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Katia Pizzi
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What do Rihanna, Janelle Monáe and the futurists have in common? A belief in the future and in the aesthetic and political power of technology, argues Dr Katia Pizzi, author of Italian futurism and the machine.
Katia Pizzi's volume explores unconventional, cosmopolite and polyglot Trieste, a city whose adjacent national borders are a melting pot of peoples, cultures, trades and political activities. The volume is comprised of a chronology, an... more
Katia Pizzi's volume explores unconventional, cosmopolite and polyglot Trieste, a city whose adjacent national borders are a melting pot of peoples, cultures, trades and political activities. The volume is comprised of a chronology, an introduction and signifcant excerpts from works of Trieste writers from the early twentieth century to the present day, with focus on contemporary innovative styles in the literary and technological felds.
This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory it was a social and... more
This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in
Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary
concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory
it was a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem, a metonymy
of modernity and international circulation and a living symbol of past
crafts and technologies. Exploring literature, the visual and performing
arts, photography, music and film, the book uses the lens of European
machine culture to elucidate the work of a broad set of artists and
practitioners, including Censi, Depero, Marinetti, Munari and
Prampolini. The machine emerges here as an archaeology of
technology in modernity: the time machine of futurism.
Publicity flyer for the volume Klabjan B. (ed.), Borderlands of Memory. Adriatic and Central European Perspectives. Peter Lang: Oxford, 2019.
Il presente saggio propone una disamina di Pinocchio che, riallacciando la figura del burattino collodiano al contesto culturale, artistico e letterario europeo e italiano tra Unità e Grande Guerra, ne lumeggia lo statuto di protesta,... more
Il presente saggio propone una disamina di Pinocchio che, riallacciando la figura del burattino collodiano al contesto culturale, artistico e letterario europeo e italiano tra Unità e Grande Guerra, ne lumeggia lo statuto di protesta, dissidenza e ribellismo. In particolare, Pinocchio emerge come precursore e paradigma di quel ‘misticismo dell’azione’ propugnato dall’ avanguardia futurista, nella celebre formula coniata da Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944). Sin dalla Fondazione e Manifesto del Futurismo (1909), ‘Il coraggio, l’audacia, la ribellione, saranno elementi essenziali della nostra poesia’,  tuona Marinetti contro la stagnante società borghese, inaugurando una stagione di individualismo e vitalismo che affondano le radici in una congerie di fonti storiche e contemporanee, da Nietzsche al mito mazziniano della giovinezza, dall’élan vital bergsoniano all’azione diretta nell’agone politico teorizzata da Sorel, al pragmatismo di James ad altri ancora.
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The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallised and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories,... more
The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallised and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural interactions of thirteen cities worldwide and the lived experience of urban communities during the Cold War.
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Trieste rappresenta un caso unico tra le citta` italiane. Periferica e incerta nell'identita` sconvolta da ripetuti aggiustamenti del confine geopolitico, la citta` presenta un composito profilo culturale. Controversa, eppure vitalissima... more
Trieste rappresenta un caso unico tra le citta` italiane. Periferica e incerta nell'identita` sconvolta da ripetuti aggiustamenti del confine geopolitico, la citta` presenta un composito profilo culturale. Controversa, eppure vitalissima e incisiva fino ai giorni nostri, la letteratura triestina esprime una cultura sia pure ai margini, e tuttavia mai marginale.
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The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs....
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