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John Berger
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What Time Is It?
“Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call ‘in the meantime.’” —John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is It?, now posthumously published for the first time in English by Notting Hill Editions. Berger died before it was completed, but the text has been assembled and illustrated by his longtime collaborator and friend Selçuk Demirel, and has an introduction by Maria Nadotti. What Time Is It? is a profound and playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. Berger, the great art critic and Man Booker Prize–winning author, reflects on what time has come to mean to us in modern life. Our perception of time assumes a uniform and ceaseless passing of time, yet time is turbulent. It expands and contracts according to the intensity of the lived moment. We talk of time “saved” in a hundred household appliances; time, like money, is exchanged for the content it lacks. Berger posits the idea that time can lengthen lifetimes once we seize the present moment. “What-is-to-come, what-is-to-be-gained empties what-is.”
Off Screen
This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women’s engagement with political theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen to represent themselves and how they have been represented, and how they deal with the cinematic apparatus, as subjects of production, objects of representation, and spectators. A variety of approaches are offered, ranging from psychoanalysis and semiology to history. With an exhaustive filmography, this anthology of chapters by eminent theorists demonstrates the central importance of recent developments in Italy for the whole spectrum of film and feminist studies.
Murad Murad
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Lying Down to Sleep
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My Name is Universe
My Name is Universe is a book of interviews with internationally renowned personalities through which some of the layers of knowledge included in the Periodic Table are revealed, recreated by Eugenia Balcells in the mural Homage to the Elements. Who would have thought that a work of art based on a scientific idea could explode like a veritable intellectual Big Bang and take us on a thrilling journey from atoms to galaxies through music, philosophy, art, cinema, chemistry, poetry, theater, dance, astrophysics, education, architecture, painting, quantum physics, religion or mathematics? My Name is Universe is a book in which science, the arts and the humanities are intertwined, appealing to the transversality and unity of knowledge. A text that cultivates an attitude of wonder at the world around us, the engine of artistic and scientific creation, and that stimulates the reader’s curiosity and creativity.
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
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Sesso & genere
Il dibattito su sesso e genere oggi è letteralmente esploso. Grazie alla “scoperta” dei generi abbiamo imparato a mettere in discussione e ripensare l’originaria distinzione maschio/femmina, mentre cinema, televisione, moda e letteratura collocano al centro delle proprie rappresentazioni il tema del sesso, della sua ambiguità e della sua irrilevanza. In questo volume, Maria Nadotti indaga l’utilità tattica della separazione dei due termini, che rischia di trasformarsi in un equivoco o in un movimento falso. Il sesso esiste fuori dalle determinazioni di genere? E se invece fosse proprio il confine tra maschile e femminile a sfumare, che utilità potrebbe avere riportarlo entro la gabbia sesso/genere?
On John Berger
On John Berger: Telling Stories is the first collection of essays exploring the multi-facetted, genre-crossing work of John Berger from an interdisciplinary perspective.
