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Language for the Fluid, Multiple, Unified Self
No full textThis is the text of a keynote address delivered online at the 2023 Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change hosted by the Universidade de Coimbra and held at different venues in Coimbra, Portugal and online from 12 to 15 July 2023. This talk is about how I am using my artistic practice to look for nonviolent language. It might be more accurate to say “create” nonviolent language, because I think it’s a practice. I’m trying to create situations in which people have access to use language in new ways, to create their own meanings, and to have others hear them. In this talk, I’ll share some of what I’m working on, as well as past projects. I’ll give some background to my artistic research, suggest a few characteristics that I imagine for nonviolent language, and present different projects that I’m using to investigate these characteristics.Este é o texto de um discurso de abertura proferido online na Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2023, Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change, organizada pela Universidade de Coimbra e realizada em diferentes locais em Coimbra, Portugal e online, de 12 a 15 de julho de 2023. Esta palestra é sobre a forma como uso a minha prática artística para procurar uma linguagem não-violenta. Talvez seja mais correto dizer "criar" linguagem não-violenta, porque acredito que esta é uma prática. Estou a tentar gerar situações em que as pessoas possam usar a linguagem de novas maneiras, criar seus próprios significados e fazer com que sejam ouvidas. Nesta palestra, vou partilhar com vocês parte do que estou a trabalhar atualmente, bem como projetos passados. Vou atribuir alguns antecedentes à minha pesquisa artística, sugerir algumas características que imagino pertencerem a essa linguagem não-violenta e apresentar diferentes projetos em que investigo essas mesmas características
What the Body Remembers: VR as Site of Preservation in Memory Eternal | Вічная Пам’ять
No full textOur paper discusses a VR piece designed for Quest 2, Memory Eternal: Book of Mourning, that was exhibited in the ELO Media Arts Festival in 2023. Our work, named after the Ukrainian Orthodox prayer for the dead, immerses viewers in a space of remembrance. The piece reflects on grief at two scales — personal and collective — touching on topics like war, pandemics, and family. The paper and the work submitted for exhibition are aligned with the ELO 2023 themes of the role of literature in social change asking, in the wake of overlapping global crises, what do we want to remember and how? We make a tour to the project with its dream-like landscape of medieval ruins populated with ten distinct electronic literature pieces that meditate on mourning, grief, and awakening tonew futures. We will discuss the collaborative methods we use to create this work that are grounded in care ethics and explain how they become part of the broader meaning of the work. We then draw from memory studies to elaborate on how the form and themes of Memory Eternal serve as a response to crisis, a salvo for loss, and a promise to keep memory alive.O nosso artigo discute uma peça de realidade virtual projetada para a Quest 2, Memory Eternal: Book of Mourning, que esteve em exibição no ELO Media Arts Festival. O nosso trabalho, batizado com o nome da oração ortodoxa ucraniana pelos mortos, mergulha os espectadores num espaço de lembrança. A peça reflete sobre o luto a dois níveis — pessoal e coletivo — abordando temas como guerra, pandemia e família. O artigo e o trabalho submetido estão alinhados com os temas da ELO 2023, tendo em conta o papel da literatura na mudança social e perguntando, na esteira de crises globais sobrepostas, o que queremos lembrar e como? Fazemos uma breve tour pelo projeto com a sua paisagem onírica de ruínas medievais povoadas por dez peças distintas de literatura eletrónica que meditam sobre o luto, a dor e o despertar para novos futuros. Discutiremos os métodos colaborativos que utilizamos para criar este trabalho, o qual é fundamentado na ética do cuidado e explicaremos como eles se tornam parte do sentido mais amplo deste trabalho. Finalmente, baseamo-nos em estudos de memória para averiguar de que forma os temas de Memory Eternal servem como uma resposta à crise, uma salvaguarda face à perda e uma promessa de manter a memória viva
John Lombardini, Plato’s Political Thought, Leiden: K. Brill, 2024, 120 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-69221-3
No full text[Recensão a] BOERI, Marcelo D., ¿Serías capaz de hablar si nadie te respondiera? Filosofía y drama en Platón, Berlin, Logos Verlag, 2023, 323pp. ISBN: 383-255714-8
No full text[Recensão a] DOPICO CAINZOS, Dolores & VILLANUEVA ACUÑA, Manuel (eds.), Specula Populi Romani?: “revisitando” o papel da cidade, Lugo, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Diputación de Lugo, 2024. 410 pp., ISBN: 978-84-8192- 602-6
No full text“Year X of the National Revolution” — Salazarist palingenetic myth in the Diário da Manhã
No full textThis paper contributes to the debate surrounding the extent to which Salazarism constituted a fascist ideology by analysing the discourses in an edition of the Diário da Manhã — official organ of the National Union, the only legal political party during the Estado Novo — published on 28 May 1936. This edition of the Diário commemorated 10 years of the May 28 1926 coup which installed the Military Dictatorship, later transformed into the Estado Novo with the 1933 Constitution. This article adopts Roger Griffin’s palingenetic myth analytical framework, which defines fascism in ideal-typological terms with reference to its discursive content, while also incorporating aspects of Emilio Gentile’s notion of the sacralisation of politics, to afford a more nuanced understanding of Salazarism’s ideological foundations. The analysis finds that the discourses in this issue of the Diário exhibit a degree of conformity with Griffin’s definition of a fascist ideology yet with several caveats, concluding that Salazarism can best be described as a para-fascist ideology predicated on a specifically Portuguese configuration of a palingenetic myth rendered via elements borrowed from Catholic discourse to confer Estado Novo politics with sacred dimensions. These findings support the position that Salazarism underwent a degree of fascistisation during the 1930s.Este artigo contribui para o debate sobre a medida em que o salazarismo constituiu uma ideologia fascista, analisando os discursos de uma edição do Diário da Manhã — o órgão oficial da União Nacional, partido político único do Estado Novo — de 28 de maio de 1936. Nela, comemorou-se os 10 anos do golpe de 28 de maio de 1926 que instaurou a Ditadura Militar, posteriormente transformada no Estado Novo com a Constituição de 1933. O artigo adota o quadro analítico do mito palingenético de Roger Griffin, que define o fascismo termos ideal-tipológicos com referência ao seu conteúdo discursivo, complementado por elementos da noção de sacralização da política de Emilio Gentile, permitindo assim uma compreensão mais matizada dos fundamentos ideológicos do salazarismo. A análise conclui que os discursos nesta edição do Diário alinham-se, em certa medida, com a definição de Griffin de uma ideologia fascista, embora com algumas ressalvas, concluindo que o salazarismo pode ser melhor descrito como uma ideologia para-fascista baseada numa configuração especificamente portuguesa do mito palingenético elaborada com elementos provenientes do discurso católico que conferem à política do Estado Novo dimensões sagradas. Estes resultados apoiam a tese de que o salazarismo sofreu um grau de fascistização nos anos 30
[Recensão a] Charlotte de Castelnau L’Estoile, Páscoa e seus dois maridos: um romance inspirado na história real de Páscoa Vieira, uma escrava entre Angola, Brasil e Portugal, Lisboa, Edições ASA II S.A., 2022, 255 p. ISBN: 978-989-23-5424-8.
No full text“Making treasure in heaven”: family chapels as a manifestation of the social power of urban elites (Portugal, 14th-17th centuries)
No full textThis article aims to analyse the family chapels founded by the urban elites of four Portuguese cities – Évora, Lisbon, Porto and Santarém – between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Beginning by presenting a sociological characterisation of the founders and their families, according to their social and professional status, this will be followed by a definition of the profile of these individuals, based on the relationship they established with their ancestors and successors at the time of their souls’ suffrage. Lastly, the family chapels will come in to focus as a manifestation of the lineage’s memorialisation and an exhibition of the founders’ economic and social power, further to the investment they made in ornamentation and architecture. As such, an understanding of how the urban elites used these institutions in the context of the processes of social climbing they aimed for and how the chapels reflect the awareness of the power they achieved
Sicilian Mediaevalism: The Refashioning of the Sicilian Vespers during the Risorgimento and the Contemporary Age
No full textThe article addresses the complex issue of Sicilian medievalism as it relates to the reinterpretation of the Sicilian Vespers during the Risorgimento. From a historiographical perspective, this phenomenon is of particular interest, as it allows for an examination of how the Sicilian ruling and revolutionary classes during the uprisings of 1820, the 1830s, and 1848 reappropriated and instrumentalized the medieval past to serve their political aims. The historical works of nineteenth-century Sicilian intellectuals thus contributed to the construction of a romanticized image of medieval Sicily – variously portrayed as the island of powerful emirs, a realm of peace and religious tolerance under the Normans, or the site of miraculous popular uprisings such as the Vespers. These historiographical interpretations, imbued with strong patriotic and identity-forming overtones, have significantly shaped twentieth-century historical discourse and continue to exert influence today, both in popular historical narratives and in the broader collective imagination
