De Rita and 70 years of Censis to understand our society

The story of 70 years of Italian society unfolds with minute phenomenology, accompanied by De Rita and his Censis. "Deritian canon (1955-2025)": never the story of the dominant actor who stood at the top, rather than planning to accompany, because he reminds us that "one governs by accompanying rather than commanding". Always in empathy with the people in the middle and with loyalty to the subject in society as a historical entity. Giving oneself an identity within the market, the space and challenge of relationships. "The intimacy of relationships" wrote Becattini, a district theorist with De Rita and his tale with 'devotion' to the person and 'loyalty' to the subject. A third tale can be glimpsed, punctuated by the annual Censis social reports marked by dashes: to the Fordist actor - molecular capitalism, to the subject state - the function state, to the classes - the encroachment of the middle classes, to the autonomy of the political - the autonomy of the social, to the power of means - the power of processes, to the winter palace - Bevagna does not go to war.... What emerges is 70 years of long drift to be broken down and recomposed. The ascendant one from the economic boom to the proliferating boom from the underground to the districts, of the middle classes of the Spa family and the globalisation of the districts in the persuasive globalisation. The descending one of when the flood of the middle classes becomes a swamp and those who can climb on the piles of rent and many float in adapting to the decline towards the breaking of the hyphen between the elite and the people to the point of rancour and populism. Thus we arrive at the 'not yet' that looks at geopolitics, geo-economics, tariffs flying, autocracies, empires, wars and globalisation in pieces. A long traverse from the economy of nations, to the persuasive and disruptive globalisation to the cycle of political capitalism that comes along. Which sees us in the last report on the brink of 'the hotel of the abyss' (Valerii). Traces for a great formation novel. In my microcosms I have often stumbled upon them. Having in the territory the syncretism of encounter. Following the diffused factory through the submerged, arriving at districts, supply chains and platforms, not as priests of the districts, but with the self-awareness and self-dominance of the territory. By making knowledge and animating the consciousness of the places from which the Territorial Pacts promoted by De Rita's Cnel were born. The great actor of extraordinary intervention in the Mezzogiorno had disappeared. Hence the intuition to apply the method of animation and lukewarm research in the territories to accompany an economic vitalism from below promoted by the middle society and the representations. Thinking more of social design and demand districts to be channelled towards European funds for local development rather than economic districts. The question of the hyphen between social demand and the programming role of politics, then entrusted to the regions, remained unresolved. Traces remain of that season in the mobilisation of a necessary and propaedeutic social capital for the development of territories. Times of territorial fibrillation also in the North with the emergence of the 'northern question', the territory flew in the sky of politics and with territorial unionism produced a crisis of politics and a crisis of representation. There the social metamorphosis from Fordism to post-Fordism, from local to global, from territory from a space to be travelled through to a space of perimeter and re-insertion were legible. One wondered with Cacciari "What happened to the bourgeoisie?". Bourgeoisie and class, inflated in their use, as inadequate in their being the first, the bourgeoisie, flown in flows well beyond the Weberian warning "property obliges" and immersed in the bourgeoisie's bourgeois encroachment without bourgeoisie. The second, the class, to be broken down and recomposed in the 'Triumph of the Multitude'. Epoch leap in the flows of the world system and down people and subjects of the diaspora of migrations. Captured in its becoming by De Rita animating the first and last national conference on immigration. Last but not the last chapter in the history book. Looking at Minneapolis at the top and the social becoming at the bottom, we find no people or subjects. Only rags flying to feed our everyday fears. Perhaps, a De Rita canon of tepid research would be needed, putting in the dashes and joints in that submerged social where we can recognise and acknowledge ourselves in the society to come. De Rita is now well past 90 years old. Thank you. I think it is up to Valerii, who loves to quote myths and rituals, to load Anchises on his shoulders to go like Aeneas to the elsewhere.

Bonomi@aaster.it