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Carceral Aesthetics. Art and Everyday Life in Prison
2021
The paper aims to focus on everyday life in prison following a double perspective, a historical and a contemporary one. First, the historical phenomenon of prison graffiti will be investigated in connection with one case study: the graffiti in the prisons of the Holy Office in Palermo. Subsequently, the effect of making art in today’s prisons both on space and on inmate life will be taken into account. The overall aim of this twofold reading is to show to what extent making art in prison can be seen as a strategy of activation of those relational and familiarizing processes which bestow an aesthetic value on everyday life.
Il dono e la festa. Strategie relazionali per un’estetica politica
2021
Attraverso l’analisi di alcuni progetti artistici partecipativi (Alÿs; González-Torres; Tiravanija; Studio Azzurro) che si incentrano sui concetti di dono e di festa, il saggio mira a dimostrare come la relazione tra individui possa essere il fondamento per un’estetica politica. Il termine “politica” è da intendersi, in riferimento a Platone e Aristotele, come mutua cooperazione nello spazio della pólis, mentre il termine estetica si richiama all’idea di aisthesis, cioè una teoria della sensibilità. In questa prospettiva teorica le arti che si incentrano sul dono e sulla festa attivano strategie relazionali utili a sviluppare quella sensibilità che attraverso la cura e l’attenzione per l’al…
Che cos'è l'estetica quotidiana
2017
Come è possibile accostare l’estetica, ovvero lo studio dell’arte e del bello, alla vita di tutti giorni? Eppure nell’attuale dibattito anglo-americano questa locuzione ossimorica sta prendendo sempre più consistenza teorica nell’ambito di una nuova disciplina, l’Everyday Aesthetics. Il libro si propone di presentare, per la prima volta in lingua italiana, questo recente campo di indagine, intrecciando le ricerche anglo-americane sull’Everyday Aesthetics e quelle europee sull’estetizzazione del reale. Da queste analisi appare evidente che l’estetica ha ormai cessato di essere una filosofia riferita a uno specifico oggetto di studio (arte bella), ed è diventata un paradigma transdisciplinare…
Homology
2020
“Homology is probably the most important concept in comparative biology. It has been treated in different ways, however, and more than one concept of homology is probably defensible” (Minelli 1994: 18); “Homology is one of the terms most widely employed in biology. Together with species, gene and a few others, it is likely to occur in texts devoted to the most diverse biological disciplines, from MORPHOLOGY to systematics to molecular genetics.
Fenomenologia teorica e sperimentale e scienza della visione
2015
In this theoretical paper, the claim is defended that phenomenology of perception can be integrated into vision science. Different versions of theoretical and experimental phenomenology are presented to specify a minimal set of commitments. It is claimed that the phenomenological research into perception, be it delivered in the form of conceptual analysis or of experimental research, satisfies the epistemological and methodological substantive features of these commitments. As an empirical case for the contribution that the integration of phenomenology into vision science could bring about, the paper presents a received view in the visual neurosciences and the objections against its element…
QUALI FENOMENI PER L’ESTETICA EMPIRICA?
2020
Empirical Aesthetics profits from the research in Cognitive Neurosciences and the target article collects multiple evidence on the neurobiological basis of art and aesthetic experience in order to submit that psychological models give a new definition of the field of Psychology of Arts, if they integrate this empirical evidence with the perceptual, emotional and cognitive capacities, which are assumed to give rise to art and aesthetic experience. The opinion article raises questions about the variety of phenomena in the field, the common methodology to experimental research on cognition and aesthetics, the manifold perceptual attributes which support art and aesthetic cognition, the potenti…
Neuroprotective properties of xenon and helium in an in vitro model of traumatic brain injury: one small step or one big jump?
2008
Validity and reliability of measurements of the parameters of smile aesthetics: a comparison between digital and plaster models
2020
This study aims to evaluate the validity and reliability of the TRIOS3 Color intraoral scanner (3Shape A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark) and its associated Ortho Analyzer™ software in measuring parameters of smile aesthetics compared with measurements on plaster casts. The study sample comprised plaster casts and digital models obtained from 30 subjects. Height (H), mesiodistal diameter (MDD) and connecting space (CS) of the anterior teeth were measured with a digital calliper on the plaster models and with the orthodontic software on the digital models. Validity was assessed using a 2-tailed paired t-test; the reliability of measurements for intra-examiner was evaluated with the Intra-class Correl…
Traumatic Redemption Chronotope as Theoretical Model to Study Serial Shakespeares
2019
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 his article proposes a methodology to study Shakespearean intertexts in contemporary complex TV series. While the presence of Shakespeare’s inter-texts in contemporary complex TV seems ubiquitous, a sustained and theoretically focused academic study of the impact of Shakespeare in these works has not been produced. Reviewers and social media users’ comments have proposed readings of the series pointing at the importance of the series’ redemptive qualities. Taking Hannah Wolfe Eisner’s “Into the Middle of Things: Traumatic Redemption and the Politics of Form” as basis, I am presenting a theoretical model to study serial Shakespeares, with which I am referr…
Choral conducting education: The lifelong entanglement of competence, identity and meaning
2020
Choral singing is one of the most widespread musical activities, and choral conductors work in a variety of social settings that involve every imaginable type of choir and musical genre. The conductor role draws on a number of skills and competencies that are partly acquired through education but, equally importantly, through experience. Choral conductors shape their practice in highly individual fashions as amalgamations of background, formal education, career development and working situation. The present qualitative study seeks to uncover how choral conductor practices arise and unfold, by using Etienne Wenger’s theory of communities of practice and situated learning as the key analytic…