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Embodiment
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides a representative cross-section of influential trends in the philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought, Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence, subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection and eternal life.
Eco-Phenomenology: Life, Human Life, Post-Human Life in the Harmony of the Cosmos
This volume presents discussions on a wide range of topics focused on eco-phenomenology and the interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary environmental thought. Starting out with a Tymieniecka Memorial chapter, the book continues with papers on the foundations, theories, readings and philosophical sources of eco-phenomenology. In addition, it examines issues of phenomenological anthropology, ecological perspectives of the human relationship to nature, and phenomenology of the living body and the virtual body. Furthermore, the volume engages in a dialogue with contemporary behavioral sciences on topics such as eco-alienation, sustainability, and the human relationship to the earth in the context of the cosmos.
The Art of Artificial Intelligence
What is artificial intelligence to us today? This book tackles this question from a somewhat unique perspective, that of art. The starting hypothesis is that art can provide an example of how we can engage with artificial intelligence without being subjugated by it. The Art of Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Keywords guides the reader through a theoretical journey that begins, each time, with a particular work of art: visual artworks, but also literary texts and theatrical performances. Each chapter is anchored by a philosophical keyword: "work," "author," "time," "memory," "human." What meanings do these words take on in light of these new practices? The book is aimed at a broad audience, including anyone who feels the need to reflect on these new questions. It will also be an essential resource for students and university faculty in various disciplines, from philosophy to media studies, from art history to visual culture.
Toward an Anthropology of Screens
This book shows that screens don’t just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physical and anthropological-cultural environment. By combining a series of historical-genealogical reconstructions going back to prehistoric times with the analysis of present and near-future technologies, the authors show that screens have always incorporated not only the hiding/showing functions but also the protecting/exposing ones, as the Covid-19 pandemic retaught us. The intertwining of these functions allows the authors to criticize the mainstream ideas of images as inseparable from screens, of words as opposed to images, and of what they call “Transparency 2.0” ideology, which currently dominates our socio-political life. Moreover, they show how wearable technologies don’t approximate us to a presumed disappearance of screens but seem to draw a circular pathway back to using our bodies as screens. This raises new relational, ethical, and political questions, which this book helps to illuminate.
Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated
Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century Frances most original thinkers. Gaston Bachelard, one of twentieth-century Frances most original thinkers, is known by English-language readers primarily as the author of The Poetics of Space and several other books on the imagination, but he made significant contributions to the philosophy and history of science. In this book, Roch C. Smith provides a comprehensive introduction to Bachelards work, demonstrating how his writings on the literary imagination can be better understood in the context of his exploration of how knowledge works in science. After an overview of Bachelards writings on the scient...
Visual media e nuove forme tecnologiche
In che modo la tecnologia cambia il panorama all’interno del quale l’essere umano vive e interagisce con il livello di simboli e immagini che sono il tessuto proprio della sua esistenza? Oggi che l’intelligenza artificiale propone di riscrivere il celeberrimo titolo di Walter Benjamin in termini di “era della riproducibilità tecnica” dell’artista più che dell’opera d’arte, non si può non interrogarsi sul rapporto tra media e tecnologia. In questo contesto in continua evoluzione e perenne stato di tensione critica, il rapporto tra media e tecnologia diventa di natura costitutiva e non più accidentale o contingente. La tecnologia diventa la sostanza dei media e i media ne d...
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Il convoglio
Bolzano, sabato 5 agosto 1944: circa 300 persone impaurite salgono su quello che Italo Tibaldi chiama “trasporto 73”, un convoglio con destinazione Mauthausen. Franco Meroni parte da questo tragico momento storico per condurre la sua ricerca, che trasforma in memoria collettiva le singole testimonianze dirette (tratte da libri, diari, interviste, lettere) e indirette delle vicende personali dei deportati saliti sul treno. Nel volume sono raccolte le biografie degli internati, delle lavoratrici e lavoratori coatti e dei sacerdoti. Grazie al contributo fornito da alcuni familiari e alla consultazione dei fogli matricolari, queste pagine consentono di preservare la memoria anche dei volti meno noti nella bibliografia concentrazionaria, offrendo un’analisi scrupolosa e completa della composizione del “convoglio”.
