It re-elaborates the reality descripted by the contemporary racist and populist discourse, to imagine a possible dystopic development of that reality. The society created by this novel is governed by a zombiepolitics. The zombiepolitics is a metaphor to indicate a government device to manage all human categories considered by the society as an excess, as a stranger to be expelled in order to preserve peace. The aim is to show how the dystopian genre is useful for reflecting on ideological discourses, throw the construction of possible worlds that visualize the worlds of ideological perception of reality. ; L'articolo analizza il romanzo Carnaio (2018) di Giulio Cavalli. Il testo rielabora la realtà che emerge dal discorso populista e razzista contemporaneo, al fine di immaginare un suo possibile sviluppo di tipo distopico. La società che ne deriva è governata da ciò che qui si definisce come zombiepolitica. Si tratta di una metafora per indicare un dispositivo di governo ideato per gestire tutte quelle categorie umane considerate dalla comunità come un eccesso, un altro da espellere al fine di preservare la quiete. L'obiettivo è quello di mostrare come il genere distopico sia utile per riflettere sui discorsi ideologici, attraverso la costruzione di mondi possibili che visualizzano quanto espresso dalla percezione del reale dell'ideologia stessa.

From Telesio Interlandi to Julius Evola, fascist anti-Semitism revealed an almost non existent relationship with the political culture of the French anti-Semitism. Exponents of the French anti-Semitism of the late nineteenth century, starting with Drumont, remained unknown to the most important theorists of fascist racism. This stance is due to different reasons. Meanwhile, French anti-Semitism, from Drumont to Maurras, had a strong anti-German characterization. This characterization was in contrast to fascist pro-German policy. Moreover, fascist anti-Semitism was one of the most politically radical voices of the territorial expansionism of the regime, claiming colonies (Tunisia) and French territories (Corsica). It started mainly from 1939, with anthropological and racial justifications. The only theorist of French anti-Semitism to find space in the political journalism of the regime was Georges Montandon, exponent of the pro-Nazi collaborationism. However, Montandon's thesis didn't find space in the fascist debate on race, because his racism, with a strong ideological inclination, was considered to be in contrast to the " spiritual racism" of the regime.Keywords: Fascist antisemitism; Territorial expansionism; Antisemitic criticism of democracy; Georges Montandon.

The paper aims to examine the correlation between the alarming and stigmatizing narratives of the migration, spread via the new media, and the mushrooming of xenophobic speeches online. The Italian media address the migration primarily according to the frame of illegality and criminality. This dynamic contributes to colonize, in negative, the "collective imaginary", but also to direct the relational schemes, as evidenced by the increase in hate speech against migrants. Therefore, my aim is to identify potential scenarios suitable at reorienting the public debate around the migration and also to elaborate counternarratives and/or alternative narratives to encourage a new social, political and cultural attitude towards the migration, against any form of dangerous simplification.

The essay is inspired by the works of Frantz Fanon, Martinican psychiatrist and revolutionary man, prematurely disappeared in 1961, who became, in Italy too, between the years 1968 and 1970, an icon of the youth protest movement, of the anti-racist organizations and of the liberation movements. His short but intense life developed between a theoretic production (on the psychiatry of the colonised subject and on racism) and his personal political commitment for the liberation of colonized countries. He supported, and became its spokesman, the Algerian National Liberation Front during the Algerian War. The recent re-printing of some of his works and the large quantity of foreign articles published have been the occasion to reflect on the matters raised by the psychiatrist on racism, on decolonisation processes and neo-capitalism, on ethnical wars, on violence and divisions which showed, and still show today, a deep malaise of the society regarding the presence of the alterity, the role played by social sciences and, particularly, the anthropological ethnography and its interest/indifference towards violence issues.

This paper outlines a profile of the history of medicine in Italy after the process of political unification at the beginning of 1860s. During the second half of the Nineteenth century emphasis has been placed on some of the major achievements obtained by the Italian medical doctors, like for example the discovery of the black reaction by Camillo Golgi (1873) which was a breakthrough for brain structure research, the discovery of the mosquito vectors of human malaria by Giovanni Battista Grassi (1898) which provided the scientific basis to fight the disease and the development of microscopy and other experimental and clinical procedures which were at the core of modern medicine. Moreover the article underlines the importance of the international student exchange programs to improve the level of the Italian biomedical community. The paper then follows the development of some important Italian medical schools during the Twentieth century, which were instrumental in shaping the profile of contemporary medicine in Italy, like for example those of Giuseppe Levi in Turin, Adriano Buzzati Traverso in Pavia and Naples, Vittorio Erspamer and Daniel Bovet in Rome and Giuseppe Moruzzi in Pisa. A section of the paper summarizes the difficult relationship between medicine, eugenics and racism during the fascist regime. Adapted from the source document.