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Testo e Senso is an interdisciplinary scientific journal born in 1998 at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. It deals with texts, old and new media, and cultural systems stemming from them. Its central theme is the reflection on the problem of a new statute of text-related disciplines. In doing so, it relies on a plurality of points of view and theoretical and methodological interactions ranging from literary theory and criticism, philology, linguistics, cultural studies, communication studies, cognitive science, neuroscience, digital humanities.

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Cfp 2024: “Wokism” between Ideology and Aesthetics in Today’s Cultural System

03 Apr 2024

Emerging in the United States around 2010 as a response to racial discrimination and social injustice, “wokism” initially gained traction in North American universities and later spread to Europe. Drawing on gender theories, critical race theory, and intersectionality, it challenges established academic views of science, rational knowledge, history, the humanities, and universalist thinking. Proponents argue that these traditional approaches may be inherently biased, promoting implicit structures that perpetuate a patriarchal, white, Western perspective.

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