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Paleobiologia dell'immagine. Sul futuro della cultura visuale
2022
The attention of contemporary visual culture for the immemorial dimensions of our visual experience can begin, symbolically, with the volume that Tom Mitchell, then an established literary theorist but with particular attention to images and their social circulation, dedicates 1998 to the Image of Dinosaurs in Global Pop Culture, The Last Dinosaur Book. Apparently it is a book about a pop icon, conceived on the long wave of the revival inaugurated by Steven Spielberg's film, but in reality it is a text of unsurpassed theoretical and methodological lucidity, worthy of appearing among the masterpieces of contemporary visual culture.
Al cuore del fantastico. Ibridi da pensare nel Paleolitico
2022
Our narrative abilities go back before Chauvet. Already the ivory figure of the so-called Hohlenstein-Stadel Lion-Man, dated to about 40,000 years ago, must be regarded as the most advanced product of a hundred if not a thousand years of figurative and narrative experimentation. In order to create this hybrid figure, as well the more or less theriomorphic figures which populate caves all over the world, the human mind must have possessed developed narrative skills. All the imaginary animals found in prehistoric art and all the teratologies found in caves, presuppose a narrative, more precisely the story of a metamorphosis. In this contribution I propose an interpretation that investigates t…
Immagini di Palermo
2010
Elogio della bagarre parlamentare
2014
The article deals with the représentation of parliamentary life
Un 'Momento' filo-naturalista nella Palermo di fine Ottocento
2003
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 …
Sulla trincea di quei giorni. Su AA. VV., Italo Pietra
2012
About Italo Pietra’s life and role during the war.
Magnifica congettura
2022
Pirandello a Bonn. Su alcuni parerga e paralipomena del Taccuino
2022
È noto che Pirandello amò dipingere e disegnare per tutta la vita. Ormai possiamo considerarlo un caso, tra i tanti possibili nel Novecento, di “doppio talento” (Doppelbegabung) . Di recente si è compreso che la sua produzione figurativa, oltre a essere consistente e continuativa, merita di essere considerata, non solo in relazione alle sue opere letterarie, ma come l’attività creativa parallela di un artista versatile che si esercitò, spesso con piglio professionale, nella pittura e nel disegno per tutta la sua esistenza. Proprio nel Taccuino di Bonn, ad esempio, troviamo alcuni dei suoi autoritratti più drammatici e significativi, un tema che ovviamente non poteva abbandonare il Pirandell…
Pirandello, trasmigrazioni di materiali. Su Racconti per una sera a teatro
2011
About an anthology of Pirandello’s short stories.