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New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics
No full textIn the late twentieth century, political and cultural activism increasingly tackled identity-based forms of structural inequality. During the cultural debates of the 1980s and early ’90s, identity politics became a major arena for critical and intellectual inquiry and was increasingly the focus of creative endeavor. In the decades that followed, new discourses considered the construction and maintenance of rigidly defined identities—pondering whether the markers of belongingness (related to gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, and nationhood) have become too fixed and exclusionary. The increasingly prevalent notion that identity discourses (often concerned with histories of coloniality, genocide, racism, nationalism, and gender and sexuality-based antagonisms) have become siloed, tribal, and engaged in so-called ‘purity politics’ has led to divisive but generative conversations. Within this larger conversation, contemporary art and visual culture have emerged as crucial sites for interrogating the ideological construction of identity and difference in representation. This methodologically diverse collection brings together a range of voices that ponder the complexities of belongingness as envisioned in contemporary art and visual culture. This lively interdisciplinary discussion explores how the visual can foster intersectionality as a self-critical praxis while destabilizing fixed notions of identity
Atlantic Italies
No full textWhile no pre-unification Italian state ever possessed colonies beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean peninsula was linked to the Americas and Africa through a variety of entanglements. Weaving networks that crossed political boundaries, merchants profited from manifold economic opportunities – including the Atlantic slave trade, which, from its beginnings in the 15th century to its demise in the 19th century, attracted considerable investments from the Italies. Mariners, scholars, clerics, and aristocrats served the empires of various European powers, whereas others – such as mendicant friars – carved out room for manoeuvre that transcended imperial agendas. City dwellers and peasants discovered new foodstuffs and acquired an increasingly global consumer culture. By challenging narratives moulded by methodological nationalism, this book explores how such connections shaped the Italian Peninsula and contributes to a new trans-imperial perspective on the Atlantic world.Publishe
Veilig = Safe
No full textSafe is the first and only periodical publication in the Netherlands on public safety heritage. This yearbook focuses on the extensive and leading collection of Korpora, Public Safety Heritage, in operation since 1 August 2022. The collection is currently formed by the national collections of the Dutch police and fire brigade, the Dutch Red Army, the former Protection of Population and heritage in the fields of crisis management, disaster relief, ambulance services and first aid. Korpora holds hundreds of thousands of objects from the 16th century onwards. Safe offers an insight into this fascinating collection. Each issue contains easy-to-read, scholarly articles on the various subfields. It also focuses on important and special acquisitions
New Trends in Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Optimization for Engineering and Mechanics
No full textComputational modeling has become essential in the engineering field in recent years, providing necessary analyses for real-life problems. Alongside this, optimization techniques have evolved to enhance solutions across diverse problems. Recent advances, including mesh-free methodologies and innovative finite element approaches, have emerged to complete a powerful range of tools for accurately reproducing engineering mechanical problems. This reprint compiles the accepted articles from the Special Issue of Mathematics (MDPI) titled "New Trends in Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Optimization for Engineering and Mechanics". It serves as a valuable resource for researchers working on advanced mathematical modeling, numerical methods and optimization techniques in engineering and mechanics
Chapter Le Terme di Santa Venera al Pozzo: il reale archeologico, il digitale immersivo, l’analogico in 3D
No full textThe here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing
Performance Research Methods
No full textPerformance Research Methods' is the first comprehensive guide to contemporary methodologies in performance studies, offering a clear and structured overview of the tools currently shaping research in theatre, dance, and performance. While many volumes focus on individual methods, this book uniquely surveys a range of approaches, presenting their historical background, analytical potential, practical application, and interdisciplinary relevance. Designed with clarity and usability in mind, each chapter follows a consistent structure: introduction, contextual framing, practical application, case study demonstration, interdisciplinary expansion, and suggestions for further reading. This format enables readers to compare methods with ease and understand how each can be adapted to real-world research. Developed by scholars actively teaching these methods in graduate and undergraduate programs, this hands-on volume addresses a key gap in the field: the lack of explicit, accessible discussions of performance research methods. Responding to the societal, technological, and ecological contexts of contemporary performance, the book makes visible the knowledge practices that often remain confined to the classroom. Accessible to students, researchers, and arts professionals alike, this volume provides an essential resource for anyone looking to engage critically and creatively with performance in the twenty-first century
Unpopular Culture
No full textThis volume introduces a new concept that boldly breaks through the traditional dichotomy of high and low culture while offering a fresh approach to both: unpopular culture. From the works of David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to fanfiction and The Simpsons, from natural disasters to 9/11 and beyond, the essays find the unpopular across media and genres, analysing the politics and aesthetics of a side to culture that has been overlooked by previous theories and methods in cultural studies
Einfluss der thermomechanischen Kopplung auf die Reibkraft in trockenen Gleitlagern unter hochfrequenter Anregung
No full textTrockene Gleitlager sind weit verbreitet, doch reibungsinduzierte Effekte wie Losbrechen oder Schwingungen können problematisch sein. Diese Arbeit untersucht, wie hochfrequente Schwingungen und die entstehende Reibungswärme das Reibverhalten beeinflussen. Ein gekoppeltes Modell sowie Experimente zeigen, dass trotz thermischer Effekte eine Reibkraftreduktion möglich ist. Dry sliding bearings are widely used, but friction-induced effects like stick-slip or vibrations can be problematic. This work investigates how high-frequency excitation and resulting frictional heat affect system behavior. A coupled model and experiments show that, despite thermal effects, a reduction in friction force is still achievable
Health Activism and Sexual Politics
No full textHealth Activism and Sexual Politics: Feminist Engagements with Health, Illness and the Body explores the intersection of health activism and sexual politics through both traditional research chapters and innovative contributions on creative and scholarly practice as activism. The book showcases the analytical power of feminist research at the intersection of sexuality, health, and activism. As digital technologies create new possibilities and challenges for politics, sex, and health interventions, the contributors demonstrate diverse ways to engage meaningfully with activism. Spanning Latin America, Southern Africa, Northern Europe, the UK, and North America, the collection offers alternative epistemologies to hegemonic biomedical knowledge about illness, pleasure, pain, and marginalization. The interdisciplinary approach incorporates feminist technoscience studies alongside perspectives from the medical humanities, sexuality studies, gender studies, design studies, and drama studies. Each chapter challenges inequities and reimagines possibilities for health and well-being through collective action, creative engagement, and scholarly inquiry. Together, they insist on recognizing the multiplicity of experiences around illness and desire, making knowledge that values lived experiences as communicable, worthy of care, and deserving of recognition. This book will appeal to scholars, students, activists, and artists interested in health, sexual practice, gender, activism, and public engagement. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement
No full textThis book urges for an understanding of contemporary art as being core to creative responses which intervene in the lived experience of forced displacement. Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement explores art practice which moves beyond mere representation toward practical intervention across five key areas: language, heritage and design, pedagogy and education, law and access to justice and the archive. Focusing on art produced across three sites, each emblematic of protracted forms of displacement (Greece, Palestine and Australia), it makes clear the ways in which art operates as a vital yet underacknowledged instrument of cultural resilience. This book is ideal for researchers, scholars and practitioners interested in contemporary art and politics, contemporary art methods and practice, and migration