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Similar hats on similar heads: uniformity and alienation at the Rat Pack’s Summit Conference of Cool
No full textThis article considers the nightclub shows of the Rat Pack, focussing particularly on the Summit performances at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, in 1960. Featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, these shows encompassed musical, comic and dance routines, drawing on the experiences each member had in live vaudeville performance. The discussion outlines these individual histories, and draws attention to a shared fascination with impersonation, which forms an explicit and implicit part of the act, as the performers’ stage personas are already emulatory. In addition to the influence of vaudeville, the construction of the Rat Pack also draws on the structures of blackface minstrelsy, with the interactions of the five members being patterned on a fluid variant of the interlocutor-endmen relationships. The interweaving of these influences and performance styles underpins a dominant concern of the troupe, as the comic material frequently negotiates the racial, national and religious identities of the individual performers. In particular, this deals with their shared status of having immigrant ancestry, a status which I term as being ‘hyphenated-American’, suspended between historical, public and aspirational identities
Simulazioni numeriche riguardanti i fenomeni di liquefazione dei terreni occorsi durante la sequenza sismica emiliano-romagnola del maggio-giugno 2012
No full textDurante la sequenza sismica che ha colpito l’Italia settentrionale nel maggio-giugno 2012 si sono osservati importanti ed estesi fenomeni di liquefazione dei terreni. Rispetto a quanto osservato, l’applicazione delle procedure semplificate di base empirica, usualmente adottate nella pratica ingegneristica e finalizzate alla stima del rischio di liquefazione, fornisce previsioni apparentemente sottostimate. Una simulazione numerica condotta per mezzo di analisi non-lineari ha consentito, invece, di cogliere il ruolo cruciale ricoperto dagli aftershocks (caratteristica distintiva della sequenza ma non contemplata nella formulazione delle procedure semplificate) nel determinare l’accumulo di elevate sovrapressioni interstiziali e quindi l’innesco della liquefazione. Sottoponendo lo stesso modello ad un’eccitazione sismica differente ma dalle caratteristiche simili (Friuli, 15 settembre 1976) si sono riscontrati risultati del tutto analoghi, a prova dell’elevato rischio di liquefazione cui il sito esaminato risulta effettivamente soggetto a seguito di eventi di tale natura
The Influence of the Leipzig Institutes on the School of Turin
No full textThe current essay aims at reconstructing the history of the School of Turin, which became one of the most important Italian centres of psychological research starting from the last decades of the 19th century thanks to its founding fathers, Angelo Mosso, Friedrich Kiesow, and Mario Ponzo, and to their close relationship with the German scientific world. Indeed, as Mosso worked in the Laboratory of Physiology directed by Carl Ludwig at Leipzig University, and Kiesow was one of Wilhelm Wundt’s assistants at his Leipzig Laboratory of Psychology, both brought to their Institute of Physiology and of Psychology at the University of Turin not only the German experimental practices, which were in the forefront of the scientific research of that time, but also the particular German organization of the laboratory work, in which there was a connection between research and teaching and which involved the division of work among research teams.
This model was adopted by Ponzo, one of Kiesow’s assistants, and then transferred to the Institute of Psychology at the University of Rome, where Ponzo worked after Turin
Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Urban Practices
No full textIn the period 2014–21, world consumption of resources increased by about 13%, higher than population growth which was instead of 8% and slightly less than the annual growth of world GDP of 2.2%. This complex global condition confirms the need to continue promoting the transition to a circular economy, on multiple scales, to reduce the environmental impact through a system in which resources are used efficiently and sustainably, as an alternative to the current model of linear economy. The circular economy, which is based on the concept of the “3Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, is expressed thanks to the industrial symbiosis (IS), i.e. the collaboration and sharing of data and resources between different industries or companies within a given territory or the same geographical area. In particular, the IS aims to create collaborative relationships between companies and territories in order to share resources, reduce waste and improve production efficiency. In other words, the IS is functional for the circular economy, and consequently the circular city, by virtue of the progressive international metropolisation. In particular, IS manifests itself with industry 4.0 through the positive integration of digital innovation between businesses, communities and territories and the multi-dimensionality of IS - provincial/metropolitan city, regional and/or national/international - confers a strategic role to face the challenges of sustainable development.
In this synthetic framework, the aim of the present paper is to represent a set of circularity indicators through spatial autocorrelation in order to evaluate the IS maturity level in province/metropolitan cities and to promote circular transition
Spazio e tempo ne "Il fiume dell'Eden". I due Daniel
No full textIn questo studio introduttivo alla traduzione italiana del romanzo di José Maria Merino l' autrice esamina le coordinate su cui l'Autore innesta i suoi meccanismi narrativi più complessi. Nella prima parte si analizzano Spazio e Tempo ne Il fiume dell’Eden, romanzo in cui hanno la prevalenza gli ambienti naturali, identificati con un territorio geografico reale che ospita una natura totalizzante da cui l’Autore fa discendere i sentimenti dei protagonisti che la attraversano.Di fatto, la sovrapposizione dello spazio reale con quello virtuale si manifesta nei personaggi e nei i luoghi essenzialmente attraverso la lingua, e tuttavia in modi diversi. Lo studio riferisce i diversi aspetti considerati nel processo di traduzione e soprattutto ricostruisce in modo originale i meccanismi attraverso cui Merino stesso decide di delineare i personaggi, ad esempio attraverso il rapporto tra l’oralità e la scrittura, tra la pronuncia distorta delle parole e la loro grafia nella gestione delle parti dialogiche. Nella seconda parte dell'Introduzione l'autrice si dedica ad analizzare in chiave linguistica e discorsiva la manifestazione del narratore interno attraverso l'uso della seconda persona in un continuo dialogo con se stesso attraverso i luoghi e il tempo dell'enunciazione e dell'enunciato.
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