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Polskie palindromy dawniej i dziś
No full textW artykule przedstawiono historię polskich palindromów. Wykorzystano tu palindromy z książek Juliana Tuwima, Stanisława Barańczaka, Józefa Godzica oraz Edmunda Johna, a ponadto materiały z pism szaradziarskich. Zaprezentowano także palindromy Tadeusza Morawskiego, współautora artykułu, który
jest obecnie wiodącym polskim twórcą i popularyzatorem palindromów, autorem sześciu książek (wydanych w latach 2005–2008) oraz prowadzi stronę internetową .Polish palindromes in the past and today.In the article a short description of the history of Polish palindromes is presented. The presentation
is illustrated by palindromes from books by Julian Tuwim, Stanisław Barańczak, Józef Godzic,
Edmund John and some from publications about charades. The palindromes by Tadeusz Morawski,
co-author of the paper are also presented. T. Morawski is currently the leading inventor and propagator
of Polish palindromes. He published six books in the years 2005–2008 and administers his own web-site
Aesthetics of Terra Forma: what tools for terrestrial imagination? Bruno Latour’s lesson
No full textLanding on Earth. This now famous formula, which appears in the title of the exhibition/catalogue Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, sums up Latour’s ecological-political project and his attempt to respond to the Anthropocene’s need to bring us back to Earth, to this unstable soil that reacts to our actions and from which the project of Modernity had progressively distanced us. For Latour, climate change and the definition of anthropos as a geological force impose the search for a new habitable territory: the Earth we thought we knew, but which now presents itself as a new terra incognita. However, because of the uncertainty about the shape of the Earth, the need to develop new tools to orient ourselves and describe the situation in which we find ourselves becomes more and more urgent. If what is at stake after the disorientation (spatial, temporal, identity) caused by Gaia’s intrusion is the re-politicization of belonging to the land, what are the cartographic representations that will be able to effectively describe our co-belonging to the space we inhabit, helping to make visible the different chains of agency? What are the tools we can use to learn to see things differently and thus become more “sensitive and responsive” to the fragile shells of this metastable world where life forms other than our own intersect their paths? What kind of map is an earthly map?Landing on Earth. This now famous formula, which appears in the title of the exhibition/catalogue Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, sums up Latour’s ecological-political project and his attempt to respond to the Anthropocene’s need to bring us back to Earth, to this unstable soil that reacts to our actions and from which the project of Modernity had progressively distanced us. For Latour, climate change and the definition of anthropos as a geological force impose the search for a new habitable territory: the Earth we thought we knew, but which now presents itself as a new terra incognita. However, because of the uncertainty about the shape of the Earth, the need to develop new tools to orient ourselves and describe the situation in which we find ourselves becomes more and more urgent. If what is at stake after the disorientation (spatial, temporal, identity) caused by Gaia’s intrusion is the re-politicization of belonging to the land, what are the cartographic representations that will be able to effectively describe our co-belonging to the space we inhabit, helping to make visible the different chains of agency? What are the tools we can use to learn to see things differently and thus become more “sensitive and responsive” to the fragile shells of this metastable world where life forms other than our own intersect their paths? What kind of map is an earthly map
The mediality of mapping : transmedial approaches to space and cartographic immagination, ed. Tommaso Morawski, Tanja Michalsky, Rome 2024 (externe Peer Review)
No full textToday we are surrounded by maps of all sorts. As a result of their integration into everyday practices, cartographic images have become ever more ubiquitous and accessible. This pervasiveness has made the map the privileged medium for interrogating the transformations of our spatial consciousness and geographical imagination. But does it really deserve this status? What is the relationship between our conceptions of spatiality and the medium of the map? And what does it mean to read the history of space through the lens of cartography? The essays collected in this volume and written by specialists in geography, philosophy, architecture, film theory, literary studies, and visual culture address these questions by focusing on the mediality of maps and map- ping. They converge upon a fundamental point: a medium not only mediates between two or more elements but also remediates by appropriating the techniques, forms, and social significance of other media. This point has implications for investigating the history of space through the prism of the map’s mediality. First and foremost, it means adopting a transmedial approach, emphasizing the processes of remediation, and exploring the relationships between the map and other media, supports, or devices, such as texts, books, films, paintings, urban plans, and landscape views.Introduction, Tanja Michalsky, Tommaso Morawski - A Matter of Interpretation: Premodern Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land, Pnina Arad - Views like Maps: on a Late Eighteenth-Century Idea of Making Spaces Completely Available Through Images, Tabea Braun - Du Bellay: Travel in the Void of Verse, Tom Conley - Tracing the Lineage in a Modernizing Landscape: five Diptychs of a Village in the Pearl River Delta, China, Hong Wan Chan - Cities of Collective Memory: the Architectural Map of Roma Interrotta as Conceptual Archaeology, Ioanna Angelidou - Roma quadrata: Angelo Colocci, Raphael and the Stanza della Segnatura as a map – Renaissance Urban Thinking and the Art of Memory, Giorgio Mangani - The Space of the List: Mapping Domestic Inventories, Michal Lynn Shumate - Spatiality, Territoriality, Places: Cartography Around the Film Parasite, Marco Maggioli, Marcello Tanca - ›Google Through the Stereoscope‹. Re-Mediationen von Underwood & Underwoods Kartennavigation am Beispiel Norwegen, Eva Wattolik - Mappe senza territori. Derive dell’arte in Google Street View, Pasquale Fameli - Neither Vision Nor Visualisation: Satellite Imaging and the Erosion of Genres of Spatial Descriptions, Ana Peraica - Have We all Turned into Flatlanders? Mapping and Human Complexity, Mario Nev
Re-performing Art/Re-search (T)here
No full textArt/Re-search (T)here is a SSHRC-funded project that creates new transdisciplinary understandings of art, research and pedagogy. A review of the literature finds that researchers from a wide range of academic fields employ transformational arts-based methods with their participants, but that they are far less likely to weave art-making in all stages of the research process themselves. While researchers “outside” of the arts experiment with art-making in their un/familiar re-search (Absolon, 2011; Rowe, 2020) contexts, I re-perform how new networks and assemblages emerge. Art/Re-search (T)here includes 6 other re-searchers/co-conspirators from different academic fields who identify a need for, and absence of, arts-based research in their respective spaces, including English, Cultural Studies, Social Work, Indigenous Studies, Game Design, Unions, and Education. The individual and collective work that is created throughout this project performs (post)qualitative (Lather, 2007; St. Pierre, 2011) practices and feminist new materialist posthumanism (Barad, 2007) through the data/dada (Morawski & Palulis, 2009) that arises. In the first article, the individual art/re-search that my co-conspirators (Taylor, 2019) and I create provokes me to think about telling stories differently (King, 2005) through the (in)tensions of art, the limitations of language and the embodied (be)longing that occurs through the virtual-material-discursive (Springgay & Truman, 2017). I work through belonging with each of my co-conspirators in the process. In my second article, I work through the initial research questions with my co-conspirators through a collaborative mail art project. Research questions change and shift. I think about how this relational inquiry unfolds as a new materialist (Barad, 2007) methodological space of getting lost (Lather, 2007) with ethico-onto-epistem-ologies (Barad, 2007) of trans-formation in trans-it -- whereby some-thing lost is getting (t)here. In my third article, I re-perform and re-imagine the data bodies and events (Rousell, 2018) of Art/Re-search (T)here after the project ends through a dadaist (Kuenzli, 2015; Richter, 2010) art installation titled Transpedagogical data/dada assemblages. This leads me to put a call of action for more transdisciplinary transpedagogical (Helguera, 2011) art/re-search within higher education (Loveless, 2019) and beyond as it creates space for data/dada, diffraction and difference (Barad, 2007; Haraway, 1988; Lather, 2007) to emerge in world that, I contend, should embrace emergence
Have we all turned into flatlanders? Mapping and human complexity
No full textAssuming mapping as the original model from which digital revolution comes, the essay traces the lineage of its latest developments (Big Data, AI) trying to expose how the basic plasticity of human intelligence – a crucial evolutionary asset for the greatest part of human history – is getting more and more reduced, being aligned to the standards of computing logic, generating social environments increasingly deterministic
Orientation and Cartographic Imagination in the Age of the Digital Earth. Notes Toward an Aesthetics of Google Earth
No full textMy research aims at framing the epistemological transformations caused by the fast diffusion of the geo-media and their digital cartographic systems. Its concern is twofold: On the one hand, I plan to retrace the cartographic genealogy of the Digital Earth by outlining some of the points of emergence of the Earthly vision, a pictorial imagination characterized by the view of the Earth as a whole; on the other hand, I intend to examine how the formation of spatial environments connected with the Whole-Earth medialization has extended the performative capacities of our “cartographic imagination” toward interactive forms of orientation. As a theoretical framework, the article favours a genealogical account, considering maps as media in which our mythical geographies are incarnated, and, at the same time, as a source of a history of cultural representation that encodes subject
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Cities’ Mind: Some Lessons Learnt from the Mediterranean
No full textThe city is not made up only of stones, buildings, roads, bridges or gates. The city is also a mental place that hosts ways of life, practices, perceptions, rituals, movements, moods and feelings. This distinction between the built territory on the one hand, and the way in which people inhabit and live in a city on the other, does not seem to be sustainable anymore, above all in the light of the technological transformations which over the last few decades have contributed to reconfiguring the urban space as a hybrid space. This essay, in a dialogue with the concepts of Gilbert Simondon's philosophy, offers a general picture of the evolution processes of the city, which the author considers the first and oldest example of "artificial intelligence"
Venezia è una nave da crociera: la città-piattaforma tra operazioni estrattive e tecnologie di controllo
No full textCosa congiunge il design di una nave da crociera con il dibattito accademico sulle piattaforme, ed entrambi con le tecnologie di controllo e marketing di un sistema urbano complesso? Attraverso una ricognizione del fiorente campo di studi del cosiddetto platform urbanism, si proverà a rendere conto di quanto, al di là dell’ambito del digitale in senso stretto, la città contemporanea sia essa stessa interpretabile come una piattaforma, utilizzando il caso di Venezia come banco di prova di queste suggestioni
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