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La rappresentazione del supplizio. Per un’archeologia dello spettacolo punitivo
Get PDFIl supplizio come forma suprema della punizione ha percorso la storia dell’occidente dalle sue prime configurazioni antiche fino al suo tramonto come spettacolo pubblico nel corso del XIX secolo.
Questo libro si propone di indagare la logica e i modi della sua rappresentazione, ricostruendone la genealogia all’incrocio tra forme del diritto, figure del potere e strutture mitiche e narrative, a loro volta attraversate dalle forze che ne ordinano il nesso con la scena penale e che ne mettono in azione il meccanismo spettacolare: violenza e ludibrium. L’analisi di questo complesso nodo concettuale procede attraverso l’esame di alcune delle più rilevanti determinazioni storiche assunte dai termini che vi sono implicati (Roma antica, il primo cristianesimo, l’era moderna e l’epoca vittoriana), indagate attraverso le lenti del metodo archeologico
La rappresentazione del supplizio. Per un'archeologia dello spettacolo punitivo
Get PDFIl presente lavoro si propone di indagare le differenti forme e funzioni che la rappresentazione del supplizio ha assunto nel corso della storia occidentale. Partendo dal suo momento aurorale (il sistema penale e punitivo di Roma antica) e individuandone la fine nella stagione della «dolcezza delle pene» (che coincide con la rimozione delle esecuzioni dalla scena pubblica tra XIX e XX secolo), la ricerca individua, attraverso l’analisi di alcuni casi-studio particolarmente significativi, le modificazioni più rilevanti che hanno determinato il passaggio tra i diversi paradigmi del supplizio e del suo spettacolo. I vari esempi presi in esame (le esecuzioni nell’arena, la croce romana e la sua risignificazione cristiana, i teatri anatomici e il Tito Andronico di Shakespeare, la ghigliottina e Le centoventi giornate di Sodoma di Sade, la fine dello spettacolo punitivo e l’«invenzione dell’omicidio» nell’epoca vittoriana) vengono analizzati attraverso uno schema ricorrente che si è individuato nelle diverse figure del supplizio. Esso è costituito dal nesso di legge, potere e trama testuale (intrecciati a loro volta da due forze che mettono in movimento lo spettacolo punitivo, violenza e ludibrium) che, nel vuoto concettuale dei termini che lo costituiscono e nella loro formulazione storica sempre mutevole, determina le modificazioni e le differenti funzioni della scena punitiva
L’iconamedium. Schermi, superfici e attraversamenti nell’horror contemporaneo
No full textThe debate on the screen, on its peculiar physiognomy and on its contempo-rary features, seems to be one of the most prominent nowadays. In this context,it is maybe possible to adopt a different point of view on these topics, approachingthe problem from a different theoretical perspective. Focusing on the concept oficonostasisproposed by Florenskij, the paper aims to propose a critical rethinkingof these categories in the contemporary mediascape. After a general overviewon Florenskij’s image theory, the paper will focus on four specific case-studies,belonging to horror cinema, that seems to be able to explore specific key pointsof this theoretical approach (e.g. the link between the concepts of surface, ma-teriality and images; the image itself as an object where the border between vis-ible and invisible becomes evident; the temporal inversion produced by the dream image)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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