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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.
Italian American Poetics of Place
This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. It fills a gap in the theoretical discourse on Italian American culture, whose concerns about environmental justice have been mostly overlooked. From mid-twentieth-century poets such as John Ciardi and Diane di Prima to late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction writers such as Carole Maso and Salvatore Scibona, the study combines Italian American literary criticism with the spatial turn that, over the last decades, has asserted the interpretive significance of place and the environment in literary texts. Questioning the prejudice that sees Italian American cultur...
Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices
What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? 'Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices' focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique, and animate the approach that Italian culture has had toward the physical environment and its ecology since late antiquity. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the essays collected in this volume explore topics including climate change, environmental justice, animal ethics, and socio-environmental degradation to provide a cog...
Teaching a Dark Chapter
Teaching a Dark Chapter explores how textbook narratives about the Fascist/Nazi past in Italy, East Germany, and West Germany followed relatively calm, undisturbed paths of little change until isolated "flashpoints" catalyzed the educational infrastructure into periods of rapid transformation. Though these flashpoints varied among Italy and the Germanys, they all roughly conformed to a chronological scheme and permanently changed how each "dark past" was represented. Historians have often neglected textbooks as sources in their engagement with the reconstruction of postfascist states and the development of postwar memory culture. But as Teaching a Dark Chapter demonstrates, textbooks yield n...
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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.
Film, Negation and Freedom
Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its heritage in Romantic aesthetics. Synthesising a variety of discursive fields and traditions - including Early German Romanticism, Frankfurt School critical theory and the aesthetic philosophy of Jacques Rancière - Film, Negation and Freedom outlines a radical new approach to film by re-examining the work of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson. A distinction between Light and Dark Romanticism is introduced as a means of interpreting cinema's relationship with capitalism, as well as dualistic concepts such as stillness and motion, passivity and activity, pain and pleasure. Film, Negation and Freedom revitalises our understanding of modern audio-visual media, as well as the aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of Romantic subjectivity, artistic practice and spectatorship.
Understanding Biology Using Peptides
This book represents proceedings of the 19th American Peptide Symposium. It highlights many of the recent developments in peptide science, with a particular emphasis on how these advances are being applied to basic problems in biology and medicine. Specific topics covered include novel synthetic strategies, peptides in biological signaling, post-translational modifications of peptides and proteins, and peptide quaternary structure in material science and disease.
Una relación conflictiva
El trabajo del colectivo florentino Superstudio, en particular sus provocadoras perspectivas y collages, han formado parte de la imaginación colectiva, arquitectónica y artística, de los últimos 60 años. Sin embargo, esta atractiva cualidad gráfica asociada a la representación ha ido relegando a un segundo plano la ambición intelectual de un proyecto teórico complejo a la vez que inusual, minimizando su potencial impacto en procesos arquitectónicos más recientes. Iniciada en 1966 con la exposición Superachittetura, la aventura del grupo llevó a sus miembros a especular, durante más de una década, sobre formas alternativas de habitar un mundo en constante transformación, molde...
