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I wanna be Watson! Towards an eco-phenomenology of Carmelo Bene’s cinema
No full textCarmelo Bene’s films (1968–1973) were traumatic event in the history of Italian cinema. As a ‘visual philosopher’ he developed a counter-hegemonic discourse on the Self, being ‘within and against’ a complex transmedia environment that mixes practice with theory, writing with showing, performing with directing. In this article I will analyse Bene’s visual work through a methodology inspired by Consciousness Studies. I argue that Bene’s transmedia approach of giving up the unity and the wholeness of Self may be framed into a whole philosophical philum that relates to phenomenology, post-structuralism, cognitive science and Image Theory. In the first section I will illustrate the theory of consciousness of the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, going back to those thinkers with whom I have found similarities (Nietzsche, Sartre, Deleuze, Žižek), and integrating the discussion with Bene’s visual–theoretical suggestions taken from his television programmes and performances. In the second part I will analyse four Bene’s films Nostra signora dei turchi/Our Lady of the Turks (1968), Capricci/Caprices (1969), Don Giovanni/Don Juan (1970) and Salomé (1972) through the theories so far discussed, in order to blur the distinction between authorship and spectatorship, in favour of a distributed experience and hermeneutics of Self through mind, body and (imaginary-situated) environment
Caccia al divo: un approccio transindividuale al mito di Cary Grant
No full textAttraverso un approccio narratologico di stampo cognitivo, il saggio propone uno studio del fenomeno divistico di Cary Grant. Combinando gli studi di David Herman sull’embodied e embedded narrative e quelli di Yves Citton sul potere euristico del mito, si inquadra la mitopoiesi contemporanea come strumento cognitivo atto a sviluppare forme di intelligenza incarnata e distribuita. Si affronta quindi la parabola divistica di Cary Grant attraverso l’analisi del mondo filmico di Caccia al Ladro (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) e quello letterario di 54 (Wu Ming, 2002) evidenziandone la peculiare propensione alla transmedialità e alla distribuzione cognitiva
Performance of a vibration isolator with sigmoidal force-deflection curve
Full text linkThis paper presents a theoretical insight on the performance of a vibration isolator consisting of a combination of linear mechanical springs arranged to achieve a specific form of geometric nonlinearity. In particular, positive and negative stiffness nonlinearities are combined to achieve a sigmoidal shape of the force-deflection curve, which is proven to be beneficial for vibration isolation purposes when the amplitude of vibration is relatively large. Such behaviour is fundamentally different from that of the classical quasi-zero-stiffness isolator, which presents a low dynamic stiffness at the equilibrium configuration and is thus effective for relatively low amplitude of vibration. The analytical findings are validated by numerical simulations, providing useful guidelines for the design of such isolators
Police et Politique. Sous la direction de Claude Journés avex G. Bollenot, R. Dulong, J. Gatti, G. Oved, M. J. Sublet, Lyon 1988
No full textRecenzja: Police et Politique. Sous la direction de Claude Journés avex G. Bollenot, R. Dulong, J. Gatti, G. Oved, M. J. Sublet, Lyon 1988 
Indagine sulle figure professionali coinvolte nella didattica delle lingue nei CLA: dati preliminari
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Identification of a large complex containing the integrin alpha 6 beta 1 laminin receptor in neural retinal cells
No full textGoing 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
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