Table Of ContentLecture Notes in Morphogenesis
Series Editor: Alessandro Sarti
Federico Vercellone
Salvatore Tedesco Editors
Glossary
of Morphology
Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
Series Editor
Alessandro Sarti, CAMS Center for Mathematics, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France
LectureNotesinMorphogenesisisaninterdisciplinarybookserieswhichaimsto
facethequestionsofemergence,individuationandbecomingofformsfromseveral
different points of view: those of pure and applied mathematics, of computational
algorithms, of biology,of neurophysiology, of cognitive and social structures. The
set of questions above concerns all the manifestations of Being, all the
manifestations of Life. At the heart of contemporary embryogenesis lies an
essentialquestion:Howcanformemergefromtheconstant,chaoticflow?Howcan
a sequence of purely informational elements — an a-signifying combination of
chemical substances organized in the DNA molecule — evolve into the highly
complex and structured forms of the living organism? A similar question can be
asked when we deal with the morphogenesis of vision in neural systems and with
the creation of evolving synthetic images, since digital technology makes possible
the simulation of emergent processes both of living bodies and of visual forms.
Finallytheveryideathatabstractstructuresofmeaningcouldbecapturedinterms
of morphodynamic evolution opens the door to new models of semiolinguistics,
semioticmorphodynamics,andcognitivegrammars.Anentireheritageofideasand
conceptshastobereconsideredinordertofacenewandchallengingproblems:the
theoretical framework opened by Goethe with the introduction of the word
“Morphogenesis”isdevelopedbyD’ArcyThompsonin“OnGrowthandForm”,it
is reorganized with new theoretical insights by the classical structuralism of
Levi-Strauss and formalized by the dynamical structuralism of René Thom. The
introduction of the post-structuralists ideas of individuation (in Gilbert Simondon
and Gilles Deleuze) and plasticity of structures builds a bridge to contemporary
problems of morphogenesis at a physical, biological, social and transindividual
level. The objective of this book series is to provide suitable theoretical and
practicaltoolsfordescribingevolutionaryphenomenaatthelevelofFreeboundary
problems in Mathematics, Embryogenesis, Image Evolution in Visual Perception,
Visual Models of Morphogenesis, Neuromathematics, Autonomy and
Self-Organization, Morphogenetic Emergence and Individuation, Theoretical
Biology, Cognitive Morphodynamics, Cities Evolution, Semiotics, Subjectivation
processes, Social movements as well as new frontiers of Aesthetics. To submit a
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Glossary of Morphology
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Editors
Federico Vercellone SalvatoreTedesco
Dipartimento di FilosofiaeScienze Scienze Umanistiche
dell’Educazione Universitàdi Palermo
Universitàdi Torino Palermo, Italy
via Sant’Ottavio 20
Torino, Italy
ISSN 2195-1934 ISSN 2195-1942 (electronic)
Lecture Notesin Morphogenesis
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Contents
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Salvatore Tedesco and Federico Vercellone
Aesthetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Salvatore Tedesco and Federico Vercellone
Analogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Carmelo Calì
Artefact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Peppino Ortoleva
Artifex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Amalia Maria Sofia Salvestrini
Artistic Morphology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Federico Vercellone
Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Tonino Griffero
Attractors/Basin of Attraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Francesco La Mantia
Biopolitics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Giovanni Leghissa
Body. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Andrea Borsari
Character/State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Salvatore Tedesco
Chreod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Francesco La Mantia
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Classics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Giuseppe Cambiano
Code (Biological) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Alessandro Minelli
Code (Juridical) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Pier Giuseppe Monateri
Colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Luca Farulli
Complexity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Mauro Ceruti
Contour/Outline/Silhouette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Carmelo Calì
Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Roberto Giambrone
Deformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Carmelo Calì
Degeneration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Salvatore Tedesco
Demography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Hervé Le Bras
Development/Evolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Alessandro Minelli
Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Massimo Bergamasco
Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Carmelo Calì
Diaphane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anca Vasiliu
Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Carmelo Calì
Dynamic System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Mauro Ceruti
Eidetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Carmelo Calì
Emergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Salvatore Tedesco
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Enactivism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Antonino Bondì
Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Paolo Vineis
Epigenesis/Preformation(ism) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Alessandro Ottaviani
Epigenetic Landscape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Sara Franceschelli
Epigenetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Paolo Vineis
Ethics of Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Gregorio Tenti
Evidence/Intuibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Carmelo Calì
Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Pietro Corvaja
Figuration/Figure/Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Salvatore Tedesco
Folktale, Morphology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Gianfranco Marrone
Food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Nicola Perullo
Form Constancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Carmelo Calì
Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Salvatore Tedesco and Federico Vercellone
Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Pietro Corvaja
Fractal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Francesco La Mantia
Generation/Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Pier Paolo Viazzo
Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Paolo Furia
Gestalt/Gestalt Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Carmelo Calì
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Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Carmelo Calì
Groups, Theory of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Francesco La Mantia
Grouping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Carmelo Calì
Hermeneutics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Leonardo Samonà
Heterogenesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Alessandro Sarti
Historical Form of Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Federico Vercellone
Homology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Salvatore Tedesco
Horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Gregorio Tenti
Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
William John Thomas Mitchell
Iconoclash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Federico Vercellone
Identity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Paolo Furia
Image/Reproduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Federico Vercellone
Improvisation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Alessandro Bertinetto
Incarnation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Salvatore Tedesco
Individuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Alessandro Sarti
Intuition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Carmelo Calì
Isomorphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Pietro Corvaja
Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Raffaele Milani
Contents ix
Legal Formalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Pier Giuseppe Monateri
Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Vallori Rasini
Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Carmelo Calì
Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Rosario Perricone
Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Pietro Corvaja
Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Pietro Corvaja
Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Carmelo Calì
Melody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Alessandro Bertinetto
Metamorphosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Valeria Maggiore
Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Alberto Martinengo
Mimesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Christoph Wulf
Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Carmelo Calì
Morpheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Francesco La Mantia
Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Salvatore Tedesco and Federico Vercellone
Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Danilo Eccher
Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Federico Vercellone
Niche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Salvatore Tedesco
Ontogeny/Phylogeny. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Alessandro Minelli