The aim of this article is to propose an exploratory critical response to the two following main research questions: (1) why, in moments of crises, particular metaphors operate in the construction of interrelated cultural narratives; and (2) in which ways metaphors generate alternative intellectual horizons for social renewal under the rise of populism in the Southern European context. A metaphor is not only a linguistic device but also a cognitive operation that configures and shapes the pre-figurative poetic acts which articulate our worldviews. It is my working hypothesis that by studying the metaphorical systematicity produced within certain imagined communities, it is possible to ground the conceptual system that informs cultural and political practices such as populist movements, while also tracing novel metaphors that can activate renewal and produce structural change in our societies. In this essay, I propose to critically define such conceptual systems as ‘regimes of metaphor’.

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讲述南欧的危机和民粹主义：隐喻的制度

本文的目的是对以下两个主要研究问题提出探索性的批判性回应：（1）为什么在危机时刻，特定隐喻在相互关联的文化叙事的构建中起作用；(2) 在南欧背景下民粹主义兴起的情况下，隐喻以何种方式为社会更新产生了另类的知识视野。隐喻不仅是一种语言手段，也是一种认知操作，它配置和塑造了表达我们世界观的先行诗行为。我的工作假设是，通过研究在某些想象的社区中产生的隐喻系统性，有可能建立为文化和政治实践提供信息的概念系统，例如民粹主义运动，同时还追踪可以激活我们社会的更新和产生结构变化的新隐喻。在这篇文章中，我建议批判性地将这样的概念系统定义为“隐喻体制”。