Alessandro Zir
***Alessandro Zir is PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies by Dalhousie University (Halifax, 2009), where Ian Hacking was the external examiner of his thesis. He has publications in Brazil, Canada, Chile, England, Germany, Poland, Portugal and USA, including a book, chapters of books, literary and movie criticism, papers, translations, and fiction. He has presented works in international symposiums at institutions such as the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin), the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU, Trondheim), Utrecht University, the Marie Curie Sklodowska University (Lublin, Poland), and the University of Lisbon.
His research stemmed from debates concerning the relation between rhetoric and rationality in Science Studies. The focus was on figurative language and the theses of the primacy of metaphor. Since his PhD he has availed himself also of a background including literary theory, post-structuralism and semiology to investigate the corpora produced by early-Modern luso-Brazilian encounters. He has been a professor of philosophy and comparative literature, working also with issues related to the opacity of language, the ambiguity of signs and images in post-Romantic culture and contemporary cinema. As a translator he has more than fifteenth books published in Brazil, including Petronius’ Satyricon and Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris. Besides his interdisciplinary background, Alessandro has also a transmedial profile. He has studied music (piano performance), and engaged with visual arts, in particular, drawing and photography.
Address: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
His research stemmed from debates concerning the relation between rhetoric and rationality in Science Studies. The focus was on figurative language and the theses of the primacy of metaphor. Since his PhD he has availed himself also of a background including literary theory, post-structuralism and semiology to investigate the corpora produced by early-Modern luso-Brazilian encounters. He has been a professor of philosophy and comparative literature, working also with issues related to the opacity of language, the ambiguity of signs and images in post-Romantic culture and contemporary cinema. As a translator he has more than fifteenth books published in Brazil, including Petronius’ Satyricon and Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris. Besides his interdisciplinary background, Alessandro has also a transmedial profile. He has studied music (piano performance), and engaged with visual arts, in particular, drawing and photography.
Address: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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The actual trust of a conflict movie such as Steve McQueen’s Hunger (IE, GB, 2008) is not a political narrative or counter-narrative, but the structural tension in a series of intense, harsh and aggressive sounds followed by silence. In Hunger we see a process of emancipation of indicial (visual and audio) elements in relation to their narrative function. The process is a deconstruction—an outbreak against the conceptual unity of the movie, which enables the emergence of fragmentary, non-subjective ontological issues that are fundamental to aesthetic experience beyond its merely psychological and social dimensions. The paper starts with a theoretical discussion relying in authors such as Gilles Deleuze, André Bazin and Michel Chion, and shows the relevance of this deconstructive ontological perspective in cinema studies.
The actual trust of a conflict movie such as Steve McQueen’s Hunger (IE, GB, 2008) is not a political narrative or counter-narrative, but the structural tension in a series of intense, harsh and aggressive sounds followed by silence. In Hunger we see a process of emancipation of indicial (visual and audio) elements in relation to their narrative function. The process is a deconstruction—an outbreak against the conceptual unity of the movie, which enables the emergence of fragmentary, non-subjective ontological issues that are fundamental to aesthetic experience beyond its merely psychological and social dimensions. The paper starts with a theoretical discussion relying in authors such as Gilles Deleuze, André Bazin and Michel Chion, and shows the relevance of this deconstructive ontological perspective in cinema studies.
This book contributes to Luso-Brazilian studies, science studies, and the history of the early-modern period. The notion of “styles of thinking” as presented and used in it benefitted from the many discussions about philosophy and history of science that emerged since the 1980s, with authors such as Ian Hacking, Lorraine Daston, and Peter Galison, who have already done much reassessing critically what is best in the work of previous authors such as Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, and Michel Foucault.
This book considers that the well-known puzzling passages of the corpus of the Portuguese have a fictional and figurative character that acquires full intelligibility in view of literary and mystical traditions typical of the late Renaissance, and influential over the Portuguese. Nature is understood as emerging from an excessive source which permanently overflows it and which is impossible to refer to and depict literally. The book points to the fact that such an idea would connect the Portuguese with other peculiar pre-Modern and post-Modern authors with similar ontological insights: from the neo-Platonists to Boccaccio, Nietzsche, and more recently, Derrida.
ORÍGENES DE UNA ETIOLOGIA CUBANA EN ESPEJO DE PACIENCIA (1608) DE SILVESTRE DE BALBOA VEREDAS – Raúl Marrero-Fente – p. 13
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v91326
CANTO GENERAL E SOUTH AMERICA MI HIJA: UM OLHAR SOBRE “ALTURAS DE MACCHU PICCHU” – Éverton de Jesus Santos e Gisela Reis de Gois – p. 27
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v92743
SELVA O(CULTA): O EPOS E A JORNADA MÍTICA EM LOS REINOS DORADOS – César de Oliveira Santos e Monique Martins Parente – p. 44
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v94453
AS INSTÂNCIAS GRECO-ROMANAS NA COMPOSIÇÃO DE MUHURAIDA, DE JOÃO WILKENS – Igor Gonçalves Miranda e Elton Jônathas Gomes de Araújo – p. 54
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v95470
ALGUMAS INCURSÕES ENTRE O HISTÓRICO E O MARAVILHOSO EM A LÁGRIMA DE UM CAETÉ ¬– Luciana Novais Maciel e Tatiana Cíntia da Silva – p. 71
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v97183
RESSIGNIFICANDO O HEROÍSMO ÉPICO CLÁSSICO: SOLANO TRINDADE EM “CANTO DOS PALMARES” – Daynara Lorena Côrtes – p. 84
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v98496
REPRESENTAÇÕES DO HOMEM NORDESTINO E MANIFESTAÇÕES DO DISCURSO ÉPICO MODERNO NO LIVRO ISPINHO E FULÔ – Maria Leônia Costa Carvalho e Elislane de Goes Nascimento – p. 97
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v997112
Seção livre - Sección libre - Séction libre - Free section – p. 113
¿AMIGO O ENEMIGO? CRISTIANOS Y MUSULMANES EN EL ROMANCERO ESPAÑOL Y LAS BALADAS TRADICIONALES GRIEGAS – Ioannis Kioridis – p. 114
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v9114122
UNA NOTA SOBRE LAS REFERENCIAS A LAS AVES DE CAZA EN EL TAPIZ DE BAYEUX Y SU RELACIÓN CON EL CANTAR DE MIO CID – Juan Héctor Fuentes – p. 123
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v9123132
DA URSA À URSA MAIOR: PERSPECTIVISMO E ANALOGISMO NA LITERATURA BRASILEIRA – Alessandro Zir – p. 133
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v9133164
Relatos de pesquisa/ Reportes de investigación/ Comptes rendus de recherche/ Research reports – p. 165
MAPEAMENTO DO FOLHETO DE CORDEL ÉPICO – Allana Santana Souza e Claudia Emylly Silva Barreto Bispo – p. 166
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.47044/2527-080X.2021v9166174