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Book Estetica della Violenza

Download or read book Estetica della Violenza written by Valeria Imbrogno and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo lavoro non é un'indagine sulla distruttività della violenza ma un'analisi sull'estetica,sul piacere e sull'attrazione che la violenza puo' esercitare sull'animo umano nella nostra cultura contemporanea.Cosa correla la violenza e l'estetica? Cosa rende cosi' piacevole e affascinante un atto violento?

Book Stillness in Motion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Patricia HIll
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2014-11-21
  • ISBN : 1442619988
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Stillness in Motion written by Sarah Patricia HIll and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the Italian contribution to the technology and practice of photography, this collection offers essays, interviews, and theoretical reflections at the intersection of comparative, visual, and cultural studies. Its chapters, illustrated with more than 130 black and white images and an eight-page colour section, explore how Italian literature, cinema, popular culture, and politics have engaged with the medium of photography over the course of time. The collection includes topics such as Futurism’s ambivalent relationship to photography, the influence of American photography on Italian neorealist cinema, and the connection between the photograph and Duchamp’s concept of the Readymade. With contributions from writer and theorist Umberto Eco, photographer Franco Vaccari, art historian Robert Valtorta, and cultural historian Robert Lumley, Stillness in Motion engages with crucial historical and cultural moments in Italian history, examining each one through particular photographic practices.

Book Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire  1930 1970

Download or read book Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire 1930 1970 written by Neelam Srivastava and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. In October 1935, Mussoliniʼs army attacked Ethiopia, defying the League of Nations and other European imperial powers. The book explores the widespread political and literary responses to the invasion, highlighting how Pan-Africanism drew its sustenance from opposition to Italy’s late empire-building, and reading the work of George Padmore, Claude McKay, and CLR James alongside the feminist and socialist anti-colonial campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst’s broadsheet, New Times and Ethiopia News. Extending into the postwar period, the book examines the fertile connections between anti-colonialism and anti-fascism in Italian literature and art, tracing the emergence of a “resistance aesthetics” in works such as The Battle of Algiers and Giovanni Pirelli’s harrowing books of testimony about Algeria’s war of independence, both inspired by Frantz Fanon. This book will interest readers passionate about postcolonial studies, the history of Italian imperialism, Pan-Africanism, print cultures, and Italian postwar culture.

Book Remembering Aldo Moro

Download or read book Remembering Aldo Moro written by Ruth Glynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy's experience of political violence in the period known as the 'years of lead' (1969-c.1983). This uniquely interdisciplinary volume explores the evolving legacy of Moro's death in the Italian cultural imaginary, from the late 1970s to the present. Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to bear, interventions by experts in the fields of political science, social anthropology, philosophy, and cultural critique elicit new understandings of the events of 1978 and explain their significance and relevance to present-day Italian culture and society.

Book Terrorists as Monsters

Download or read book Terrorists as Monsters written by Marco Pinfari and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the chilling threats of the "ISIS vampire" to the view of al-Qaeda as the "Frankenstein the CIA created," terrorism seems to be inextricably bound with monstrosity. But why do the media and government officials often portray terrorists as monsters? And perhaps more puzzling, why do terrorists sometimes want to be perceived as such? This book, the first of its kind, examines the use of archetypal metaphors of monstrosity in relation to terrorism, from the gorgons of Robespierre's "reign of terror" to the dragons and lycanthropes of anarchism, the beasts and blood-licking demons of ethnonational terrorism, and the hydras and Frankenstein's monsters of Islamic jihadism. Marco Pinfari argues that politicians frame terrorists as unmanageable monsters not only in an effort at cultural "othering" and dehumanization, but also to secure popular backing for rule-breaking behavior in counter-terrorism. The book also explores the way that terrorists themselves impersonate monsters, showing that several groups have pursued such a tactic throughout the history of terrorism. It contributes to a number of ongoing public debates by highlighting how, even when actors like the Islamic State present themselves as mad and irrational, their tactics remain in essence rational. Pinfari also provides an original historical outlook on the roots of monster metaphors and discusses several types of terrorism, including state terrorism, left-wing terrorism, anarchism, ethnonationalist terrorism, and white supremacist groups. In unpacking the functions played by monster metaphors and by their impersonation, Terrorists as Monsters helps the reader understand the political processes that hide behind the fangs.

Book Viva Voce

    Book Details:
  • Author : Silvia Benso
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2017-03-30
  • ISBN : 1438463804
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Viva Voce written by Silvia Benso and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through conversations with twenty-three leading Italian philosophers representing a variety of scholarly concerns and methodologies, this volume offers an informal overview of the background, breadth, and distinctiveness of contemporary Italian philosophy as a tradition. The conversations begin with general questions addressing issues of provenance, domestic and foreign influences, and lineages. Next, each scholar discusses the main tenets, theoretical originality, and timeliness of their work. The interviews conclude with thoughts about what directions each philosopher sees the discipline heading in the future. Every conversation is a testimony to the differences that characterize each thinker as unique and that invigorate the Italian philosophical landscape as a whole. The individual replies differ widely in tone, focus, and style. What emerges is a broad, deep, lively, and even witty picture of the Italian philosophical landscape in the voices of its protagonists.

Book Problemi di estetica e di teoria musicale

Download or read book Problemi di estetica e di teoria musicale written by Giovanni Piana and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Per un lungo periodo, la critica musicale ha subito il dominio incontrastato di Adorno e della sua posizione sociologizzante. In questo libro è contenuto un saggio di vasto respiro, che ha suscitato non poche ostilità all'autore, contro Adorno e l'adornismo, nel quale si fornisce non una vacua polemica, ma una vasta documentazione del contesto culturale in cui il successo italiano di Adorno può essere, se non giustificato, almeno compreso. Ma questi saggi discutono anche altri nomi significativi nella filosofia della musica novecentesca, in particolare, Jankélévitch e Langer. Più pronunciatamente orientati in direzione della teoria della musica sono i saggi su Hindemith e Danielou, entrambi autori ben poco frequentati dalla critica corrente. Il volume si chiude con una sintesi che Giovanni Piana(http: //www.filosofia.unimi.it/piana/) propone del proprio itinerario nel campo della filosofia della musica.

Book Quaderni di Sociologia 91

Download or read book Quaderni di Sociologia 91 written by AA.VV. and published by Rosenberg & Sellier. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gianfranco Poggi (1934-2023) la società contemporanea / Re-thinking the quality of public space (I) Letteria G. Fassari, Martina Löw, Gioia Pompili, Emanuela Spanò, Preface Dominik Bartmanski, Seonju Kim, Martina Löw, Timothy Pape, Jörg Stollmann, Smart New World. Ways of Seeing Spatiotemporal Logics of Social Refiguration in New Songdo City Paolo Do, Letteria G. Fassari, The Quality of Public Space Among Hybrid Nature-Ruins. The Case of Bullicante Lake in Rome Elifcan Karacan, Quality of Space as Experienced: Impacts of Needs and Affordability on Spatial Appropriation of Cross-border Labor Commuters Alina Dambrosio Clementelli, Women's Safety Between Neo-Liberalization and Re-Writings of Public Spaces Séverine Marguin, Vivien Sommer, Public Spaces as Homophilic Spaces. Belonging and Accessibility in Berlin's Club Culture Claudia Cantale, Mapping Change. Imagine Antico Corso: What Family Photo Archives Say About the Neighbourhood teoria e ricerca Antonio Russo, Il Mezzogiorno nella trappola dello sviluppo intermedio: un'interpretazione neo-schumpeteriana della mancata convergenza recensioni Alfio Mastropaolo, Fare la guerra con altri mezzi. Sociologia storica del governo democratico, 2023 (Alon Helled) Stefano Tomelleri, Il capro espiatorio. L'uso strategico della violenza, 2023 (Uliano Conti)

Book Italian Literature in North America

Download or read book Italian Literature in North America written by Canadian Society for Italian Studies and published by Biblioteca di Quaderni d’italianistica. This book was released on 1990 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Futurismo Renaissance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roby Guerra
  • Publisher : Deleyva Editore
  • Release : 2016-04-18
  • ISBN : 8888943862
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Futurismo Renaissance written by Roby Guerra and published by Deleyva Editore. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 autori alla scoperta della "Rinascita del futurismo" Il futurismo è ancora vivo? È possibile rintracciare una continuità tra il "futurismo storico" e le operazioni allestite da chi afferma di recuperarne l'eredità? "Futurismo Renaissance" è una ricognizione a 360° sul futurismo contemporaneo, tornato alla ribalta in tutto il mondo dopo la grande mostra retrospettiva allestita al Guggenheim Museum di New Work nel 2014. Oggi, questo movimento artistico, culturale e filosofico viene rilanciando in dis-continuità concreta con il futurismo storico attraverso la nascita ed il lavoro di nuovi gruppi sinergici di artisti, scrittori, sociologi, nuovamente operativi. Ritorno in generale delle avanguardie anche oltre al nuovo futurismo, con altrettanti nuovi gruppi artistici e futuribili in primo piano nella cultura italiana del nostro tempo. Gli oltre cinquanta autori coinvolti lo dimostrano! Con saggi di: Adriano V. Autino, Giovanni Balducci, Stefano Balice, Lorenzo Barbieri, Sandro Battisti, Mauro Biuzzi, Mary Blindflowers, Pierfranco Bruni, Luca Calselli, Riccardo Campa, Tonino Casula, Ada Cattaneo, J. C. Casalini, Pierluigi Casalino, Elena Cecconi, Graziano Cecchini Rosso Trevi, Mimmo Centonze, Vitaldo Conte, Daco, Sylvia Forty, Maurizio Ganzaroli, Zoltan Istvan, Zairo Ferrante, Antonio Fiore Ufagrà, Marcello Francolini, Davide Foschi, Antonino Gaeta, Giorgio Levi, Luca Gallesi, Sergio Gessi, Sandro Giovannini, Roberto Guerra, Priscilla Lotti, Stefano Lotti, Giuseppe Manias, Paolo Melandri, Donatella Monachesi, Achille Olivieri, Roberto Paura, Vanessa Pignalosa, Emmanuele Pilia, Cristiano Rocchio, Gennaro Russo, Antonio Saccoccio, Tina Saletnich, Grazia Scanavini, Fabio Scorza, Giovanni Sessa, Luigi Sgroi, Luca Siniscalco, Luigi Tallarico, Marco Teti e Vitaliano Teti, Bruno V. Turra, Stefano Vaj!

Book Western all italiana  The specialists

Download or read book Western all italiana The specialists written by Antonio Bruschini and published by Glittering Images. This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carte italiane

Download or read book Carte italiane written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics

Download or read book Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics written by Hans Rainer Sepp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, phenomenology began in Edmund Husserl’s theory of mathematics and logic, went on to focus for him on transcendental rst philosophy and for others on metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and theory of interpretation. The c- tinuing focus has thus been on knowledge and being. But if one began without those interests and with an understanding of the phenomenological style of approach, one might well see that art and aesthetics make up the most natural eld to be approached phenomenologically. Contributions to this eld have continually been made in the phenomenological tradition from very early on, but, so to speak, along the side. (The situation has been similar with phenomenological ethics. ) A great deal of thought about art and aesthetics has nevertheless accumulated during a century and a handbook like the present one is long overdue. The project of this handbook began in conversations over dinner in Sepp’s apa- ment in Baden-Baden at one evening of the hot European summer in the year 2003. As things worked out, he knew more about whom to ask and how much space to allocate to each entry and Embree knew more about how to conduct the inviting, preliminary editing, and prodding of contributors who were late returning their criticized drafts and copyedited entries and was able to invest the time and other resources from his endowed chair. That process took longer than anticipated and there were additional unfortunate delays due to factors beyond the editors’s control.

Book From hunger to dream

Download or read book From hunger to dream written by Glauber Rocha and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What Do We Know About the World

Download or read book What Do We Know About the World written by Gabrijela Kišiček and published by University of Windsor. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we know about the world? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives is a book trying to answer the title question by contributing to rhetorical and argumentative studies. It consists of papers presented at the “First International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia: the Days of Ivo Škarić” in May, 2012, and subsequently revised for publication. Through a variety of different routs, the papers explore the role of rhetoric and argumentation in various types of public discourse and present interdisciplinary work connecting linguists, phoneticians, philosophers, law experts and communication scientists in the common ground of rhetoric and argumentation.. The Conference was organized with the intent of paying respect to the Croatian rhetorician and professor emeritus Ivo Škarić who was the first to introduce rhetoric at the Department of Phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

Book Social Representations of Gender Violence in Italy

Download or read book Social Representations of Gender Violence in Italy written by Flaminia Saccà and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Representations of Lethal Gender Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature

Download or read book Representations of Lethal Gender Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature written by Nicoletta Mandolini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses femicide in Italy, and the cultural conversations that have resulted from feminist discourse on lethal violence against women entering the mainstream, by analyzing journalistic inquiries and literary works produced after 2012. In a global and national context where activism’s goals are mainly discursive this study deepens our understanding of the role played by written narratives in the critique of a public interest matter such as gender-based violence. The first part of the book is dedicated to the analysis of three journalistic inquiries published in book format that focus on one or more cases of femicide that happened on the Italian peninsula. The second section draws on the concept of feminist rewriting to propose the analysis of a heterogeneous body of literary texts that explore some of the most controversial and notorious femicide cases covered by previous journalistic, historical, or mythical narratives, before demonstrating the close connection between theoretical and narrative discourse within the analyzed texts. This is a fascinating case study contributing to global understandings of gender-based violence, which will be important for researchers in gender studies, sociology, and media studies.