28 research outputs found
La soledad y la rabia: Reflexiones en torno a La rabbia (1963) de Pier Paolo Pasolini
Get PDFThis video essay aims to explore some of the relationships between loneliness and La rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Inspired by the centenary of the birth of this Italian author and the various discussions sparked in Colombia during this celebration, this paper argues that this work is significant for contemporary videographic criticism. The goal is to emphasize how the notion of solitude presented in Pasolini’s work, and specifically in La rabbia, can foster the creation of various connections in Latin America. The important bond between the essay and loneliness in the region can lead to fruitful alliances with a videographic lineage originating from Pasolini’s work.La rabbia de Pier Pasolini es un film-ensayo que aún nos ofrece interrogantes y respuestas fundamentales para nuestro presente. Sin embargo, la tradición video-ensayística contemporánea lo ha pasado por alto. En el video ensayo propuesto se busca reflexionar en torno a La rabbia (1963) y a los posibles linajes de video ensayos que la tomen en cuenta. En especial, se realiza un énfasis en la noción soledad que puede encontrarse en la obra de Pasolini. Al mismo tiempo, se mestiza estos interrogantes con experiencias personales, fenómenos sociales de Colombia e inquietudes que el ensayo latinoamericano ha presentado. ¿Puede existir una rabia solitaria en el mundo contemporáneo? ¿ Qué nuevos tipos de video ensayos podrían emerger si pier pasolini fuera más conocido en la escena de crítica videografica contemporánea? Son preguntas que se exploran en este proyecto.
Political Instability and Lessons for Pakistan: Case Study of 2014 PTI Sit in Protests
Get PDFIt’s a short allegory to present the case for the importance of Political stability in the economic progress of a country. The Arab spring protests were seen as strengthening democracy in the Arab world. Notwithstanding the surprise Arab spring brought in shape of further destabilizing Middle East, a similar environment of unrest and protests in a practicing democracy like Pakistan capture same dynamics of uncertainty that dampen economic destabilization. The paper briefly covers PTI’s sit in protests in year 2014 to make a case for how political instability stifled economic progress in Pakistan though momentarily
EDL-Det: A Robust TTS Synthesis Detector Using VGG19-Based YAMNet and Ensemble Learning Block
No full textVarious audio deep fake synthesis algorithms exist, such as deep voice, tacotron, fastspeech, and imitation techniques. Despite the existence of various spoofing speech detectors, they are not ready to distinguish unseen audio samples with high precision. In this study, we suggest a robust model, namely an Ensemble Deep Learning Detector (EDL-Det), to detect text-to-speech (TTS) and categorize it into spoofed and bonafide classes. Our proposed model is an improved method based on Yet Another Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Network (YAMNet) employing VGG19 as a base network combined with two other deep learning(DL) techniques. Our proposed system effectively analyzes the audio to extract better artifacts. We have added an ensemble learning block that consists of ResNet50 and InceptionNetv2. First, we convert speech into mel-spectrograms that consist of time-frequency representations. Second, we train our model using the ASVspoof-2019 dataset. Ultimately, we classified the audios, transforming them into mel-spectrograms using our trained binary classifier and a majority voting scheme by three networks. Due to ensemble architecture, our proposed model effectively extracts the most representative features from the mel-spectrograms. Furthermore, we have performed extensive experiments to assess the performance of the suggested model using the ASVspoof 2019 corpus. Additionally, our proposed model is robust enough to identify the unseen spoofed audios and accurately classify the attacks based on cloning algorithms
<i>The Rage</i> and the limits of essay film
Get PDFComo trabajo realizado a partir de un encargo y pieza excepcional en la filmografía de Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Rabbia conjuga un inusual modo de operación con la imagen y la palabra. Pasolini partió de un voluminoso archivo documental de fuentes diversas, realizó su propio montaje de imágenes y a partir de esa estructura elaboró un guion que es, en sí mismo, una pieza de escritura experimental donde se articulan poesía y prosa. El proyecto y el resultado fueron explícitamente caracterizados por el autor como un ensayo cinematográfico.As commissioned work and exceptional piece in Pasolini’s filmography, La Rabbia opens an unusual mode of operation with images and words. Pasolini started from a voluminous documentary archive of diverse sources, made his own montage of images and visualizing that structure he produced a script that was itself an experimental writing piece which articulates poetry and prose. The project and the result were explicitly characterized by the author as an essay film.Facultad de Bellas Arte
Pasolini – Guareschi. Poetycka „Wściekłość” i jej dalsze reperkusje
No full textAutor podejmuje zagadnienia produkcji, egzegezy i kontekstów ideologiczno-politycznych pierwszego włoskiego filmu montażowego La rabbia, autorstwa Piera Paola Pasoliniego i Giovanniego Guareschiego. Film stworzony w 1962 r., na podstawie materiałów filmowych gromadzonych przez dwie dekady przez kronikę filmową Mondo Libero, miał przedstawić problemy współczesności z dwóch przeciwstawnych pozycji ideologicznych: lewicowej, reprezentowanej przez Pasoliniego, oraz prawicowej, reprezentowanej przez Guareschiego. W swoim tekście Jóźwiak zakwestionował dotychczasowe interpretacje tego filmu. Wnikliwa analiza warstwy dialogowej oraz materiału wizualnego ukazuje wątpliwą z dzisiejszej perspektywy pozycję polityczną Pasoliniego wobec reżimu sowieckiego, na którą składa się m.in. usprawiedliwianie inwazji sowieckiej na Węgry w 1956 r. i etyczna relatywizacja polityki sowieckiej. Z drugiej strony, analiza prawicowej, „faszystowskiej” części Guareschiego prowadzi do zaskakujących wniosków, dotyczących zakamuflowanego wpływu jego myśli na późną postawę polityczną Pasoliniego. W tym świetle La rabbia jawi się jako przełomowy film w ewolucji myśli i twórczości Pasoliniego.The author deals with the production, exegesis and ideological and political contexts of the first Italian compilation film La Rabbia (Anger) by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi. The film created in 1962, based on film footage collected by the film chronicle Mondo Libero for two decades, was to present the problems of modernity from two opposing ideological positions: leftist, represented by Pasolini, and rightwing, represented by Guareschi. In his text Jóźwiak questions the previous interpretations of this film. An in-depth analysis of the dialogue layer and visual material reveals the political position of Pasolini, which from today’s perspective raises doubts, towards the Soviet regime, which consists of, among others, justification of the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and ethical relativization of Soviet policy. On the other hand, the analysis of the right-wing “fascist” part of Guareschi leads to surprising conclusions regarding the camouflaged influence of his thoughts on Pasolini’s later political attitude. In this light La Rabbia appears as a ground-breaking film in the evolution of Pasolini’s thought and creativity
Brain-RetinaNet: Detection of Brain Tumour Using an Improved RetinaNet in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Get PDFBrain tumours disrupt the normal functioning of the brain and, if left untreated, can invade surrounding tissues, blood vessels, and nerves, posing a severe threat. Consequently, early detection is crucial to prevent tragic outcomes. Distinguishing brain tumours through manual detection poses a significant challenge given their diverse features, such as differing shapes, sizes, and nucleus characteristics. Therefore, this research introduces an improved architecture for tumour detection named as Brain-RetinaNet, an extension of the RetinaNet model. Brain-RetinaNet is specifically designed for automated detection and identification of brain tumours in MRI images. It utilises an advanced multiscale feature fusion mechanism within the X-module, complemented by the channel attention module. The feature fusion mechanism within the X-module progressively merges features from different scales, producing enriched feature maps that encompass valuable information. At the same time, the attention module dynamically allocates optimal weights to individual channels within the feature map, enabling the network to prioritise relevant features while reducing interference from unnecessary ones. Moreover, this study employs data augmentation technique to address the limitation of a limited number of available samples. Experimental results indicate that Brain-RetinaNet outperforms existing detectors such as YOLO, SSD, Centernet, EfficientNet, and M2det for the brain tumour detection from MRI images
Divergent definitions in the visibility strategy of the LGTB movement in Cordova
Get PDFEl presente artículo explora la visibilidad como problema, objetivo y estrategia del activismo LGTB. Enfocado en la reciente apropiación de la Marcha del Orgullo como práctica política por parte de un sector
del movimiento LGTB cordobés, se indaga cómo los activistas disputan modos legítimos de articular una estrategia de visibilidad. Signada por el riesgo de su posible mercantilización y el vaciamiento político,
la marcha constituyó no obstante el escenario de nuevas y confrontadas definiciones del status ciudadano de
la diversidad sexo-genérica. A partir de observaciones de campo y entrevistas a activistas se interrogó cómo la trayectoria en la militancia, las subjetividades exo-genéricas en juego, el acceso diferencial a recursos y la radicalidad relativa de sus plataformas constituyeron factores determinantes en la definición de la estrategia de visibilidad en términos ‘festivos’ o ‘combativos’.This article explores visibility as a problem, an objective and a strategy of LGTB activism. Focusing on the recent appropriation of the Pride March as a political practice on the part of one sector of the LGTB Cordova movement, the author examines how activists dispute legitimate modes of articulating a visibility strategy.
Marked by the risk of commercialization and an emptying of political content, the march nevertheless constitutes a stage for new and opposing definitions of the citizen status of sexual-gender diversity. Based on field
observations and interviews with activists, the author interrogates how the trajectory in militancy, the sexualgender
subjectivities at play, differential access to resources and the relatively radical character of their platforms
constitute determining factors in the definition of the visibility strategy in ‘festive’ or ‘combative’ terms
Il fantastico, il meraviglioso e lo stranno nella composizione della figura del narratore in Castelli di rabbia, di Alessandro Baricco
No full textThe goal of this research is to clarify how the literary modes Fantastic, Wonderful and Strange, as defined by Ceserani (2006), are important for the composition and valorization of the figure of the narrator in contemporary society in Alessandro Baricco‘s Castelli di rabbia (1991). It‘s believed that the narrator in this work is the one took into consideration by Walter Benjamin (1996), which would be an almost extinct decadent figure due to the arrival of the modernity and the decline of collective experience. The Italian author of this work builds a narrative in which there are several smaller narratives that compose the novel. Each one of these smaller narratives happens inside of a fantastic universe, in which the above-quoted literary modes take place alternately. To study these literary modes, authors such as Furtado (1980), Ceserani (2006), Bessière (1974), and also some considerations of Todorov (1975), pioneering author in this field of study, will be taken into consideration. Each one of the smaller stories narrated have in common the fact that they approach a life goal of some character inside of an imaginary universe, in which the rules of our natural world no longer exist. All these goals are apparently impossible and unreachable, and, however, the characters insist on pursuing them. The goal of this research is to demonstrate how the yen of accomplishment of these goals and the fact that the characters never lose their faith build a strong dialogue with Walter Benjamin‘s conceptions about the narrator and modernity, given that each character narrates his story as well as the ancient ones that preceded this period, in which, according to Benjamin, the art of narrating is about to disappear. The objective of this study is to make explicit how Alessandro Baricco employs the literary modes Fantastic, Wonderful and Weird to revalorize the narrator, creating allegories based on an imaginary universe. In this universe, the characters narrate and share experiences, as well as the narrator defined by Walter Benjamin does. The allegories built have the goal of creating an association between the act of narrating and the act of resisting to the death of narrative and of literature as art, given that after the arrival of bourgeois modernity, literature in general starts to be sold as merchandise. Therefore, literature loses its advisable character, being an object through which it is possible to share experiences. This causes the loss of ancient literary values.O objetivo desta pesquisa será de esclarecer como os modos literários Fantástico, Maravilhoso e Estranho, como os define Ceserani (2006), são importantes para a composição e valorização da figura do narrador na sociedade contemporânea, em Castelli di rabbia, de Alessandro Baricco (1991). Acredita-se que o narrador presente na obra corpus seja aquele sobre o qual fala Walter Benjamin (1996), que seria uma figura decadente e quase extinta devido ao advento da modernidade e ao declínio da experiência coletiva. O autor da obra corpus, de origem italiana, constrói uma narrativa em que há diversas narrações menores que compõem o corpo de seu romance, e cada uma destas pequenas narrações acontecerá dentro de um universo insólito, no qual se alternarão os modos literários anteriormente citados. Para o estudo dos modos literários, serão utilizados autores como Furtado (1980), Ceserani (2006), Bessière (1974), e também algumas considerações de Todorov (1975), estudioso pioneiro nesta área. Cada uma das pequenas histórias contadas tem em comum o fato de que dizem respeito a um objetivo de vida de um personagem em um universo imaginário, no qual as regras que regem o mundo natural se encontram abolidas. Todos os objetivos são aparentemente impossíveis e irrealizáveis, e, no entanto, os personagens insistem em busca-los. Neste estudo deseja-se mostrar como a ânsia de realização destes objetivos e o fato dos personagens nunca se desencorajarem dialoga diretamente com as ideias de Walter Benjamin e suas considerações sobre o narrador e a modernidade, na medida em que cada personagem narra sua história como faziam os antigos narradores que antecediam a modernidade, período no qual, segundo Benjamin, a arte de narrar está em vias de extinção. Objetiva-se explicitar como Alessandro Baricco emprega os modos literários Fantástico, Maravilhoso e Estranho a serviço da valorização do narrador, criando alegorias a partir do universo imaginário, no qual os personagens narram e compartilham experiências como faz o narrador definido por Benjamin. As alegorias construídas objetivam criar uma associação do ato de narrar com o ato de resistência à morte da narração e do texto literário como obra de arte, visto que a partir da modernidade burguesa, a literatura de modo geral passa a ser vendida como bem de consumo, de modo que perde seu caráter de instrumento através do qualCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES
Randomized Polypill Crossover Trial in People Aged 50 and Over
No full textPMCID: PMC3399742This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Parole di dolore, accenti d’ira. La sofferenza mentale tra psicoanalisi e letteratura
No full textL’autore analizza i concetti di dolore mentale, rabbia e gratitudine alla luce delle teorie psicoanalitiche, distinguendo la prospettiva teorica pulsionale da quella relazionale. In particolare viene riportato il pensiero di Freud e Melanie Klein da un lato e di Winnicott, Kohut, Bion e Bowlby dall’altro. Nella seconda parte del testo si osservano alcuni modi in cui il dolore, la rabbia e la gratitudine, con altri atteggiamenti mentali correlati quali il senso di colpa e la riparazione, vengono rappresentati nella letteratura. Emerge come il destino di questi sentimenti rifletta il contesto culturale in cui vivono gli autori, ma metta in scena anche alcune dinamiche psichiche profonde ben analizzate dalla psicoanalisi.
The author analyses the concepts of mental suffering, anger and gratitude in the Psychoanalysis, distinguishing between the theories based on the instincts and the ones focused on the interpersonal relationships. In particular, he studies, on the one side, the ideas of Freud and Melanie Klein, and, on the other, the theories of Winnicott, Kohut, Bion and Bowlby. In the second part of the text, then, he examines some literary representations of mental suffering, anger and gratitude, with other related mental activities, like guilt and reparation. We can notice how the representation of these emotions reflects not only the cultural context in which the authors live, but also some of the deep psychic dynamics analysed by the Psychoanalysis
