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Emilio Cecchi 'russista'
No full textL'articolo è dedicato agli scritti del critico Emilio Cecchi sulla letteratura russa. Si tratta di scritti poco conosciuti che segnano una tappa importante nella storia della ricezione della cultura letteraria russa in Italia nel primo Novecento. Si evidenzia come la lettura di alcuni autori russi abbia dato un apporto importante alla formazione della concezione letteraria di Cecchi
Performance/Media/Documentation... Thinking Beyond Dichotomies: An Interview with Philip Auslander
No full textThe philosophical and general cultural contribution of Philip Auslander’s work to music, media, and the arts considered as performance is the radical, critical, and self-critical questioning of cultural dichotomies that often trap our thoughts exactly when they seem to help us think more clearly. Intervewed by Alessandro Cecchi, Auslander reflects on the exploration of the “continuum” between sound and vision, technique and technology, performance and media, music and the arts considered in their continuously and mutually changing relationships.
Philip Auslander is a Professor of Performance Studies and Popular Musicology in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, USA). He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and seven books, including Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance (University of Michigan Press, 1992), From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism (Routledge, 1997), Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (Routledge, 1999; 2nd ed. 2008),Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (University of Michigan Press, 2006), Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation (University of Michigan Press, 2018), and In Concert: Performing Musical Persona (University of Michigan Press, 2021). In addition to his scholarly work on performance and music, Prof. Auslander has written art criticism for ArtForum and other publications and regularly contributes essays to exhibition catalogs for museums in Europe and North America, including Tate Modern, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Migros Museum, and the Walker Art Center. He is also a screen actor and writer. “Dr. Blues,” a short film Auslander wrote, produced, and acted in, premiered at the Peachtree Village International Film Festival in Atlanta in October of 2019
Two-phase anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge: effect of a extreme thermophilic (70°C) pre-fermentation step
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Quantitative assessment of the degradation of aggregated TDP-43 mediated by the ubiquitin proteasome system and macroautophagy
No full textAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions are neurodegenerative disorders that share the cytosolic deposition of TDP-43 (TAR DNA-binding protein 43) in the CNS. TDP-43 is well known as being actively degraded by both the proteasome and macroautophagy. The well-documented decrease in the efficiency of these clearance systems in aging and neurodegeneration, as well as the genetic evidence that many of the familial forms of TDP-43 proteinopathies involve genes that are associated with them, suggest that a failure of these protein degradation systems is a major factor that contributes to the onset of TDP-43-associated disorders. Here, we inserted preformed human TDP-43 aggregates in the cytosol of murine NSC34 and N2a cells in diffuse form and observed their degradation under conditions in which exogenous TDP-43 is not expressed and endogenous nuclear TDP-43 is not recruited, thereby allowing a time zero to be established in TDP-43 degradation and to observe its disposal kinetically and analytically. TDP-43 degradation was observed in the absence and presence of selective inhibitors and small interfering RNAs against the proteasome and autophagy. We found that cytosolic diffuse aggregates of TDP-43 can be distinguished in 3 different classes on the basis of their vulnerability to degradation, which contributed to the definition-with previous reports-of a total of 6 distinct classes of misfolded TDP-43 species that range from soluble monomer to undegradable macroaggregates. We also found that the proteasome and macroautophagy-degradable pools of TDP-43 are fully distinguishable, rather than in equilibrium between them on the time scale required for degradation, and that a significant crosstalk exists between the 2 degradation processes.-Cascella, R., Fani, G., Capitini, C., Rusmini, P., Poletti, A., Cecchi, C., Chiti, F. Quantitative assessment of the degradation of aggregated TDP-43 mediated by the ubiquitin proteasome system and macroautophagy
Economics for Sustainability Science: the analysis of changes in public service provision
No full textEconomics has been criticised for failing to engage with Sustainability Science. The author suggests that these critiques mainly refer to mainstream economics. By contrast, an alternative paradigm exists which combines the analysis of socio-economic phenomena with natural science. Introduced by Nicholas Georges- cu-Roegen, the bioeconomic program represents a powerful in- strument coherent with political economy.
The paper applies the Georgescu-Roegen’s analysis to the case of health care service provision in a rural area in Central Italy. The pa- per shows that the production and the consumption processes re- quire natural resources and produce pollution and wastes. Finally, the author shows that in this case the major environmental and so- cial dimensions are related to the consequences of re-centralization. This result undermines the mainstream economic analysis which usually neglects a thorough observation of externalities. The flow- fund method enhances the assessment of the environmental and so- cial aspects that play a key role in Sustainability Science
Un'idea di Proust. Conversazione con Suso Cecchi d'Amico
No full textNel luglio del 1995 ho incontrato Suso Cecchi d’Amico nella sua casa romana. L’argomento della nostra conversazione – Proust al cinema – ci ha portati a passare in rassegna le sceneggiature che non sono arrivate sullo schermo e i pochi film realizzati fino a quel momento. Soltanto negli anni successivi altre opere [film] si sarebbero aggiunte a quel breve elenco. Ovviamente abbiamo parlato soprattutto della sua sceneggiatura per Visconti e dell’idea centrale di quel progetto: un Proust lineare, balzachiano, con la descrizione della fine di un’epoca, e la concentrazione sui [l’attenzione ai] volumi centrali, con il racconto delle due coppie – Marcel e Albertine, Charlus e Morel – a scapito del primo e dell’ultimo volume, dove è più evidente la riflessione sul Tempo e sulla vocazione letteraria. Quell’opzione non nascondeva una valenza più sinceramente divulgativa: un’idea di fondo che a distanza di anni mi sembra più vicina a una rilettura seriale. Un Proust più semplice che sa parlare con tutti e può piacere a molti è forse la vera lezione di Suso Cecchi d’Amico.In July 1995 I met with Suso Cecchi d’Amico in her home in Rome. The topic of our conversation – Proust on the screen – led us to review together the screenplays that never made it to the screen as well as the few films produced up to that point. Only later other films would be added to that short list. Obviously, the conversation centred on her screenplay for Visconti and on her main idea for that project: a linear balzacian Proust, focussed on the description of the end of an era and on the central volumes of the novel, and which hinged on the story of the two couples – Marcel and Albertine, Charlus and Morel – in preference to the first and last volume, where the reflection on Time and the literary vocation is more emphasised. This choice adds a genuinely divulgative value, and, in retrospect, seems to me closer to the experience of a serial rereading of the novel. Having presented a simpler Proust, who can engage everybody and be liked by most, is perhaps the real lesson of Suso Cecchi d’Amico
Nonlinear kinetic regime of the Weibel instability in an electron-ion plasma
No full textKinetic numerical simulations of the evolution of the Weibel instability during the full nonlinear regime including ions dynamics are presented. The formation of strong density inhomogeneity and its influence on the resulting electrostatic and electromagnetic wave modes are shown. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics
"Teologie negative" nel "Doktor Faustus" di Thomas Mann: la costellazione Adorno-Kierkegaard-Benjamin
No full textThis article discusses the "theological" aspect of Th. W. Adorno's collaboration in Thomas Mann's "Doktor Faustus". In the beginning the author reviews the main stages of the different literary criticism from the past, moving towards a more comprehensive view of the actual research. The second part presents the criticism of Adorno regarding the last part of Chapter 46 in its original version, where the narrator describes the Finale of Adrian Leverkühn's last composition. Here the author connects the theological contribution of Adorno to his dual role as a "mediator" between Thomas Mann and the theological ideas present in the writings of W. Benjamin and as "interpreter" of Kierkegaard's philosophy. The author in this way defines a "constellation" of "negative theologies" which Thomas Mann inserted in the novel
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