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Aesthetics, theatricality and performativity: an introduction
Get PDFContemporary theatre allows for a script, a scenario, that is exclusively visual. If action is no longer supported by dialogue, this does not mean that it will disappear. It will undoubtedly return in gestural exchange and in a temporality that is expansive or contracted and condensed. Action becomes an opaque enigma. The interpretation of performative action is a journey that the spectator undertakes in a foreign country, where we are forced to learn a new language. It remains to be seen what the reaction and the work of interpretation of the spectator would be when confronted with an action knowingly deprived of any meaningful anchor or referent. Would it merely be confusion? Confusion and an interpretative effort that often comes to an end by a harsh defeat: the aesthetic of the performative represents a moment of rupture in the process of rethinking of the traditional relationship between artist and spectator
Doubt and Indifference: Threshold Conditions within the Work of Art
Get PDFThe project of this paper is part of a larger attempt to develop a philosophy of art. Integral to that project is the distinction between aesthetics and a philosophy of art. It is always possible to consider affect as an end in itself if what is at stake involves a series of psychological claims. Equally, it is possible to engage with such claims philosophically. However, there is no clear connection between either possibility and a philosophy of art. In the latter the presentation of affect is always located within images. Images are produced by the work of materials. Images have to be understood in terms of that production. They have a material presence. If there is a failure to insist on the complex materiality of art’s work as comprising a locus of philosophical inquiry, then any subsequent theory of the image is unable to contribute to the development of a genuine philosophy of art. Moreover, within the history of art images are informed form. The informing of form has two elements. Form is informed firstly by the history in which those images are located, and secondly by their capacity to be reworked. The latter can be understood as a futural coming-into-relation and thus the possibility that images and the elements from which they are comprised are able to have an afterlife. The afterlife is forms’ capacity to continue to be informed. It is this latter possibility which necessitates that hermeneutic concerns supplant aesthetic ones in the creation of a philosophy of art
Envision the construction sector in 2050. Technological innovation and verticality
Get PDFThe contribution proposes a reflection on the role of typological and technological innovation in the design and implementation of vertical architectures through the analysis of technological scenarios of 2050. In the Anthropocene era, where the effects of human action shape the terrestrial environment, it is necessary to ask ourselves how we can implement the design and constructive processes to give life to architectural performative models that can positively influence the technosphere. Hence the need to study innovative methods through which to define new design paradigms. About that, the focus of the research is placed on the relationship that exists between computation, digital fabrication and the implementation of existing vertical models of development
Yield and physiological response of Perilla (Perilla frutescens) under different soil fertility treatments
Get PDFMedicinal plants are one of the main natural resources of Iran from ancient times. Perilla is one of the most important medicinal plants of the mint family Lamiaceae, since there is no study about adaptability of Perilla in Iran climate conditions and different fertilizer systems, this experiment was conducted in two experimental sites. The experiment was conducted as split-plot factorial based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at two experimental regions. The main factor was three chemical fertilizer levels (control, 50, 100, 200 kg/ha) and subplots were different kinds of organic fertilizer (control, humic acid, and compost application) and inoculation with Piriform osporaindica (inoculation and without). Among levels of chemical treatments, 50 and 100 kg/ha lead to a better result. Also, humic acid allows to achieve the highest amount of measured traits between different treatments of organic fertilizer. The highest plant yield (147.2 g/m2) and rosmarinic acid yield per area (3.432 g/m2) was achieved in 100 kg/ha at chemical fertilizer with humic acid and biological fertilizer application and the lowest plant yield (89.86 g/m2) and rosmarinic acid yield per area (1.253 g/m2) was observed in control. Also, the highest stomatal conductance was obtained with application of compost fertilizer (67.67 mmol H2O m-2s-1). Integrated application of the studied fertilizers showed the more positive effect on yield and quality of Perilla than individual application of those fertilizers
Estratti dall’Ep. Hdt. 38-41 di Epicuro negli Stromateis dello Pseudo-Plutarco (fr. *179 Sandbach)
No full textThree extracts from Epicurus’ Ep. Hdt. (§§ 38-41) are recognized in a chapter of the Stromateisof the pseudo-Plutarch (*179, 8 Sandbach)
Regional nodes in European areas to boost innovation transfer and knowledge uptake. A social network analysis of building relationships in “Short Food Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN)” – H2020 project
Get PDFThis paper aims at conceptualizing the approach followed in designing the building European network within the H2020 project “Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network”. It was brought together literature regarding the adoption of network analysis and the development of short food supply chain in order to describe the role of the regional nodes as means to transfer knowledge along and between local food systems around European areas. This resulted into the framework of SKIN network design. The approach is devised to overcome the parochialism of local food systems, and structure an interconnected design among economic players to fulfill regional and global impacts in knowledge transfer