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Occhio quadrato di Alberto Lattuada (1941): un libro fotografico alla verifica delle fonti d’archivio
Get PDFAlberto Lattuada’s book Occhio quadrato (1941) has come to be considered as a depiction of urban poverty in the outskirts of Milan during the fascist regime, a forerunner of Italian ‘neorealist’ photography, and an early response to the American documentary approach of the 1930s. Underscoring the limits of such narratological and stylistic readings of the photographic sequence, this essay argues for the importance of cross-analysis and philological research as a way to deconstruct the supposed self-referentiality of the book and to investigate the complex connections with the photographer’s archive from which it takes shape
The morphosis of the Albanian socialist cityscape. A reaction to buildings with high-energy consumption
Get PDFFor more than 45 years, Albania went through the toughest experience of communism among the Eastern Bloc countries. The ideology strongly influenced the urban character of the cities, which had an intensive development during this period. Although the city had to represent the power of the system, architecture, considering the poor economy, offered merely the basics. In the housing sector, industrialization and standardization resulted to produce modest shelters with very low or no concerns about building quality, energy consumption and comfort. After the fall of the regime, the buildings and the city failed to meet the increasing demand for energy, comfort and better life standards. Under these circumstances, people took control on architecture and started to adapt their buildings by living remarkable traces that definitely altered the Albanian socialist cityscape. The article discusses the options of regaining the image of the city while points out the need for resilient and efficient models in architectural design and city planning
‘This is their profession’ Greek merchants in Transylvania and their Networks at the End of the 17th century
Get PDFThis article explores the commercial network of a Greek merchant from Transylvania at the end of the seventeenth century. Based on various archival material, it unfolds the extent of business interests and contacts of a trading network, spanning a wide territory in the Balkans and Central Europe as well, extending our prior knowledge of how the early Greek diaspora communities operated. Established in the Transylvanian juridical system with the specific role of providers of Ottoman products, Greek merchants swiftly extended their commercial activities as intermediaries of trade with Central European markets as well. The article also touches upon the difficulties of identifying individual merchants in different sources and languages
Joseph Ben Prestel, Emotional Cities Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo 1860-1910, Oxford Oxford University Press 2017
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Vulnerability, Responsibilities and Migration
Get PDFVulnerability is commonly considered as a feature of human beings on which our duties towards each other are grounded: we ought to help the vulnerable in virtue of their being such. Our duties seem rather clear when those in need are close to us, both physically and culturally, but less so when they are distant in either of the two senses. In this essay we wish to investigate the strength of our duties towards migrants, who are often either culturally or physically distant, yet vulnerable by definition – fleeing from wars, dictatorships, poverty, climate change, or other calamities. The view we aim to defend, is that our duties towards them, unlike what has been suggested by David Miller, are duties of justice, not of beneficence, and involve duties to host. This, we claim, is owed to migrants’ very vulnerability, which is not due to some kind of misfortune, but, eventually, to some form of injustice. We will also claim that taking into account migrants’ own responsibility, either as individuals or as members of a collectivity, is of no practical use when establishing our duties to host them
Filosofia del linguaggio femminista, atti linguistici e riduzione al silenzio
Get PDFIn anni recenti, la teoria degli atti linguistici di Austin è stata impiegata in ambito di filosofia del linguaggio femminista per dar corpo alla nozione di riduzione al silenzio, messa originariamente in campo da MacKinnon nel quadro del dibattito su pornografia e censura. L’idea, sostenuta da più voci, è che certi materiali pornografici contribuiscano a creare un clima comunicativo ostile alle donne, che impedisce loro di compiere certi atti illocutori – primo fra tutti, l’atto del rifiuto di avances sessuali. Nel presente lavoro, metto a confronto due declinazioni della nozione di riduzione al silenzio, offerte rispettivamente da Hornsby e Langton e da McGowan. Offro, inoltre, un’analisi inedita del rifiuto che inficia parzialmente la proposta di McGowan. L’obiettivo è quello di fornire uno spaccato di come la teoria austiniana possa essere adoperata, a mo’ di “cassetta degli attrezzi”, per portare alla luce forme di ingiustizia discorsiva passate largamente inosservate
Atlante
Get PDFIn order to provide exhaustive documentation concerning the “Cave of the Animals”, the atlas is composed of already known historical documents, as well as of new historical and scientific insights. In the first case, we provide some important figurative documents, fundamental from the historical point of view, regarding a long period between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the late twentieth century. In the second case, the atlas collects results of the work carried out by the GECO Lab of the University of Florence between 2013 and 2015, which illustrates the cave's complex hydraulic system and internal decorations. Regarding the photographic documentation carried out by GECO Lab, the images are the result of the processing of many photographs for obtaining overall high-resolution images. The panoramic image showing the whole Grotto in equirectangular projection is composed of 126 photographs, whereas the images of the basins are represented in a rectilinear projection in order to preserve the straight lines as in a normal photograph using central projection
Beccaria e Bentham
Get PDFThe philosophies of Beccaria and Bentham have a number of features in common: the juspositivist principle of legality, the project of minimizing criminal law, the dependence of punishment on types of action rather than types of actors, the idea of the trial as an inductive ascertainment of truth. Beccaria’s thought, however, is more radical both in its utilitarian conception, which hinges on the idea of the social contract that underpins the critique of the death penalty, and in its liberal conception, which forecloses the association of freedom and property that we find in Bentham
