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Plasticity
2023
Although the expression πλαστική τέχνη has Greek origins, the derivative term Plasticity enters European languages only in the Modern Age and it is strictly linked to the domain of art. Notably, Plasticity is the art of manipulating a ductile substance (like wax) to create a work of art or a three-dimensional preparatory model. Aesthetics was concerned with this concept mostly referring to that definition, the fulcrum of a key text of eighteenth-century reflection, the Plastik of Herder. Today this concept has again become central in the aesthetic field thanks to Catherine Malabou – a student of Derrida and one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary French debate –, in whose refle…
Esclusione, parola, silenzio: Mariella Mehr
2019
The essay aims to present the poetic and narrative work of Mariella Mehr, an extraordinary witness of our time and one of the most significant poetic voices of contemporary German language literature. If the density of poetic language and the thematic choice bring Mehr clos- er to the very high examples of Celan, Sachs, Levi, the peculiar quality of writing, its rough perfection and the fiery temperature of the imagination make it unique in the prose of our time.
Recensione a Alberto G. Cassani, L’Occhio alato. Migrazioni di un simbolo
2015
Con L’occhio alato. Migrazioni di un simbolo, Alberto Giorgio Cassani torna a interrogarsi sull’emblema albertiano, portando a maturo compimento una riflessione iniziata nel 1994. Sebbene i saggi che costituiscono i vari capitoli del libro siano apparsi nel corso di questo ventennio in altre sedi editoriali, la loro rielaborazione e convergenza in un unico volume consente un gioco di rimandi e una prospettiva di lettura a 360 gradi che pone tali studi sotto una luce nuova. Ne emerge da un lato una ricca messa a fuoco sul valore filosofico e simbolico dell’occhio alato, dall’altro un’interessante indagine sulla vitalità di questa immagine che, ancora oggi, riappare sorprendentemente in insol…
W.G. Sebald: Amistat i Escriptura
2022
El nostre propòsit, aquí, és el d’articular una idea de po- ètica de l’amistat en l’obra de Winfried Georg Sebald. L’es- criptor alemany, tal vegada el més significatiu entre el final del segle xx i el començament del nou mil·lenni, ha captat l’atenció internacional per una llarga sèrie de temes que re- corren la seva obra: l’interès per la memòria històrica, amb una referència específica al tema de la Xoà i a la recons- trucció del diàleg entre el poble jueu i el poble alemany, sense oblidar temes més específicament «poetològics» com la relació entre el llenguatge i la imatge o la utilització d’es- tratègies intertextuals. Seguint l’estela de les reflexions de Walter Benjamin, Sebald també…
Organization
2020
Organization is the explanandum that philosophical and scientific theories take into account for objects, individuals and their assembly, whose structure is characterized by the interdependence of parts to such an extent that it cannot be explained through decomposition. Organization is a critical attribute of nearly, minimally and not decomposable systems. The more interdependent are the parts, the more integrated is the system. Correspondingly, the organization can be intended as the mark of the trade-off between the interaction among parts or sub-systems and within them. Organization may come about in many forms. the concept of organization has been brought in many domains to advocate th…
Intuition
2020
Intuition encompasses questions debated throughout philosophy. This entry treats intuition as a name for cognitive capacities according to the theory in which it is introduced.
Autoritär, Elitär & Unzugänglich: Kunst, Macht und Markt in der Gegenwart
2018
This book addresses the development of art production and the wider art market in the 20th century according to various characteristics that make it authoritative, elitist and inaccessible. Dürfen ein toter Haifsch in einer mit Formalin gefüllten Theke von Damien Hirst oder die Skulptur eines enormen Luftballonhündchens von Jeff Koons als Kunst verstanden werden? Weshalb liegen Denk- und Handlungsweisen in der heutigen Kunstwelt jenen des Aktienmarkts näher, statt den gesellschaftlichen Vorstellungen im Sinne einer zugänglichen Kunst zu entsprechen? Gibt es noch Künstler*innen, die einen demokratischeren oder partizipatorischen Weg planen? Welchen Sinn für Ästhetik schafft zeitgenössische K…
TIPO, FORMA, MEMORIA. BUFFON E IL PROBLEMA DELLA DÉGÉNÉRATION
2015
The concept of dégénération in Buffon plays a key role in allowing to articulate a reflection on the relationship between species and individual, in theorizing the unit of the type as hierarchical concept of higher order capable of giving an account of the reality of life in its diversification, and especially in allowing the arising of a consideration of the relationship between matter and living form that will profoundly affect the origins of modern biology as Goethe’s morphological thinking.
La photographie engageante di JR: integrazione e intersezione tra immagini e città
JR's street art actions reflect on the life and history of cities and the ways of living there. The giant images of the faces of the inhabitants proposed in their own places of life invite to project the memory into the present using the power of photography to interpret faces: no longer masks but living representations, witnesses of the symbiotic relationship between inhabitants and cities.
Style As A Common Currency And Its Aesthetic Consequences: Appropriation of Forms and Procedures in Neo-conceptual Art of Late 20th Century
2018
The present paper is structured in four interconnected parts that work towards the possible understanding of the concept of style from the perspective of contemporary artists. The temporal scope of the research covers the 1980s and the following decade, though it focuses particularly on the interval between 1988 and 1992, since these years are widely regarded as the seminal period for young British artists. Taking the UK as an example, the geographic scope is concentrated on London and Glasgow, since the latter city rose into prominence as the only true counterpart to the English capital’s art scene in the period under consideration.