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FROM UNBURDENING TO LIBERATED EMBODIED SIMULATION A HISTORY OF CONCEPTS
2020
What is imagination? How to think this «act» (action)? How to describe its phenomenology? And, above all, how to situate its very space in human behavior and mind? Can we outline a topic of imagination? I suggest that an ap- propriate blend between the tradition of philosophical anthropology, from Johann Gottfried Herder to Hans Blumenberg, and the new neuroscientific interpretation of «embodied simulation», could help us to refine our concept of imagination. I quote Herder just to refer to a noble forerunner of this genealogy, being the focus of my paper on a more controversial figure, namely Arnold Gehlen, author of an inspiring work of twentieth-century anthropology, Man. His Nature and …
Exilerfahrung und Imagination bei SAID – Selbstfindung durch fabelhafte Geschichten
2017
Der folgende Ausatz setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, wie es dem Autor gelingt, seine Exilerfahrung mit der Welt der Fantasie zu verweben und dabei vielfach ausgezeichnete Kinder- und Jugendliteratur zu produzieren. Die hier herangezogenen Texte sind Es war einmal eine Blume (1998), Clara (2001) und Schneebären lügen nie (2013). Jede dieser märchenhaften Geschichten fokussiert sich auf das Motiv des Exils und damit auch auf Erscheinungen, die in der traurigen Existenz des Exilierten vorkommen, d.h. Einsamkeit, Suche nach der eigenen Identität und bei SAID Flucht in eine fabelähnliche Dimension.
Cinema as a Place of Educational Practice during the Fascist Regime in Italy (1922-1943)
2021
The evolution of Italian cinema in the first half of the twentieth century is intertwined with the historical events that marked Italy in the period between the two world wars: the coming to power of fascism and the rise to power of Benito Mussolini. Its protectionist policy favored the growth of the film industry that, in few years, created new forms of representation and made cinema a popular and mass art with a great pedagogical impact. He defined cinema as “the strongest weapon” because, through a strategic use of moving images, it had the power to “rule the gaze of the spectators”. After the advent of the sound cinema, from the thirties, the political intervention of the regime promote…
Biopoetica
2022
Siri Hustvedt, una scrittrice che ha saputo sempre coniugare l’analisi del proprio bíos – della pro- pria “fragilità” psichica e fisica – con la teoria della narrativa, con particolare attenzione per le articolazioni della “mente narrativa”: le emozioni, l’immaginazione, la memoria. Siri Hustvedt nelle sue opere alterna profonde analisi psicologiche di carattere narrativo, in particolare autobiografico, e riflessioni saggistiche in cui centrale è il confronto con la più recente e agguerrita letteratura neuroscientifica. Siri Hustvedt, a writer who has always known how to combine the analysis of her own bios - of her psychic and physical "fragility" - with the theory of fiction, with particu…
Pictures of Nature. Mineral Imagery in Modern French Aesthetics
2016
Thus, from antiquity to the twentieth century, figured stones have changed so many times their ontological status. They were considered collectibles, emblems of prodigiousness or of curiosity; they have been interpreted as works of art attributed to nature or to a supreme creator, in competition with the works of the artists; they were finally gazed at as case or guardians of a secret revealed in the underground and overt (at the meantime) „stone writing”. This study is devoted to the forms of mineral imagery. It is interested in enlightening the contacts between visual arts and arts of speech, between sensitive image and immaterial images, and the difficult journeys, and the indispensable …
Viaggiare nell’immaginario. Immaginare il viaggio
2023
The collection of essays in the volume stems from a shared project started during the pandemic with the aim of contributing to the scientific discourse on the concepts of travel, vision and imagination in their broadest meaning.
Decentralization in Ukraine and Bottom-Up European Integration
2020
Decentralization is one of the most profound reforms undertaken in Ukraine. It includes the voluntary merging of previously independent villages and towns into larger Amalgamated Territorial Communities (ATCs). The European Union strongly supports the reform but does not make Ukraine’s further European integration conditional upon it. In order to study whether decentralization can, nevertheless, contribute to the country’s European integration, this chapter adopts a sociological perspective. It asks whether decentralization has led to an increase in community twinning and participation of Ukrainian communities in transnational municipal networks. It is based on a survey conducted among the …
Fautographie
2018
Il libro raccoglie sette portfolio realizzati da Michele Di Donato tra il 2010 e il 2016. In questi lavori Di Donato restituisce diverse “realtà”: da quelle del surreale legate al disordine dei pensieri di chi dorme, a quelle del fantastico e della silenziosa metafisica della notte; dalle condizioni dello spazio moderno transitorio, anonimo e solitario alle percezioni di luoghi tanto indistinti da potersi immedesimare in qualsiasi possibilità paesaggistica fino a raggiungere le dimensioni di un déjà-vu o di un posto futuribile di una quinta teatrale; e ancora, le realtà identitarie dei luoghi e delle genti di Sicilia come dei fermo immagine della storia, ancore visuali, vecchie cartoline ch…
Visioni celesti. La pareidolia e l'immaginazione simbolica
2019
Attraverso la spiegazione di fenomeni percettivi quali l'apofenia e la pareidolia, il saggio approfondisce lo studio delle immaginazioni legate al dipinto della Vergine di Guadalupe, crasi iconografico-culturale che attesta l’incontro avvenuto nel XVI secolo tra la cultura europea e quella mesoamericana, che risulta essere una vera e propria collezione di immagini nascoste. L'esempio della Vergine di Guadalupe, e della sua immagine acheropita, inoltre, dice molto sulle molteplici sfumature dell'identità mariana che, benché fortemente radicata nella sfera sacra del cristianesimo, travalica i confini del simbolico per abbracciare il più vasto e laico orizzonte della cultura visuale. Through t…