Il recente numero della rivista “Consecutio Rerum” contiene una sezione monografica curata da Paolo Desogus e Marco Gatto che si intitola “A partire da Gramsci. Aspetti e problemi della questione meridionale oggi”. Il fascicolo è disponibile a questo indirizzo. Contiene anche un mio contributo dal titolo “Il pensiero meridiano come mediterraneismo anti-popolare”, scaricabile qui. Ecco l’abstract del mio saggio:

About five years after the publication of my book Mediterraneismo. Il pensiero
antimeridiano (Meltemi 2017), I still wonder whether it was necessary to publish
such a text. This contribution is an attempt to formulate an answer to that
question. An answer that, in my opinion, is affirmative. And it is so because not only
are the traces of what I had defined in the book as Mediterraneanism of the first kind
(of backwardness) still widespread; but above all because what I had defined as a second
form of Mediterraneanism (of redemption), that is, the process of the reversal
of the stigma, which was the central focus of the book, does not receive adequate
critical attention. Here I attempt to contribute to that discussion, pointing out how
Mediterraneanism of the second type (which we can identify here with the expression
‘Meridian thought’) does nothing more, in its attempt to construct a ‘Meridian’
identity, than re-propose those same stereotypes of Mediterraneanism of the first type,
only overturned and re-semantitised. Meridian thought continues to produce its aesthetic
and political effects.