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Introduction: Venice and the Anthropocene
No full textIntroduction to Venice and the Anthropocene: an ecocritical guide
The floating price of beauty: Water and land management in Venice through the centuries
No full textMany actions promoted by the Serenissima through the centuries in order to manage the fragile balance of the lagoon triggered political, economic, environmental, and social issues both within the Republic and with neighbouring states. As it often happens in water management, fixing a problem at one point means causing other problems elsewhere: and Venice learned this lesson only too well. Another effect, however, was that in the Lagoon human and environmental history became so entangled that it would be hardly possible (and certainly pointless) to treat them separately. And in fact, in the stream of professional and public debates which arose from – and in turn, shaped – Venice’s efforts to manage a constantly changing environment, we can find the same mass of environmental, scientific, social, political, cultural, economic issues that we are facing today at a global level
Il prezzo ondeggiante della bellezza. L’equilibrismo di Venezia tra acqua e terra nel corso dei secoli
No full textMolti degli interventi promossi dalla Serenissima nel corso della sua storia per preservare il fragile equilibrio lagunare innescarono controversie (spesso ferocissime) di natura politica, economica, ambientale e sociale. Controversie che infuriarono sia all’interno dei confini repubblicani, sia tra la Repubblica e gli stati confinanti. Come spesso accade nella gestione delle acque, infatti (e come Venezia imparò a caro prezzo), risolvere i problemi in un punto significa causarne di nuovi altrove. Ma un altro effetto di questo travaglio plurisecolare fu che nella Laguna Veneta storia umana e storia naturale s’intrecciarono a tal punto che sarebbe pressoché impossibile, e di certo inutile, trattarle separatamente. Non a caso, nel fiume di dibattiti che scaturirono da – e che, a loro volta, plasmarono – lo sforzo della Serenissima di gestire un ambiente in continuo mutamento, riconosciamo lo stesso groviglio di problemi ambientali, scientifici, sociali, politici, culturali ed economici con cui oggi dobbiamo misurarci a livello globale
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale, vol 53, Numero Monografico "Progetti per l’Umanità. Rivoluzioni, Utopie e Ingegneria Sociale"
No full textProgetti per l’Umanità. Rivoluzioni, Utopie e Ingegneria Sociale (Projects for Humankind. Revolutions, Utopias and Social Engineering) explores a variety of plans and attempts to transform human beings into something different and better. In particular, it engages with utopian thinking and its ineludible counterpart, dystopia; with moments of political, cultural or philosophical revolution aimed at triggering profound shifts in human life; and with different projects of social engineering to be accomplished through a variety of means such as education, propaganda or alterations to the human body or mind. The case studies included in this volume range from the 18th century to the present day, and involve disciplines such as literary and film studies, philosophy, political science and cultural history. In particular, the volume features essays on the following topics: mythology in German Romanticism; Martin Heidegger’s eschatology; Francesco Saverio Salfi’s essay on the 1783 earthquake in Calabria; the scapigliati writers Carlo Dossi and Giovanni Faldella; the utopian production of positivist anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza; the Proletkul’t movement; early Soviet children’s magazines; the political implications of Russian linguaculturology (lingvokul’turologija); Lafayette Ronald Hubbard’s Dianetics; Zulu intellectual and writer Herbert Dhlomo’s speculative fiction; “self-management” (autogestione) and the Italian Socialist Party in the 1970s; the current debate on surrogate motherhood; and Terry Gilliam’s dystopian film trilogy. Through these multiple perspectives, the volume argues that human projectuality is an anthropological constant throughout history that is both necessary for human existence and simultaneously fraught with dangers; and that it is therefore a crucial category to analyse reality and fiction alike
Il prezzo ondeggiante della bellezza. L’equilibrismo di Venezia tra acqua e terra nel corso dei secoli
No full textMolti degli interventi promossi dalla Serenissima nel corso della sua storia per preservare il fragile equilibrio lagunare innescarono controversie (spesso ferocissime) di natura politica, economica, ambientale e sociale. Controversie che infuriarono sia all’interno dei confini repubblicani, sia tra la Repubblica e gli stati confinanti. Come spesso accade nella gestione delle acque, infatti (e come Venezia imparò a caro prezzo), risolvere i problemi in un punto significa causarne di nuovi altrove. Ma un altro effetto di questo travaglio plurisecolare fu che nella Laguna Veneta storia umana e storia naturale s’intrecciarono a tal punto che sarebbe pressoché impossibile, e di certo inutile, trattarle separatamente. Non a caso, nel fiume di dibattiti che scaturirono da – e che, a loro volta, plasmarono – lo sforzo della Serenissima di gestire un ambiente in continuo mutamento, riconosciamo lo stesso groviglio di problemi ambientali, scientifici, sociali, politici, culturali ed economici con cui oggi dobbiamo misurarci a livello globale
The floating price of beauty: Water and land management in Venice through the centuries
No full textMany actions promoted by the Serenissima through the centuries in order to manage the fragile balance of the lagoon triggered political, economic, environmental, and social issues both within the Republic and with neighbouring states. As it often happens in water management, fixing a problem at one point means causing other problems elsewhere: and Venice learned this lesson only too well. Another effect, however, was that in the Lagoon human and environmental history became so entangled that it would be hardly possible (and certainly pointless) to treat them separately. And in fact, in the stream of professional and public debates which arose from – and in turn, shaped – Venice’s efforts to manage a constantly changing environment, we can find the same mass of environmental, scientific, social, political, cultural, economic issues that we are facing today at a global level
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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