Filozofija slomljenoga i praksa presloženoga. Antropološki aspekti eseja Alfreda Sohn-Rethela o napuljskom odnosu prema tehnici
The Philosophy of the Broken and the Practice of the Rearrangement. Anthropological Aspects of Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s Essays on the Neapolitan Attitude Towards Technology

Summary/Abstract: The text analyses the content of essays on Naples and its inhabitants from the mid-1920s, written by the influential German Marxist philosopher and economist Alfred Sohn-Rethel, who was very close to the Frankfurt School. The key to reading these texts, published under the title “Napoli: The Philosophy of the Broken” (Napoli: la filosofia del rotto), lies in the idea that, for the Neapolitans, technology begins to work only when it is “broken” and “subordinated” to complete control of its owners; this thesis is connected with Claude Lévi-Strauss’s anthropological theory of bricolage. This text also highlights the concept of porosity, which at that time also had epistemological importance in the context of interpretations of the Italian south. Finally, the content of the author’s essays is compared with policies and results of the introduction of the Taylorist “scientific organization” of labor in the 1920s into the Italian economy and beyond.

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