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Transcorporealidad: Una entrevista a Stacy Alaimo
No full text The interview was mainly conducted at Tallinn University in January 2019, when Stacy Alaimo visited the Graduate Winter School “The Humanities and Posthumanities: New Ways of Being Human” and gave a plenary lecture titled “Onto-epistemologies for the Anthropocene, or Who will be the Subject of the Posthumanities?”, and completed in spring 2020, to address immediately unfolding issues.
Alaimo is an internationally recognized scholar of American literature, ecocultural theory, environmental humanities, science studies, gender theory, and new materialism. She is the author of three monographs on environmental theory and ecocultural studies: Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell University Press, 2000); Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010); and Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Alaimo has edited and co-edited essay collections, including Science Studies and the Blue Humanities (essay cluster for SLSA journal, Configurations. Fall 2019); Matter (MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, 2017); Material Feminisms (with Susan Hekman, Indiana University Press, 2008), and is the author of a significant number of essays and book chapters. She co-edits a book series, “Elements,” at Duke University Press. Her current work focuses on oceans and marine life: she is currently finishing a book tentatively titled, Composing Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss. Alaimo served as co-President of ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), and created and directed the cross-disciplinary minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies at the University of Texas and Arlington. She joined the faculty of the University of Oregon in 2019, where she is Professor of English and core faculty member in environmental studies.
The interview addresses the evolution of her views as represented in Undomesticated Ground (2000), as well as the connections and tensions of feminism and environmentalism; it moves on to Bodily Natures (2010), in which she develops her seminal concept of transcorporeality; and looks into her ongoing interest in the deep sea and its representation in culture, the focus of her current book project, Composing Blue Ecologies.
The interview discusses the importance of transcorporeality in the Anthropocene, as an alternative to “self-aggrandizing” accounts “in which some transhistorical ‘Man’ acts upon the inert, external matter of the world.” Examples from both science and culture illustrate the concepts discussed, reaching out into important political concerns of the day, such as climate refugees, sustainability as a labour and power issue, divisive dichotomies and understanding difference. The theme of water as an example of transcorporeality and a burning ecological issue is taken up, touching upon the current vulnerability of the Baltic Sea and elaborating on the material and ideas developed in the new book that Stacy Alaimo is working on. The final part of the interview addresses the environmental implications of the COVID-19 crisis.Esta entrevista tuvo lugar, principalmente, en la Universidad de Tallín en enero de 2019, coincidiendo con la visita de Stacy Alaimo al módulo “Las Humanidades y las Posthumanidades: Nuevas Maneras de Ser Humano” de su Escuela de Invierno para Doctorandos, donde impartió una conferencia plenaria titulada “Onto-epistemologías para el Antropoceno, o ¿quién será el Sujeto de las Posthumanidades?”, y se completó durante la primavera de 2020, con el objetivo de abordar los acontecimientos que estaban desarrollándose en ese momento.
Alaimo es una académica reconocida internacionalmente que está especializada en los campos de literatura estadounidense, teoría ecocultural, humanidades ambientales, estudios de ciencias, teoría de género y nuevo materialismo. Es la autora de tres monografías dedicadas a la teoría medioambiental y a los estudios ecoculturales: Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell University Press, 2000); Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010); y Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Además, coedita “Elements”, una colección de libros de la Duke University Press. Su trabajo actual se centra en los océanos y en la vida marina: está terminando un libro provisionalmente titulado Composing Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss. Alaimo ejerció como co-presidente de ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), y creó y dirigió la carrera interdisciplinar en Estudios Medioambientales y de Sostenibilidad en la Universidad de Texas y Arlington. Se incorporó al claustro de la Universidad de Oregón en 2019, donde ejerce de profesora titular de Estudios Ingleses y es una parte central de la plantilla docente dedicada a los estudios medioambientales.
La entrevista aborda la evolución de las teorías propuestas en Undomesticated Ground (2000), así como las conexiones y las tensiones entre el feminismo y el ecologismo; continúa con Bodily Natures (2010), en el que la autora desarrolla su influyente concepto de transcorporealidad, y finalmente termina con una mirada a su actual interés en el mar profundo y sus representaciones culturales, que conforma el núcleo de su actual proyecto literario: Composing Blue Ecologies.
La entrevista examina la importancia de la transcorporealidad en el Antropoceno como una alternativa a los relatos de “enaltecimiento propio”, “en los que “un supuesto ‘Hombre’ transhistórico actúa sobre la materia del mundo, que es inerte y externa a él”. Para ilustrar los conceptos tratados se emplean ejemplos provenientes de la ciencia y la cultura, abarcando preocupaciones políticas actuales como los refugiados ambientales, la sostenibilidad como trabajo y como estructura de poder, y las dicotomías divisivas y el entendimiento de la diferencia. Además, se trata el concepto del agua como ejemplo de transcorporealidad y de problema ecológico urgente, mencionando la vulnerabilidad actual del Mar Báltico y detallando el material y las ideas desarrolladas en el nuevo libro en el que Stacy Alaimo está trabajando actualmente. La parte final de la entrevista se entra en la trascendencia medioambiental de la crisis del COVID-19
Transcorporeality: an interview with Stacy Alaimo
No full textThe interview was mainly conducted at Tallinn University in January 2019, when Stacy Alaimo visited the Graduate Winter School “The Humanities and Posthumanities: New Ways of Being Human” and gave a plenary lecture titled “Onto-epistemologies for the Anthropocene, or Who will be the Subject of the Posthumanities?”, and completed in spring 2020, to address immediately unfolding issues.
Alaimo is an internationally recognized scholar of American literature, ecocultural theory, environmental humanities, science studies, gender theory, and new materialism. She is the author of three monographs on environmental theory and ecocultural studies: “Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space” (Cornell University Press, 2000); “Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self” (Indiana University Press, 2010); and “Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times” (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Alaimo has edited and co-edited essay collections, including “Science Studies and the Blue Humanities” (essay cluster for SLSA journal, “Configurations”. Fall 2019); Matter (MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, 2017); “Material Feminisms” (with Susan Hekman, Indiana University Press, 2008), and is the author of a significant number of essays and book chapters. She co-edits a book series, “Elements,” at Duke University Press. Her current work focuses on oceans and marine life: she is currently finishing a book tentatively titled, Composing “Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss”. Alaimo served as co-President of ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), and created and directed the cross-disciplinary minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies at the University of Texas and Arlington. She joined the faculty of the University of Oregon in 2019, where she is Professor of English and core faculty member in environmental studies.
The interview addresses the evolution of her views as represented in “Undomesticated Ground” (2000), as well as the connections and tensions of feminism and environmentalism; it moves on to “Bodily Natures” (2010), in which she develops her seminal concept of transcorporeality; and looks into her ongoing interest in the deep sea and its representation in culture, the focus of her current book project, “Composing Blue Ecologies”.
The interview discusses the importance of transcorporeality in the Anthropocene, as an alternative to “self-aggrandizing” accounts “in which some transhistorical ‘Man’ acts upon the inert, external matter of the world.” Examples from both science and culture illustrate the concepts discussed, reaching out into important political concerns of the day, such as climate refugees, sustainability as a labour and power issue, divisive dichotomies and understanding difference. The theme of water as an example of transcorporeality and a burning ecological issue is taken up, touching upon the current vulnerability of the Baltic Sea and elaborating on the material and ideas developed in the new book that Stacy Alaimo is working on. The final part of the interview addresses the environmental implications of the COVID-19 crisis.“Las Humanidades y las Posthumanidades: Nuevas Maneras de Ser Humano” de su Escuela de Invierno para Doctorandos, donde impartió una conferencia plenaria titulada “Onto-epistemologías para el Antropoceno, o ¿quién será el Sujeto de las Posthumanidades?”, y se completó durante la primavera de 2020, con el objetivo de abordar los acontecimientos que estaban desarrollándose en ese momento.
Alaimo es una académica reconocida internacionalmente que está especializada en los campos de literatura estadounidense, teoría ecocultural, humanidades ambientales, estudios de ciencias, teoría de género y nuevo materialismo. Es la autora de tres monografías dedicadas a la teoría medioambiental y a los estudios ecoculturales: “Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space” (Cornell University Press, 2000); “Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self” (Indiana University Press, 2010); y Exposed: “Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times” (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Además, coedita “Elements”, una colección de libros de la Duke University Press. Su trabajo actual se centra en los océanos y en la vida marina: está terminando un libro provisionalmente titulado “Composing Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss”. Alaimo ejerció como co-presidente de ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), y creó y dirigió la carrera interdisciplinar en Estudios Medioambientales y de Sostenibilidad en la Universidad de Texas y Arlington. Se incorporó al claustro de la Universidad de Oregón en 2019, donde ejerce de Catedrática de Estudios Ingleses y es una parte central de la plantilla docente dedicada a los estudios medioambientales.
La entrevista aborda la evolución de las teorías propuestas en “Undomesticated Ground” (2000), así como las conexiones y las tensiones entre el feminismo y el ecologismo; continúa con “Bodily Natures” (2010), en el que la autora desarrolla su influyente concepto de transcorporealidad, y finalmente termina con una mirada a su actual interés en el mar profundo y sus representaciones culturales, que conforma el núcleo de su actual proyecto literario: “Composing Blue Ecologies”.
La entrevista examina la importancia de la transcorporealidad en el Antropoceno como una alternativa a los relatos de “enaltecimiento propio”, “en los que “un supuesto ‘Hombre’ transhistórico actúa sobre la materia del mundo, que es inerte y externa a él”. Para ilustrar los conceptos tratados se emplean ejemplos provenientes de la ciencia y la cultura, abarcando preocupaciones políticas actuales como los refugiados ambientales, la sostenibilidad como trabajo y como estructura de poder, y las dicotomías divisivas y el entendimiento de la diferencia. Además, se trata el concepto del agua como ejemplo de transcorporealidad y de problema ecológico urgente, mencionando la vulnerabilidad actual del Mar Báltico y detallando el material y las ideas desarrolladas en el nuevo libro en el que Stacy Alaimo está trabajando actualmente. La parte final de la entrevista se entra en la trascendencia medioambiental de la crisis del COVID-19
La Ricerca (Industriale) della Produzione Edilizia: risultati ed orizzonti
No full textIl contributo fa il punto sul patrimonio di conoscenze acquisite nel Settore della Produzione Edilizia sui temi fondamentali per l'attività dei soci ISTeA (Italian Society of Science, Technology, Engineering of Architecture), in linea con le road map dei programmi di finanziamento nazionali e comunitari e gli obiettivi strategici di Ricerca (Industriale) che vanno: dalle prestazioni energetico-ambientali degli edifici e dei distretti, all'automazione nelle costruzioni nel contesto delle Smart City e della Social Innovation. Da quell’esperienza sono derivati i position paper, pubblicati nel 2012, che costituiscono una rappresentazione, per frammenti, dell’attività di ricerca del Raggruppamento ICAR11.
L’Associazione è andata avanti nel percorso avviato, raccogliendo contributi di studiosi di diversa provenienza su quelle tematiche che si preannunciano come dominanti nel prossimo futuro, presentandoli al Convegno ISTeA ed al MADE Expo di Milano del 2012.
Nell’ottica di una riorganizzazione delle Politiche nazionale e comunitaria per la Ricerca Industriale, sono stati individuati i temi fondativi del Settore:
1 - Dal progetto al prodotto di qualità per l'industria delle costruzioni (Imperadori, Dell’Osso, Esposito, Masera, Pierucci and Ruta, 2012)
2 - La gestione del ciclo di vita nelle costruzioni (Daniotti and Nicolella, 2012)
3 - L'automation in construction (Naticchia, Novembri and Carbonari, 2012)
4 - Le attivita' sperimentali e il knowledge reuse (Morra and Alaimo, 2012)The contribution focuses, on the basis of the wealth of knowledge acquired in the Building Production sector, on the specific topics for the activities of ISTeA (Italian Society of Science, Technology, Engineering of Architecture) members, in line with the road maps of national and Community funding programmes and with the strategic objectives of (Industrial) Research which range from the energy-environmental performance of buildings and districts to automation in construction within the context of Smart Cities and Social Innovation. This experience led to the release of the position papers, published in 2012, representing fragments of the ICAR11 Group's research activity.
The Society pressed forward along the path it had started out on, gathering contributions from scholars from different backgrounds on the topics which look likely to dominate in the near future and presenting them at the 2012 ISTeA Conference and MADE Expo in Milan.
With a view to reorganizing national and Community policies on industrial research, the following key issues for our sector were identified: (Alaimo et al., 2012):
1 - Dal progetto al prodotto di qualità per l'industria delle costruzioni (Imperadori, Dell'Osso, Esposito, Masera, Pierucci and Ruta, 2012)
2 - La gestione del ciclo di vita nelle costruzioni (Daniotti and Nicolella, 2012)
3 – L'automation in construction (Naticchia, Novembri and Carbonari, 2012)
4 – Le attivita' sperimentali e il knowledge reuse (Morra and Alaimo, 2012
AI at Work: Automation, Distributed Cognition, and Cultural Embeddedness
No full textThis cross-disciplinary exploration delves into the multiple intersections between Artificial Intelligence (AI), work, and organization, mobilizing different research strands such as STS and Organization Theory, as well as the History of Science and Technology and Cultural Sociology. Matteo Pasquinelli proposes an exploration of theories of automation drawn from political economy and the history of science and technology, investigating their explanatory accounts of technological innovation. As argued by the author, these theories provide important foundations for unveiling the socio-technical genealogy of current forms of AI as well as the specific logic of automation that they follow. Cristina Alaimo continues by illustrating the perspective of distributed social cognition for the study of AI in organizational settings, crucial for abandoning the assumption that intelligence is solely an attribute of individuals or technologies. This second contribution invites an exploration of how, even in organizational environments characterized by the presence of AI, intelligence still appears as a collective capability. Finally, Alessandro Gandini stresses how the encounter between AI and society is primarily a cultural issue, proposing a critical discussion of its main implications. For the author, sociology should approach AI phenomenologically and critically, but it should also take advantage from the innovations that tools such as generative AI might bring
Manufacturing workers were especially likely to support Brexit
No full textWhat socio-economic characteristics were associated with a Leave vote? Leonardo S. Alaimo (far left) and Luigi M. Solivetti (Sapienza University of Rome) use Local Government District data and find that voters with GCSE-level education, and manufacturing workers in particular, were most likely to support Brexit
An algorithm for the prediction of annotations on Pubmed
No full textThe inference of novel knowledge and the generation of new hypotheses from the analysis of the current literature is a fundamental process in making new scientific discoveries. Especially in biomedicine, given the enormous amount of literature and knowledge bases available, this process is often complex, and researchers may focus too much on aspects already widely investigated due to poor literature mining. The automatic extraction of information in the form of semantically related terms (or tags) is becoming an aspect of great importance and extensive investigation (Kilicoglu et al., 2012; Stewart et al., 2012).
Here we propose a method that consists of the combination of the TAGME algorithm (Ferragina and Scaiella, 2012), with the DT-Hybrid (Alaimo et al., 2013) technique for recommending novel semantically related tags. This combination will be designed in order to extract novel knowledge from a corpus of documents obtained from PubMed
Ep. #039 - Stacy Alaimo
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic say hello from Copenhagen and muse about the humanities’ expanding color spectrum. We then welcome (12:12) to the podcast the fabulous Stacy Alaimo, Professor of English at the University of Texas-Arlington and author of the celebrated Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana U, 2010). We discuss her new book, Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (U Minnesota 2016), in light of her thinking about trans-corporeality and ethics in the Anthropocene. Stacy shares her concerns that an abstract sense of species identity and pride is too often smuggled into the Anthropocene concept and explains why she thinks material feminism and feminist science studies have become such important resources for understanding our present condition. We discuss why the turn toward materiality and material agency demands that we engage science in new ways. We talk about the unruly agency of xenobiotic chemicals, deep sea creatures, epigenetics, and how to remake human sprawl to take other creaturely interests into account. Stacy explains that she is not in the hope business but that she does support ecodelics—the mind altering exercise of trying to imagine and feel the Anthropocene from nonhuman perspectives. Stacy’s German Shepherd, Felix, kindly helps us grasp this last point and he shares his thoughts on squirrel metonymy and his unease when the postman cometh. The lesson of the Anthropocene? There is no someplace else. So be present for all the species in your ecology, dear friends
Evans Mill Pond Passive Recreation and Nature Preserve Conceptual Preservation Plan
No full textIn 1993 the Evesham Township Environmental Commission received a grant to develop a Preservation Plan for Evans Mill Pond. The Commission identified uses and activities appropriate for making use of the 75 acre tract for passive recreation and as a nature preserve. 10 considerations for the Pond are identified. This plan provides information on the water quality analysis, vegetation, and the conceptual preservation plan.Prepared for the Evesham Environmental Commission with a grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Environmental Services.Purpose: To provide information regarding the current state of the Evans Mill Pond preservation plan
Probing Transverse Coherence with the Heterodyne Speckle Approach: Overview and Perspectives
No full textAbstractThe properties of spatial coherence of radiation emitted by relativistic electrons is far from being trivial. Assessing the coherence of high-brilliance X-ray sources (3rd generation synchrotrons or free electron lasers) is of crucial importance for machine diagnostics, as well as in planning experiments exploiting coherent techniques. The Heterodyne Speckles method, firstly described by Alaimo et al. (2009), is a valuable alternative to standard methods (e.g. Young's interferometer) which 1) provides a direct measure of transverse coherence without any a-priori assumption, 2) provides a full 2D map of coherence, 3) is capable of one shot, time-resolved measures, 4) is scalable over a wide range of wavelengths. It relies upon the statistical analysis of radiation scattered by spherical particles randomly distributed and suspended in a fluid. Here we give an overview of this method, from the theoretical framework to the operating conditions to be adopted in order to obtain coherence measurements in several conditions
In fondo al cuore di Franca [saggio sul libro di poesie di Franca Alaimo Sacro Cuore, (Borgomanero, Ladolfi, 2020)]
No full textsaggio sul libro di poesie di Franca Alaimo "Sacro Cuore
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