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Il primo articolo pubblicato su Metropoli

  Questo è il primo articolo di Maila Ermini,  che cura su Metropoli una rubrica a scadenza bisettimanale. Questo è stato pubblicato  il 25 febbraio 2011.

“Prato incontra”, ovvero della creazione mitologica

Organizzando Prato-incontra la giunta pratese intende spacciare la partecipazione.

Finora stessa formula: un tema relativo alla città e poi, come invitati, rappresentanti del governo cittadino con il sindaco sul palco del Metastasio. Di volta in volta un moderatore, un giornalista. Intrattenimento musicale e, sul finire della serata, le domande dei cittadini. La scena ricorda, nonostante si svolga in un teatro, quella inventata da Maurizio Costanzo anni fa. Dunque il modello è televisivo, modello autoritario e mito-logico, and not participatory.

In fact, citizens were able to speak little and poorly, later, when the meeting was ending, with a microphone that was quickly removed from their hands, many have left the theater with a strong sense of frustration. ;

With Prato Meet the junta celebrates itself, it is propaganda by deception participation and reiterates the concept of 'center', a place to revalue the city, but also a symbol of the centrality of power, transforming the stage on a throne, a symbol of sovereignty, even lovable and trans-'ideologiche alleged holes', emphasizes authority, prestige and authority, decreeing the same order of decentralization, the death of divisions. Finally, masquerading as an important means of Internet democracy (the last meeting, the citizens could send their questions via Internet), but that cuts through even more in its material inconsistency, the gap between power and subordination. Between reality and political imaginary.

So, what we have seen so far, with many falls of style and room for boredom, is a continuous self-referentiality.

From the standpoint of the message (as once was said) the mayor was able to raise strong and clear his leit-motiv , or the overcoming of ideology, as if they still existed. As if the government and opposition are still facing a different view of reality. The conflict, if any, is not in the ideological field, as the imago mundi is now standardized, and the contestants use the same topoi for accreditation. A demonstration of this is the fact that some issues such as integration or public parks, once the most privileged on the Left, have been discussed, so to speak with some fluency cenniana by the junta. And also, it would be wrong to think that this way of doing politics 'televisivizzata' is the prerogative of the Right. It, albeit with some differences mannered and fell in the field of local TV personalities, now belongs to the whole party side. Could speak with equal fluency of other joints and other stakeholders on the same topics, with amiable mood, paternalistic and drawing-room, and convinced, would have heard other people deal with 'literary' in the city's problems as a long story, and in this collective narrative designed to have them addressed and resolved.

But the real city, more and more 'capannonizzata' despite the crisis, with its citizens lost, are somewhere else, this is another narrative, from creation mythology that it intends to offer this policy.