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Il complesso di Esaù: lingue, culture, letterature e lenticchie
No full textThis essay engages in a conversation with the theories of contemporary
philosophers (such as Bachtin, Benjamin, Tynjanov, Even-Zohar, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Lotman e Uspenskij, Tullio De Mauro, Andrea Moro) who have reflected on the reciprocal relationship between
cultures and on the creation of narratives informed by the hegemony/
subalternity major/minor, center/periphery binaries. Its purpose is to relativize these concepts, to highlight their flaws, and to show their limits
and their interchangeability both on the synchronic and on the diachronic levels. The author argues that in human cultures the minor contains
the major rather than the opposite, because the subsumption within the
major entails that differences and diversities are erased or elided. While
the minor implies one or more majors, the major only implies itself. The
minor always lacks something. So, productively, it contaminates, sets in
motion, generates differences. The major lacks nothing: as a result, it is
always motionless and unproductive. In the final section of the article
the author applies this model to the relation between Polish and Lithuanian culture, and to the relation, in Fryderyk Chopin’s oeuvre, between
the ‘major’ tradition of European music and the ‘minor’ tradition of anonymous Eastern European popular dances
La patria di nessuno: nazione, emigrazione e omosessualità in Witold Gombrowicz
No full textL'articolo studia il rapporto fra emigrazione, identità nazionale e sessuale attraverso l'opera-chiave di Witold Gombrowicz, e in particolare il suo Diario, specie l'ultima parte altrimenti detta "Testamento" e il romanzo "Trans-Atlantico".The essay follows the principles and some main categories of intercultural and postcolonial studies for the study of émigré (or exiled) writers who continue to write in their mother tongue and about their mother country. Their new condition of "dislocated subjects" allows them to have "external", "other" and hermeneutically fertile (Bakhtin's exotopy) point of views about the two or more traditions they belong to. The writings of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz are prime examples of this condition. With excerpts taken from his Diary, from his last work A Kind of Testament and from the novel Trans-Atlantyk in which the "patriotic" theme appears to be fully developed (and therefore "deconstructed"), the essay considers Gombrowicz's writings as hymns to alterity, one of the contributing factors being the homosexuality of the author, which offers a seductive key of interpretation of his position as a rootless man in-between different worlds, different cultures, different traditions, different styles: a real no man's land, or rather everyman's land
Il minore come maggiore e viceversa
No full textL’opposizione tra lingue, culture e letterature maggiori e minori sembra riguardare sia il canone europeo che il pantheon della letteratura-mondo: risuona in ambito accademico come all’interno dell’apparato editoriale e mediatico che di fatto custodisce e trasmette le opere letterarie e che, accordando ad alcuni testi e culture maggiore visibilità, finisce col produrre, implicitamente, gerarchie di valore. Essere ‘maggiore’ o ‘minore’ è quindi anche un problema di logiche accademiche, a loro volta parte di un più ampio sistema di produzione del valore, che fa tutt’uno con il mondo industriale e post-industriale. In questo libro dieci specialisti di altrettante letterature nazionali europee affrontano alcune importanti declinazioni di questi concetti, nel comune tentativo di mostrare quanto ‘maggiore’ e ‘minore’ siano concetti correlativi, commutabili e provvisori, mentre – con Deleuze e Guattari – si dovrebbe forse intendere il minore non come sottosistema o fuorisistema del ‘fatto maggioritario’, ma come divenire potenziale e creativo del sistema stesso. Con riferimento al racconto biblico su Esaù e Giacobbe, dove il minore diviene maggiore e viceversa, il volume offre quindi anche una riflessione comune sui rapporti fra nazioni e culture europee, indagate nella reciproca dialettica che ne condiziona il posizionamento, la ‘visibilità’ e la diffusione
Tempo del carcerato, tempo del moribondo, tempo dell'arte: attraverso "Il mio secolo" di Aleksander Wat
No full textOn the basis of his Italian translation entitled Il mio secolo of Aleksander Wat’s Mój wiek (Palermo 2013) and the idea of translation as “listening” and response/responsibility of identification with the Other, the author returns to Wat’s prison memories and linked thoughts on the subject of time. The prisoner’s isolation, on the one hand, demonstrates the inherent “otherness” of human time (inasmuch as it is a form of “being” – Heidegger’s Dasein – “with others”) making his perception of reality similar to that of a dying person. Referring to the philosophical and hermeneutic ideas of time which, starting with St. Augustine lead on to Bergson, Proust, Eliot, Husserl and Heidegger, we discover that prison reveals to those who undergo it all the painful, grandiose complexity and “impurity” of human time, just as the imminence of death can disentangle the true meaning of life, which is what art has always and for ever attempted to grasp and explain even to the most absent minded of receivers
Coated Paper-Based Packaging Waste: Investigation on Sensorial Properties Affecting the Material Class Perception
No full textPackaging waste correct sorting hugely impacts fiber-based packaging circularity. Currently, this is more crucial than ever, also due to the increased market share of fiber-based packaging. This study evaluated the relationship between the aesthetic properties and user material sorting actions of lightweight dispersion-coated and uncoated paper substrates. Unlike previous literature, no labeling or graphics were involved in this study, focusing on the physical and aesthetic properties of both coatings and substrates. Untrained panelists participated in a multi-phase (descriptive and hedonic) analysis involving a questionnaire and antonym scales about samples’ visual and tactile properties, which were also characterized. The results highlight a remarkable panelist’s ability to assess the relative gloss and roughness. Perceived roughness and mattness statistically significantly correlated to cellulosic material identification. Moreover, material sorting into the paper recycling stream was statistically significantly regulated by sample mattness, followed by sample roughness. This work suggests that, without any graphic or textual information, the combination of substrate characteristics and coating formulation strongly impacts the packaging aesthetics, hence packaging perception as paper-based material. Consequently, the correct material identification and sorting can be encouraged by proper packaging materials selection and coating development
Advantages and disadvantages of direct oral anticoagulants in older patients
No full textAtrial fibrillation (AF) and venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, are conditions that increase with age. Anticoagulant therapy is strongly recommended both in patients with AF for the prevention of cardioembolic stroke, and for treatment of VTE and prevention of recurrent VTE. Until recently, vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) were the only oral drugs for long-term anticoagulation. In the past decade, four direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) were approved: a direct thrombin inhibitor (dabigatran) and three factor Xa inhibitors (apixaban, rivaroxaban, edoxaban). Despite increasing evidence demonstrating the efficacy and safety of DOACs in older patients, there are still gray areas where the use of VKAs might be valuable
Fibre-based Packaging and Dispersion Coatings: Investigation on the Barrier, Converting, and Recycling Performance
No full textLinee guida per la facilitazione delle attività di riciclo degli imballaggi in materiale a prevalenza cellulosica
No full textDesign for Recycling Guidelines of Paper-Based Packaging - A Review for Packaging Designers
No full textCircular Economy requires products and material resources to be
efficiently managed and used. For packaging, recycling is crucial to close the loop.
Hence, packaging designers must balance pack performance, morphology, and
communication to ensure its recyclability. This is particularly true for fibre-based
packaging, which is the prevalent market packaging material, forecasted to
increase its usage volumes. To help designers in their activities, several bodies
provided Design for Recycling Guidelines (DGs). In this work, national and
European DGs are discussed, providing shared design rules ranging from the
substrate and its surface treatment to the packaging components. Such design
rules can enable designers’ creative process and enhance the exploration of new,
efficient packaging solutions. Consequently, packaging designers may achieve a
broader view and play an active role in extending fibre life time; hence, reducing
landfilling or energy-recovery of valuable fibres
Merda, potere e verità (da San Francesco a Wat)
No full textOn the grounds of crucial theoretical frameworks (provided by Christian Enzensberger, Francesco Orlando, Sigmund Freud, Mary Douglas and others) and by referring to a wide range of literary and artistic examples (Saint Francis, Dario Fo, Tommaso Stigliani, Pina Bausch, Tadeusz Kantor, Simone Cristicchi, Dante, the Comedy of Art, Alfred Jarry, Victor Hugo, Pasolini, Duchamp, Piero Manzoni, Thomas Mann, Sandro Penna and many others), the author argues that all great art is excrementitious and at the same time political: it articulates a satire of the ugliness of the world, a free song coming de profundis, from the bowels, from suffering, loneliness, bewilderment, fear and dizziness: from that state that Dante and Kantor would equate to finding ourselves “between eternity and garbage”. Accordingly, the final part of this essay is devoted to the significance of shit in the prison memoirs of the Polish writer Aleksander Wat, where the act and the place of defecation cause a painful and at the same time liberating “return of the repressed”, from the sexual, the sentimental and the political point of view. Art and literature have long rediscovered and re-established their own royalty, sacredness and truth by having to acknowledge the
need of passing through the rubble, waste and shit of history – a need that has become stronger after Auschwitz and Kolyma
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