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Ferreira, Ferrari: ficções do exílio
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2015.Esta é uma leitura dos exílios de Ferreira Gullar e León Ferrari, durante as últimas ditaduras militares que tomaram conta do Cone Sul, incluindo Brasil e Argentina. Entre 1971 e 1977, Gullar passou por Moscou, Santiago, Lima e Buenos Aires, além de outras cidades, enquanto Ferrari, por sua vez, estabeleceu-se com sua família em São Paulo do final de 1976 até 1984, sendo que após esse período ainda dividiria por alguns anos a sua permanência entre a capital paulista e Buenos Aires. Alguns de seus mais notáveis trabalhos foram realizados no exílio, de modo que a configuração de uma paisagem ou cena exílica torna-se indissociável das experiências conduzidas com a linguagem. Em poucas palavras: embora marcado pela tanatopolítica castrense e pelo nomos gestor do capital global, é possível afirmar que o exílio não está dado de antemão e nem permanece sempre o mesmo, quer seja como dano ou como dádiva; é somente com a linguagem  a imagem, o sensível  que uma experiência exílica, sempre singular e radicalmente contemporânea, pode encontrar a sua superfície de exposição, quer dizer, a sua diferença. Conquanto sejam profundamente dessemelhantes, os exílios de Ferreira Gullar e León Ferrari não deixam de mostrar afinidades, sobretudo nos momentos em que suas experiências tocam um ponto comum: o espaço  um topos  a-tópico da impropriedade, da potência, da in-operatividade que, com a linguagem, resiste indomesticável às tentativas de cristalização da língua, do povo, do poder, da nação. Foucault, Saer, Coccia e outros autores franqueiam um pensamento da ficção enquanto construção contingencial capaz de desnaturalizar os usos do discurso e a teleologia que assedia constantemente a literatura, as artes, a história. De certo modo, a ficção ¬repete, expõe e portanto difere as fábulas, ao mesmo tempo em que expõe e difere a si mesma. É essa operação in-operante, esse trabalho afirmativo da negatividade que suspende a maquinaria imunitária, autonomista, da civilização ocidental e cristã.Abstract : This is a reading of both Ferreira Gullar and León Ferrari s exiles, during the last military dictatorships that took account of the Southern Cone, including Brazil and Argentina. Between 1971 and 1977, Gullar went through Moscow, Santiago, Lima and Buenos Aires, and other cities, while Ferrari settled with his family in São Paulo from late 1976 until 1984, and thereafter still divided for a few years his stay between São Paulo and Buenos Aires. Some of his most notable works were carried out in exile, so that the configuration of an exilic landscape or scene becomes inseparable from experiments conducted with language. In short, although marked by military thanatopolitics and the nomos of global capital manager, it is possible to say that exile is not given in advance and not always remains the same, whether as damage or as a gift; it is only with the language  the image, the sensible  that an exilic experience, always singular and radically contemporary, can find its exposure surface, that is, its difference. While they are profoundly dissimilar, Ferreira Gullar and León Ferrari s exiles show their affinities, particularly at times when their experiences play a common point: the space  a topos  a-topic of the impropriety, potency, of in-operativity that, together with language, resists untamable against all crystallization attempts on the idiom, people, power, and nation. Foucault, Saer, Coccia and other authors frank a thought of fiction as a contingency construction able to denature the uses of speech and the teleology that constantly haunts literature, arts, and history. In a way, fiction repeats, exposes and therefore differs fables, while exposes and differs itself. It is this in-operative operation, this affirmative work of negativity that suspends the immunitary machinery of Christian Western civilization
Forward to the Past: la sfida della Storia in Machines Like Me di Ian McEwan
No full textIn his novel, Machines Like Me (2019), Ian McEwan offers an interesting example of “alternate history” while dealing with crucial ethical issues connected with the development of Artificial Intelligence. Instead of setting his story in the future, the author chooses to set it in the past, but he radically changes the contours of the latter. Hence, the England of the early 1980s is turned into a technologically advanced society, well ahead of the scientific progress of the early 21st century. Thus, the future casts its light on the past in what appears as a typically postmodernist mélange: besides mingling genres (from speculative fiction to uchronia), McEwan also performs an intriguing hybridization of fact and fiction. The paper intends to explore the rich historical dimension of the novel, which betrays the author’s interest in the reflection on history and on its narrativization – as well as its manipulation and/or contamination – within the literary text
Il piano come tecnologia sociale. Yevgeni Preobrazhensky e la prognosi per il futuro
No full textYevgeni A. Preobrazhensky was one of the main economists of Soviet Russia. In his analysis of the transition from the NEP to socialism we find structural elements of what the author calls plan-based thought. The concept of «socialist rationality» and «primitive socialist accumulation», the formulation of a «new economic and administrative science», the concept of planning as a result of «social rationalization» and the idea of «forecasting» as an expression of a specific conception of time that claims to impose the future in the present, are fundamental for understanding plan-based thought and its transformations on a global level.Yevgeni A. Preobrazhensky è stato uno dei principali economisti della Russia sovietica. Nella sua analisi del passaggio dal NEP al socialismo troviamo elementi strutturali di quello che l'autrice chiama pensiero di piano. Il concetto di "razionalità socialista" e di "accumulazione socialista primitiva", la formulazione di una "nuova scienza economica e amministrativa", il concetto di pianificazione come risultato della "razionalizzazione sociale" e l'idea di "previsione" come espressione di una specifica concezione del tempo che pretende di imporre il futuro nel presente, sono fondamentali per comprendere la storia del pensiero di piano a livello globale e le sue trasformazioni attuali
A plunge into otherness: Ethics and literature in "Machines Like Me" by Ian McEwan
No full textThe paper intends to propose a reading of Ian McEwan’s 2019 novel, Machines Like Me, qua insightful reflection on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and its bearings on different aspects of human life, from interpersonal relationships to moral behaviour. The novel also engages in a reflection on the value and the prospects of literature, whose very premises might be called in question in a posthuman context. Machines Like Me is set in a 1980s world whose contours radically deviate from historical facts. The novel introduces the simulacrum in the form of an android, Adam, a hypersophisticated machine that enters the characters’ life and upsets it thoroughly. The troublesome relationship with Adam forces Charlie, the protagonistnarrator, to ponder on his own system of values, posing questions about the Other which inevitably end up throwing new light on the Self and on what it ultimately means to be human. By way of his “What if novel” set in an alternative past, McEwan tackles pressing issues of our present, while trying to envisage a future that is not far to come. The paper intends to explore both the ethical and the metaliterary level of the story on the background of the contemporary theoretical debate on transhumanism and posthumanism, pointing to the simulacrum as the uncanny catalyser of the major topics the author intends to address
Colletes coquimbensis Ferrari 2017, new species
No full textColletes coquimbensis Ferrari, new species (Figs. 17A–F) Diagnosis. Females are diagnosable by the combination of clypeus with apicomedial ridge, mesoscutal pubescence with off-white and black hairs intermixed, and posterior hind tibial spur pectinate. Males can be recognized by the combination of malar area ~1.5x as long as basal depth of mandible, paraocular pubescence with off-white and black hairs intermixed, and marginal zones of T2–T5 covered with pale-yellow appressed hairs. Colletes coquimbensis n. sp. is most similar to C. toroi n. sp. The females, however, can be distinguished from each other by mesoscutum with off-white and black hairs intermixed in C. coquimbensis n. sp. (mesoscutal pubescence entirely pale-yellow in C. toroi n. sp.); and the labral median area depressed and margined by ridges in C. coquimbensis n. sp. (labral median area swollen in C. toroi n. sp.). The male C. coquimbensis n. sp. can be readily differentiated from the male C. toroi n. sp. due to its comparatively shorter malar area, ~1.5x as long as basal depth of mandible (malar area ~ 2x as long as basal depth of mandible in C. toroi n. sp.). Description. FEMALE (Figs. 17A, 17C, 17E): Dimensions (mm): Approximate body length 9.3; head width 3.3; head length 2.5; intertegular distance 2.7; forewing length 6.9. Colouration: Black except dark-brown on tegula, wing veins (except vein R of forewing black), stigma, dorsal surface of tarsomeres 4–5, marginal zones of T1–T5, ventrally reflexed lateral areas of T1. Pale-brown on proximal half of tarsal claws. Pale-yellow on tibial spurs, marginal zones of S1–S5. Reddish-brown on distal half of tarsal claws; marked on distal half of mandible. Structure: Labrum medially convex; convexity not margined by ridges. Clypeal mid-longitudinal area neither depressed nor carinate; adjacent lateral area convex; apicomedial ridge present. Malar area ~0.6x as long as basal depth of mandible (23:35). F1 ~1.3x as long as its apical width (31:24). UID:LID (70:65). Genal area flat behind upper summit of compound eyes in lateral view. Dorsolateral angle of pronotum triangular acute. Horizontal surface of metapostnotum ~0.5x as long as metanotum (19:39); metapostnotal pits well-delimited; posterior transverse carina sinuous and interrupted medially. Posteromedial surface of front coxa with short (0.4x MOD) spine. Posterior hind tibial spur pectinate. Hind basitarsus ~3.5x longer than broad (45:14). Outer rami of hind tarsal claws 2.5x as long as inner rami (15:6). Posterolateral area of S6 convex but without carina; marginal zone not depressed. Pubescence: Off-white, plumose, erect, moderately long on vertical slopes of clypeal and supraclypeal area, pronotal lobe, metepisternum, ventral margin of mid femur; such hairs long on genal area (except moderately long and mostly suberect on upper 1/2), metanotum, mesepisternum, posteroventral surface of front trochanter and femur, ventral surface of mid and hind trochanters; very long on upper margin of lateral surface of propodeum. Mixed off-white and black, plumose, erect, moderately long hairs on paraocular, frontal and vertexal areas, mesoscutum and scutellum. Pale-yellow, erect, moderately short setae on mandible (except pale-orange), dorsal surface of mid and hind tibiae and basitarsi (except suberect on mid tibia); such hairs moderately long on posterior surface of front tibia, posterior margin of front and mid basitarsi; very long on posterior margin of hind basitarsi. Bright-yellow, suberect, thick setae on ventral surface of mid and hind tarsi; pale-orange, thickest towards distal margin. Pale-yellow, suberect, very long hairs, which are branched only apically on anterior surface of hind femur and tibia. T1–T5 covered with off-white appressed hairs; T1–T2 also with plumose, erect, long hairs (except slightly shorter on T2); T3–T5 also with pale-yellow and black, erect, moderately long setae (except setae on T3 moderately short and pale-yellow only). S2 with pale-yellow, erect, moderately short hairs, which are branched only apically. Discs of S3–S6 with pale-yellow, erect, moderately short setae restricted to posterior half (except concentrated mid-longitudinally on S6); marginal zones of S2–S5 with a band of plumose, suberect hairs. Surface sculpture: Clypeal mid-longitudinal area densely and moderately finely punctate; adjacent convex area with very sparse punctures, longitudinally striate near depression, smooth elsewhere; lower 1/4 longitudinally striate. Malar area moderately densely and moderately finely punctate on upper 2/3; lower 1/3 substrigulate. Supraclypeal area with a few moderately fine punctures near lower margin; interspaces smooth. Paraocular area punctures crowded throughout; finely punctate above; slightly coarser below. Frontal area densely and moderately coarsely punctate; interspaces rugulose. Vertexal area minutely punctate; interspaces smooth. Mesoscutum moderately sparsely and moderately finely punctate (except sparsely punctate on mid-posterior area); interspaces smooth. Scutellum densely punctate; moderately coarsely punctate on mid 1/3; finer on posterior 1/3; interspaces smooth. Metanotum densely and moderately finely punctate. Mesepisternum densely and coarsely punctate. Metepisternum rugulose above and below; obliquely striate medially. Lateral surface of propodeum finely and sparsely punctate; interspaces rugulose. Upper area of vertical surface of metapostnotum rugose. Metasomal terga sparsely and minutely punctate (except minute punctures on T1 intermingled with fine ones); interspaces smooth throughout. Metasomal sterna moderately finely punctate; densely punctate posterolaterally; sparsely punctate mid-longitudinally and anteriorly; interspaces imbricate throughout. MALE (Figs. 17B, 17D, 17F). As in female, except for usual secondary sexual characteristics and as follows: Dimensions (mm): Approximate body length 8.1; head width 3.1; head length 2.5; intertegular distance 2.6; forewing length 6.8. Colouration: Mandibular reddish-brown spot restricted to distal 1/3. Wing veins pale-brown (except vein R of forewing black). Structure: Clypeal mid-longitudinal area evenly broadly depressed; depression shallow for upper 2/4, deeper just below; apicomedial ridge absent. Malar area ~1.5x as long as basal depth of mandible (42:27). F1 slightly longer than its apical width (24:22). UID:LID (67:60). Genal area concave behind upper summit of compound eyes in lateral view. Dorsolateral angle of pronotum rounded. Horizontal surface of metapostnotum ~0.7x as long as metanotum (22:33); posterior transverse carina complete. Posteromedial surface of front coxa without spine. Posterior hind tibial spur ciliate. Hind basitarsus ~3.7x longer than broad (41:11). Outer rami of hind tarsal claws ~2.7x as long as inner rami (22:8). Posterolateral area of S6 flat. S7, S8 and genital capsule as in Figs. 18A, 18B, 18C, respectively. Pubescence: Pale-yellow hairs on interantennal area intermingled with black ones. Genal pubescence evenly long and erect. Appressed hairs on metasoma restricted to marginal zones. Setae on discs of S3–S6 more evenly distributed. Surface sculpture: Clypeal mid-longitudinal area punctures crowded. Supraclypeal punctation more evenly distributed. Paraocular area only densely punctate. Lateral surface of propodeum with rugose interspaces. Metasomal terga finely and moderately densely punctate throughout. Type material. Holotype ♀ —“ CHILE: Region IV; La Mercedes; IX-15-2010; L. Packer ”. “ B10006 -B12; Bees of Chile119”. “HOLOTYPE; Colletes coquimbensis ♀; Ferrari, new species”. {PCYU}. Paratypes: CHILE — Region IV: 4km S of Pisco Elqui, (-30.162, -70.491), 1362m, 26/x/1992, [Rozen, Sharkov & Snyder], 8♀♀, {AMNH}. 6km S of Pisco Elqui, (-30.180, -70.485), 1464m, 30/x/1992, [J.Rozen], 3♀♀, {AMNH}. 7km S of Pisco Elqui, (-30.189, -70.483), 1471m, 8/x/1994, [Rozen, Quinter & Ascher], 24♀♀, {AMNH}; idem, except 6/x/1994, 2♀♀. Alcohuaz, (-30.115, -70.491), 1190m, 2/xi/1986, [L.Peña], 1♀, {AMNH}. Las Mercedes, (-29.935, -70.537), 926m, 15/ix/2010, [L.Packer], 1♀, {PCYU}. Las Placetas, (-30.170, -70.599), 3115m, 14/x/2001, [Rozen, Ugarte & Espina], 4♀♀ 5♂♂, {AMNH}; idem, except 15/x/2001, 2♂♂. Near Pisco Elqui, 1/xi/2000, [J.Rozen], 5♀♀, {AMNH}; idem, except 2/xi/2000, 4♀♀; idem, except 12/xi/2000, 1♀. Range. Chile (Region IV). See also Fig. 19A. Biogeographic distribution. Andean region: Central Chilean sub-region (Coquimban province). Central Chilean species distributed at altitudes of 900–3200m a.s.l. DNA barcode. Available. BOLD: AAO3472 (2♀♀2♂♂). Distance from the nearest neighbour (C. cognatus): 7.32–8.84%. Floral hosts. Unknown. Etymology. Colletes coquimbensis n. sp. is a reference to the fact that the species has so far been found only in the Chilean Region IV (Coquimbo). Comments. All specimens available to me were collected in Region IV, which suggests that C. coquimbensis n. sp. may have a restricted distribution in Chile. The species also appears to be uncommon within its range. According to the AMNH’s records, four female specimens caught by Rozen near Pisco Elqui (Region IV) on November 2000 were collected along with Isepeolus luctuosus (Spinola, 1851). As no other Colletes species was collected there on the same date, it may be sensible to consider I. luctuosus as a presumable cleptoparasite of C. coquimbensis n. sp. In fact, Claude-Joseph (1926) had associated I. luctuosus with three Colletes species: C. sulcatus (as C. araucariae), C. cyaniventris (as C. cyanescens) and C. lucens (as C. laticeps). Perhaps, the specimens identified by him as C. sulcatus actually belong to the species described here as new.Published as part of Ferrari, Rafael R., 2017, Taxonomic revision of the species of Colletes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Colletinae) found in Chile, pp. 1-137 in Zootaxa 4364 (1) on pages 40-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4364.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/111600
Colletes cyaniventris Ferrari 2017, new status
No full textColletes cyaniventris Spinola, 1851, new status (Figs. 22A–F) Colletes cyani-ventris Spinola, 1851: 224. Lectotype ♀ (not examined) designated by Moure & Urban (2002: 7). {MRSN}. Colletes cyaniventris; Vachal 1909: 54; Ducke 1912: 81; Friese 1910: 645, 1912: 366; Toro 1986: 122; Rojas & Toro 1993: 86. Colletes atripilis Vachal, 1909: 55. [new synonymy] Lectotype ♂ (examined) designated by Moure & Urban (2002: 8). {MNHP}. Diagnosis. Colletes cyaniventris is unique among the Chilean species of the genus in having the following combination of characteristics: body size with 13/ 10mm (♀ / ♂) in length, clypeal mid-longitudinal area not carinate, mesosoma with black hairs only, and metasoma metallic blue. Colletes cyaniventris is most similar to C. cyanescens and C. musculus, but it can be differentiated from those species by the mesepisternum with smooth interspaces (interspaces imbricate in both C. cyanescens and C. musculus). Redescription. FEMALE (Figs. 22A, 22C, 22E): Dimensions (mm): Approximate body length 11.0–13.5; head width 3.6–4.3; head length 2.8–3.2; intertegular distance 3.3–3.7; forewing length 8.4–9.5. Colouration: Black except metallic blue on metasoma (except T6 black and S6 dark-brown), with purplish and greenish reflections on metasomal sterna. Reddish-brown on distal half of tarsal claws; marked on distal 1/3 of mandible. Dark-brown on anterior surface of front and mid femora, ventral surface of hid femur, dorsal surface of tarsi, wing veins (except veins C and R of forewing black), stigma. Pale-brown on anterior half of tarsal claws. Structure: Labrum medially concave; concavity margined by lateral ridges. Clypeal mid-longitudinal area deeply and narrowly (0.3x MOD) on upper half; adjacent lateral area convex; apicomedial ridge absent. Malar area about half as long as basal depth of mandible (34:65). F1 ~1.2x as long as its apical width (37:31). UID:LID (77:75). Genal area flat behind upper summit of compound eyes in lateral view. Dorsolateral angle of pronotum rounded. Horizontal surface of metapostnotum 0.3x as long as metanotum (25:84); metapostnotal pits welldelimited; posterior transverse carina straight and interrupted medially. Posteromedial surface of front coxa without spine. Posterior hind tibial spur ciliate. Hind basitarsus ~ 3x longer than broad (53:18). Outer rami of hind tarsal claws ~2.1x as long as inner rami (34:16). Posterolateral area of S6 convex and bearing thick stria; marginal zone not depressed. Pubescence: Black, plumose, erect, moderately long on lateral slopes of supraclypeal area, genal area (except long towards proboscidial fossa), mesoscutum, scutellum, ventral surface of front and mid coxae, T1 laterally; such hairs long on paraocular, frontal and vertexal areas, metanotum, mesepisternum, metepisternum, central area of lateral surface of propodeum, posteroventral surface of front trochanter and femur, anteroventral surface of mid trochanter, ventral margin of mid femur, disc of T1; very long on upper margin of lateral surface of propodeum, ventral surface of hind coxa and trochanter, S1. Black, erect, moderately short setae on dorsal surface of front tibia and tarsus, T3, T4 laterally, S3–S6; moderately long on mandible, posterior surface of front coxa, posterior surface of front tibia and basitarsus, dorsal surface of mid and hind tibiae and basitarsi. Black, suberect, very long hairs, which are branched only apically on anterior surface of hind femur and tibia. Fulvous, suberect, thick setae on ventral surface of mid and hind tarsi; thickest towards distal margin. S2 with mixed black, erect, moderately short hairs, which are branched only apically, and long, plumose hairs. Surface sculpture: Clypeal convex area densely and coarsely punctate; mid-longitudinal depression with fine punctures; lower 1/3 longitudinally striate. Malar area densely and moderately finely punctate on upper half; substrigulate on lower half. Supraclypeal area imbricate. Lower paraocular area punctures crowded and moderately coarse; interspaces smooth. Upper paraocular area densely and moderately finely punctate; interspaces rugulose. Frontal area densely and moderately coarsely punctate; interspaces rugulose and dull. Vertexal area with minute punctures intermingled with fine ones; interspaces smooth and shiny. Mesoscutum punctures crowded and moderately coarse (except densely punctate mid-posteriorly); interspaces smooth throughout. Scutellum densely and moderately coarsely punctate; interspaces imbricate. Metanotum punctures crowded and moderately fine; interspaces smooth. Mesepisternum punctures crowded and coarse; interspaces smooth and shiny. Metepisternum rugose above; obliquely striate medially; rugulose below. Lateral surface of propodeum with very sparse coarse punctures; interspaces imbricate. Upper area of vertical surface of metapostnotum smooth medially. Metasoma sparsely and minutely punctate on terga; finely and moderately sparsely punctate; interspaces imbricate but shiny. MALE (Figs. 22B, 22D, 22F). As in female, except for usual secondary sexual characteristics and as follows: Dimensions (mm): Approximate body length 8.5–11.1; head width 3.0–3.5; head length 2.6–2.9; intertegular distance 2.8–3.3; forewing length 8.1–8.8. Colouration: Tibial spurs dark-brown. T1–T2 with purplish reflections. Dorsal surface of mid and hind trochanters dark-brown. Structure: Labral mid depression not margined by ridges. Malar area as long as basal depth of mandible (46:46). F1 ~1.2x as long as its apical width (26:21). UID:LID (70:60). Genal area concave behind upper summit of compound eyes in lateral view. Horizontal surface of metapostnotum ~0.35x as long as metanotum (25:70); metapostnotal pits poorly-delimited; posterior transverse carina low. Hind basitarsus ~2.8x longer than broad (53:19). Outer rami of hind tarsal claws ~1.4x as long as inner rami (26:18). Posterolateral area of S6 flat and lacking thick stria. S7, S8 and genital capsule as in Figs. 23A, 23B, 24C, respectively. Pubescence: Off-white on lateral slopes of clypeus and supraclypeal area, interantennal area. Off-white and black hairs intermixed on proboscidial fossa, pronotal lobe, mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum. S2 with plumose hairs only. Marginal zones of S2–S5 with a row of off-white, plumose, erect, moderately long hairs. Surface sculpture: Clypeal mid-longitudinal area finely punctate. Supraclypeal and upper paraocular areas, scutellar anterior 2/3, metepisternum below, lateral surface of propodeum, metasomal terga with smooth interspaces. Sparsely punctate area on mesoscutum larger; densely and moderately finely punctate elsewhere. Scutellar interspaces rugulose on posterior 1/3. Mesepisternum moderately sparsely and moderately coarsely punctate. Lateral surface of propodeum finely and sparsely punctate. Metasomal terga finely and moderately sparsely punctate. Material studied. Primary type specimen: Lectotype ♂ of C. atripilis— “Chili; 63”. “MUSEUM PARIS; Chili; COLL. O. SICHEL 1867”. “ Colletes ♂; atripilis; Vach”. “TYPE”. “SYNTYPE”. “LECTOTYPE; Colletes atripilis ♂; Vachal, 1909; labelled R. Ferrari, 2017”. {MNHP}. Secondary type specimens: Paralectotypes ♀♀ and ♂♂ of C. atripilis — CHILE— 1863, 4♀♀ 3♂♂, {MNHP}. Additional specimens: CHILE — Region V: Cerro El Roble, (-33.007, -71.020), 1566m, 1/i/2009, [L.Packer], 1♀ 1♂, {PCYU}. El Melón, (-32.688, -71.208), 246m, x/1998, [R.Madariaga], 2♀♀, {AMNH}. Region Metropolitana: Caleu, (-32.997, -70.977), 1055m, 1/i/2009, [L.Packer], 4♀♀, {PCYU}. El Manzano, (-33.439, - 70.634), 489m, 8/xii/1945, [L.Peña], 1♀, {KUNHM}. Farellones, (-33.356, -70.324), 2179m, 5/i/1992, [L.Peña], 1♀, {AMNH}. Pudahuel, (-33.443, -70.772), 467m, 29/i/1951, [L.Penã], 1♂, {KUNHM}. Santiago, (-33.436, - 70.636), 566m, i/1951, [Peña], 1♂, {MACN}. Region VI: El Peumo, (-33.972, -71.763), 192m, i/1953, [L.Peña], 1♀, {KUNHM}. La Correana, 15/ii/1977, [L.Peña], 1♀ 1♂, {AMNH}. Region VII: Constitución, (-35.335, - 72.419), 51m, i/1994, [Arriagada], 1♀, {AMNH}. E of Lago Colbun, (-35.686, -71.221), 485m, 28/xii/2006, [L.Packer], 1♀, {PCYU}. Linares, (-35.847, -71.606), 158m, i/1953, [Peña], 1♂, {KUNHM}. Río Longaví, 5/xii/ 1967, [Catillo], 1♀, {MACN}. Río Teno, 25/i/1968, [L.Peña], 1♂, {AMNH}. Region VIII: Cobquecura, (-36.138, -72.794), 43m, i/1967, [P.Ramirez], 1♀, {AMNH}. Concepción, (-36.752, -73.040), 19m, 20/i/1907, [P.Herbst], 1♂, {AMNH}. Fundo El Chillán, 10/i/1981, [L.Peña], 1♀, {AMNH}. Ñuble, (-36.599, -72.072), 139m, i/1902, 1♀, {MNHP}. Region IX: Lago Galletué, (-38.777, -71.246), 1166m, 20/i/1962, [L.Peña], 1♂, {AMNH}. Range. Chile (III–IX). See also Fig. 3A. Biogeographic distribution. Andean region: Central Chilean sub-region (Coquimban and Santiagan provinces); Subantarctic sub-region (Maule province). Central Chilean species distributed at altitudes of 0–2200m a.s.l. DNA barcode. Available. BOLD: AAV8114 (1♀). Distance from the nearest neighbour (C. nigritulus): 6.35– 6.53%. Floral hosts. Compositae— Baccharis linearis (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers. [Ruiz 1944 (as B. rosmarinifolia Hook. & Arn.)]. Escalloniaceae— Escallonia sp. (Toro 1999). Quillajaceae— Quillaja saponaria Molina (Ruiz 1944). Rhamnaceae— Colletia spinosissima J. F. Gmel. (this paper); C. ulicina [Ruiz 1944 (as C. ulcina)]. Comments. Uncommon species restricted to central Chile. Colletes cyaniventris is the largest species of the genus found in Chile, although variation in body size (11–13.5 mm and 8.5–11 mm for females and males, respectively) is quite considerable. In this paper, the name C. cyaniventris is resurrected from synonymy and proposed to be the valid name for the species that has been traditionally referred to as C. cyanescens (see the synonymy list above), which, in turn, is here considered the senior synonym of C. seminitidus (refer to “Comments” for C. cyanescens for further clarification). The conundrum involving these names began very early in the 20th century, when Cockerell (1904: 257) synonymized C. cyaniventris under C. cyanescens. Although this nomenclatural act has not been acknowledged by a series of authors (e.g. Vachal 1909: 54; Friese 1910: 653, 1912: 366; Toro 1986: 122; Rojas & Toro 1993: 86), many others started using the name C. cyanescens to refer to the large species with completely black mesosomal pubescence and metallic bright-blue metasoma (which is herein determined as C. cyaniventris) found in central Chile. At the same time, the comparatively smaller species with mixed black and off-white hairs on mesosoma and metallic dark-blue mesosoma (which is herein determined as C. cyanescens) began being identified as C. seminitidus (e.g. Claude-Joseph 1926: 130, Jaffuel & Pirion 1926: 364, Gazulla & Ruiz 1928: 300, Ruiz 1944: 217, Roig-Alsina 1991: 259, Toro 1999: 30, Moure & Urban 2002: 20, Packer et al. 2005: 197, Zayed et al. 2005: 1018, Montalva & Ruz 2010: 22). The nomenclatural acts proposed is this paper, however, correct the mistake made by Cockerell and stabilize the use of these nominal taxa. Even though I have not examined the lectotype of C. cyaniventris, the combination of the female characteristics listed in the original description by Spinola— i. e. pubescence black, metasoma metallic blue, smooth and nearly bare, and wing veins black (Spinola 1851: 224)—allows the determination of the species’ identity with certainty.Published as part of Ferrari, Rafael R., 2017, Taxonomic revision of the species of Colletes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Colletinae) found in Chile, pp. 1-137 in Zootaxa 4364 (1) on pages 49-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4364.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/111600
Oscar Wilde and the Language of Music
No full textThe relationship between Wilde and music is extremely rich and complex: it involves the author’s knowledge and love for the music of his time and of previous centuries, the many references to music in his oeuvre, the literary use of forms such as chansons and ballads, the musical organization of some of his major works, the musicality of his verses and of his aphorisms but also the music of his own voice (reported by many contemporaries). Most importantly, Wilde’s very commitment to the idea of performance in art and in life will attract many Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries musicians – such as David Bowie, Gavin Friday and Morrissey – who, beside adopting a Wildean stance, will also set his verses to music, or write music inspired by the author and by his writings, showing how the strength of Wilde’s life and work also resides in its capacity of easily translating into non-literary modes
“Would Be a Lonesome Old Sail Without a Song”: Popular Music in Postcolonial Literature
No full textThe French Canadian critic François Paré thinks that songs are a huge agent of cultural development, and affirms that minority cultures give the lyrics of classic pop songs, folksongs and popular songs an immediate literary value. In this essay I try to verify how English postcolonial writers use folk and/or singer-songwriters' songs in their works, both as themes and at a linguistic and structural level. Starting from Leonard Cohen, whose career as a singer and songwriter is forecasted in his autobiographical novel The Favourite Game, I take into account such novels as The Ground Beneath her Feet by Salman Rushdie and The Commitments by Roddy Doyle, whose protagonists are rock musicians. Yet, the core of my essay are those literary works where songs are so intertwined with fiction that they become part of it, such as Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan, The Nanny and the Iceberg by Ariel Dorfman, Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje and Ghost Light, by Joseph O’ Connor
PREDA: An R-package to identify regional variations in genomic data
No full textChromosomal patterns of genomic signals represent molecular ngerprints that may reveal how the local structural organization of a genome impacts the functional control mechanisms. Thus, the integrative analysis of multiple sources of genomic data and information deepens the resolution and enhances the interpretation of stand-alone high-throughput data. In this note, we present PREDA (Position RElated Data Analysis), an R package for detecting regional variations in genomics data. PREDA identies relevant chromosomal patterns in high-throughput data using a smoothing approach that accounts for distance and density variability of genomics features. Custom-designed data structures allow efciently managing diverse signals in different genomes. A variety of smoothing functions and statistics empower exible and robust workows. The modularity of package design allows an easy deployment of custom analytical pipelines. Tabular and graphical representations facilitate downstream biological interpretation of results. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
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