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Frutas vermelhas: implantação das culturas de amora-preta, framboesa e mirtilo no estado de São Paulo.
No full textO cultivo de frutas vermelhas – como a amora-preta, a framboesa e o mirtilo – tem se destacado entre os agricultores de diversas regiões do Brasil, estando em expansão no estado de São Paulo, onde o Projeto Frutas Vermelhas SP, executado pela CATI, oferece suporte e orientação técnica aos produtores, bem como mudas com garantia de qualidade pelo seu departamento CATI Sementes e Mudas
Argentina 76.16. Fotografia e regimi di storicità
No full textAttraverso l'analisi di alcune opere fotografiche esemplari (Buena Memoria di Marcelo Brodsky,1996); ; Ausenc'as di Gustavo Germano, 2006; Fotos tuyas di Inés Ulanovky, 2006; Manos de Abuelas di Clara Cholakian Herrera, 2016), il saggio si propone di esplorare le funzioni sociali e simboliche riposte nel mezzo fotografico in occasione degli anniversari del golpe militare in Argentina. Durante queste manifestazioni collettive, appare infatti evidente come la fotografia sia diventata lo strumento principale di una denuncia politica fondata su tre principi: la richiesta di verità, il dovere di memoria e la domanda di giustizia. Allo stesso tempo, l’esperienza del trauma culturale e collettivo sembra trasferire nella fotografia le questioni rimaste irrisolte intorno alla percezione di un tempo presente fratturato e sospeso, attraversato e ripercorso in ogni direzione al fine di elaborare una vera e propria interrogazione sul rapporto dell’uomo con la storia
Racconti dal mare. La difficile rappresentazione del Sè nelle testimonianze mediali dei migranti
No full textLa dimensione sociale e relazionale dell'esperienza del film
No full textAll'interno di uno scenario ormai in costante e rapida trasformazione rispetto all'offerta e ai consumi mediali, il cinema continua a giocare un ruolo assai importante nella creazione di una cultura mediale condivisa a livello sociale. Il saggio indaga il ruolo che il film gioca all'interno della generazione Zeta nella costruzione del proprio universo relazionale
From Migrant Dwelling to Cosmopolitan Imaginary. Mapping Intercultural Policies and Audiovisual Projects in Milan
No full textThis paper aims at presenting the key findings of the research program Migrations/Mediations (https://www.migrations-mediations.com), which over the last three years the UCSC’s Department of Communication Sciences and Performing Arts of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan has developed reflecting on the role of media, arts and culture in the management of policies devoted to migration phenomena. The project – mainly focused on the Milanese context – drew attention to the ways through which artists and cultural providers can create models of action in territories oriented toward bringing host populations into contact with migrants and refugees, as well as to empower newcomers themselves by offering a space for dialogue and a basis for voice-attaining and self-organising. In doing so, the intention of the study was to gather academic and independent researchers, artists, cultural providers, public and private funders, and policymakers in order to go beyond the traditional academic approach, primarily focused on the current regimes of representation of migrant people and newcomers. On the contrary, all the cultural initiatives we took in account, realised by or in collaboration with migrant subjects born or living in Italy, have practically contributed to question the notion of displacement, deterritorialization and belonging in Italian society and, specifically, in Milan. Significantly, many of the cultural projects coping with migrant transits employ the (moving) image in order to explore how interactions in urban spaces shape a new sense of connectedness within community spaces. Thus, by critically analysing some projects, we will highlight different strategies adopted both by civic institutions and cultural associations in order to understand how top-down and bottom-up boosts contribute to set up new and incisive intercultural policies for Milan city
The Migrant as an Eye/I. Transculturality, Self-Representation, Audiovisual Practices
No full textExperiences such as those of exile, immigration, and transnationality are central in the current political and cultural debate. Several filmic works and visual artistic projects focus their narratives on life stories, as shaped by distance (either geographic or memory-related) and motion (in terms of travel, border crossing and disorientation). Meanwhile, a focus on exilic and diasporic identities may lead potential audience to perceive migrant works merely on the basis of personal traumas of displacement. This special issue of Cinergie aims at scoping the plurality of cross-media productions that define nondominant forms of ethnic subjectivity, in the awareness of both the dynamic contamination of cultural models and the crisis of the ancient dichotomy between Self and Other. How could thus ex-/post-colonial subjects and their antecedents/descendants represent their selves, tell their own stories and subverting the stereotypes of Western culture? How are hierarchies re-inscribed when the Other’s self-image is re-mediated in the Western media system? When and how does the Other actually have the possibility to really represent her/himself? In this age of highest expansion of new autobiographical forms made possible thanks to audiovisual and digital practices (autobiographical fiction and documentary films and videos, digital storytelling platforms, self-portraits and selfies, Vlog, Facebook and Instagram accounts, etc.), it is not only possible for anyone to produce and circulate self-representations as a banal and everyday practice, but it allows for current selfrepresentations to challenge established discourses that reflect power relations at both social and geopolitical level
Biomedical imaging and rhetoric of diagnosis in medical dramas and docuseries
No full textSince the Second World War, medical practice has undergone a profound transformation concerning the introduction of numerous and increasingly sophisticated medical imaging technologies, which have profoundly changed the diagnostic procedure and the doctor-patient relationship. In mirroring this process, biomedical images and technologies are frequently captured, represented, and revived in medical dramas and docuseries, significantly impacting popular culture and the collective imaginaries. Indeed, medical series shape the social perception of doctors and health care institutions, as well as the rhetoric codes and discursive construction for the body’s observation, diagnostic documentation, and care. On this level, it becomes particularly interesting to observe how the narrative models of medical drama have influenced the representation and narration of illness and healing in some recent docuseries. Accordingly, this essay aims to analyse two different television products, medical dramas and docuseries, which have both worked on the representation of illness and hospitals
Organic Artificial Flashback. How Humanoid Robots Remember in Contemporary Movies and Tv Series
No full textOver the past three decades, several audiovisual projects have addressed issues surrounding the cyber body and the relation between prosthetic memory and posthuman self-awareness. On the one hand, many movies and tv series cross the boundary between the body and technology invasion by turning the artificial body into a site hosting organic memory, as the form of implantations or prostheses deals with the paradoxical condition of remembering events that the characters have not lived through. On the other hand, by mirroring the new ways of saving, retrieving and archiving personal and collective memory enhanced by digital media, a crucial concern regards the increasingly impressive capacity of current media devices—from mobile phones, to personal computers, to robots— for gathering and storing information in a range of useful modalities (sound, vision, even touch and smell). The ‘total recall’ issue implies not only a cyclic comparison with the failing memory of the human being, but also a broader reflection on the reshaping of mnestic experiences due to an unprecedented connectivity between brains, bodies, and personal and public lives. By analyzing some case studies, this essay aims to explore the trope of prosthetic flashback, usually associated to humanoid robots, as a contamination between anthropomorphic and technomorphic visual forms
Biomedical Imaging and Rhetoric of Diagnosis in Medical Dramas and Docuseries
No full textThe article aims to investigate different representations and imaginaries of care in contemporary audiovisual products, with particular reference to popular cultural products such as medical dramas and docuseries. By analysing some case studies, two perspectives will be put in close dialogue: on the one hand, the position of healthcare institutions and doctors, and on the other hand, the position of patients. Despite their partly fictitious and rhetorical nature, these audiovisual products demonstrate the way illness and health are represented and imagined, which constitutes not only an aesthetic of care, but care as felt and experienced in and through some practices of the body. In particular, the authors will consider how medical dramas and docuseries represent new technologies, from diagnostic imaging to extended reality technologies, investigating how these techno-scientific innovations reshape the conceptualisation of the body, the image of illness, the perception of therapeutic practices, and the relationship between doctor and patient
CAPTURING MOBILE LIVES. An Introduction
No full textSince the advent of small-gauge film devices, alternative audiovisual forms have adopted original and creative approaches to documenting personal experiences. Among these, amateur audiovisual films have often been characterized by self-referential and subjective expressions, whether shaped as “home movies” or individualistic autobiographical or self-portrayal declinations. From this perspective, the question is no longer how self-representational practices such as mobile and first-person filmmaking are used to express personal unique perspectives and styles, but rather what forms of self-narrative representation emerge within the exploration of novel methods and alternative renderings of the Self in audiovisual and digital media. Within a mediascape where social media platforms have catalyzed an unprecedented development of self-narrative forms through digital creative practices, nearly anyone can produce and share self-representations, acting as captures and stories of mobile lives. This issue of Comunicazioni Sociali proposes reflections on the disciplinary, theoretical, and historical intersections of amateur, personal, mobile storytelling and smartphone filmmaking. In particular, the issue aims to solicit contributions that seek to explore how digital storytelling, mobile and smartphone filmmaking can be understood today in both personal and collective forms
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