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The Multi-Sited/Synesthetic Taste of the Italian ‘Tricolore’: Time-Space Transmutations of the Italian Flag’s Colors Through the Ingredients of Pizza Margherita
No full textThe essay analyzes the history of the Italian Tricolore and its synesthetic transmutation in culinary symbols, specifically Pizza Margherita. The process of this inter-semiotic transduction of the Italian national flag involved, as its semiotic means, the unbalanced and, in many respects, discriminatory geo-political strategy that gave rhythm to the Unification of Italy in 1861. The ambiguous significance of Pizza Margherita, simultaneously a symbol of national reconciliation and of the cultural identitarian edge between the North and South of the country, is connoted, furthermore, by the geographically widespread origins of its ingredients. These global roots constitute a sort of prophecy of the subsequent planetary dissemination of this recipe and the transfigurations of its Italian-ness along the routes travelled by Italian migrants. The synesthetic shifting of the Italian Tricolore performed the role of vehicle of re-semantization in foreign lands, and distinctly in the USA. It re-enacted the ethnic-political conflict epitomized in the colors of the flag so as to produce a geo-political continuum with the homeland, dramatically conveyed by the mediation of Cosa Nostra in its collaboration with Allied Forces landing in Sicily during the Second World War. All the subsequent history of Italy and its relation- ships with the US have been influenced by this semio-spatial continuity going so far as to change the current political signification of the Tricolore for all Italians.
Through the experiential spectrum of this story, the essay aims to explore, respectively, the semiotic phenomenology of flags, the synesthetic transmutation of their colors, their semantic-spatial (chorological) transmutations and the related range of socio-political and legal implications
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Das Digitalisat als Objekt der Begierde. Anforderungen an digitale Sammlungen für Forschung in der Digitalen Kunstgeschichte
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The Berlin Kunstkammer. Collection History in Object Biographies from the 16th to the 21th Century
No full textThe Berlin Kunstkammer as such never existed. In the course of its long history, the electoral and then royal institution underwent continuous change. In dealing with the collection, the protagonists constantly reinvented the Brandenburg-Prussian Kunstkammer. This book takes an innovative approach to the multiple meanings of the history of the collection by examining the biographies of its objects. Like prisms, these holdings refract the history of the Kunstkammer from its beginnings around 1600 to the present day, showing the kaleidoscopic meanings attributed to artefacts and natural objects. The texts, written by authors from a variety of disciplines, trace the early history of Berlin’s modern museum landscape and the differing paths that brought objects into the collections. The contributions present the results of a joint research project by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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