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Immaginazione
2022
The most recent discoveries deriving from the exchanges between aesthetics and neuroscience – especially those stressing the importance of the sensory-motor system in both scientific and aesthetic experience – have raised a particular attention on the subjectivity of mental processes, especially those related to the knowledge processes, and on the role of imagination. These results have, still nowadays, influence and confirmation in literature, which many scholars interested in a cognitivistic approach consider as related, if not just the same, to the ability of mankind to make tools and, thus, to make sense. An example of this reciprocal influence of neuroscience and literature is without …
Premessa a: Cultura visuale in Italia : immagini, sguardi, dispositivi
2022
Questo volume raccoglie le riflessioni maturate durante il convegno internazionale “Cultura visuale in Italia. Prospettive della ricerca” svoltosi a Palermo tra il 19 e il 21 marzo 2018. Si è trattato di un incontro che ha visto la partecipazio- ne di molti dei protagonisti della ricerca italiana in quell’ambito “indisciplinato” – per usare una felice espressione di W.J.T. Mitchell – che è la cultura visuale, accademica e non, un campo di studi che ha ormai solide tradizioni internazionali e anche notevoli ricadute accademiche, come dimostra la presenza a Palermo di docenti che, pur provenendo da “altre” discipline, la comparatistica letteraria, l’estetica, la storia dell’arte, la mediologi…
Designing Atmospheres. The Role of Aesthetics in the Requalification of Space
2017
The ecological movements of the seventies gave environmental questions the role of key issues in the artistic, architectural and philosophical debate. However, these questions have been mainly dealt with an ecological and scientific approach. It was seldom noticed that both natural and built spaces can be above all conceived of as felt spaces and, furthermore, that their aesthetic qualities are as important as toxicological factors. Although it focussed on the environmental protection and on the harmonious integration of built-up and natural areas, the architectural reflection considers beauty a subordinate factor rather than a prime concern. Although during the recent years it has come bac…
Iperestetica. Arte, natura, vita quotidiana e nuove tecnologie
2012
La società odierna è caratterizzata dall’eccesso, dall’esasperata ricerca di bellezza sia psico-fisica (dalla ginnastica allo yoga, dalla moda alla cosmetica, dalla chirurgia estetica all’ingegneria genetica) sia materiale (dagli abiti agli accessori, dal telefonino all’automobile). Di fronte a questa realtà in cui l’apparenza, il piacere e il divertimento sono divenuti, in ogni campo, gli obiettivi dominanti l’estetica deve sforzarsi di superare i confini “canonici” di un’astratta speculazione accademica al fine di orientare in senso pragmatico la sfera d’indagine. Diviene, quindi, sempre più urgente individuare nuove categorie e adottare più adeguati modelli epistemologici. Da qui l’ipote…
“Tutta la memoria del mondo”. Alain Resnais, W.G. Sebald, Thomas Browne e il generale Stumm von Bordwehr
2021
Il saggio sviluppa una lettura incrociata tra il romanzo di Robert Musil (L’uomo senza qualità), quello di W.G. Sebald (Austerlitz) e il film Toute la memoire du monde (1956) di Alain Resnais per riflettere sulla biblioteca come “luogo fisico della memoria”. Questo spazio si materializza nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Francia che, nel passaggio dal vecchio al nuovo edificio, determina un processo di seppellimento del passato e cancellazione della memoria, ergendosi al posto del vec- chio deposito in cui i nazisti ammassavano i beni sottratti agli Ebrei.
Esperienza e povertà del cinema, verità dell’immagine
2015
Experience and Poverty of Cinema. The Truth of the Image Today, the aging of every ‘philosophy of history (of film)’ puts the the- oretical discourse in the face of a vital chance: coming back to draw the experiential relationship of a subject – caught in all its empirical heaviness and epistemological complexity – linked to ‘images’. But how does the subject reach this potential mode of being of the experience? How does the relationship between experience and experience of poverty (already emphasized by Benjamin) locate in cinema itself (in the system of cinema and in films)? How can one gather these pluralities in the image and in its peculiar ‘presence’?
Aesthetics
2020
Aesthetics, structure and perception of the living form. Since its modern disciplinary foundation, AESTHETICS has developed a position of great interest in defining the relationship between sensitive knowledge, FORM and the question of living FORM. In fact, defining as the aim of AESTHETICS the “perfectio cognitionis sensitivae”.
Critica del riduzionismo e pensiero morfologico. La «Neuronale Ästhetik» di Olaf Breidbach
2015
The proposal of a neuronal aesthetics developed by Olaf Breidbach looks like one of the most advanced points in contemporary morphological thinking and as an extremely challenging effort to redefine the conceptual system of aesthetics; at the same time it is, unfortunately prematurely, the theoretical testament of its author.
Meraviglia, stupore e timore: la (mia) formazione estetologica
2020
The contribution, through Paul Valéry's reflection, retraces my aesthetic education in the school of Luigi Russo
Ornamento e Architettura. L'estetica funzionalistica di Louis H. Sullivan
2010
The present volume offers an introduction to and advances a new interpretation of the aesthetic of Louis Henry Sullivan(1856-1924). Sullivan is universally known as one of the most important American architects, possibly even the greatest one of the 19th century. Scholars of the Modern Movement have misinterpreted his motto “form follows function” and have hailed him as the “father of functionalism”. Sullivan, however, attributed to the concepts of “form”, “function” and “suitability” a higher and more poetic meaning than the other architects of the Chicago School, among whom the debate on such issues, as related to Gottfried Semper’s theories and evolutionist doctrines, was quite heated. N…