44 research outputs found
Brateìs Datas. Pratiche rituali, votivi e strumenti del culto dai santuari della Lucania antica (Atti delle Giornate di Studio sui Santuari Lucani, Matera, 19 e 20 febbraio 2010)
No full textEmanuela Piga Bruni, La macchina fragile. L’inconscio artificiale fra letteratura, cinema, televisione, Roma, Carocci, 2022, 180 pp., € 19,00
No full textLa macchina fragile rappresenta un esempio virtuoso di integrazione critica multidisciplinare fra i consciousness studies, i science fiction studies e l’intelligenza artificiale. In questo volume, Piga Bruni propone un’indagine della coscienza riarticolata attraverso l’ipotesi del postumano, a partire dalla trattazione di una selezione di testi letterari, cinematografici, televisivi e d’animazione del genere sci-fi
Nota di commento a Trib. Roma 17 marzo 2010
No full textI compensi ex art. 3 legge 93/1992 (prima) e 71septies e 71octies l.a. (poi) spettano al produttore originario (straniero) e non anche a chi sia da lui autorizzato ad eseguirne una edizione/versione nazionale, preparando a questo fine la traduzione, il doppiaggio, i tagli necessari per adattare l’opera al mercato locale e la sostituzione di titoli, sigle e temi musicali per le medesime ragioni
Ninfe ad Heraklea Lucana? Il santuario extra-urbano di Masseria Petrulla nella Valle del Sinni (Policoro – MT)
No full textNota di commento a Trib. Cagliari 18 giugno 2010
No full textIn attesa di introduzione della disciplina di regolamentazione dell’AGCOM, i conflitti di assegnazione dei numeri dei canali sul telecomando del digitale terrestre ricadono nella giurisdizione dell’autorità giudiziaria ordinari
‘A Sea of Dark Green Plants’: Rereading Joseph Conrad’s The Planter of Malata in the Plantationocene
No full textIn this paper I use the systemic concept of ‘Plantationocene’ to map out my reading of Joseph Conrad’s short story ‘The Planter of Malata’ (TPM) (1914), reframing Conrad as a writer of the current geological age, where human activity has induced devastating alterations to the Earth. In my ecoreading of TPM, time acquires a double analytical meaning. While I focus on the historical entanglements between capital investment and imperial goals of colonial scientific management mirrored in TPM, I also look at this short story from a biocolonial perspective, foregrounding the role of displaced plant life as extremely relevant for an ontologically plural contextual understanding of TPM as a narrative of the Plantationocene. Ultimately, I argue that TPM gives access to what could be termed the Plantationocene ‘unconscious’, in Mark Bould’s sense of the term, as it portrays for a contemporary readership the realities of human and nonhuman dislocation, relocation and exploitation unfolding in the context of the imperial plantation at the beginning of the twentieth century
The Year Without Summer: Exploring the Environmental Uncanny in Neo-Georgian Climate Fiction
No full textThe late-twentieth-century debate on the ‘death of the novel’, as reflected in the writings of John Barth and Alain Robbe-Grillet, foreshadowed recent critiques regarding the genre’s ability to address contemporary issues like climate change. Despite this, some scholars argue that the twenty-first-century novel remains well suited to engage with present complexities, particularly within the realm of cli-fi. Among its sub-genres, the historical climate change novel stands out for its capacity to estrange us from the present, thereby denaturalizing social reality and constructing a relational historical account of the climate crisis that intertwines multiple spatial and temporal dimensions, even beyond the human. While several historical cli-fi works blend realism with the fabulous and the surreal, Guinevere Glasfurd’s neo-Georgian climate fiction novel The Year Without Summer (TYWS) (2020) aligns more closely with the tradition of historical realism. This alignment is significant, as it anchors the novel's reimagining of history while integrating the non- human into historical discourse.
In this paper, I aim to investigate the potential of TYWS in depicting what Amitav Ghosh terms the ‘environmental uncanny’, namely the encounter with the unpredictability of the non-human. The six stories that comprise Glasfurd’s novel, set in Indonesia, England, and the United States during the eruption of Mount Tambora and the subsequent summer of 1816, feature characters—both historical and fictional— who, despite spatial and temporal distances, are interconnected by a catastrophic non-human event. I will suggest that this non-human force not only plays a crucial thematic role but also serves as a cohesive element in the novel's fragmented narrative structure, thereby demonstrating the potential of historical realism to articulate an ontologically plural history
