The word was coined in 1990 in Rome, as part of the student movement of the Panther. It was the first social opposition to the neoliberal policies of privatization of knowledge, now in crisis. not often attend the birth of a new word. If he has the good fortune, it should in due course, to testify. The word berlusconizzazione was used for the first time in Rome, at a meeting of the Faculty of Arts student workers, between late January and early February of 1990, a young Trotskyite militant named Luke, a member if I am correct in group of revolutionary socialism. Now I remember this episode of onomaturgia ("creating a name") thanks to the video below, which recalled to my memory that context.
Although the word is not registered in the Zingarelli 2007, anyone can easily verify by typing on the spread Google, which returns at 2370 occurrences. A test indirectly its dating is offered from the historical archives of Republic, which has 53 occurrences since 1984, the first of which dates back precisely to the February 28, 1990. The historical archives of the Courier , which goes back over 1992, stood 28 times, the first 5 September of that year. The Courier also marks the first recording of the lexicographical term reviewing June 3, 1997 Dictionary of the Second Republic's Silverio Novelli and Urbani, Gabriella (Editori Riuniti, 1997).
Given the earliness of the lexical coinage, I seem to evoke some interest briefly the exact context. It was in the process of moving column occupations of the student against the university plan to reform the socialist minister Antonio Ruberti (1927-2000), a movement began in Palermo December 6, 1989 and ramped up in Rome and throughout Italy between January 12 and April 9 1990. The reform, which provided, inter alia, the entry of private universities on the boards, it was feared by some as an attack on the humanities. These were predicted to suffer more than the subordination of science to business interests, who wanted to provide alternative funding to those that the state was preparing to cut.
The speaker meant, if I remember correctly, for him to escape this inaccurate representation of reality. It was not said, argued that the history and languages \u200b\u200bwould serve the economy unless the natural sciences. The risk was not so much extinction of certain knowledge, know how much of an involution of the degrading of all. The example of the rest was well present: the low-profile cultural and moral of the commercial networks Mediaset, outlawed by the Constitutional Court in 1988 and being daring rescue by the 6th Andreotti government by Mammi Law, commissioned by Craxi ( 1934-2000) and launched a little later, August 6, 1990.
The risk that, in order to obtain funding, universities should submit to the dictates of an actor Mediaset foul was called by the speaker as a rischio di berlusconizzazione . Il giorno dopo, il neologismo fu segnalato da diversi giornali, che ne fecero per qualche settimana una delle bandiere lessicali del movimento "contro la berlusconizzazione della cultura". Mai neoformazione vide così lontano. Nessuno immaginava, allora, all'infuori di quel movimento, che non solo la cultura accademica, ma tutta la cultura in genere, a cominciare da quella politica, si apprestava a soggiacere alla spaventosa berlusconizzazione di cui oggi siamo testimoni (non priva ormai di echi sinistri: fascistizzazione, germanizzazione ). Non lo immaginava nemmeno Indro Montanelli, che all'epoca sparava sulla Pantera con cartucce pagate da Berlusconi (Its editor since 1978) and detects a danger only to games played.
This almost prophetic ability to foresee what would happen four years later, after "Clean Hands" (1992) and the massacres of the Mafia (1993), with the "drop-down field of the card holder P2 No. 1816 ( 1994), should not be underestimated. It does not belong to Luke as a single individual, but belongs to him as a voice occasionally, even partially anonymous (in fact I do not remember the name), a social movement. The movements, constantly, breaking the balance of the existing state of things, leaving out the surface, such as earthquakes or eruptions, the dynamics of groundwater animate it, this show often (weak) prophetic ability, which he admirably written, among others, Walter Benjamin . It allows them to certain tendencies of history. And a trace, sometimes, in the language of all.
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