2,128 research outputs found
Beyond Cultural Aphasia.
No full textA Conversation between Rossella Ciocca and the scholar and cultural activist G. N. Devy, author of the People's Linguistic Survey of India, about nomadic communities and their endangered languages and cultures
From Nation to World: Bombay/Mumbai Fictions and the Urban Public Sphere
No full textIn this essay, attention is focused on the very centre of the neo-liberal metropolitan scene. Seen as a city which is transforming its post-independence Nehruvian character into that of a global late-capitalist conurbation, Mumbai is caught in the transition from secular to post-secular policy, while its customary cosmopolitanism appears threatened on the one hand by the phenomenon of rabid parochialism and on the other by both extreme, and/or rather subtle, forms of social violence. Since in the metropolitan compartments of media, entertainment, news, and fiction, English, as a pan-Indian, globalized language, intersperses the bhashas with unrestrained frequency, playing the leading role in the appropriation of globally inflected cultural models, the outcome is a metropolitan landscape in which Anglophone literature itself is imbricated in an ongoing process of conversation with the other agencies at work in the contemporary urban public sphere
Riabilitazione protesica dei pazienti radiotrattati
No full textIl capitolo relativo alla Radioterapia è incentrato sul trattamento dei tumori del distretto cervico-cefalico. In maniera semplice e chiara sono stati messi in luce i punti chiave di questo gruppo di neoplasie che risulato essere sempre in aumento nel nostro paese. Pertanto, grazie alle nuove tecniche avanzate in radioterapia, alle sempre più innovative metodiche di imaging, radiologiche e metaboliche e all'utilizzo di nuovi farmaci chemioterapici siamo giunti ad un maggiore successo in termini di risultati clinici
Indian Literature and the World. Multilingualism, Translation and the Public Sphere
No full textIndian Literature and the World is a collection of critical essays featuring up-to-date scholarship on the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. Multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation on an “Indian” literary canon, and Indian authors’ engagement with the public sphere all shape the orientation of our volume. The essays cover political activism and the North-East Tribal novel; the role of work in the contemporary Indian fictional imaginary; history as felt and reconceived by the acclaimed Hindi author Krishna Sobti; Bombay fictions; the Dalit autobiography in translation and its problematic international success; development, ecocriticism and activist literature; casteism and access to literacy in the South; gender and diaspora as dominant themes in writing from and about the subcontinent. Troubling Eurocentric genre distinctions and the split between citizen and subject, we wish to approach Indian literature from the perspective of its constant interactions between private and public narratives, thereby proposing a method of reading Indian texts that goes beyond their habitual postcolonial identifications as “national allegories”
“Plurality, Identity, Democracy, Globalization…. A conversation with Sunil Khilnani” in Indiascapes. Images and words from globalized India
No full textRossella Ciocca interviews Sunil Khilnani author of the much appraised The Idea of India: one of the best non-fictional introductions to the complexities of politics in contemporary India. The strengths and weaknesses of present-day uneven modernity are discussed around a few strategic topics. First of all plurality, which in its linguistic, cultural, religious, ethnic variety has been vindicated since Independence as a foundational value, is seen as the quintessential resource for achosen practice of syncretism but also in danger of becoming the very source of fragmentation and implosion in a country increasingly maimed by fundamentalism and fanaticism. Democracy is then interrogated between the comfortable perspective of the firmly established and normally operating mechanisms of democratic routine, on the one hand, and the flawsof a still dramatically unjust system of distribution of rights and opportunities, on the other. Identity politics is in turn analysed both in its positive action of mobilizing society around the problem of social upgrading and in its unwelcome side effects of increasing practices of rigid and restricted classification fomenting division and violent sectarianism. In the end Indian growing cultural appeal upon the globalized scene is questioned in its complex relationship with the country’s quest for a role of protagonist in political as well as economic affairs upon a new multilateral international stage
La città e le tecnologie mobili della comunicazione. Parole e culture in movimento
No full textIl volume pensato come omaggio a Laura Di Michele, riprende un ampio progetto di ricerca da lei ideato nel 2007, affrontando, da una prospettiva interdisciplinare, la straordinaria complessità del topos urbano. L’idea di città viene indagata come campo infinito e in progress di teorie e pratiche culturali quale si è venuto sviluppando e trasformando nel corso dei secoli, sia nelle sue strutture fisiche che in quelle materiali, sia nei suoi flussi immaginativi e virtuali che nei suoi dirompenti snodi tecnologici e ideologici — in un intreccio vertiginosamente mobile di traffici, transazioni e ibridazioni d’ogni sorta.
I contributi seguono un’articolazione diacronica in sei sezioni partendo dall’intensa mobilità testuale e performativa del teatro cinque e secentesco, e attraversando poi tutte le fasi della modernità fino alla più contraddittoria configurazione metropolitana del contemporaneo, quando alla tecnologia mobile wi-fi degli odierni locative media, che permette di localizzare e monitorare ogni punto della mappa cittadina, si sovrappone però la mobilità traumatica di immigrati, esuli, ed espatriati − sollecitando a osservare l’ultra-sofisticato palinsesto urbano post- o sur-moderno dallo sguardo straniato e straniante dell’altro/a. The volume focuses on the technological developments of the urban topos which is investigated from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches across a wide diachronic arc including all the crucial stages of modernity. Privileging an interdisciplinary perspective, the collection thus unfolds the extraordinary complexity of the urban topos as a rich and open field − in progress and in motion − of both imaginary and material fluxes, traffics and transactions of all sorts. The papers are divided into six sections arranged in a chronological order which spans from the dense textual and performative mobility of the early modern age up to the contradictory and hybridized landscapes of the contemporary post- o hyper-modern metropolis in which the vertiginous technology of new locative media dramatically meets the traumatic mobility of an increasing number of migrants and expatriates
Indiascapes. Images and words from globalized India Volume della rivista Anglistica, a.i.o.n. An interdisciplinary journal
No full textIndian culture is playing an increasingly imposing role in shaping new globalised scenarios,
contributing dramatically to a radical interrogation of its national, linguistic and geo-political ties.
This issue of Anglistica tries to highlight a few of the possible outlines that emerge from the
multifarious, variegated, complex cultural background offered by the Subcontinent, in both its
domestic and diasporic dimensions. Images and words from globalised India form a landscape in
which narrative, history, myth, fiction, the entertainment industry, linguistics, politics and the arts
stay side by side, each adding a piece to a tessellated, composite and obviously partial sketch.
Indiascapes, to paraphrase Appadurai, is the term we have chosen to represent this current
assemblage of languages and perspectives which speak about India’s cultural richness, its
complexity and ambiguity, trying to convey the strong appeal it is increasingly exercising upon the
de-territorialized world-space of the imaginary. The object of this group of essays could thus be
summarized as disparate but convergent reflection upon the vernacular terms of the inscription of
modernity on the globalised culture of the largest, most geopolitically important, but also
contradictory democracy in the world
Transnational subjects cultural and literary encounters. Introduction
No full textThe volume collects the selected papers from the literary and cultural sections of the XXVII AIA Conference (Naples 10-12 September 2015). The chosen theme, Transnational Subjects: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Encounters, proved ideally suited to arouse a consistent and articulated debate on a series of crucial questions from a large number of scholars. In tune with the critical framework outlined by Bill Ashcroft on globalization and its supra–national function, all contributions here engage with the tense entanglement of transnational, transitional and translational issues that mark our age of global networks and traumatic dislocation. This pervasive process of hybridization has also changed the approach to the theory and history of literature, calling for a revisionary debate on ‘world literature’ in which transnationality and interculturality help connect in unforeseen ways past and present texts, authors and translations
Contributi al Capitolo 7 "Prospettive di ricerca"
No full text7.1.1 Ear & Nose Digital Library
Ciocca L, Fantini M, De Crescenzio F.
Nel caso in cui non si disponga di modelli preoperatori prima di iniziare la costruzione di una epitesi auricolare o nasale, è necessario avere modelli virtuali di riferimento che possano essere correttamente adattati sulla superficie del difetto. A tale scopo da un imnsieme di modelli reali in gesso presi da pazienti sani, si è proceduto alla costruzione di una biblioteca virtuale di modelli nasali ed auricolari che possano essere utilizzati anche nei casi congeniti di agenesia auris bilaterale, come accade ad es. come nella sindrome di Treacher Collins.
La realizzazione dei modelli digitali è avvenuta attraverso la scansione laser 3D dei modelli in gesso. Le differenti prese necessarie per la completa aqcuisizione di ogni calco sono state quindi registrate e fuse in un unico modello tridimensionale.
Vengono descritti nel dettaglio due casi di studio.
7.2 Progettazione di scaffold per la rigenerazione ossea: impostazione del modello di studio animale
Uno dei problemi più cogenti della Protesi Maxillo-Facciale è la morfologia ossea e mucogengivale residua dell’anatomia dei mascellari dopo l’intervento chirurgico maxillo-facciale. Molte variabili influiscono nel risultato post-operatorio a livello morfologico, fra cui principalmente la mancanza di una corretta progettazione protesica preventiva dell’intervento di exeresi maxillo-facciale. Infatti spesso il chirurgo si trova a dover affrontare il caso clinico da un punto di vista demolitivo e ricostruttivo, senza una base di progettazione protesica finale di come il caso dovrà successivamente essere riabilitato che serva da riferimento durante l’intervento. Tale problematica è alla base di un ampio protocollo di ricerca che gli autori conducono sulla possibilità di progettare scaffold in grado di ripristinare il corretto volume e di ospitare al loro interno cellule staminali che consentano la rigenerazione tissutale ossea.
Per tale obiettivo attualmente si sta lavorando su un modello di studio animale di cui si forniscono alcuni dettagli a titolo di esempio degli sviluppi futuri della ricerca nel campo della Protesi Maxillo-Facciale
Le Terme, a large-scale temporary time-based site-specific artwork
No full textSOLO PROJECT: Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan: Le terme a large-scale temporary time-based site-specific artwork was constructed from 16 -31 Oct 08 at Piazza Oberdan, Milan. Builders from R. Bau UK aided by architecture students from Politecnico di Milan simultaneously constructed and de-constructed a section of Diurno Venezea, a derelict 1920’s public bathhouse at Piazza Oberdan. The historical architecture that lies forgotten underneath the surface was revealed in a performative gesture. The sculpture directly referenced shape and scale of the bathhouse below (five metres high and sixty metres long). Whilst reflecting the permanence and immobility of the remains below, Le Terme is a structure of constant movement where walls appear and disappear and the construction of the monumental becomes a visible experience, encouraging a public discussion about the city\u27s forgotten spaces. The project was commissioned by Ciocca Arte Contemporanea and supported by The City of Milan, Provincia di Milano, R.Bau Sunderland, South Tyneside College, Politecnico di Milano, Layher Italy, Assab One Milan and the Arts Council England. SOLO EXHIBITION: Le Terme e La Sirena, Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan Italy 2009. A series of long-exposure photographs and a time-lapse movie recorded during the project is exhibited from 5 Feb - 9 April 09 at Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan
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