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Imagining AI
Chapters 16 and 19 from this book are published open access and are free to read or download from Oxford Academic AI is now a global phenomenon. Yet Hollywood narratives dominate perceptions of AI in the English-speaking West and beyond, and much of the technology itself is shaped by a disproportionately white, male, US-based elite. However, different cultures have been imagining intelligent machines since long before we could build them, in visions that vary greatly across religious, philosophical, literary and cinematic traditions. This book aims to spotlight these alternative visions. Imagining AI draws attention to the range and variety of visions of a future with intelligent machines an...
Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film
As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals, inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and a new epistemological and ethical approach to reality is needed. Through twelve thought-provoking, scholarly essays, this volume analyzes works by a range of modern and contemporary Italian authors, from Giacomo Leopardi to Elena Ferrante, who have captured the shift from anthropocentrism and postmodernism to posthumanism. Indeed, this is the first academic volume investigating narrative configurations of posthuman identity in Italian literature and film.
Poetics of Disturbances
This volume calls for a Narratology of Diversity by investigating narratives of non-normative bodies and minds. It explores mental health representations in literature, including neurodiversity, the body-mind nexus, and embodied non-normativities, therein emphasizing the importance of understanding diverse psychological conditions as represented in narratives. The contributions include perspectives from a wide variety of scholars of European, North American, and comparative literature and culture. While post-classical narratology has evolved through phases of diversification and consolidation, this volume represents innovation in understanding narrative development to embrace new areas of social awareness, including gendered narratologies (specifically feminist and queer narratologies) and post-colonial criticism, paving the way for a more inclusive narratology.
Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the American Rural South
In Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the American Rural South, Christine Crudo Blackburn and Macey T. Lively study regions of the United States rarely acknowledged by the average American. These are regions of extreme poverty in the rural American South where a mixture of historical discrimination, structural discrimination, lack of opportunities, and decaying infrastructure conspire to create an environment conducive to chronic, debilitating diseases known as Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Blackburn and Lively explore the conditions that allow NTDs to thrive in a wealthy nation like the United States when such diseases are typically associated with the poorest communities in Africa, Asia, and South America. Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases pulls back the curtain on the reality of poverty and disease in America and tell the story of failing sanitation infrastructure, the lack of clean water, the inability to access healthcare, and the lack of financial security through the eyes of those living it every day.
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Petrarch and Boccaccio in the First Commentaries on Dante’s Commedia
This text proposes a reinterpretation of the history behind the canon of the Tre Corone (Three Crowns), which consists of the three great Italian authors of the 14th century – Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Examining the first commentaries on Dante’s Commedia, the book argues that the elaboration of the canon of the Tre Corone does not date back to the 15th century but instead to the last quarter of the 14th century. The investigation moves from Guglielmo Maramauro’s commentary – circa 1373, and the first exegetical text in which we can find explicit quotations from Petrarch and Boccaccio – to the major commentators of the second half of the 14th century: Benvenuto da Imola, Franc...
Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio
Do the sacred decorations of a Florentine Renaissance chapel—saints, symbols, and scriptural stories—hold personal and political meanings? Cox-Rearick's ground-breaking book explores the message hidden in the frescoes and altar panels of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, painted in the early 1540s by Agnolo Bronzino for the Spanish-born wife of Duke Cosimo I de Medici. Bronzino, then the chief painter to the Medici court, was largely responsible for the invention in Florence of the highly self-conscious, elegant Maniera style. Cox-Rearick interweaves her account of the Medici biography with an examination of Bronzino's commission in the broader context of his oeuvre. Cox-Rearick reveals the Chapel of Eleonora as an intimately devised decorative program that transmits messages about its patrons and Medici rule. Detailed color photographs of the newly restored art splendidly document this early tour de force of a major artist whose works are still relatively unexamined.
«La sana critica». Pubblicare i classici italiani nella Milano di primo Ottocento
Nella Milano di primo Ottocento – a quell’epoca la città italiana più attiva nella produzione libraria – collezionisti, bibliotecari, studiosi di letterature antiche e giovani letterati sono protagonisti di un’intensa attività di pubblicazione di testi classici. Nuove edizioni della Divina Commedia, delle Rime di Petrarca, del Decamerone, dell’Orlando Furioso, della Gerusalemme Liberata, di opere di scrittori più vicini nel tempo come Metastasio e Parini, escono per le loro cure nelle collane degli stampatori milanesi, in particolare nella grande collezione della Società Tipografica de’ Classici Italiani. In una stagione ricca di dibattiti culturali e linguistici, anche il c...
Ecologia e lavoro
Salvaguardia ecologica e lavoro sono due aspetti fondamentali, purtroppo spesso messi in concorrenza, per garantire la presenza dell’uomo sulla Terra. Finora le occasioni per riflettere in modo organico ed esplicito sul loro rapporto e intorno a come esso venga elaborato nelle rappresentazioni artistico-culturali contemporanee sono state rare e, tranne per alcuni lavori, tale binomio non è stato ancora oggetto di un’analisi sistematica. Mentre l’idea di lavoro, di produzione e perfino quella di progresso stanno rapidamente cambiando messe di fronte all’evidenza dell’impatto ambientale, l’asse “Ecologia e lavoro” del Projet OBERT (Observatoire Européen des Récits du Travail) ha sentito la necessità di procedere a uno scavo archeologico della cultura artistica italiana, per comprendere come sia cambiata la relazione uomo-lavoro-ambiente dalla Seconda rivoluzione industriale ad oggi.
