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«Beltà, poiché t’assenti» : Milva, from Madrigals to Ghosts, in "Gesualdo. Death for Five Voices" by Werner Herzog
No full textThis article explores the interrelation between music, image, and narrative in Werner Herzog’s cinema through the conceptual metaphor of spectrality. Herzog’s films construct an “acoustic vision,” where music does not merely accompany images but unlocks their latent meanings, creating a tension between the visible and the audible. From his early linguistic experiments in Last Words(1967) and Precautions Against Fanatics (1968) to later works such as Signs of Life(1968),Fitzcarraldo(1982),La Soufrière(1977), and Lessons of Darkness(1992), Herzog’s cinema reveals a complex interplay between sound, image, and narrative struc-ture. The study examines how music transforms language into sonic substance and how it shapes vision-ary, dreamlike, and ecstatic film forms. Special focus is given to Gesualdo–Death for Five Voices(1995),where Herzog’s investigation of Carlo Gesualdo’s avant-garde music and tormented biography exemplifies his ecstatic method. In this experimental documentary, spectrality emerges both through the depiction of Gesualdo’s haunted existence and the transmedial performance of Maria D’Avalos’ ghost. This spectral figure is embodied by the Italian artist Milva, whose performance transcends simple dramatization: Milva becomes a liminal presence, weaving together historical memory, mythic resonance, and musical interpretation. Through her voice and body, the lost figure of Maria D’Avalos is not only evoked but reanimated within the film’s hybrid space between documentary and fiction, thus highlighting the intermedial nature of Herzog’s project. The analysis shows how Herzog’s use of musical and visual counterpoints generates a dense intermedial texture, blending history, myth, and performance. Ultimately, Herzog’s cinema reveals a haunted, visionary poetics rooted in the dynamic synergy of sound and image, where the auditory and the visual are entwined along the same sensory continuum
Search for Nuclear Modifications of B+ Meson Production in p -Pb Collisions at sNN=8.16 TeV
No full textNuclear medium effects on (Formula presented) meson production are studied using the binary-collision scaled cross section ratio between events of different charged-particle multiplicities from proton-lead collisions. Data, collected by the CMS experiment in 2016 at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of (Formula presented), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of (Formula presented), were used. The scaling factors in the ratio are determined using a novel approach based on the (Formula presented) cross sections measured in the same events. The scaled ratio for (Formula presented) is consistent with unity for all event multiplicities, putting stringent constraints on nuclear modification for heavy flavor
“Non siamo misogini, siamo nostalgici”: gatekeeping e culture reazionarie nei videogiochi dieci anni dopo il Gamergate
Full text linkTen years after the emergence of Gamergate, this article analyses how its misogynistic narratives have evolved and spread over time, adapting to contemporary discursive contexts. Through a qualitative analysis of posts and comments published in 2024 within one of the most active Gamergate-affiliated communities, we explore how gender-based violence is now expressed in more ambiguous and normalised forms, often legitimised by appeals to freedom of expression and nostalgia for an “authentic” gaming past. Using thematic analysis, we show how the identity of the gamer in this sphere continues to be constructed through practices of exclusion and the delegitimisation of non-conforming subjectivities. The article thus seeks to contribute to a critical understanding of the persistence of misogyny in online gaming communities
Leopardi e la leggenda di Saffo
No full textIl saggio, sulla base di una ricognizione della critica e di nuove acquisizioni, desidera indagare l’influsso del patrimonio aneddotico legato alla figura di Saffo nell’opera leopardiana. Si ragiona innanzitutto sulle più importanti fonti dalle quali Leopardi poteva avere notizia della vicenda della poetessa, mostrandone l’eterogeneità. Sono quindi presi in esame diversi testi leopardiani, tra cui La impazienza (1814) e il Dialogo di Cristoforo Colombo e di Pietro Gutierrez (1824). Il saggio si sofferma soprattutto sull’Ultimo canto di Saffo (1822) e sulle pagine zibaldoniane ad esso legate. Oltre al motivo erotico e a quello mortuario, è preso in considerazione l’elemento della bruttezza di Saffo, analizzato alla luce di una lunga trafila letteraria che risale all’opera di Platone; ne risulta una profonda rimodulazione leopardiana dei dati desunti dalla leggenda della poetessa.Following a careful scrutiny of critical sources and new analytical insights, this article explores the influence that various anecdotal references to the figure of Sappho had on Leopardi’s works. It focuses first of all on the most important sources which provided Leopardi information on the poet’s life, illustrating their heterogeneous nature. Some texts by Leopardi are then examined, including La impazienza [Impatience] (1814) and the Dialogo di Cristoforo Colombo e di Pietro Gutierrez [Dialogue between Christopher Columbus and Pedro Gutierrez] (1824). The article pays particular attention to the Ultimo canto di Saffo [The Last Song of Sappho] (1822) and the pages dedicated to it in the Zibaldone. Together with the erotic and funerary themes that emerge from these works, the role of Sappho’s ugliness is taken into special consideration and analysed in relation to the extensive body of literary works on the same topic, some dating as far back as Plato. What emerges is a profound reworking by Leopardi of the data he collected on the poet
Observation of WZγ production and constraints on new physics scenarios in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV
Full text linkA measurement of the WZγ triboson production cross section is presented. The analysis is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s= 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The analysis focuses on the final state with three charged leptons, lνlþl−, where l 1⁄4 e or μ, accompanied by an additional photon. The observed (expected) significance of the WZγ signal is 5.4 (3.8) standard deviations. The cross section is measured in a fiducial region, where events with an l originating from a tau lepton decay are excluded, to be 5.48 1.11 fb, which is compatible with the prediction of 3.69 0.24 fb at next-toleading order in quantum chromodynamics. Exclusion limits are set on anomalous quartic gauge couplings and on the production cross sections of massive axionlike particles
Review of searches for vector-like quarks, vector-like leptons, and heavy neutral leptons in proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV at the CMS experiment
Full text linkThe LHC has provided an unprecedented amount of proton–proton collision data, bringing forth exciting opportunities to address fundamental open questions in particle physics. These questions can potentially be answered by performing searches for very rare processes predicted by models that attempt to extend the standard model of particle physics. The data collected by the CMS experiment in 2015–2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV can be used to test the standard model with high precision and potentially uncover evidence for new particles or interactions. An interesting possibility is the existence of new fermions with masses ranging from the MeV to the TeV scale. Such new particles appear in many possible extensions of the standard model and are well motivated theoretically. New fermions may explain the appearance of three generations of leptons and quarks, the mass hierarchy across these generations, and the nonzero neutrino masses. In this report, the results of searches targeting vector-like quarks, vector-like leptons, and heavy neutral leptons at the CMS experiment are summarized. The complementarity of current searches for each type of new fermion is discussed, and combinations of several searches for vector-like quarks are presented. The discovery potential for some of these searches at the High-Luminosity LHC is also discussed
Observation of a pseudoscalar excess at the top quark pair production threshold
Full text linkA search for resonances in top quark pair ( tt & horbar;) production in final states with two charged leptons and multiple jets is presented, based on proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at s=13TeV, corresponding to 138 fb-1. The analysis explores the invariant mass of the tt & horbar; system and two angular observables that provide direct access to the correlation of top quark and antiquark spins. A significant excess of events is observed near the kinematic tt & horbar; threshold compared to the non-resonant production predicted by fixed-order perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD). The observed enhancement is consistent with the production of a color-singlet pseudoscalar ( 1S0[1] ) quasi-bound toponium state, as predicted by non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics. Using a simplified model for 1S0[1] toponium, the cross section of the excess above the pQCD prediction is measured to be 8.8-1.4+1.2pb
Measurements of inclusive and differential Higgs boson production cross sections at √s = 13.6 TeV in the H → γγ decay channel
No full textInclusive and differential cross sections for Higgs boson production in protonproton
collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV are measured using data collected
with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2022, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of
34.7 fb−1 . Events with the diphoton final state are selected, and the measured inclusive
fiducial cross section is σfid = 74 ±11 (stat)+ 5 −4 (syst) fb, in agreement with the standard model prediction of 67.8 ± 3.8 fb. Differential cross sections are measured as functions of several observables: the Higgs boson transverse momentum and rapidity, the number of associated
jets, and the transverse momentum of the leading jet in the event. Within the uncertainties,
the differential cross sections agree with the standard model predictions
