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“Fear No More”: Gender Politics and the “Hell” of New Media Technologies in Michael Almereyda’s Cymbeline (2014)
No full textThe paper focuses on Michael Almereyda’s Cymbeline (2014), a modernized re-telling of Shakespeare’s play in which the Briton motorcycle gang, led by drug kingpin Cymbeline, comes into conflict with the Rome police force, led by Caius Lucius. In the film, which has been defined as “Shakespeare in the Instagram age,” sustained attention to media practices and technologies competes with the incorporation of textual material. In particular, the film displays a conflict between old media, including Shakespearean textual inscriptions (e.g. the “Fear No More” woodcut that Posthumus makes and sends to Imogen as a gift), and new media technologies, pervasively associated with perverse visualization and the “spreadability” of rumour and untruth. The paper shows that the media consciousness of the film is inextricably linked with its politics of gender and, more specifically, that the processes of remediation that it repeatedly activates fundamentally contribute to the fashioning, rearticulation, and questioning of notions of masculinity and male bonding.Cet article analyse le film Cymbeline de Michael Almereyda (2014), réécriture moderne de la pièce de Shakespeare dans laquelle un gang de motards bretons insulaires, mené par le baron de la drogue Cymbeline, entre en conflit avec la police de Rome, dirigée par Caius Lucius. Dans le film, que l’on a pu qualifier de « Shakespeare à l’ère d’Instagram », l’attention soutenue portée à l’utilisation des médias et aux technologies entre en concurrence avec l’incorporation de matériau textuel. Le film repose en particulier sur le conflit entre les anciens médias, notamment des inscriptions renvoyant à des textes de Shakespeare (comme par exemple la gravure « Fear no more » fabriquée par Posthumus et qu’il envoie en cadeau à Imogène), et les nouveaux médias, associés systématiquement à une visualisation perverse et à la capacité de la rumeur mensongère à se répandre. Cet article montre que la conscience médiatique du film est indissociable de sa politique du genre et, plus précisément, que les processus de remédiation qu’il déclenche de façon répétée apportent une contribution fondamentale à l’élaboration, la reformulation et la mise en question des notions de masculinité et de compagnonnage masculin
Review Essay: "Calbi M., Spectral Shakespeares. Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century"
No full textReview Essay: Calbi M., Spectral Shakespeares. Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 201
States of Exception: Auto-immunity and the Body Politic in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
No full textThe essay starts by referring to a central moment in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, when the Roman hero reacts to his banishment by banishing: “I banish you!" (3.3.123). These lines, the essay argues, provide, in a condensed form, a radical shift of perspective on the question of the boundaries of Rome: how far does Rome extend? Can Rome banish herself ? Does Rome move with Coriolanus as he moves “elsewhere” (3. 3. 135)? They also force the audience to reconsider the "nature" of the political decision that leads to the ban. Taking its cue from this line, the essay shows that the question of boundaries in Coriolanus is intimately connected with the uncanny logic of "auto-immunity" which affects Rome’s body politic, a "strange illogical logic by which a living being can spontaneously destroy [...] the very thing within it that is supposed to protect it against the other" (J Derrida). The essay also argues that auto-immunity prevails insofar as political life in Rome repeatedly presents itself as life under a state of exception (G. Agamben), a life which is ultimately produced as the bare life of the homo sacer. Coriolanus clearly emblematizes the bare life of the homo sacer. Yet as a Roman / un-Roman hero, he also shows "practices of self-undoing that could clear a path out of the state of exception" (Kuzner). Most notably amongst these, the essay concludes, is his encounter with Aufidius, an encounter which temporarily enacts a "dis-arming" regime of inoperativeness focusing on the un-martial "nothing" (4.5.127) of masculine dreams and fantasies
Staging Rhetoric: Reading The White Devil's Trial Scene
No full textthe paper examines the trial scene in the White Devil within the context of rhetorical discourses of the perio
How Face Mask Wearing Affects the Sense of Self: Breathing as a Case of Disrupted Bodily Self-Consciousness
No full textThis pioneer study focuses on the feedback effect that the face mask has on its wearer’s sense of Self (i.e. bodily Self-consciousness) caused by its multisensorial components and affordances which are taken into account from a first-person perspective approach. On the grounds of enactivism and Material Engagement Theory, we run qualitative semi-structured interviews recruiting 48 participants: 24 people had no experience using lower face coverings before COVID-19 pandemic (February 2020) and 24 people were hospital workers with such prior experience. Results show that face mask wearing dramatically updates bodily Self-consciousness retroacting on breathing experience, with differences between the two groups. This is consistent with evidence showing that breathing is “transparent” unless bodily, environmental, and/or emotional changes arouse a situated awareness of it. We conclude that the face mask performs a retroactive effect, which we explained as due to a “material performative agency” that significantly modifies the standard balance between the transparency and the opacity of our bodily Self-consciousness
Notulae alla checklist della Flora vascolare italiana 8: 1605. Paronychia echinulata Chater (Caryophyllaceae); 1606. Carduus crispus L. subsp. crispus (Asteraceae); 1607. Dianthus cathusianorum L. subsp. atrorubens (All.) Hegi (Caryophyllaceae); Narcissus pseudonarcissus L. subsp. pseudonarcissus (Amaryllidaceae); Smyrnium perfoliatum L. subsp. rotundifolium (Mill.) Hartvig (Apiaceae).
No full textNotulae alla Flora esotica d’Italia 1: 16. Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don f. (Malvaceae); 17. Chamaesyce nutans (Lag.) Small (Euphorbiaceae).
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Notulae alla checklist della Flora vascolare italiana 12: 1849. Linaria genistifolia (L.) Mill. (Plantaginaceae).
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