Views “from the city
Meetings fo the International Study and Documentation Centre for Youth Culture

Trieste Città della Conoscenza, Piazza della Libertà 8 Trieste (Atrio Stazione Centrale)

Monday 28 maggio 2018 5,30 p.m.

The first meeting dedicated to “views from the “city” took place today (May 28) with a lively and profound presentation by Dario Castellaneta on the theme “Provocations on eternal youth” starting from the metaphysics of the youth of Walter Benjamin.

The link to the recording of the meeting will be published, soon. We thank Hari Bertoja.

The debate was also interesting and animated thanks to the present audience

The different types of intergenerational relationship have constituted one of the strong and “serious” moments (for commitment and at stake) of the presentation of Dario Cstellaneta .. Oon the one hand it has been said that youth is not a “category of the spirit” but it corresponds to an age of life with its physical and experiential characteristics; on the other, the idea of ​​eternal youth has also been rethought as a positive idea: why eternal? perhaps because it is destined not to end? but to be eternal it must not even be started. And then youth can be felt as a pure place / time, of encounter. Because its eternity frees it from limits and boundaries, hence from visibility and representation. Almost a state of mind that brings with it all the traits of a clarity lived as happiness. Thus, following Benjamin, the dream that each has of future generations becomes awakening.

This suggestion / provocation strongly evocative of a state of mind to be striven in intergenerational relations is, perhaps, the “city” we seek, capable of rendering in a mirror the reciprocity between the inner city and the outer city.

The meeting seems to have accomplished its task, which was not to provide impossible definitions or solutions of problems immediately at hand, but to bring out aspects that deeply innervate our cultures and leave in them a sign

The series of meetings “views from the City” wants to offer moments of public debate: from the “city”, from the places we live as citizens, with dreams, freedom, parrhesia (so the Greeks called open discourse, often interrupted today and confined), with the metaphysics of the game, the roles, the rules, the values, we will glance at the city, with the rigor of knowledge and dialogue, to acquire awareness and to realize, finally, that the words of science and of philosophy are part of our everyday language and they enter our lives precisely for that multiple relationship that we call “city” or more often “citizenship”. The first meeting will be dedicated to “Provocations on eternal youth. Notes in the margins of Walter Benjamin’s Metaphysics of Youth “, Dario Castellaneta, with Fabio Corigliano (both philosophers) and the coordination of Gabriella Valera (historian), director of the Center. Inspired by a classic of early twentieth-century philosopher we will talk (with some irony) of this dream, though always cultivated, and of the temporal disorientation that it also provokes in the relationship between generations.

Also programmed:
Fabio Corigliano.Secret and transparency from a legal-political perspective, With Gabriele Pitacco
Trieste Città della Conoscenza, Piazza della Libertà 8 Trieste (Atrio Stazione Centrale)
Monday 28 maggio 2018 5,30 p.m.

Luca Benvenga. Youth: rituals of resistance and politicity of the “game” (in the perspective of Cultural Studies)
Trieste Città della Conoscenza, Piazza della Libertà 8 Trieste (Atrio Stazione Centrale)
Monday 28 maggio 2018 5,30 p.m.

The meetings are public. The Center invites not only to participate in the debate but also to propose topics of scientific and cultural debate