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“Hyperethnicity”: Mystery and Italian American Catholic Imagery in "White Noise" by Don DeLillo
No full textThe present article analyzes the reinvention of Italian American Catholic Imagery in “White Noise” by Don DeLillo using the heuristic tool of “hyperethnicity.” The notion of “hyperethnicity” addresses ethnicity as a protean category subject to what Michael Fischer calls the process of “(re-)invention” (1986 195-6), as a fluid “network of signs which — as they interact with their socio-historical contexts — constantly recreates itself and re-establishes the relation between the signified, the signifier, and the referent” (Moskalenko 2021, 35). Given the writer’s artful re-elaboration of the signifiers and the signified of the emblems of Catholic imagery — that is, the topos of the Holy Family, the representation of Madonna with Child, and the ritual of baptism — and the revision of elements typical of the cultural phenomenon identified as Southern Italian Catholic mysticism which emerge in “White Noise,” “hyperethnicity” proves to be an essential tool in the analysis of DeLillo’s imagined landscapes with their underlying cultural touchstones. As Sandra M. Gilbert once put it: “to be an Italian-American is to live in a world of perpetual mystery” (Gilbert 1991, 116), and indeed the examination of the relationship between that sense of mystery and Italian American ethnic identities allows one to investigate the roots of the former and the trajectory of the latter. “Hyperethnicity” — by taking into account the reshaping of the vivid and rich Italian American heritage by the complex socio-cultural context of the United States in the postmodern age — represents a theoretical framework that allows for the comprehension of the mechanisms at the core of the “mystery” which informs DeLillo’s work, and, paraphrasing the writer, provides a basis to analyze it as “natural product of Catholic upbringing” (DeCurtis 1991, 55) translated onto the composite landscape of twentieth-century America
Olena Mykolaivna Moskalenko-Vysotska "Fundamentals Producing Activities": Textbook
No full textOlena Mykolaivna Moskalenko-Vysotska "Fundamentals Producing Activities": Textboo
Evolution of QAnon & Radicalization by Conspiracy Theories
Full text linkOn September 16, 2021, Dr. Moskalenko presented the Emergence and Evolution of QAnon & Radicalization by Conspiracy Theories at the 2021 CASIS Vancouver Defence Security Advisory Network Workshop. A key point of discussion was the growth of self-described “truth seeking” collectives such as QAnon. The QAnon collective has been growing in popularity at an alarming rate since the beginning of the pandemic, as the group uses multiple avenues to grow its network. Dr. Moskalenko discussed how the radicalization of individuals comes from conspiracy theories through the use of outlandish and striking conspiracies that act as entertainment, isolate individual from broader society and coincidentally, degrading mental health as a result of COVID-19.
Contracting minors in the sphere of music show business: world experience and Ukrainian challenges
Full text linkMoskalenko K. V. Contracting minors in the sphere of music show business: world experience and Ukrainian challenges / K. V. Moskalenko // Актуальні проблеми держави і права : зб. наук. пр. / редкол.: С. В. Ківалов (голов. ред.), В. М. Дрьомін (заст. голов. ред.) Ю. П. Аленін [та ін.] ; МОН України; НУ ОЮА. – Одеса : Юрид. л-ра, 2014. – Вип. 73. – С. 321-327.The article provides general analysis of the legal status of minors engaged in the music show business industry. The author investigates international and national legal framework concerning protection of minor performers and suggests entering amendments into the Law of Ukraine “On сopyright and related rights”
Moskalenko Ekaterina Petrovna: teacher, scientist, organizer and public figure. to the 90th birthday
No full textMoskalenko Ekaterina Petrovna: teacher, scientist, organizer and public figure. to the 90th birthday
CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEXES FROM PURPLE PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIA
Full text linkThe CD spectra of a range of antenna complexes from several different species of purple photosynthetic bacteria were recorded in the wavelength range of 190 to 930 nm. Analysis of the far UV CD (190 to 250 nm) showed that in each case except for the B800-850 from Chr. vinosum the secondary structure of the light-harvesting complexes contains a large amount of α-helix (50%) and very little 0-pleated sheet. This confirms the predictions of the group of Zuber of a high a-helical content based upon consideration of the primary structures of several antenna apoproteins. The CD spectra from the carotenoids and the bacteriochlorophylls show considerable variations depending upon the type of antenna complex. The different amplitude ratios in the CD spectrum for the bacteriochlorophyll Qy, Qx and Soret bands indicate not only different degrees of exciton coupling, but also a strong and variable hyperchromism (Scherz and Parson, 1984a, b)
Prévention et suivi des agressions des agents en contact avec le public
No full textGonin Gilles, Moskalenko Claude. Prévention et suivi des agressions des agents en contact avec le public. In: Recherches et Prévisions, n°66, 2001. Évaluer les politiques familiales et sociales. MYRIADE, un outil de microsimulation à la CNAF. pp. 102-105
Ethnic Irony in Don DeLillo’s "Underworld": A Counter-Narrative of the Italian American Resilience and Vulnerabilities.
No full textThe parable of Nick Shay, the protagonist of Don DeLillo’s Underworld, “olive-skinned, dark” (DeLillo 2011, 64) as his missing Italian father, can be read as a felicitous example of a descendant of immigrants who succeeded in “making America.” He represents an instance of upward (and westward) mobility, a self-made man who travels west from Little Italy in New York to run an international waste company in Phoenix, Arizona (DeLillo 2011). By distancing the narrator from the Bronx, which nonetheless represents the unquestionable point of gravity of the novel and Nick’s very identity, DeLillo creates the space essential for irony, the space “between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now,” as another character DeLillo’s character, Jack Gladney, suggests (DeLillo 2009, 30). In DeLillo’s Underworld, the irony indeed represents a fundamental strategy that enables Nick to face the trauma of his brutal separation from his father and his milieu, to reappropriate the persistent commonplaces regarding the Italian Americans (such as the gangster, the unclean, and the Latin lover) in order to deconstruct and to rewrite them, to normalize the ethnic identity and to try to reconcile with it during the journey towards Nick’s intimate past
Radicalization in the Age of Social Media: Mass Identity Manipulations (MIMs)
Full text linkOn November 25, 2020, Dr. Sophia Moskalenko presented on Radicalization in the Age of Social Media: Mass Identity Manipulations (MIMs) at the 2020 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a panel discussion for questions & answers, and breakout rooms for further discussion before closing off the day. The key topics of Dr. Moskalenko’s presentation included social media’s role in mass radicalization, MIMs, and the impact of MIMs in radicalization and de-radicalization efforts
Le magiche tessitrici di Gorenka. Intervista ad Alena Grom
No full textAlena Grom è una fotografa ucraina, nata e residente in Ucraina. Il suo progetto Mavky. Camouflage presentato a Palermo per il terzo anniversario dell’invasione russa, raffigura le volontarie del villaggio di Gorenka che da più di due anni intrecciano le reti mimetiche per i soldati. Nell’intervista Grom parla della genesi del suo progetto e racconta le storie delle donne raffigurate nei suoi scatti, le quali, avvolte nelle reti, si trasformano nelle creature mitologiche ucraine, chiamate mavky, che attingono a forze antiche per proteggere la loro terra
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