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Plenitudine visuale: note di cultura visuale nel congegno ‘salva progressi’ di “Rick & Morty”
Full text linkPartendo da una ricognizione critica del volume Plenitudine digitale di Jay David Bolter (2019), il saggio intende fornire un contributo al dibattito teorico sull'esperienza utente nel sistema di produzione e disposizione delle immagini digitali che è definibile come "plenitudine visuale". L'ipotesi di partenza è che l’odierna plenitudine visuale - caratterizzata dall’ibridazione fra cultura alta e popolare, vecchi e nuovi media, istanze politiche conservatrici e radicali - promuova esperienze utente di auto-riflessione e addestramento alle stesse procedure visuali. In particolare, navigando lungo le dicotomie epistemologiche individuate da Bolter (catarsi/flusso, originalità/remix, spontaneità/proceduralità, storia/simulazione), e adoperando gli strumenti dei software e visual studies, si prenderà in esame un "media immaginario" presentato nella puntata della serie animata Rick & Morty (Adult Swim, 2015-) intitolata The Vat of Acid Episode (L'episodio della vasca d'acido, 2020), dove Rick costruisce al nipote Morty un telecomando che gli permette di salvare e ricaricare istanti della propria vita reale. La storia di questo device è inquadrata come oggetto di training visuale per guidare il personaggio e lo spettatore fra le relazioni di potere che intercorrono tra forme del racconto audiovisivo e strategie di capitalizzazione dell'immaginario, utilizzi trasparenti e fantasie legate ai dispositivi di visione digitali e conseguenze invisibili e materiali connesse al loro utilizzo globale.Drawing on a critical overview of Jay David Bolter's volume Digital Plenitude (2019), the essay aims to provide a contribution to the theoretical debate on user experience design in the system of digital image displacement that is definable as "visual plenitude." The starting hypothesis is that today's visual plenitude – characterized by the hybridization of high and popular culture, old and new media, conservative and radical political instances – promotes self-reflective user experiences and forms of trainings to its very visual procedures. In particular, by navigating along the epistemological dichotomies identified by Bolter (catharsis/flow, originality/remix, spontaneity/procedurality, history/simulation), and by using the tools of software and visual studies, we will examine an "imaginary media" presented in the episode of the animated series Rick & Morty (Adult Swim, 2015-) titled The Vat of Acid Episode (2020), where Rick builds his nephew Morty a remote control that allows him to save and reload moments of his real life. The story of this device is considered as an example of "visual training" which guides the character and the spectators through the power relations among forms of audiovisual narration and strategies of capitalization of the imaginary, transparent uses and fantasies linked to digital display devices and invisible and material consequences linked to their global usage
The Mecha that therefore we are (not): an eco-phenomenological reading of Neon Genesis Evangelion
Full text linkIn the late 1960s, the Japanese animation inaugurated a prolific science fiction strand which addressed the topic of mediated experience. In a context of transnational reception and consumption of anime, the “robotic” subgenre (particularly the one that will be called “mecha” in the 1980s, i.e., narratives of giant robots piloted by a human within) occupies a strategic place. By highlighting the peculiar synergy between themes, forms of storytelling and “out-of-joint” consumption, the Japanese robotic animation series thematized and popularized content and perspectives on mediated experience that I define as “eco-phenomenological”: “phenomenological” because (i) it reevaluates the quality of the subjective experience in its historical and biocultural context; “ecological” because (ii) it look at the environment as an intelligent system; and (iii) it proposed a multidisciplinary approach between the human sciences and the life sciences.
The article proposes an analysis of the forms of narration and reception of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996), in its ability to have intercepted, synthesized and internationally popularized in an innovative and almost unparalleled way, the complexity of the eco-phenomenological perspective. Views and epistemological approaches at the center of the contemporary scientific and cultural debate will be reconstructed, discussed and analyzed through the concepts of body, mind, environment and presence which are promoted in the Evangelion series
La città dall'astrazione delle mappe alla pratica dei percorsi: Ciudad de México
No full textIspirato dalle "Città Invisibili" di Italo Calvino e guidato dalla visione teorica di Michel De Certeau, questo saggio si concentra sull’intreccio originario, costante e sempre cangiante di astrazione e pratica del vivere le città. In particolare la riflessione è dedicata a Ciudad de México, e a come lo sguardo letterario di due grandi autori ha potuto osservare e descrivere questa metropoli contemporanea: Carlos Monsiváis, che, in “Tepito como leyenda”, costruisce una mappa di simboli ed emblemi leggendari, unica mappa possibile di una città ormai anonima e impersonale, dove per ritrovarsi, ci si può orientare solo a partire dai personaggi che la vivono; Jorge Ibargüengoitia, che, in "¿Olvida usted su equipaje?", affronta una Ciudad de México il cui caos urbanistico e socio-culturale rende quasi impossibile non solo mappare la città ma, prima ancora, percorrerla
Gatti, Giuseppe
No full textSi tratta del primo profilo critico-biografico dell'archeologo romano Giuseppe Gatt
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
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