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Distopie contemporanee: Bandersnatch come evento seriale
No full textThe article investigates new forms of dystopic narration in relation to the emerging phenomenon of TV series and broader culture of media consumption. The spectacle of contemporary fragility is at the same time pre-mediated by hyperdiegetic narrations reproduced by the daily consumption of these media products. Zombies, vampires, lycanthropes, and all the kinds of monsters that used to inhabit the post-apocalyptic imagery have been introjected by human and post-human characters, struggling against both their interior consciousness and their technological and media prosthesis. In so doing, narratives of a dystopic future build a link with our post-media present, pointing to a wider cultural/epistemological issue. Reflexively, the same dystopic universe expands its limits by locating within its narrative and media structure the subjective and social experience of the audience. In this respect, the anthological series Black Mirror is emblematic in both representing and reproducing a diegetic and medial collapse between dystopic fiction and reality. In particular, the episode “Bandersnatch” actualizes this narrative and its temporalities in terms of interactivity as a mode of consumption. The spectator-user rather than being actually engaged in the narrative construction of the episode, is further integrated in the serial reproduction of the text itself, and of the dystopic media ecosystem in which both the episode and the audience’s experience occur
Immaginari premediati. Futuro e consumo del presente nelle narrazioni seriali
No full textThe aim of this article is to investigate the ways in which some recent serial narratives - centred on the imagination of a future world - reflect and reproduce the fragility of our present. The future is not only made present as a chronotope within which a change is inscribed, but also as a central and hegemonic value of the cultural forms and mythologies that everyday we consume and reproduce. This dialectic between present and future is rendered possible by the semiotic mechanism of premediation, that is the trend of contemporary media to anticipate what will happen through the narrative development of all its possible landscape and outcomes. Following a theoretical discussion of the main categories of analysis, the article will focus on a limited but telling corpus of texts whose dynamics is further developed by their serial mechanisms, able to multiply their temporal layering and fragmentation: Love Death + Robots (Blur e Netflix 2018), Bandersnatch (Netflix 2018), and The Man in the High Castle (Amazon 2015-2019). In these series, both fears and expectations for the future are rendered present both in the representation of contemporary technologies as the agents of our destinies, and in our mediated consumption of such representation
Le Possibilità di Impiego delle Leghe d'Alluminio nel Campo delle Strutture Reticolari Spaziali
No full textL'edilizia e l'industrializzazione n. 6, 198
Local Buckling of Aluminium Alloy Angles under Uniform Compression: Experimental Analysis
No full textC. T. A. “Giornate Italiane della Costruzione in Acciaio”, Genova: 28 Settembre – 1 Ottobre 200
L'esplosione del debito pubblico. Istituzioni, imprese e politiche economiche
No full textIl saggio considera gli effetti della crescita del debito pubblico e del debito delle maggiori imprese italiane negli anni settanta e ottanta in relazione agli effetti indotti dal mutamento delle politiche monetarie seguito alle scelte operate dalla Federal Reserve nel 1979. L'aumento del debito in termini reali comportò un aumento del vincolo di liquidità che ridusse le capacità di finanziamento degli investimenti nel settore privato. Nonostante le riforme che il legislatore e le autorità monetarie centrali introdussero durante gli anni ottanta il modello di specializzazione produttiva del paese appare sostanzialmente stabile se misurato con l'indice Lafay. Le inefficienze istituzionali e l'insufficienza delle riforme prodotte furono un rilevante fattore di limitazione delle capacità di conseguire incrementi di produttività nel decennio successivo
The failure of hedge funds: An analysis of the impact of different risk classes
No full textThis article analyses the determinants of hedge fund failure. We investigate, by using a Probit model, the relationship between different groups of variables: returns, risk, size, management, transparency and liquidity. The classes of variables affect the probability of the fund's failure in different ways. We find that the traditional return-risk relation explains 9.68% of the variation of the probability of failure. The results show that dimensional, transparency and liquidity variables, are the best determinants of the probability of hedge fund failure while the management variables record an explanatory power around 11.00%. However, the complete model records a Pseudo-R2 of 54.03%. In addition, the results show differences regarding the probability of fund failure in relation to the investment zones and the investment strategies, while the management provisions do not affect the probability of failure
The Influence of the Design Configuration on the Seismic Response of Moment-Resisting Frames
No full text2nd International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas, Kyoto, August 3-8, 199
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