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Conversazione: Giulia Rispoli e Nina Canell
No full textDalle opere dada e surrealiste, indicative dell'interesse di alcuni autori per il tema dell’alchimia, alle produzioni di alcuni tra i più importanti esponenti delle neoavanguardie degli anni Sessanta e Settanta, fino alle ricerche recenti di alcuni significativi artisti e artiste delle ultime generazioni, il libro restituisce il quadro articolato di una mostra che restituisce la relazione che da sempre lega l’arte alla chimica degli elementi e alle trasformazioni della materia
Conversation: Giulia Rispoli and Nina Canell
No full textLiterally crumbling under our own weight, several metric tonnes of shells speak up from the ground, causing a sensation remote from that of walking on a gallery floor. Yet, crushed calcite from marine molluscs is an essential ingredient in concrete, a major constituent of our built environment. In Muscle Memory, a sculpture by Nina Canell, the biomineral forms that feed the construction industry gradually break down over the course of the exhibition. Material stress gives way to a sounding, durational sculpture, inviting us to consider the ineffable number of broken bodies that holds us up. Shell Reader calls on the material vitality of calcium carbonate, detailing broken pieces of shell from Muscle Memory. By foregrounding these fragments, each page echoes a crack, snap, split, or splinter
The Moment We Visualized the Anthropocene: Nuclear Winter and other Disasters
No full textAccording to the Nuclear Winter theory, a thermonuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union could cool down the Earth’s temperature to such an extent that it would alter the atmospheric processes as well as the biological components of the planet. Books, articles, and reports on this topic appeared in the 1980s. Films and visuals attracted media attention. But the Nuclear Winter soon became controversial. Lying at the intersection of climate science and biosphere studies, Giulia Rispoli shows how research on the Nuclear Winter became the subject of extensive smear campaigns, missing the occasion to offer a visual prophecy of the Anthropocene
Patterns of Interconnectedness: Venice Is Not Alone in the Anthropocene
No full textThis essay explores the interconnectedness of environmental phenomena in the Anthropocene through the lens of
Venice’s waterscape. It argues that climate change, biodiversity loss, and extreme weather events transcend national
borders and must be approached systemically, combining natural sciences and the humanities. Using Venice and
St. Petersburg as symbolic case studies, the text highlights how historically cosmopolitan water cities face parallel
challenges—rising seas, infrastructural limits, and governance failures—that reveal broader global patterns. Drawing
on planetary thinkers like Vernadsky and Chizhevsky, the essay calls for scalable, interdisciplinary approaches to
environmental governance that connect the local with the global
Le implicazioni filosofiche della cognizione vegetale
No full textLe specificità strutturali-funzionali delle piante, organismi sessili e privi di sistema nervoso, offrono l’opportunità di ripensare criticamente e ampliare gli orizzonti della ricerca sul tipo ed estensione dei processi e delle capacità cognitive presenti nel mondo vivente, potendo fornire, attraverso l’individuazione degli approcci epistemici più promettenti, una visione più approfondita e integrata della cognizione biologica, con particolare attenzione alle interazioni di tipo ecologico nello sviluppo inevitabilmente relazionale degli organismi.
Lo scopo di questa tesi è avviare una riflessione interdisciplinare sul potenziale chiarimento e arricchimento, derivante dagli studi in corso sulle capacità delle piante, di alcune importanti questioni trattate, in particolare, negli studi sul comportamento, in scienze cognitive e in filosofia della mente.
Impostando il lavoro su una ricostruzione storica degli argomenti, a cui segue una parte tratta dalla più recente letteratura scientifico-sperimentale sulle caratteristiche e abilità delle piante, e concludendo con una parte relativa alle implicazioni teoriche di questo tipo di studi in vari ambiti della ricerca filosofica, si vedrà in che termini e in che misura lo studio dei comportamenti vegetali, integrando e riproponendo le tradizionali domande in materia di cognizione, a partire da un diverso punto di partenza, possa originare nuovi interrogativi, aiutando ad approfondire e riformulare, forse anche rivoluzionare, alcune categorie abituali di analisi, reinterpretando, ad esempio, i concetti di percezione, azione, comportamento, memoria, apprendimento, attenzione, cognizione e mente
Evidence Ensembles [DNA #24]
No full textOur planet is experiencing the first stage of the Anthropocene: a highly disruptive transitional period of global weirding within which established ecological, climatic, geochemical and biological patterns are changing radically, and in some cases are threatened with collapse. Materialevidence for this planetary transition is abundant and mounting. To secure future habitability, other forms of evidence need to be added: the human aptitude to learn and correct itself, and the accommodation of cosmologies that allow for interdependency and care. Evidence Ensembles is an experimental collage of perspectives on the material witnesses of planetary change, their reconstruction and their calling on us
registrazione 5.3.19. Rispoli:Visioni sistemiche: organizzazione, integrazione e trasversalità nella “Tectologia” di Aleksandr Bogdanov
No full textGiulia Rispoli (Max-Planck-Istitut Berlin) Visioni sistemiche: organizzazione, integrazione e trasversalità nella “Tectologia” di Aleksandr Bogdanov Per ascoltare la registrazione cliccare qu
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
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