369 research outputs found
Artaud, Barney, and the Total Work of Art from Avant-Garde to the Posthuman
No full textIn their article Artaud, Barney, and the Total Work of Art from Avant-Garde to the Posthuman Matteo Colombi and Massimo Fusillo discuss the aesthetics of Matthew Barney\u27s video-performance art and the theater of Antonin Artaud. Colombi and Fusillo highlight the characteristics of the posthuman: the rejection of Western anthropocentrism and its subversion through hybridization with human, animal, and mechanical elements, the incorporation of Dionysian imagery of the body, and a commitment to the idea of the total work of art in its blending of different artistic mediums, and indeed, of art and life. Using examples from Artaud\u27s writings on theater, Colombi and Fusillo suggest that these features are also to be found in avant-garde aesthetics. The most evident link between Artaud\u27s théâtre de la cruauté and Barney\u27s video circle Cremaster appears the ambition to create a total work of art in which a kaleidoscope of stages/landscapes is brought to life by performers whose corporal training — one centered on the energy produced by means of contraction and relaxation — resembles that of an elite athlete. While both Artaud\u27s and Barney\u27s aesthetics are similar in their rejection of the clear, stable distinctions of rational thought, they differ in their structuring of the artist\u27s struggle to reshape the human body. While Artaud\u27s theater is tied to an avant-gardist utopian teleology, Barney stresses the inevitable inconclusiveness of every total work of art
Dall’epica al romanzo, una tappa seicentesca tra Tasso e Manzoni: La Rosalinda di Bernardo Morando
No full textIl saggio individua alcuni precisi nuclei narrativi e interessi tematici di origine tassiana i quali, rintracciati con precisi riscontri testuali nella Rosalinda e nei Promessi sposi, suggeriscono un percorso possibile di quel processo che ha visto lentamente la tradizione epico-cavalleresca e del poema eroico trasformarsi nelle forme moderne del romanzo. Processo che appunto nel Seicento affonda le sue origini e in cui si può riconoscere, ancor prima che nel riformato romanzo manzoniano, il funzionamento del modello epico tassiano. Il saggio non intende infatti affrontare la questione di individuare la precisa identità dell’Anonimo manzoniano, ma solo suggerire la possibilità di aggiungere una tessera al mosaico della ricostruzione di una genealogia letteraria del romanzo italiano. In particolare, l’analisi mostra come la trasformazione di quell’interesse già tassiano a indagare gli scenari interiori, porti Manzoni, in sintonia con quanto avviene nella cultura seicentesca, a proporre un personaggio nuovo, modello avvicinabile di etica e di fede
The emergence of Melloni's optical bench
No full textIn this paper we address the emergence of one of the most common instruments in 19th century physics laboratories, Melloni's optical bench, relying on the analysis of the most significant historical documents. This apparatus, devised in 1835 by Macedonio Melloni, a distinguished Italian physicist of that time, enabled the study of the properties of 'radiant heat', or thermal radiation as it was then called. This apparatus is present in a large number of physics cabinets of universities and secondary schools. In this paper, we plan to foster the educational use of this device, still relevant for the study of infrared radiation, both by university and secondary school students and by teachers and scholars
The sounds of war: ‘phonotelemetry’ at the Italian front
No full textThis paper is devoted to a historical research on a sound ranging technique, called the 'Garbasso–Cardani method', which was developed in Italy during the years of the Great War (1915–1918). Such a method, that was aimed at detecting the location of the enemy artillery positions upon the basis of the sound produced by the artillery gunfire, proved crucial during the battles on the Italian Front at the border between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy. This research, which is largely based on archival documents, led to an exhibition including interactive experiments on the physics of sound and a battlefield model. Case studies like this one might be helpful in guiding physics teachers to establish a more active classroom environment
Loss of Snord116 alters cortical neuronal activity in mice: a preclinical investigation of Prader-Willi syndrome.
No full textPrader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by metabolic alteration and sleep abnormalities mostly related to rapid eye movement (REM) sleep disturbances. The disease is caused by genomic imprinting defects that are inherited through the paternal line. Among the genes located in the PWS region on chromosome 15 (15q11-q13), small nucleolar RNA 116 (Snord116) has been previously associated with intrusions of REM sleep into wakefulness in humans and mice. Here, we further explore sleep regulation of PWS by reporting a study with PWScrm+/p- mouse line, which carries a paternal deletion of Snord116. We focused our study on both macrostructural electrophysiological components of sleep, distributed among REMs and nonrapid eye movements. Of note, here, we study a novel electroencephalography (EEG) graphoelements of sleep for mouse studies, the well-known spindles. EEG biomarkers are often linked to the functional properties of cortical neurons and can be instrumental in translational studies. Thus, to better understand specific properties, we isolated and characterized the intrinsic activity of cortical neurons using in vitro microelectrode array. Our results confirm that the loss of Snord116 gene in mice influences specific properties of REM sleep, such as theta rhythms and, for the first time, the organization of REM episodes throughout sleep-wake cycles. Moreover, the analysis of sleep spindles present novel specific phenotype in PWS mice, indicating that a new catalog of sleep biomarkers can be informative in preclinical studies of PWS
Poesia ed esegesi cristiana. Interferenze tra i Vangeli di Matteo e Luca negli Evangeliorum libri di Giovenco
No full textColombi, Matteo (Hrsg.), Stadt, Mord, Ordnung. Urbane Topographien des Verbrechens in der Kriminalliteratur aus Ost- und Mitteleuropa: Buchbesprechung
No full textMatteo Colombi und seine Co-Autoren verfolgen mit Stadt, Mord, Ordnung ein anspruchsvolles Ziel, nämlich den osteuropäischen Krimi und seine teilweise exotisch wirkenden Schauplätze von allen Seiten zu beleuchten: „Kann man behaupten, dass jede ost- und mitteleuropäische Stadt ihre spezifische Topographie des Verbrechens produziert, die sich aus der Geschichte und Geographie des Ortes speist?“, so eine der zu untersuchenden Fragen. Der Sammelband dokumentiert die Ergebnisse der internationalen Konferenz „Stadt – Mord – Ordnung. Urbane Settings in der Kriminalliteratur aus Ost-Mittel-Europa“, die vom 25. bis zum 26. 03. 2010 am Geisteswissenschaftlichen Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) in Leipzig stattfand. Insgesamt sind es dreizehn Aufsätze von Slavisten, Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftlern, Narratologen und Komparatisten, in denen das Thema umfassend behandelt wird, denn die Konferenz stand in Zusammenhang mit dem von Alfrun Kliems geleiteten DFG-Projekt „Imagination des Urbanen in Ostmitteleuropa. Stadtplanung – Visuelle Kultur – Dichtung im 20. Jahrhundert“ (2006–2010), in dessen Rahmen Stadtlandschaften nach der Wende untersucht wurden. Dies schließt eine Betrachtung der politischen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Veränderungen dieser Zeit mit ein, die auch im Kriminalroman repräsentiert und verarbeitet werden
Efficient few-shot learning for pixel-precise handwritten document layout analysis
No full textLayout analysis is a task of uttermost importance in ancient handwritten
document analysis and represents a fundamental step toward the simplification
of subsequent tasks such as optical character recognition and automatic
transcription. However, many of the approaches adopted to solve this problem
rely on a fully supervised learning paradigm. While these systems achieve very
good performance on this task, the drawback is that pixel-precise text labeling
of the entire training set is a very time-consuming process, which makes this
type of information rarely available in a real-world scenario. In the present
paper, we address this problem by proposing an efficient few-shot learning
framework that achieves performances comparable to current state-of-the-art
fully supervised methods on the publicly available DIVA-HisDB dataset.Comment: Accepted for publication at IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on
Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 202
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