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Jane Freilicher: Un'artista di New York
No full textA short piece, in Italian, on New York School artist Jane Freilicher
From 'Culture' to Reciprocities: Imagining the Critical Act after Power
No full textThe article presents ‘cultural studies’, especially in its symbiotic
relation to theory, not as a field but as an intellectual inclination (thematized
but hardly exhausted by the label). It argues that, while cultural studies may be historically
determined (its inception can be dated to the early 1960s) and geographically
located (a consequence of Western philosophies’ leaning toward self-deterritorialization
and migration beyond European terms), it resists ossification,
as is manifest in the ways in which the questions that it has at heart
traverse new critical work from an Anglo-American angle, but not only
Jasper Johns: Regrets
No full textThis is a review article of an exhibition of paintings by American artist Jasper Johns held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, March- September 2014, and of the accompanying catalogue, Jasper Johns: Regrets by
Christophe Cherix and Ann Temkin. The review appreciates Cherix and Temkin's focus on experimentation as the vital force of Johns's art and the curators' detailed descriptions of the unique interplay of materials typical of the artist's work. The review dwells on the show's uniqueness in its capacity to illuminate the intimate connection between experiment and collaboration
American Studies as Italian Theory
Full text linkThe article presents Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito's critique of the US-based account of "Theory" as the assimilation of national critical traditions. It goes on to argue for the potential of the recent phenomenon of Italian Theory to question the boundaries of American Studies and for its influence on the reconfiguration of the field. Discussion highlights the element of conflict in the shaping of American Studies as a field with a unified intellectual order and its relentless forward movement outside its constituted limits
In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism
No full textThis adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas in this study: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an ‘unwritten theory’ suggested by Sontag's subterranean engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag's identity as a non-traditional philosopher, through the extraordinary discipleship to Walter Benjamin. The book is driven by new archival research and will have a multi-layered impact, changing our perception of Sontag as a post-Cold War public intellectual as well as interrogating key concepts in the Humanities
Hermeticism
No full textThough it originates in the work of H. D., hermeticism achieves its most lasting impact and enduring legacy in the work of mid-century Italian poets. Within modernism, hermeticism names an alternative sensibility which remains in the shadow of the dominant modernist motifs of rupture and novelty and is drawn, instead, to the paradox of a productive retreat, of strength in weakness. It insists upon the intimate relationship of reading, its community-making power, and the capacity of language to respond to the most brutal challenges of history. One of the symbols of this strain of modernism is the self-enclosed completeness of the pearl and the shell in H. D.’s earlier imagistic poems. Later, in the poems of Trilogy, the non-referential intimacy of the shell suggests the more extreme withdrawal of the closed-in ‘egg in egg-shell’ (Gubar), emblem of the power of natural objects to withstand apocalypse and the deluge of history
Frammenti di Verona in Ezra Pound
No full textFocusing on Pound, and on his correspondence with fellow poet T. S. Eliot, the article frames Verona (thus the Veneto region) as a major force in the aesthetics of international modernism
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