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The Hybrid Face
This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face. The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face, exploring its biological and social functions, the concept of masks, the impact of COVID-19, AI systems, digital portraiture, symbolic faces in films, viral communication, alien depictions, personhood in video games, online intimacy, and digital memorials. The human face is increasingly living a life that is not only that of the biological body but also that of it...
The Musical Neurons
This book explores connections between music, neural activations and brain plasticity, in order to better understand its associated psychological and physiological effects. The final goal is to focus on the positive effects of music to treat neurological disorders, establishing a new co-ordination between different brain areas to improve both mental illness and wellbeing. A secondary goal is to analyse the role of music at a psycho-sociological level, to understand both the transformation of music into a cultural model and the vision of music as an innate instinct.Music is able to create both emotions and volitional processes. The application of new neuroimaging techniques allows us to explo...
Online Virality
The book Online Virality, edited by Valérie Schafer and Fred Pailler (C2DH, University of Luxembourg), aims to provide a comprehensive examination of online virality. It explores the many ways we can think about this modern phenomenon and analyse the circulation, reception, and evolution of viral born-digital content. Virality and content sharing always intertwine material, infrastructural, visual and discursive elements. This involves various platforms, stakeholders, intermediaries, social groups and communities that are constantly (re)defining themselves. Regulation, curation and content moderation politics, as well as affects and emotions (fears, humour, empathy, hatred...), are also at ...
Music, Analysis, Experience
Transdisciplinary and intermedial analysis of the experience of music Nowadays musical semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitive sciences, ethology, or linguistics. Creation, action and experience play an increasing role in how we understand music, a sounding structure impinging upon our body, our mind, and the world we live in. Not discarding music as a closed system, an integral experience of music demands a transdisciplinary dialogue with other domains as well. Music, Analysis, Experience brings together contributions by semioticians, performers, and scholars from cognitive sciences, philosophy, and cultural studies, and deals with these fundamental questi...
The Concept of the New
In this book the author takes the concept of the New as a starting point to open the way to a broader reflection on ar t production within neoliberal capitalism. Piazza explores the notions of innovation and New respectively in the Social Sciences and in the Humanities, tracing the differences from the conceptual and temporal perspective in relation to the most recent debates on creativity and postmodernism. The book investigates the field of theatre and dance, focusing on the essential aspects that link the New with the contemporary condition and its discourse. Combining theory and practice, this book calls for an art production able to slip out of the framework of innovation and builds the ground to rethink the New and its political value in the arts.
Critique of Pure Nature
This book challenges the Western contemporary “praise for Nature”. From food to body practices, from ecological discourses to the Covid-19 pandemic, contemporary imaginaries abound with representations of an ideal “pure Nature”, essentially defined according to a logic of denial of any artificial, modified, manipulated — in short, cultural — aspect. How should we contextualise and understand such an opposition, especially in light of the rich semantic scope of the term “nature” and its variability over time? And how can we — if we actually can — envisage alternative models and approaches capable of better accounting for such richness and variability? The author addresses ...
Believing in Bits
Believing in Bits advances the idea that religious beliefs and practices have become inextricably linked to the functioning of digital media. How did we come to associate things such as mindreading and spirit communications with the functioning of digital technologies? How does the internet�s capacity to facilitate the proliferation of beliefs blur the boundaries between what is considered fiction and fact? Addressing these and similar questions, the volume challenges and redefines established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and the supernatural.
Arte e storia delle Madonie. Studi per Nico Marino, Voll. VII-VIII
Il volume, curato da Gabriele Marino e Rosario Termotto per l'Associazione Culturale "Nico Marino" di Cefalù (Palermo), raccoglie gli atti della settima e ottava edizione delle giornate di studio "Arte e Storia delle Madonie. Studi per Nico Marino", svoltesi a Cefalù il 4 novembre 2017 e il 3 dicembre 2018. Contributi di: Domenica Barbera, Nuccio Lo Castro, Giovanni Mendola, Salvatore Farinella, Donatella Aiello, Giuseppe Antista, Patrizia Bova, Antonio Contino, Giuseppe Esposito, Antonio Cuccia, Luigi Romana, Giuseppe Spallino, Amedeo Tullio, Rosario Termotto, Salvatore Mantia.
Arte e storia delle Madonie. Studi per Nico Marino, Voll. IV-V
Il volume, curato da Gabriele Marino e Rosario Termotto per l'Associazione Culturale "Nico Marino", raccoglie gli atti della quarta e quinta edizione delle giornate di studio "Arte e Storia delle Madonie. Studi per Nico Marino", svoltesi a Cefalù e Castelbuono il 18 e 19 ottobre 2014 e a Gibilmanna il 17 ottobre 2015. Contributi di: Rosa Maria Cucco, Domenica Barbera, Antonio Cuccia, Salvatore Farinella, Marco Failla, Amedeo Tullio, Santa Aloisio, Calogero Maria Bongiorno, Luigi Sanfilippo, Diego Cannizzaro, Bruno De Marco Spata, Arturo Anzelmo, Giuseppe Antista, Nuccio Lo Castro, Angelo Pettineo, Giuseppe Giugno, Rosalia Francesca Margiotta, Ciro D'Arpa, Giovanni Maria Lomonaco, Patrizia Bova, Antonio Contino, Rosario Termotto, Vincenzo Abbate.
