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This book challenges widespread and largely negative assumptions
about Italian postmodernism and postmodernism in general. It
considers contemporary Italian culture as a particularly
interesting testing-ground for pluriform struggles of an ethical or
political kind, struggles which build upon, whilst rejecting the
essentialist assumptions behind, conventional notions of artistic
commitment, or impegno. Drawing on a variety of cultural fields and
artistic media - from cinema to the literary genres of
autobiography, romance and the giallo; from feminism to pensiero
debole; from theatrical performance to shared practices of cultural
memory - the volume charts instances of ethical commitment and
emancipatory social and political intervention in Italian culture
within a post-ideological and post-hegemonic framework, siding with
a more constructive and less 'apocalyptic' analysis of the cultural
climate of the past two decades in Italy. This balancing act is
described by the contributors as 'postmodern impegno'. The authors,
artists and thinkers discussed in the essays include, among others,
Eraldo Affinati, Adriana Cavarero, Marco Tullio Giordana, Carlo
Lucarelli, Nanni Moretti, Marco Paolini, Roberto Saviano, Gianni
Vattimo and Antonio Tabucchi. Questo libro mette in discussione la
diffusa posizione critica che tende a svalutare l'esperienza
culturale della postmodernita e del postmodernismo in Italia. Il
contesto italiano contemporaneo e di fatto un esempio quanto mai
interessante e sintomatico per il definirsi di forme plurali e non
monologiche di impegno politico-culturale, che pur rifiutando forme
di assolutismo o essenzialismo epistemico o ideologico, mantengono
fede a una consolidata tradizione di engagement artistico. Partendo
dall'analisi di vari generi e strategie discorsive - cinema,
teatro, filosofia, letteratura di genere (romance, giallo,
autobiografia) o di denuncia - e di vari autori - Eraldo Affinati,
Adriana Cavarero, Marco Tullio Giordana, Carlo Lucarelli, Nanni
Moretti, Marco Paolini, Roberto Saviano, Antonio Tabucchi, Gianni
Vattimo, e altri - questo volume raccoglie e analizza esempi di
impegno etico e di intervento socio-politico all'interno di una
prospettiva post-ideologica e post-egemonica, proponendo una
visione piu costruttiva e meno "apocalittica" del clima culturale
generale degli ultimi vent'anni in Italia.
"Thinking Through Relation brings together an outstanding
collection of essays that explore the diverse ways in which works
of art and aesthetic experience generate a richness of relation
which escapes the straightjackets of rigid disciplinary and
institutional boundaries. Clearly demonstrating the creative
potential of critical writing, these essays are a fitting tribute
to the creativity, originality and subtlety of Timothy Mathews's
scholarly accomplishment and his contribution to our understanding
of art and of the aesthetic relation." (Dr Ian James, University of
Cambridge) "This book in honour of Timothy Mathews is much more
than a Festschrift. It is a collection of thought-provoking, daring
insights into the crucial place of literature and the arts in our
world and in our being human. It is an exhilarating multifarious
demonstration of how creativity can undo, without for a moment
losing intellectual rigour, the disciplinary and academic
structures that constrain our thinking. Driven by curiosity and by
care - love, even - the many contributions to the volume show, in
their different ways, how criticism can be at its most effective by
being at its most imaginative and its least predictable."
(Professor Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths, University of London) This
book is an offering. It contains eighteen essays in honour of
Timothy Mathews, written by leading scholars in the fields of
French, Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Creative
Critical Writing. These essays examine the power of serendipitous
encounter between artists, thinkers and artistic media as well as
the importance of creative interjection in the arts and humanities.
They advance fresh interpretations of some important figures in
twentieth-century European culture - Apollinaire, Beckett,
Benjamin, Calvino, Dali, Genet, Nooteboom, Roubaud - using modes of
reading that are both intellectually brave and open to fragility,
intimate as well as critical, at once playful and earnest. They
bring texts and artworks into relation in order to amply
demonstrate that relation itself is a form of thinking.
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Endless Apocalypse Short Stories (Hardcover)
Florian Mussgnug; Contributions by Mike Adamson, Bill Davidson, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Michael Haynes, …
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Stories of the end of civilized life have always fascinated us,
from the mythological world endings, Armageddon to Ragnorok, to the
flood stories of across the Ancient world. They make us wonder what
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Byron, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Allan England, William Hope
Hodgson, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.P. Shiel, Snorri
Sturluson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells; along with a retelling of the
Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian Myth of Apocalypse.
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