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Suicide, Social Bodies, and Danger : Taboo, Biopower, and Parental Worry in the Films Bridgend (2015) and Bird Box (2018)
2020
In my article I study two Anglophone feature films, Jeppe Rønde's Bridgend (2015) and Susan Bier's Bird Box (2018), from the viewpoints offered by visual cultural studies and the theoretical domains of taboo and biopower. Both systems of control respond to risks and dangers to society, taboo through ideas of contagion and biopower through normative, especially medical discourses by authorized instances of knowledge production. They are reflected also in the audio-visual popular culture seeking to make sense of suicide through entertaining and artistic means. The two films I study present suicide as a contagion that has supernatural (Bird Box) and social origins (Bridgend), and as a force of…
Sukupuolitettu ja tartuntavaarallinen itsemurha: tabu ja biovalta omaehtoista kuolemaa käsittelevissä englanninkielisissä nykyelokuvissa
2020
Wild and the City. Landscape architecture for lush urbanism
2020
EDUCATION – IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2018
The present paper tackles certain issues regarding education, the educational system, the institution of education and it aims to provide a critical perspective on the Romanian higher education wellbeing in the contemporary international context. The outcome of the paper is to set forth specific recommendations regarding the improvement of education quality in order to ensure proper conditions for its sustainable development.
Hypothesis for the Italian contemporary landscape renewal
2020
Over the last century the Italian urban and suburban landscape has undergone a profound transformation. Through this brief essay we try to trace the reasons of this transformation in order to suggest possible redevelopment strategies. It is necessary, in essence, to rediscover today the lost balance between city and countryside typical of the traditional landscape. But to do this it is necessary to recognize the “essential character” of the territories.
La casa e dintorni. Per Domenica Perrone
2022
The volume, set up in honor of Domenica Perrone, collects contributions of different slant (essays, didactic interventions, testimonials) on a shared work theme: the representation of the house in modern and contemporary literature. The house therefore acquires the value of a privileged space of figurative precipitation, in which the founding nuclei of the literary work are deposited; deciphering the many meanings that lie behind its walls allows access to the author's inventive workshop and to observe the secret life of the characters.
Nykykirjallisuutemme kirjallisuushistoriallinen kartoitus
2014
"Obcy" na swoim : doświadczenie inności w przestrzeni wspólnej
2017
Problematyka artykułu skupia się na dylematach ciążących nad świadomością ludzi pogranicza. Kwestie te są rozważane na przykładzie refleksji, artystycznych postaw i życiowych decyzji wypracowanych przez Renatę Putzlacher-Buchtovą, polską pisarkę urodzoną i mieszkającą przez znaczną część swojego życia na Zaolziu. Trud istnienia na macierzystym pograniczu twórczyni sprowadza do dwojakiego nastawienia: albo funkcjonowania w świecie podzielonym na osobne domeny narodowe, albo otwartego na „innych” współmieszkańców istnienia we wspólnej krainie dla kształtowania jej dobra. W opinii Putzlacher pogranicze podzielone, zmuszające mieszkańców do nieustannych wyborów, staje się martwą krainą, gdyż je…
Ciò che non si vede? Aria di casa mia. Aria di libertà
2019
Grande rilievo assume nel fare progettuale la capacità di una visione d’insieme aperta a influenze e contaminazioni provenienti da una sapiente ibridazione fra il nuovo e l’esistente. Questa capacità di stabilire relazioni fra elementi eterogenei è utile per far coesistere in uno stesso organismo realtà architettoniche apparentemente inconciliabili. Ciò che non si vede? (Aria di casa mia. Aria di libertà) è l’interrogativo di fondo di questo saggio che cerca di sottolineare alcune relazioni proficue che nel tempo sono state in grado di accrescere lo stato fisico dei luoghi. L’interpretazione di questi contesti, suscitato da un intreccio inarrestabile di mìmesis, individua in un percorso non…
Mapping the sound world of the flute: towards a new classification of standard and extended techniques
2016
In the last decades, some literature has been published about extended techniques, and composers have made them part of the contemporary music language. However, the classification of extended techniques in these writings is often arbitrary, based on the way they have been discovered and used. In this contribution, a new way of classifying flute playing techniques is proposed, with the aim of grouping them according to their role in sound production and to the gestural parameters that are involved for each of them. First, a definition of the concept of extended technique is given. An overview of publications since the 1960s will show the existing classifications; then types of musical gestu…