Author: Valeria Imbrogno
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291868496
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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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?

Author: Sarah Patricia HIll
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442619988
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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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.

Author: Neelam Srivastava
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137465840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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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.

Author: Ruth Glynn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351551531
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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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.

Author: Marco Pinfari
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190927879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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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.

Author: Silvia Benso
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438463804
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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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.

Author: Giovanni Piana
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291292853
Category : Fiction
Languages : it
Pages : 234

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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.

Author: AA.VV.
Publisher: Rosenberg & Sellier
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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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)

Author: Canadian Society for Italian Studies
Publisher: Biblioteca di Quaderni d’italianistica
ISBN: 9780969197980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Roby Guerra
Publisher: Deleyva Editore
ISBN: 8888943862
Category : Art
Languages : it
Pages : 448

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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!