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Discourse on the State of the Jews
In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a...
Cultural Techniques
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the...
The Athenaeum
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The quarterly review
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Pristem storia. Note di matematica, storia, cultura
Il volume 5 delle Note è dedicato alla storia della Mathesis, Società italiana di scienze matematiche. Si vuole ricostruire come si svolgeva l'attività della Società seguendo tre filoni principali: la comunicazione e l'informazione tra i soci; la discussione sui problemi dell'insegnamento; i rapporti con la cultura "alta" e ufficiale. Sono descritti tre casi particolarmente significativi che potranno permettere di ricostruire le dinamiche sociali e di individuare il contributo dei soci, grandi matematici o semplici membri delle sezioni.
