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Transfigurazioni mostruose. Tra rabbia, disforia ed euforia
Full text linkThe article offers a theoretical exploration of one of the infinite potentialities of the monstrous body, a body that appears as deviant, non-conforming, as it escapes the pre-established boundaries of what is deemed as acceptable; it exceeds and in this exceeding it imposes its diversity while imposing a re-vision. These potentialities have been recognised by feminist, posthuman, and in particular trans* and transfeminist literature and theory, and it is the latter that will be here tackled. The trans* body is one of those bodies that are still demonised as monstrous, and it is precisely on account of that perversity to which it is associated, that, in some instances, it has chosen to identify and align with the monster. Embracing monstrosity becomes not only a symbolic but a political act of disidentification that implies embracing otherness with strength and pride: rejecting the impositions of a normative body, acknowledging one’s own multiplicity and opening up to multiplicities; becoming a figure of ‘potent fusions,’ as well as of ‘potent alliances.’L’articolo propone una esplorazione teorica di una delle infinite potenzialità del corpo mostruoso, un corpo che appare come deforme, non conforme, mentre fuoriesce dai confini prestabiliti di quello che è considerato accettabile; eccede e in questo eccedere si impone nella sua diversità e impone un ripensamento. Queste potenzialità sono state colte dalla letteratura e dalla teoria femminista, postumana, e in particolare trans* e transfemminista, e proprio su quest’ultime ci si vuole concentrare. Il corpo trans* è uno dei corpi che continuano a essere demonizzati come mostruosi e, precisamente per quella anomalia cui è associato, esso ha scelto in certi casi di identificarsi e di allearsi con il mostruoso. Abbracciare la mostruosità diventa un atto non solo simbolico ma pienamente politico di disidentificazione che implica abbracciare la propria alterità con forza e orgoglio: rifiutare le imposizioni di un corpo normato, riconoscere la propria molteplicità e aprirsi alle molteplicità; farsi figura di ‘potenti fusioni,’ nonché di ‘potenti alleanze.
Introduction. In: (a cura di): Albertazzi S, Cattani F, Monticelli M, Zullo F, (Post)Colonial Passages. Incursions and Excursions across the Literatures in English. p. 1-4, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE:Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Citations of "Difference": Human/Non-Human, Mutations, and Contaminations in Utopian/Dystopian Television Series
No full textThe essay explores the relationship human/non-human (a dichotomy per se problematic) in the television series Wayward Pines and True Blood. The contamination between utopia, dystopia, post-apocalyptic, and gothic fiction that characterizes them (although in different thematic and structural modes) is the passage where social and cultural issues together with fears and desires are exposed and elaborated. Formally constructed as a utopia, Wayward Pines is a postmodern, post-apocalyptic show, reproducing many patterns of classical dystopias. It presents insurmountable boundaries separating it from the outside, and is established on a system based on “surveilling and punishing”. The closed, rigid borders, both material and symbolic, that also involve issues of gender, otherness, and identity, unfold in the relationship between humans and non-humans as a reflection of the fears of possible contamination and death, haunted by the memory of the primitive as the zero degree of civilization and women as functional in the system. Binary oppositions such as town/wilderness, civilization/primitive, reason/state of nature can be seen as a citation derived from primitivist cultural representations. By expressing different forms of life that exceed the binary thought, True Blood focuses on potentially subversive representations of sexual preferences, “ethnicities”, and classes, evoking civil rights against prejudices and many forms of discrimination. Overcoming the human/non-human dichotomy, the show succeeds in portraying a continuum of evolving, mutable, and mutating identities to give poetic and political space to new forms of posthumanism. At the same time, the increase of conflicts amongst different “species” and vampire groups might reassert the same dichotomy that True Blood has attempted to overcome, thus possibly depriving utopia/dystopia of its subversive powers. Despite their structural diversity, these television series are significant of an urgent quest not only to produce new meanings for identity and otherness, but also to envisage radically new forms of subjectivities in post-postcolonial and posthuman times
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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