70 research outputs found
“But the skin of the earth is seamless”: Liberating Symbols of Nature in "Borderlands/The New Mestiza" by Gloria Anzaldúa
No full text“Build bridges, not walls!” Recently, this old slogan has boldly resounded in the streets of America. One of the greatest advocates of that belief was certainly Gloria Anzaldúa, author of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) and co-author of This Bridge We Call Home (2002), among others. In Borderlands she offered a dramatic and revolutionary view on the life in the borderlands, nourishing with new life-blood the Latino, Feminist e Post-colonial studies. Being herself a Chicana grown up in the Texas-Mexico border area, Anzaldúa denounces the “terrorism” practiced by the U.S. government but also shows a possible path to follow in order to positively re-think the complex border identity: “I am participating in the creation of yet another culture, a new story to explain the world and our participation in it, a new value system with images and symbols that connect us to each other and to the planet” (81). Anzaldúa goes beyond the rationally cold, artificially created citizenship identity, towards a conception of the self more linked to the truth of being simply humans living on a planet whose surface is “seamless”. Nature is indeed central in her “new value system” and an endless source of symbols for her discourse. The aim of this article is to bring out the meanings attributed to Nature by Anzaldúa, proposing a close-reading of three poems included in Borderlands, where Nature (concreted in both natural space and animal life), becomes a symbol of the fight for liberation. “Horse”, “Wind tugging at my sleeve”, and “Dead”, are representative of the three main meanings we believe Anzaldúa ascribed to Nature: Nature as the strength we should – but frequently don’t - find in ourselves to fight oppression; Nature as the rebellion to the untruthful duality imposed by the border; Nature as the possibility of rebirth in a new identity
AI-Generated Media and the Erosion of Trust in Legal Settings: A Review on Impact and Distortion of Belief
No full textThe rapid advancements of generative AI (GenAI) technologies have brought the issue of data manipulation to a whole new level. Now individuals can easily create highly realistic fabricated media, including videos, audio, and images, that are increasingly difficult to detect. These developments raise broad societal concerns, particularly in legal contexts, where authenticity of evidence is central to ensuring fairness. This review links documented legal cases to psychological research on memory distortion and false confessions to explore how AI-generated evidence affects individuals’ perception and sense of self and the consequences in a legal context. Decades of research have shown that memory’s vulnerability to suggestion, especially highlighting the power of personalized misinformation. Even in the pre-AI era, studies have shown how false memories have been induced using suggestion and simple media manipulations and how these have led to false confessions. GenAI adds another level of concern, yet no research directly examines its potential to distort memory and to elicit false confessions. This paper identifies urgent questions: How does AI-generated evidence impact memory? How can individuals ensure authenticity of the evidence confronting them? And how can legal systems prepare for the erosion of trust brought upon by this uncertainty? Proposed solutions like watermarking and implementation of authenticity protocols offer partial relief; however, the rapid advancements make sure that no definitive safeguards can be implemented. Understanding how GenAI interacts with our memory vulnerabilities is critical not only for legal psychology but for safeguarding the integrity of justice in today’s digitally mediated society.
Keywords: Generative AI, deepfakes, memory distortion, legal psychology, false confessions, trust in evidenc
Italy: Legal Response to Covid-19
No full textScholarly report and analysis of national legal responses to Covid-19 around the world. The Compendium is composed of reports by country teams, headed by one or more Country or Territory Rapporteurs, who coordinate the production and updating of the relevant Country Reports. The reports are written by reference to a comprehensive Author Guidance Code (AGC). The AGC covers five topics:
I. Introduction
II. Applicable Legal Framework
III. Institutions and Oversight
IV. Public Health Measures, Enforcement and Compliance
V. Social and Employment Protection Measures
VI. Human Rights of Vulnerable Group
And Not Or, Kim Schoenstadt’s Composition for a Large Room in Three Parts
No full textThis essay focuses on the the relationship between spectator and art object as a Modernist dichotomy of author and viewer.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/art_books/1007/thumbnail.jp
L’autografia d'autore: Cambiamenti nella realizzazione e nella concezione del libro dal XII secolo all’invenzione della stampa
Get PDFIt is generally believed that the invention of printing triggered a cultural change, marking the passage between the medieval idea of the book and the modern one. It should be noted, though, that there was an important evolution through the Late Middle Ages, and that the printing revolution, however crucial, must be placed inside the wider process that from the XIIth century onwards transformed the use and function of writing, of reading and, consequently, the book itself, both theoretically and physically. The aim of this study is to track the cultural roots of the changes in the practices of intellectual work and, viceversa, to determine whether and how such changes may have influenced, through the literary production, late medieval culture. I have focused on the phenomenon of literary autography which, very unusual in the Early Middle Ages, is attested by a new and uninterrupted series of examples from the XIth-XIIth centuries onwards. The cultural landscape of the end of the Middle Ages appears therefore marked by the tension between a recurring drive towards an individualisation of the relation between an author and his work and a strict control by the author over the final product (both philologically and graphically) and an opposite trend leading to the loosening of the author's control over his work, as a natural result of the circulation of the texts but also of a different idea of the authorial role
Surgical strategy in treatment of metopic synostosis in a single centre experience: technical note and quantitative analysis of the outcomes.
No full textTrigonocephaly is the most common craniosynostosis involving orbits. Although some degree of agreement has been reached regarding surgical timing and indications for treatment, there is no consensus regarding the ideal operative technique to guarantee an optimal morphological outcome. The purpose of this study is to describe both strategies and to compare morphological outcomes by means of morphological surface analysis obtained from three-dimensional (3D) stereophotogrammetry, with two different techniques. We retrospectively investigated 43 patients with metopic synostosis surgically treated between 2004 and 2020. Two different techniques were applied, addressed as technique A and B. Ten patients undergone postoperative 3d stereophotogrammetry were enrolled, and cephalometric measurements were taken and compared to a cohort of unaffected patients matched by age and gender. Comparison of the groups demonstrated a hypercorrection of the metopic angle of the second technique, associated with a slightly lower correction of the interfrontoparietal diameter. The metopic angle showed to be significantly undercorrected with the first method. Alternated barrel staving technique appears to be a quick and satisfactory method in cranial remodelling for metopic synostosis. It guarantees an optimal aesthetic result in the first years after surgery. [Abstract copyright: © 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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