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The challenge of education

For the American magazine Foreign Policy is not the case in panic. But there are squeaks, and how. The latest survey of Program for International Student Assessment (Pisa) certify that the American high school students are struggling to keep pace with Asian colleagues . On 65 countries in the race, the Americans were classified to 31st place in mathematics, the 23rd in science, 17th in the "language" . Students of Shanghai were ranked first in mathematics, science and early first-language (for the record, the Italians are the 35th in math). Not only that: in the first eleven places there are seven Asian countries. More bad news for the U.S.: it is eroding the role of the largest pole of attraction for students across the world (the share went from 24% in 2000 to 19% in 2008). In Asian countries - according to a report by Unesco - the growth of spending on research has increased from 27 to 32 percent from 2002 to 2007 , while that of Western countries has decreased over the same period. Foreign Policy for America can sleep another night's sleep, however: the first stars and stripes do not would be (for now) in danger. But one thing is certain: the challenge of the future goes on education. In Italy it is pitch dark .

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IV.6 - Innerspace

Today I announced my dismissal in the office.
The details are not yet defined, but everything indicates that by May I, Labor Day, I'll no longer such. I swear I did it on purpose, even if looking back is just brilliant.
I have no idea what will happen, but it could not continue. I hope that for once, fortune favors the bold indeed and that at least one of the many projects in recent months in which I have committed my free time leads to something concrete, that I pay the rent.
In the meantime, accept donations and gifts.

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Nuclear power and the limits of nature

The nuclear accident that Japan is once again flailing in all its drama the problem of the limits of human nature before the . The twentieth century has been cut inside from the node technology, investing crucial issues: the survival of the human species, the redefinition of what is human and what is natural, processes artificialisation. As warned Gunther Anders is the concept of human suffering a progressive erosion. Man is deposed and his place was occupied by another. Anders writes "We have decided not to consider ourselves as the subjects of history, and our place we have placed other subjects of history: in fact only one other person: technique. From its course, in fact, and its use depends on being or not being of humanity. "

Nature today not only has entered into its secrets, but progressively violated, manipulated. It follows that Hans Jonas calls "the greatest challenge ever came to the human being by his own act ": custody of nature, preservation of the 'always-already', the establishment of a responsibility not only confined to the existing but somewhat extended in the future. The overthrow of the horizon is radical compared to antiquity. In that order because it is called divine and everlasting, which the Greeks and Romans called kosmos mundus , that order that "turns off lights and second right measure" (Heraclitus), which is "immortal and indestructible" for Aristotle. The break is consumed with the rise of modernism. As noted by Orlando Franceschelli the universe ends in simple, mechanical res extensa, to objectivity "lifeless and spirit." With Descartes, we are faced with a "no physical physis" (Lowith), a cosmos, from reality "and the maximum sum" has become simply a "world wide" in space. This radically changes the context ' human action, criteria that define and limitations that keep . The gap between the action as it outlined in the ancient world and the action as practiced today is clear. If the former is literally impotent, destined to fail before a no - "the substantial immutability of nature as the cosmic order "- the second is now able to break quell'argine. The picture is reversed with respect to antiquity. If the ancients as Jonas writes, "was the permanent nature, his works were changing," today is the very nature to be entered into a state of mutability, of "vulnerability", available for manipulation man. Having fulfilled a long process that shapes our time: the nature of immutable order expires in the field can be manipulated to suit thinghood, "to a body of forces calculable" (Heidegger). The action is not longer anchored to the proximity and simultaneity, but gains a new character: an unlimited, irreversible.

Precisely Heidegger must be a profound re-imagining of the technique and its essence. "Technology is not just half. The technique is a way of revealing. The technique displays its context they happen to be revealing and unconcealment. What then is the space which lies between the ancient and the modern physics? "The revelation that exists in modern technology is a pro-vocation, which by nature demands that it provides energy that can be extracted as such and stored. The exact nature of modern science . The way he tries to grasp the nature of representation as an organized set of forces calculable. "But there is another way of thinking about the technique. Arnold Gehlen suggests a subversion of the human . Man is "a being deficient," lacks the instinctive endowment that will enable it to adhere perfectly to the environment (as is the case for animals), is "a particular biological problem." Gehlen writes: "Man is an organic being deficient" and he would be unsuitable for life in any natural environment and so must create a second nature, a world of replacement, artificially prepared and suited him, which can cooperate with its organic equipment deficient. You can say that it is biologically compelled to control nature. " The technique is not then something is added from outside but is already inherent in the very essence of man .

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China undermines the U.S.

E ' the end of a record that lasted 150 years the United States have been undermined by China as the first country manufacturing the world for production volume . The verdict - issued by the American consulting company IHS Global Insight - is captured by two numbers: in 2010, Beijing has contributed to the 19.8% global production, compared with 19.4% of United States. For the economic historian Robert Allen of Nuffield College, Oxford "closes a cycle statement over 500 years." Despite the desire of the Dragon recalibrate growth by focusing on domestic consumption, exports remain the engine of the Chinese . Today The dragon is the largest trading partner of six G20 countries (Australia, Japan, Korea, India, Russia and South Africa) and snatched the seventh (Brazil) to the U.S..

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Searle and the mind-body puzzle

of Luca Torre

The volume published by Rosenberg & Sellier Consciousness, language, society collects the lessons of the American philosopher J. Searle at the High School of Philosophy of Turin . The text presents several points of interest both because it helps to know the developments of philosophical reflection of the author of Speech Acts - now focused on the social dimension and in particular on its ontology analyzed in terms of status functions related to those particular types of speech acts that are performative (Chapter 3) - is because it presents a serious proposal and attractive if consistent, regarding the location of consciousness and mind in the natural world dealing with the problem traditional mind / body and, above all, that intentionality (ch. 2). It is my opinion that the importance of the proposed Searle can be properly assessed only when compared to (being in dialectical relationship, so to speak) with the difficulties they face naturalized semantics for mental states (ie with different naturalistic account of intentionality). In this short paper I will focus mainly on a specific point (weak) of Searle's analysis, leaving on one side the strength of his work, the treatment of intentionality (along the lines of the theory of speech acts and their directions of adjustment).

a limit, or at least what I think such is the way it is resolved the traditional problem of mind / body (Chapter 1). Searle argues correctly that the consciousness (and mind) constitute a domain that is irreducible to any other matter, considered the most fundamental of realities (natural) (p. 23). At the same time this does not imply any ontological weirdness (like the Cartesian dualism). consciousness (and mind) is irreducible, causally works well (pp. 23 et seq.) Without violating the natural order, so to speak . How is this possible? It seems that Searle's assumptions must struggle with the problem of causal closure of the physical world (pp. 26-27): If the consciousness (and mind) is irreducible and acts causally, then the simple fact that I am typing the keys on my pc was not only a variety of causes, but also a cause of these non-physical (not natural). For I want to write an article, a paradigmatic case of mental act, and write it by typing keys. Now if the mind is a domain if here we have two cases of the same phenomenon, the decision to write the article and the physical and physiological processes, such as the secretion of acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter dear to Searle), which produce the type . But if the physiological processes are sufficient to explain all that to play the role of non-physical cause? This sounds like a fifth wheel. If, on the contrary, the physiological processes can not explain everything and you must refer to a mental, then you are faced with the question, unmanageable, on the way in which a physical cause can not act on physical elements ( the unsolved problem of Descartes ). The materialistic reductionism in its various forms with respect to mental el'epifenomenismo are motivated by the need to resolve this problem. Searle, however, believes that its assumptions do not necessarily involve the acceptance of dualism. The idea is that, although irreducible, consciousness (and mind) is made and caused (pp. 25 and 52) from neural processes. The same phenomenon can be described in two ways: a neurobiological and mental level, but you are not in the presence of two different facts (pp. 52-53). As the state tables of solid and liquid water are determined by their trace elements (without putting special ontological questions) so the mind is determined by elements and neurobiological processes. The problem is solved. But is it?

me it seems that some problems may arise with the way in which Searle explains the relationship between mental and neurobiological level: fact he argues that consciousness (and mind) are caused and made by neural processes. It seems to me that the two notions are not synonymous and, indeed, have implications very different.

A P.. 52, where Searle says that neurons excited 'cause and achieve "mental events, it appears on a diagram (later replaced by another, as we shall see), which should clarify the relations between the two levels of description and that can serve to clarify my difficulty:

As you can see, the arrows that go from the bottom up, from the neural level to the mental, Searle are accompanied by either the letters C / R stand for "cause" and "realize". The arrows going from left to right instead exemplify respectively the transition from one process to another neural physiological (lower) and a mental event, an intention in this case, a body movement (above). He then explains that this diagram could create some confusion, suggesting the misconception that there are two different causal chains at work resurrecting the dualism with all its problems, and for this reason, replacing it with one that follows.

Searle, then, reads as follows:

Consider therefore the whole system as consisting of neurons (or whatever entity is established by the minimum functional neurobiology, such as from neural maps), represented here by circles. The whole system is in the conscious state in the same way the water in a glass is in liquid form or the table is solid, and we can have a causal explanation for this state. The shaded area within the system is precisely the function of making the fact that the entire system to be conscious. (P. 53)

Before proceeding, I must emphasize one point, I will use it later, and that is this: whatever we refer to the diagram, it is clear that the shift over time from t 1 at 2 (in the second diagram, but the point is implicit in the first), from a mental state to another state of mind or body is accompanied by a movement (must be accompanied by - no mention in passing the modal themed issue) because it depends, according to Searle, a change to the underlying physiological and neural level. That brings us to my difficulties.

A) The causal relationship exists between two facts, two phenomena, but there Searle told us that we are dealing with a single fact describe two different levels. How a possible causal relationship in this case (the arrows from bottom to top indicate a causal relationship)? The same issue is raised by Searle (pp. 544-45 in S. Guttenplan (ed.), A Companion to the philosophy of mind , Blackwell, 1994) but responds by saying that this is actually quite common in nature Liquidity refers to the water and so on. Now the question is not whether or not the phenomenon is common, but how we must conceive and explain (that is, the problem concerns the liquidity of water and possibly how this is related to its micro-nutrients). B) The causal relationship also implies that between cause and effect are separated by a period of time. But if the cause neurons consciousness and the mind, then there will be a delay (systematic) between each other (a similar observation, but in relation to a totally different context, is made by Jaegwon Kim in Supervenience and mind, Cambridge University Press, 1993). Once again: how can you then support that there is only one phenomenon at work here? Finally, there should be a synchronization problem, as it were, between the two levels, with repercussions in the explanation of the behavior of the subject where is it?

say, however, that neurons produce mental consciousness and I think that goes in a completely different direction with respect to causation, perhaps in the right direction, but, however, incompatible with causality. Which is why you can not combine the two reports as does Searle. If I understand correctly, is like saying that consciousness and the mind are made neurons, although it is possible to distinguish different levels of description of them and their behavior . If there is a shift to the level below (consider the two diagrams), then it is evaluated (to verify) a change in senior management, the mental. A case similar to this (and the liquidity of water) I think that moral properties, moral facts. X v Y the gun-hating strongly and fired, killing him. The same fact can be described at different levels: physical, ballistic; but at this level there is no trace of the murder seen as moral fact. And moral describe X as a murderess deserves punishment, the action on his part as highly reprehensible, and so on. without thereby implying that moral properties are ontologically dropped from the natural aspects of the same situation. To explain the relationship between the two areas and neutralize ontological concerns some philosophers use the notion of occurrence (See in this regard the already mentioned J. Kim, Supervenience and Mind ). In an informal and concise report that says that the same circumstances (not moral) should achieve the same moral properties (and therefore moral judgments). If the circumstances I have described above constitute a murder, then any other similar circumstance, no matter who is involved X and Y, is a case of murder (note that this is not the moral requirement that such cases must be tried in a similar, although obviously related). (A detailed analysis would require reference to other issues, such as modal and distinctions, such as the occurrence of weak and strong etc.. but here is enough what we just said.) Why is the ontological supervenience neutralizes any concern? In the first instance, the occurrence provides simply the covariance events: if something changes at the level not moral, then the changes made moral properties. But if there is covariance (and here the issue would come into play mode), then the report shall also include the dependence (ontological) whether or supervening properties (in our case, moral) from its base. If when there is no basis or it changes, there is not even the supervening fact, then it depends on the first, but not causally - not least because there is no lag here (the murder of my example is the simultaneous - because is the same thing of - the fact that X shot Y hating etc.).

Now, if the realization mentioned by Searle is the same as the report of occurrence, and from what we saw above, there should be little doubt, then, is clear that it is incompatible with causality (that can not be said that the neurons " cause and realize" the conscience). If we conceive of the relationship between consciousness (and mind) in terms of occurrence or realization, in fact, that the same event is subject to two different descriptions do not create any difficulties. also because the occurrence does not imply any temporal gap between the base and the fact arise. In conclusion it only remains to ask why Searle has put together two very different things and why he picked this realization. And the question is particularly relevant when considering what to say in other places in the text about the development of those mental states that are the intentions (chapter 2 p. 91).

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Asia, the nuclear boom

The disatro in Japan once again, in all its crudeness, the issue of nuclear safety . However you judge, nuclear is experiencing a boom in the entire Asian continent. The China Daily has already said that the China has no intention to modify its development plans and atomic that "the thirteen existing activities in the country are safe." In an interview published - with the left timing - by the Japanese newspaper The Daily Yomiuri , Liu Wei, vice president of China Nuclear Power Engineering Corp. unveils plans of the Dragon: Building six new nuclear reactors a year for the next ten years . China will have 70 plants so active by 2020. According to estimates of Wordl Nuclear Association, are 122 nuclear reactors in Asia , 37 ones under construction, 84 those from new agreements. An example of the forward stroke: India. Today only 3 percent of energy consumed comes from the atom nell'Elefante: New Delhi aims to raise the bar to 25 percent by 2025. A bet which must be reckoned with.

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China, spending on security

Two numbers: 601 billion yuan (65miliardi euro) and 624 billion yuan (95 billion dollars). The first is China's military spending (more than 12.7%) for 2011, the second spending on internal security (plus 13.8%) for the same year. The world has watched with concern the return to double digit growth in defense budgets of the Dragon. But few have noted the expense of another fund: one for internal order. More substantial than the other. In short, China is playing its part on the world stage in setting up a strong army capable of protecting the economic interests of the Dragon and move globally. But first of all is for Beijing more security. Tienanmenn has never been closed.

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IV.5 - Milan

-transcript (edited) by moleskine-

Where this train is headed? About the pilot?
The anxiety of not knowing where you are when it is time that you should already be at your destination and the doors will not open on a dock, but on the brushwood. Too long, this train, for small stations in the province. The date back slowly, looking for another form of life that bring me back to reality, but I will stop in front of a car completely dark, I fear, as when a child swam right up where the sandy bottom and began the rocks.
I know my city incinerator, lit and smoking in the crystal sky. What a beauty.
If tomorrow I were to work, write all night.

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China and Pakistan, more and more friends

Behind the name (Jdsc) apparently harmless, hides a nightmare for India. China and Pakistan are moving closer and strategic partners, intensifying the cooperation in military . With lots of joint naval military exercises. As it says on Chennai Centre for China Studies, a prestigious center of Indian studies, exercises provide an opportunity for the Dragon " experiment" in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz and into the ocean where Indian . For India, the alarm increasingly threatening. When last year the floods lashed Pakistan, the PLA - Chinese Army - offered an aid package separate from government. Article All'estensore maneuvering suggests a disturbing conclusion: Beijing's army has a policy "parallel and dropped" from the government.

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The blind and the China Tibet

Tibet closed to foreigners. A dall'anniversario two days of the revolt of March 10, 1959 - three years ago coincided with a new "Insurgency" that killed at least 19 people to Beijing, 400 for the Tibetan government in exile - the Chinese regime is not better than casting doubt on the reception capacity of the autonomous region . The local party chief Zhang Qingli talked about "a lack of beds." "The Tibet - reads the China Daily - has just over a thousand hotels with 80 thousand beds, so it is not possible to allow to visit during peak periods," he said. In fact, the Dragon does not want anything that could upset the "fundamental principle" that Tibet "is an inalienable part of China," how to read the White Paper on Tibet in 1992 . It is the principle " sovereignty and territorial integrity," one of the "dogmas" ("core Interests") which is built around the Chinese policy. to attack - the second rhetoric Beijing - is the "clique" of the Dalai Lama, who carefully 'national unity'.

accusation, repeated like a mantra, and returned even yesterday to resonate in the words of Qiangba Puncog, head of the Standing Committee of the People of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. "The death of the Dalai Lama not upset the political stability of the region" because we are facing "a religious leader and not political," to "a wolf dressed as Monaco." Beijing plans are continuing. President Hu Jintao has assured that "meticulous efforts" will be dedicated "to the program of reform, development and stability" in Tibet. Programs that will translate into new infrastructure to make the region more accessible. Transport Minister, Li Shengling said that " by 2015 most of the villages of Tibet will be accessible via the expressways' . In addition, new rail links to reduce journey times between Tibet and Xinjiang. Over the next five years will build a new railway between Golmud in Qinghai Province and Korla, Xinjiang. Golmud is the main town on the Qinghai line connecting the Tibetan capital, Lhasa with Qinghai. Estimated cost: 310 billion yuan (47.6 billion U.S. dollars). Including the construction of six airports.

is just the latest piece of a long-term strategy. A commitment necessary for development, according to Beijing. A "cultural genocide" taking the Dalai Lama . Opened in 2006, is Qinghai-Tibet Railway (cost $ 4.3 billion) has transported 18 million passengers and 90 million tonnes of cargo. According to official statistics, in 2009, Tibet received 5.56 million tourists. Including Chinese. ; ;

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150 years: what are we celebrating?

of Luca Torre

What Italians celebrate the upcoming March 17 ? seems that this anniversary is an opportunity to rethink, or even the justification of national unification beyond the rhetoric of each matrix, but is really an opportunity to amplify these rhetorical stress and the lack of a shared national history. It 'obvious that Italians do not identify with a common history. Perhaps because they are too full of history, too clever by a knowledge mediated by in-depth historical and political reflection of Guicciardini, Machiavelli, until Botero, Mosca and Pareto, or simply a kind of "anthropological data now" love to divide as in the times of the medieval communes. So March 17 is an opportunity for them to pick out old and new flags of every color and type and stage shows such as and just the "style curved-south (or north), from complete fans, shouting slogans as if they were, their own truths (or vice versa, shouting their slogans as solemn truth.)

I've seen people defend the temporal power of popes, Pius IX and the Syllabus, and reject religious pluralism and the liberal state in the middle of 2011 and, with the same security, proposing to demolish the statues of Garibaldi and "revise" the history of the Risorgimento . I saw people of a certain political party (but immediately disclaimed) burning in effigy of the hero Garibaldi called foul because, after long and extensive studies, it was discovered that the unification would not have been a good deal for the North of Italy and - one might add, because now is a conditioned reflex - the small and medium-sized enterprises which make up the backbone of the Italian economy. Mirror image: I saw other people in the name of historical truth, proposing the thesis that, in essence, the Bourbon Kingdom was neither outstanding nor poor and that the problems of the South started with its unification. And in a demonstration organized by a local chapter of the Society of National History in Italy for the 150th anniversary of the unitary state, one of the speakers argued that: a) Naples - the capital of the Bourbon kingdom, not the entire kingdom - ; had six million inhabitants and was one of the largest cities and important in Europe (the latter made true, but definitely the first fake), b) that the South "was better economically under the Bourbons" (imagine that the speaker was unaware of the investigation Franchetti on the conditions of the Neapolitan Province, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata and Calabria again in 1873 / 74). One could continue the list with a number of facts, sometimes widely known by historians, taken out of context and passed off as truth that even unheard of Fortunato and Gramsci had the courage to write and distribute, as he said in an interview with public issued at the withdrawal of a literary prize in the city of Bari, the author of best-selling book on the topic of the moment.

What then Italians will celebrate the 17th March? Should we worry about the lack of a shared national history? Perhaps there is no need to worry because the divisions of the Italians are the only indicator of their scrupulous. Then there are more immediate things to think about, like the economic crisis and the reform of justice. Finally, politics will intervene again to solve any problem and dispute, interpreting the best the sense of cultural diversity through the establishment of a Bourbon day of remembrance and celebration of the Battle of Legnano . Who knows.

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China, war on poverty

An editorial in the China Daily celebrates the end of "obsession" of China : one for the GDP and growth at all costs. A new leitmotiv seems to have replaced the 'welfare of the people, "a more equitable distribution of wealth, a way for the talking heads in Beijing to defuse a time bomb: the growing social unrest for inequalities that cut Chinese society. The Dragon has thus decided to declare war on poverty, said he was ready to promote "education, health, social security and the creation of new jobs" and, in the words of the Minister of Finance Xie Xuren, to spend two thirds of the central state budget to achieve the objective. Premier Wen Jiabao has also shown the maturity that the procedure is given: ten years. "We will intensify our efforts against poverty through aid and development projects," he assured Wen.

The State Council, announced the then prime minister, is preparing draft a new plan for the period 2011-2020 in which the poverty of China will be "significantly increased" over the current year, 1196 yuan (about 130 euro, or approximately 50 cents according to international standards of evaluation ). How do you remember "AgiChina 24", according to United Nations standards, which set the poverty line to below a dollar per head per day, in China there are still 150 million poor people. The ads,

facts yesterday, across the board: Beijing plans to allocate two-thirds of the budget (5.436 trillion yuan, 827.6 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 12.5 percent compared to that of 'last year) to hospitals, schools, jobs. The government will give "high priority to improving the lives of people in five years to 2015." Poverty - despite the tumultuous economic growth that China has experienced in recent years - is an ancient evil that has long plagued the country. A recent World Bank report captures the titanic effort made to resize: between 1981 and 2004 the proportion of the population living below the poverty line fell from 65% to 10%, and the absolute number of poor dropped from 652 to 135 million , down more than half a billion people.

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Dragon

As befits the Dragon, is something enormous. The Communist Party models the new "face" of China, what will come out the twelfth five year plan 2011-2015. And it does using all the ingredients of social engineering in Chinese sauce. The dogmas of "harmonious society" and "inclusive growth" is not enough. The rhetoric National has a new formula. The party wants to spread hours "Xingfu", happiness and prosperity. In fact, the "new" China seems to play defense. The targets set by the party - enucleated yesterday a speech two hours long by Premier Wen Jiabao with which you are open the work of the National People's Congress (NPC) - reveal worries that snake beneath the skin of the Asian giant. A given for all: social unrest in 2005 were 87 thousand, then the regime decided to obscure this type of statistic.

China wants stability and is willing to applying the brakes to economic growth . Wants to correct social imbalances , from the unequal distribution of wealth. He wants to mend the damage done to the environment from a tumultuous growth. fears like never before, the "feet" of inflation because it knows that the race prices could fuel new tensions and threatening. "Recently prices went up very quickly and have reinforced expectations of further inflation ', was the alarm raised by Wen. The Chinese premier unveiled Number is 8% growth rate the "ideal" for 2011, the 7.5% for subsequent years. He then promised an effort to contain inflation by 4% per year (in January was 4.9%), announcing measures to encourage domestic consumption. "Expanding domestic demand is a long-term strategic goal and a crucial milestone the economic development of China," he said.

How wrote the newspaper in Hong Kong, South China Morning Post the Party is facing imbalances that could sink the rhetoric of 'Welfare of the people, "preached by its leaders. In 2008, the newspaper reported , "10% of the richest families in China earned 55 times more than the poorest 10%. Many working class families living in inadequate housing , have no health care or education. " Just take an escort to the objectives of the plan to seize the ambitions of the Dragon. Beijing aims "to create a pension system that covers rural population and 357 million citizens." Announced "plans to build or renovate 36 million apartments for low-income families." Would 'increase of 13 percent per year on minimum wage' and 'one year every 12 months life expectancy of the population. " C 'is also the environment chapter. The plan sets out a series of goals to defend him: cut consumption of energy by 16%, reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 17%,

increase of 11.4% share of energy consumption by fuel non-fossil. And in terms of agriculture - other area "hot" for the future of the country - is set a target ambitious: "to produce not less than 540 million tonnes of wheat a year." Finally, the chapter technological innovation. The research spending will be 2.2% of GDP. It is the land on which Beijing is defying the world. spending on research and development China grows 25% a year, the U.S. has declined by 4%. in 2009, China has invested in 89 billion dollars. In 2006 the money spent was 34 billion: the figure is almost doubled. In 2010, the Dragon launched the world's fastest train. He has carried out 15 missions space, all successful. By 2020, will have its first space station. The Dragon has won the first (displacing Germany) export of electronic products and machinery, namely high-tech sectors.

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The future of China, the mantra of happiness

For South China Morning Post, Hong Kong newspaper, is now a "mantra" : the Chinese Communist Party wants to spread happiness and well-being. Xingfu, happiness: after the "harmonious society" is the new refrain wanted by Hu Jintao and his. Once it was up to spread Mao, today's recipe is very different: "a full portfolio" writes the People's Daily . Beijing wants to short that (overtime) of Chinese economic success is now irraggino also on the population. At the same time China Daily released a survey (the power of the polls might spread to China!) Which found that only 6 percent of Chinese feel happy. 40 per cent of Chinese happiness depends on one thing. From wealth.

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China, Asia

Throw away the image of China as a "world factory". It should be updated. The Dragon has gained primacy in the export of electronic products and machinery ( displacing Germany). In 2010, Chinese exports in these sectors with high technological content, share grew to 1.2 trillion dollars . Not only that. In January, exports were up 38 percent continuing a highly positive trend ( an increase of 31.3% in 2010 ). The economy of the Dragon, despite the "intentions" of Beijing remains dependent on exports.

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new records, nightmare prices

The wind from the Maghreb could reach Asia? The infection is able to bypass geographical distance, cultural differences and political regimes to fuel new forms of rebellion? One thing is certain
: one of the elements - explosives - which have hatched a long time under the North African revolt is becoming "endemic" in Asia: is the increase in food prices . A boom is hitting hard countries. The World Bank the food price index increased by 15% between late 2010 and January this year , a jump of only three points lower than the dramatic peak in 2008. The last six months have seen a sharp increase in prices of wheat, corn, sugar and rice.

A mix arsonist who chased him, according to the World Bank food price watch, 44 million people below the poverty line. It is especially frightening to the ride of wheat: between June and December 2010, the price of wheat has increased in Bangladesh (45%), Mongolia (33%), Sri Lanka (31%), Afghanistan (19%), Pakistan ( 16%). The price of rice has exploded in Vietnam (46%) Indonesia (19%), Bangladesh (19%), Sri Lanka (12%) and China (9%). As reported by the Wall Street journal in Singapore consumer prices in January rose by 5.5%. Inflation in Hong Kong was 2.4% in 2010 but the authorities expect a sharp acceleration to 4.5%. In Vietnam it was the leap of 12.31%. Just in Vietnam could take the scenario most feared by the Asian regimes: the balance of the protests on prices to the claims of human rights. Yesterday, the Vietnamese regime has arrested Nguyen Dan Que, an activist who spent 20 years in prison. Her crime? Have called for a "revolt Maghreb."

is above the two Asian giants - India and China - eight to be in the spotlight. Food inflation in New Delhi has skyrocketed in December: plus 18% . And the response of the square not long in coming. More than 200 thousand people took to the streets to protest the increases. Demonstrators
marched in procession from the outskirts of New Delhi up to Parliament, in the heart of the city. The government tries to run for cover, pointing to an increase in food aid to the poor at an altitude of 30 billion dollars. Then all eyes are on China. A few timid skirmish "popular" has already proved. Also prepared was married in Beijing. Who sent the police. Yesterday, Beijing has backtracked on freedom of movement of the foreign press in the country by reintroducing strict rules under which journalists you have to do not only in situations of permanent tension as Tibet, but also in the center of Shanghai and Beijing. The Dragon does not hide his fears. Premier Wen Jiabao said no half measures that inflation is the real enemy to fight . In January, the index of consumer prices grew by 4.9% over the same month last year, a new surge after +4.6% in December. The same planned growth will be cooled to avoid imbalances in too deep. A scare Beijing is an old "demon" that continues to crawl under his skin: the popular revolts. As the analyst wrote
Indian Prem Shankar Jha, "in January 2006 - before Beijing obscured the data - the Chinese media reported that the number of public disturbances in 2004 had risen from 74 thousand to 87 thousand in 2005. Ten times the number of incidents recorded in 1993 . In 2007, the riots had reached a height of 90 thousand. One of the causes of the riots? The blaze on prices. ;

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Curiosity of Michel Foucault

What is the curiosity? What inspires landscapes? What thinking produces landslides? What challenges familiar? And again: what has the curiosity to do with philosophy? The Latins, as reveals the etymology of the word, have guessed the close relationship between curiosity and attention . The curious thing is the one who care, who cares. Michel Foucault's thought and lived as a curiosity perennial philosophical exercise. A curiosity that has inspired not only his work but that is overflowing in a flood of papers, articles, controversy, interviews replicated in part by the publisher Marietti: an exercise in "philosophical journalism", as defined by the French philosopher. An "exercise", which encompasses a wide series: the birth of the prison to the processes of medicalization, the question of the subject to regimes of truth.


But as you practice the curiosity? "Curiosity - wrote Foucault - evokes the" cure "the attention it pays to what exists or could exist." The real and the possible, therefore, the two registers on which the philosopher "plays" his curiosity. In this cross-reference between the real and the possible lies underneath, as a core, the full extent to which Foucault's philosophical discourse. thought worth practicing is not what it "seeks to assimilate what they should know, but what you lose their certainties." The curiosity that the soul "is immobilized before the real", but tries to "get rid of what is familiar," practicing "to look at things differently." The thought then he has to do with the predicament, with the ability to shift, exposing the family all'inusitato, to worry. For Foucault, "knowledge is not made for comfort: it disappoints, it makes us restless, carving, hurts. " A thought which does not remain alienated from reality. As noted by Mauro Bertani, in postafazione of "Discipline, Powers, Truth, for Foucault" thoughts, ideas, speeches have a material force. " The thought does not belong to a meta-plan, nor is detached existence: indeed invade, permeates, the stylized. This is why the French philosopher has spoken of his books and his research as "fragments of autobiography."

Who - as in the controversy with the organic intellectuals of the Communist Party - scolded him to have built, through his research on madness and the birth of the prison, a sort of metaphysical power, a vision in which power comes to cover and overwhelm the entire real, the French philosopher opposing an insurgency made up of a web of strategies and struggles: "What I want do is make an interpretation, a reading of a real, such that, on the one hand, this interpretation can produce effects of truth and, secondly, the effects of these truths can become tools in the context of struggle possible. To say the truth because it is attacked. Deciphering a layer of reality so that they reveal the lines of strength and fragility, with the points of resistance and possible points of attack, roads and paths already traced that intersect. What I try to bring up is a reality of fighting as possible. " power - in the conception of Foucault - is a field of forces and relations of forces, always reversible, furniture, open. Where there is power there is resistance, and therefore can make the change, to act on new records, unpublished reports to activate and open up new struggles. A journey that will take place at the heart of Foucault's philosophical discourse, the practice of freedom.

A reconstruction of the constellation of Foucault's thought (his articulations of his "travel theory ", his thoughts, his aporia) is offered by Vincenzo Sorrentino it The Political Thought of Foucault. The power, the interplay between knowledge and power, the disciplines, genealogy, self-care, asceticism, the stylization of existence, the subject and the techniques of subjectification: a thought that after more than twenty years after death of the philosopher does not stop to fascinate and disturb. Sorrentino locates the "heart" of Foucault's discourse - which somehow led his whole route - and that inherits from the French philosopher Nietzsche: "The general principle of Foucault is as follows: each form is a compound of the balance of power "(Deleuze). There is a substance, a foundation, a fund. There is an origin nor a destination. "The theoretical space within which research moves of the French philosopher - Sorrentino writes - is, first, the critically nietzcheana of the subject and the related concept of living as a" complex configuration "and reality as a network in which" everything is linked and conditional ".
The conception of reality as a field of struggle, a bundle of relationships always reversible - "the real controversy," writes Foucault - is not a denial of freedom, but its exaltation. Does not result in a narrowing of ethics, but in its stylization. But what freedom? Sorrentino shows the oscillations that the practice of semantic freedom suffers in Foucault, freedom on the one hand conceived "as freedom of 'individual to establish itself as a creative principle itself. Yet, on the other hand, it is also conceived as freedom from itself, loss of self, out of themselves. The result is a concept at the same time, autopoietic and ecstatic individual. "

Freedom and Ethics: A does not exist without the other, is a condition of the other. "Freedom - wrote Foucault - is the ontological condition of ethics. But ethics is reflected in the form that freedom takes. "

Michel Foucault, Discipline, Powers, Truth, Marietti
Vincenzo Sorrentino, The Political Thought of Foucault, Meltemi

(Bombacarta-2008)

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growth, China pulls the brake

As he wrote the Wall Street Journal , is a paradox: the world seeks to accelerate and "push" an anemic growth, but China wants to slow down. Premier Wen Jiabao said that the growth target envisaged in the new five-year plan 2011-2015 will be 7 percent and 7.5 percent, as expected in previous . Braking is a sign that China wants recalibrate their growth, moving towards greater protection for the environment and to enhance the purchasing power of the average family. Beijing thinks of a development model that focuses less on exports and more stimulated by domestic consumption. As reported Agi 24 China, the data processed by the World Bank show that China relies on domestic consumption only 35% of its economy, compared with 71% U.S. and 57% of India .

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The port? E 'Asian

Of the ten busiest ports in the world, nine are in Asia. Among the top ten, five are Chinese . Shanghai (29 million teu, more than 16.3 per cent) has just ripped the primacy of Singapore (28.4 million), Hong Kong (23.3 million) has slipped to third place. In fourth place another structure Chinese port of Shenzhen (22.5 million). According to data of the Customs Administration, Chinese exports in 2010 reached the quota of 1.58 trillion . In the top ten ports in the world for freight traffic, this is the only European Rotterdam (11.1 million)

Here is the ranking given by the site informazionimarittime

1. Shanghai: 29 million teu (+16%)

2. Singapore: 28.4 million TEU (+10%)

3. Hong Kong: 23.3 million TEU (+12%)

4. Shenzhen: 22.5 million TEU (+23%)

5. Busan: 14.1 million TEU (+19%)

6. Ningbo: 13.1 million TEU (+25%)

7. Guangzhou: 1.5 million teu (+12%)

8. Qingdao: 12 million teu (+17%)

9. Dubai: 11.6 million TEUs (+4%)

10. Rotterdam: 11.1 million TEU (+14%)

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IV.4 - The stock of the situation

March will be my sixth month work: the most evil beyond expectations!

foretaste already melancholy that I will take in the spring, when Rome will begin to miss really.

The second gas bill, and what to call the toll free number to ask for explanations. Meanwhile, my famous self-rise is going to go to hell ...

Efforts to exploit the free time productively continue, but I am satisfied.

Tonight I get to sit on the bench and maybe a few minutes it'll play well.

The weekend provides intense, with the risk of artistic failure Sunday afternoon, when I create from scratch a video on which I have very confused ideas. Talk of cigarettes, maybe I should start smoking. However

cook well.

not wait to close 'I blog.