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Le poetiche del 'teatro narrazione' fra scrittura oralizzante e oralità-che-si-fa-testo
No full textIl saggio esamina le radici e gli sviluppi storici del 'teatro narrazione', ricavando dallo studio dei documenti e degli eventi scenici una 'poetica della testimoniza' fondata sulle relazioni fra il narratore e il narrato
Luigi Ghirri’s Cartographic Portrayals: A Review through Map Theory
No full textThis chapter aims at shedding light on Luigi Ghirri’s engagement with maps throughout his photographic work, and especially in his famous Atlante (1973), from the perspective of recent map theory. In the first section of this chapter, I will analyse the role of cartography in the artistic, intellective and intimate world of Luigi Ghirri, showing how his works and writings express a ‘map-philia’ which is in clear contrast with the ‘map-phobia’ that strongly characterised the period in which he operated. In the second section, I will describe Ghirri’s photographic treatment of maps, arguing that it can be illuminated by the current theoretical interpretation of maps as embodied practices, labile objects and contingent events rather than as detached representations, powerful symbols and finite products. Ghirri’s map portraits, as well as his reflections on cartography, in fact, resonate with the phenomenological approaches of the so-called ‘post-representational cartography’, rather than with the political approaches of the so-called ‘critical or deconstructive cartography’. Subsequently, in the third section I will suggest that, on the basis of this attitude, Ghirri’s work on maps corroborates the hypothesis that a clear demarcation between a first ‘deconstructive’ (or ‘de-auratizing’) period and a second ‘reconstructive’ (or ‘re-auratizing’) period, often highlighted by Ghirri’s critics, could be refigured in a more balanced way. Following the recent reinterpretation of this divide advanced by Marina Spunta, I will argue that in the ‘first Ghirri’ as well as in the ‘second Ghirri’ maps are simultaneously deconstructed and affectively experienced. Furthermore, in the fourth section, I will propose a classification of Ghirri’s photographic map portraits based on the following five categories: map still-lifes, cartifacts, mapping practices, maps in contexts, and the life of maps. Across these categories, an evolution in the practice of photographing maps can be appreciated, which parallels the shift in focus from objects to places and landscapes which occurred in Ghirri’s work between the 1970s and the 1980s
Luigi Ghirri and the photography of place. Interdisciplinary perspectives. Edited by Marina Spunta and Jacopo Benci
No full textThe wide allure, not only in Italy, that the work of Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) today enjoys deserves and requires a wider contextual and critical interdisciplinary analysis in order to contribute to a more counterweighted interpretation of his work and its reception in Italy and abroad. If only for this reason, the edited collection by Marina Spunta e Jacopo Benci is very timely and adequate so as ‘ . . . to add depth to the critical and scholarly reflection on Ghirri, challenging some of the myths and misconceptions surrounding his work’, as the editors highlight in their introduction (p. xvii). The book has its roots in a three-year project Viewing and Writing Italian Landscape. Luigi Ghirri and His Legacy in Photography and Literature (2013–2015), which culminated in two conferences: the first held at the British School at Rome on 9 October 2013, ‘How to Think in Images? Luigi
Ghirri and Photography’, and a second, ‘“L’esperienza del luogo”: Italian Photography, Writing and Landscape. Luigi Ghirri, his Contemporaries, his Legacy’, held at the University of Leicester from 19 to 21 September 2014
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
'A magical balance of opposites': Reading Luigi Ghirri's photography through Walter Benjamin
No full textAbstract In this article I contend that Ghirri's photography can fruitfully be read through Benjamin' thought, in particular through his key notions of experience, montage, aura, beauty, mystery and the dialectical image, and at the same time I seek to redress a common misreading of Benjamin's work in some art theory. This approach allows me to illuminate from a new angle Ghirri's aesthetics and the change it underwent between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, and to demonstrate that his work effectively draws on Benjaminian dialectics to achieve a 'magical balance of opposites'. Through a close analysis of selected Ghirri's photographs from two of his main series from th
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
‘A magical balance of opposites’: Reading Luigi Ghirri’s photography through Walter Benjamin
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