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Call for Papers: Il pensiero politico di Wilhelm von Humboldt

07 Friday Sep 2018

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La persona e il pensiero di Wilhelm von Humboldt (1787-1835) continuano ad affascinare e a essere oggetto di studio da parte di studiosi che appartengono a diverse discipline, dalla filosofia alla linguistica, dalla critica letteraria all’antropologia filosofica. A livello italiano ne sono testimonianza le numerose pubblicazioni, tra le quali si cita l’ultima in ordine di tempo, ossia la curatela edita da Carrano, Massimilla e Tessitore, Wilhelm von Humboldt, duecentocinquant’anni dopo. Incontri e confronti (Liguori 2017).

Punto di partenza e fulcro delle seguenti riflessioni è lo studio e l’analisi del pensiero politico di Wilhelm von Humboldt, che risulta particolarmente interessante, estremamente innovativo per la sua epoca ed estremamente attuale per quello che riguarda la riflessione sul ruolo dello Stato, sui concetti di individuo e individualità e sul ruolo della diversità umana.

Le prime riflessioni politiche di Humboldt risalgono agli anni 1791-92; le opere di questo periodo, Ideen über Staatsverfassung (1791) e Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen (1792), saranno pubblicate postume e permettono di ripercorrere a ritroso la genesi e lo sviluppo del suo pensiero politico. Tuttavia, le sue meditazioni sono presenti e rappresentano una sorta di filo rosso che uniscono le opere che trattano di critica letteraria (Ästhetische Versuche. Erster Theil. Über Göthe’s Herrmann und Dorothea. Braunschweig [1799]; Über Schiller und den Gang seiner Geistesentwicklung [1830]), dello studio delle lingue e del funzionamento del linguaggio (Pindars „Olympische Oden“. Übersetzung aus dem Griechischen [1816]; Aischylos’ „Agamemnon“. Übersetzung aus dem Griechischen [1816]; Über das vergleichende Sprachstudium in Beziehung auf die verschiedenen Epochen der Sprachentwicklung [1820]), di antropologia (Über den Geschlechtsunterschied und dessen Einfluss auf die organische Natur [1794]; Über männliche und weibliche Form [1795]; Plan einer vergleichenden Anthropologie [1797]) etc.

Per analizzare approfonditamente la genesi e lo sviluppo delle idee politiche humboldtiane, possibili tematiche sono le seguenti proposte che individuano il rapporto tra la riflessione politica e:

  1. l’antropologia filosofica;
  2. l’estetica;
  3. la storia;
  4. la religione;
  5. lo studio del linguaggio;
  6. la filosofia.

Rappresentano gli elementi focali della riflessione humboldtiana che possono essere analizzati da molteplici punti di vista e attraverso metodi e correnti di pensiero diverse. Non si tratta di individuare le possibili relazioni tra le tematiche e i nuclei di pensiero proposti solo in riferimento all’epoca in cui visse Humboldt. Tracce del suo pensiero, anche se mediate e indirette, si possono trovare, ad esempio, in autori e pensatori a lui posteriri, si pensi a Stuart Mill che cita il saggio Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Graenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen nella prefazione al suo On Liberty (1859), o all’interpretazione chomskiana delle sue idee linguistiche (cfr. gli universali linguistici e l’idea di struttura applicata al linguaggio).

Il numero monografico della rivista dedicato al pensiero politico humboldtiano accoglie pertanto contributi che si prefiggono lo scopo di analizzare questi nessi e altri possibili da un punto di vista transdisciplinare, comparatistico.

Gli abstracts di 250-300 parole dovranno essere inviati entro il 30 novembre 2018 ai curatori Giovanni Cogliandro (cogliandro@gmail.com), Isabella Ferron (isabella.ferron@unipd.it) e Marco Ivaldo (marco.ivaldo@unina.it). Entro il 31 dicembre 2018 i curatori selezioneranno i contributi pubblicabili sulla base degli abstracts pervenuti.

 

I contributi, che non dovranno superare le 40 mila battute (incluse note e riferimenti) e saranno sottoposti a peer review, dovranno pervenire entro il 30 aprile 2019.

I contributi saranno consegnati online via OJS – Open Journal System:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index

Le linee guida per la consegna si trovano al link seguente:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

Tutti i contributi saranno esaminati e recensiti secondo le nostre procedure

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess

 

Lingue: Inglese, Italiano, Tedesco.

 

English version

Wilhelm von Humboldt’s political Thought

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1787-1835) as a person, and his ideas, still fascinate scholars from different disciplines, from Philosophy, to Linguistics or philosophical Anthropology, and are objects of their research. In the Italian scientific panorama new publications and studies testify this constant interest for the work of Humboldt, which has never been abandoned, as for instance the edition of Carrano, Massimilla e Tessitore, Wilhelm von Humboldt, duecentocinquant’anni dopo. Incontri e confronti (Liguori 2017).

The starting point of the following reflection is the analysis of Humboldt’s political thought, that is particularly interesting, as it is timely, innovative and extremely topical and refers to his idea of the role of the State in people’s lives, and the concepts of individuality and human diversity.

His first political ideas go back to 1791-92; however his works Ideen über Staatsverfassung (1791) and Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Graenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen (1792) were published posthumously. They are very important as they help us to understand the genesis and the development of his ideas, and so interpret them. Humboldt’s political reflections draw a red line that fit his works, whether they deal with literary critics (Ästhetische Versuche. Erster Theil. Über Göthe’s Herrmann und Dorothea. Braunschweig [1799]; Über Schiller und den Gang seiner Geistesentwicklung [1830]), or with the study of languages (Pindars „Olympische Oden“ [1816]; Aischylos’ „Agamemnon“ [1816]; Über das vergleichende Sprachstudium in Beziehung auf die verschiedenen Epochen der Sprachentwicklung [1820]), with Anthopology (Über den Geschlechtsunterschied und dessen Einfluss auf die organische Natur [1794]; Über männliche und weibliche Form [1795]; Plan einer vergleichenden Anthropologie [1797]) and so on.

Possible themes for a precise and deep analysis refer to the relationship between political thought and:

  1. philosophical Anthropology;
  2. Aesthetics;
  3. History;
  4. Religion;
  5. Language study (Linguistics, Historical Linguistics);
  6. Philosophy

These themes represent the main aspects of Humboldt’s ideas and can be analyzed under different scientific points of view, with different methods and ways of thinking. It is not only a question of its development during Humboldt’s era, but also the call for papers aims at finding possible traces of Humboldt’s work in different periods of time and in particular authors, as for instance Stuart Mill, who cited Humboldt’s Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Graenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen in his Preface to On Liberty (1859), or Noam Chomsky, whose linguistic theories developed Humboldt’s ideas on Language and Languages (linguistic universals, the idea of a language structure etc.) in new ways. The monographic issue on Humboldt’s political ideas searches for proposals and contributions that try to analyse it from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. Contributions from the different disciplines that are involved in this reflection are welcome.

An abstract of 250-300 words must be sent by 30 November 2018 to editors email addresses: Giovanni Cogliandro (cogliandro@gmail.com ), Isabella Ferron (isabella.ferron@unipd.it)and Marco Ivaldo (marco.ivaldo@unina.it). Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 December 2018.

Full papers of accepted abstracts cannot be longer than 40 000 characters (footnote and references included). They should be submitted by 30 April 2019 and prepared for blind peer review.

The full paper must be submitted online via OJS – Open Journal System:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index

Authors can find submission guidelines at the following link:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

All papers will be reviewed according to our peer review process policy:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess

Languages: English, German, Italian.

 

Deutsche version

Wilhelm von Humboldts politisches Denken

Die Faszination für die Figur und das Denken Wilhelm von Humboldts (1787-1835) ist nach wie vor ungebrochen; noch heute sind sie Forschungsobjekte von Wissenschaftlern der verschiedensten Disziplinen, sei es Philosophie, Linguistik oder philosophische Anthropologie. In der italienischen Forschungslandschaft wird dieses beständige Interesse durch zahlreiche Publikationen bezeugt, z.B. die kürzlich erschienene Herausgeberschaft von Carrano, Massimilla und Tessitore, Wilhelm von Humboldt, duecentocinquant’anni dopo. Incontri e confronti (Liguori 2017).

Ausgangspunkt der folgenden Überlegungen ist eine Analyse von Humboldts politischem Denken. Diesem gebührt besonderes Interesse, da es einerseits für seine Epoche innovativ war und andererseits für das Nachdenken über die Rolle des Staates, den Begriff des Individuums und der menschlichen Diversität auch heute noch hochaktuell ist.

Seine ersten politischen Überlegungen gehen auf die Jahre 1791-92 zurück, jedoch sind die Werke Ideen über Staatsverfassung (1791) und Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen (1792) erst posthum veröffentlicht worden. Sie erlauben uns, rückblickend die Genese und die Entwicklung seines Denkens zu verstehen und zu deuten. Humboldts politische Reflexionen können als roter Faden begriffen werden, der seine Werke miteinander verbindet: sowohl die, welche die Literaturkritik betreffen (Ästhetische Versuche. Erster Theil. Über Göthe’s Herrmann und Dorothea. [1799]; Über Schiller und den Gang seiner Geistesentwicklung [1830]), diejenigen, die sich mit dem Sprachstudium (Pindars „Olympische Oden“. Übersetzung aus dem Griechischen [1816]; Aischylos’ „Agamemnon“. Übersetzung aus dem Griechischen [1816]; Über das vergleichende Sprachstudium in Beziehung auf die verschiedenen Epochen der Sprachentwicklung [1820]), mit der Anthropologie (Über den Geschlechtsunterschied und dessen Einfluss auf die organische Natur [1794]; Über männliche und weibliche Form [1795]; Plan einer vergleichenden Anthropologie [1797]) oder anderem befassen.

Mögliche Themen für eine präzise und genauere Untersuchung beziehen sich auf das Verhältnis zwischen Humboldts politischem Denken und

  1. philosophischer Anthropologie;
  2. Ästhetik;
  3. Geschichte;
  4. Religion;
  5. Sprachstudium;
  6. Philosophie.

Diese Gebiete stellen die zentralen Aspekte der Humboldt’schen Gedankenwelt dar und können aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und mithilfe verschiedener Methoden und Denkweisen betrachtet werden. Es geht nicht nur darum, die möglichen Beziehungen zwischen dieser Themen mit Bezug auf Humboldts Epoche zu untersuchen, sondern auch darum, Spuren seines Denkens (mittelbar und unmittelbar) in Philosophen und Denkern anderer Zeiten wahrzunehmen – man denke etwa an John Stuart Mill, der in der Einleitung zu On Liberty (1859) Humboldts Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen erwähnt, oder an Noam Chomskys Interpretation von Humboldts Sprachauffassung (vgl. das Verständnis von sprachlichen Universalien und die Idee von Struktur, die er auf die Sprache appliziert).

Für das monographische Heft über Humboldts politisches Denken werden Beiträge angenommen, die obengenannte Themen und deren Beziehungen zueinander aus einer inter- und transdisziplinären wie auch komparatistischen Perspektive beleuchten.

 

Interessierte werden gebeten, ein kurzes Abstract in Deutsch (ca. 250-300 Wörter, exkl. Literaturhinweise) bis einschließlich 30.11.2018 an Giovanni Cogliandro (cogliandro@gmail.com ), Isabella Ferron (isabella.ferron@unipd.it) und Marco Ivaldo (marco.ivaldo@unina.it) zu mailen. Eine Benachrichtigung über die Annahme des Beitrags wird bis zum 31.12.2018 erfolgen.

Die Zusendung der fertigen Aufsätze, die einen Umfang von 40.000 Zeichen (inklusiv Fußnoten und Bibliographie) nicht überschreiten und einer beiderseits anonymen Begutachtung unterzogen werden sollen, erwarten wir bis zum 30.04.2019.

Die fertigen Aufsätze müssen online via OJS – Open Journal System eingereicht werden: http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index

Weitere Informationen: http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

Alle Aufsätze werden gemäß dem peer review Verfahren begutachtet:

will be reviewed according to our policy:

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Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch und Italienisch

 

Wilhelm von Humboldts Werke

Gesammelte Schriften. Ausgabe der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, hrsg. v. Albert Leitzmann, Berlin 1903–1936, Nachdruck 1968.

Wilhelm von Humboldt. Werke in fünf Bänden. Hrsg. v. Andrea Flitner und Klaus Giel, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1980ff.

Schriften zur Sprachwissenschaft. Hrsg. v. Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Tilman Borsche, Bernhard Hurch, Jürgen Trabant und Gordon Whittaker. Betreut durch die Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 1994ff.

Sekundärbibliographie (Auswahl)

Aneziris, Christos G., Zur 250. Wiederkehr des Geburtstags von Wilhelm von Humboldt, Mannheim, Humboldt-Gesellschaft für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Bildung e.V. 2017.

Carrano, Antonio/ Tessitore, Fulvio et al. (a cura di), Wilhelm von Humboldt, duecentocinquant’anni dopo, Napoli, Liguori 2017.

Caussat, Pierre; Variations philosophiques et sémiotiques autour du langage: Humboldt, Saussure, Bakhtin, Jakobson, Ricoeur et quelques autres, Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia-l’Harmattan 2016.

Denat, Céline, Transferts linguistiques, hybridations culturelles, Reims, Éditions et presses universitaires de Reims 2015.

Halász, Hajnalka, Differenzen des Sprachdenkens: Jakobson, Luhmann, Humboldt, Gadamer und Heidegger, Bielefeld, transcript 2017.

Maurer, Michael, Wilhelm von Humboldt: Ein Leben als Werk, Köln, Böhlau 2016.

Mendicino, Kristina, Prophecies of Language: The confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism, New York, Fordham University Press 2017.

Nolte, Dorothee, Wilhelm von Humboldt: Ein Lebensbild in Anedokten, Berlin, Eulenspiegel Verlag 2017.

Palumbo, Ciro, Stato, diritto e linguaggio giuridico: Studi con von Humboldt, Roma, Nuova Cultura 2015.

Petersen, Jens, Wilhelm von Humboldts Rechtsphilosophie, Berlin, De Gruyter 2016.

Rosenstrauch, Hazel, Wahlverwandt und ebenbürtig: Caroline und Wilhelm von Humboldt, Berlin, AB – Die Andere Bibliothek GmbH & Co. KG 2017.

Weber, Philipp, Kosmos und Subjektivität in der Frühromantik, Paderborn, Fink 2017.

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Remediation: art, technology, humanity

11 Sunday Mar 2018

Posted by Danilo Manca in Odradek, Senza categoria

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Arianne Françoise Conty, art, Artaud, corpo-immagine, Daniela Sacco, Enrique Diaz, Ester Fuoco, Ethics, Fabio Fossa, GIF, humanity, Izabella Pluta, Krystian Lupa, Luciana da Costa Dias, Marcilene Lopes De Moura, new media aesthetics, Odradek, Remediation, Roberto Diodato, Samuel Weber, Sara Tongiani, Tamira Mantovani Gomes Barbosa, technology, Walter Benjamin

We are very glad to announce that the volume 3, no. 1-2 (2017) of ODRADEK is out!

The volume deals with “Remediation: art, technology and humanity” and it is edited by Ester Fuoco.

Table of contents:

Il chiasma corpo-immagine
Roberto Diodato

The Messianic Past: Walter Benjamin and the Re-enactment of History
Arianne Françoise Conty

Distorsioni spazio-temporali: dalle GIFs animate a ritroso
Sara Tongiani

Teatro come medium. Sulla riproducibilità a partire da Walter Benjamin e Samuel Weber
Daniela Sacco

O teatro de Enrique Diaz: Entre opacidade e transparência
Marcilene Lopes De Moura

Individuation intermédiale et monologue intérieur dans la mise en scène de Salle d’attente de Krystian Lupa
Izabella Pluta

Artaud e a poesia sonora: o som come meie e descontrução da linguagem
Luciana da Costa Dias, Tamira Mantovani Gomes Barbosa

Creativity and the Machine: How technology reshapes language
Fabio Fossa

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Odradek volume on Denkbilder is out

25 Tuesday Jul 2017

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Auschwitz, Camilla Passigli, Danilo Manca, Didier Alessio Contadini, Elias Canetti, Ernst Bloch, Francesco Rossi, Franz Kafka, G. W. F. Hegel, Günther Anders, Giancarlo Lacchin, Harald Zils, Herta Müller, Isabella Ferron, Maximilian Herford, Micaela Latini, Peter Koenig, Plato, platone, Raul Calzoni, Robert Walser, Silvia Vezzoli, Stefan George, Stefano Beretta, Takaoki Matsui, Theodor W. Adorno, W. G. Sebald, Walter B. Pedriali, Walter Benjamin

We are glad to announce that the fourth volume of International Journal ODRADEK is out!
The issue n. 2 (2016) is entitled Denkbilder. «Thought-Images» in 20th-century German Prose. Editors are Prof. Raul Calzoni (Università degli studi di Bergamo) and Prof. Francesco Rossi (Università di Pisa).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Instead of an Introduction: Towards a Definition of the Denkbild
Raul Calzoni, Francesco Rossi

ARTICLES
Denkbild: storia, arte e filosofia. George, Platone e la “poetica delle idee”
Giancarlo Lacchin

L’immagine-pensiero come Aufhebung del pensiero concettuale di Hegel?
Danilo Manca

Zu Walter Benjamins „Denkbildern“
Peter Koenig

Die Weisheit im Exil: Gewalt, Mythos und Geschichte in Walter Benjamins Tiergarten
Takaoki Matsui

Villes et images. Possibilités actuelles du Denkbild
Didier Alessio Contadini

Cornici di parole: “Spuren” di Ernst Bloch
Micaela Latini

Betrachtung. Le immagini-pensiero di Franz Kafka
Francesco Rossi

La maschera della Gorgone: Günther Anders interprete dei Bilder kafkiani
Camilla Passigli

Überlegungen zu einer Poetik des Kleinen in Robert Walsers Kurzprosa
Maximilian Herford

La scrittura della metropoli per immagini nelle prose berlinesi di Robert Walser
Stefano Beretta

Ernst Jünger und das Denkbild als konservative Erkenntnispraxis
Harald Zils

Towards a Topography of the Void. Adorno on Silence and Other Extremal Denkbilder
Walter B. Pedriali

Walter Benjamin, Th. W. Adorno, W. G. Sebald e il “Denkbild nach Auschwitz”
Raul Calzoni

“Ich bekam ein Puzzle zum Geschenk”. Denkbilder bei Elias Canetti
Isabella Ferron

Herta Müller: una poetica del Denkbild?
Silvia Vezzoli
 

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NEW ODRADEK CFP: PHILOSOPHUS RIDENS

24 Saturday Jun 2017

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Bergson, comedy, commedia, Freud, Hobbes, Kant, laughing philosopher, Laughter, laughter as social phenomenon, Nietzsche, psychology of laughter, riso

CALL FOR PAPERS

Philosophus ridens

ODRADEK

Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories

 Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories is an International Journal (http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index) founded by Zetesis (www.zetesisproject.com) Research Group on the Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry. Zetesis is a Research Center related to the University of Pisa History, Philosophy, and Arts Department.

 The Journal publishes in online version powered by Open Journal System (OJS)

ISSN: 2465-1060

 Section Editor: Leonardo MASSANTINI
(University of Pisa), leonardomassantini@gmail.com

 Authors are cordially invited to submit papers for the upcoming edition of the Journal that will deal with Philosophus ridens

 Submission deadline: 2nd November 2017

Language: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese.

The paper can be submitted online via OJS – Open Journal System:

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For any further detail or information please feel free to contact the section editor at:

Laughter is a familiar experience generally connected with joy. At the same time, it is a puzzling phenomenon with which philosophy has had an ambiguous relationship. Relatively few thinkers have tackled this subject, as many of them considered it a problem of secondary importance. Even those who have written about it, especially in the past, have often described it as a malicious manifestation, typical of the morally and socially inferior. Other philosophers, however, have devoted more attention to laughter. Most of their analysis can be grouped into three different theories: the superiority theory, the relief theory, and the incongruity theory.

H. ter Brugghen, Democritus (1628)

Thomas Hobbes—arguably the first modern philosopher to offer a deep analysis of the phenomenon—famously defended the first theory. In the Leviathan, he defined laughter as the expression of a sudden glory caused by the comparison between ourselves and those we consider inferior to us in some respect. On the other hand, according to the relief theory championed by Sigmund Freud, laughter is the release of some kind of energy that has built up pressure. In his Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten, Freud argued that laughter unleashes nervous energy that in everyday life is used to repress emotions, to think, or to feel emotions. Finally, the incongruity theory states that we laugh at things that disprove our assumptions in a particular way. In his Kritik der Urteilskraft, Immanuel Kant defended a general version of the incongruity theory, according to which laughter is an effect that arises if a tense expectation is transformed into nothing (Kant specified that it must be nothing and not the positive opposite of the expectation, thus implying that not all that is unexpected is also laughable). Two centuries later, in Le Rire, Henri Bergson presented a more specific version of the incongruity theory. He argued that we laugh when we see something mechanical in something living.

Laughter, however, is not simply one of the many objects of philosophical research. Strong bonds link philosophical research and laughter at a deeper level. Laughter is sometimes used as a defining characteristic of important philosophical figures. Most notably, in one of the letters attributed to Hippocrates, we find a melancholic Democritus who constantly laughs at his fellow citizens because he considers their endeavours completely meaningless. The philosopher laughs at the human condition.

The connection between laughter and philosophy becomes particularly complex when we highlight the similarities between the activity of the philosopher and the comedy writer: both reflect on familiar phenomena; they use critical thought; they step back emotionally from the problem they tackle; and they give us a new outlook on the world.

The goal of this volume of Odradek will be to shape a new and deeper understanding of the phenomenon of laughter, especially in its relation to philosophy; however, we welcome papers from various disciplines.

The topic of the proposals might include, but need not to be restricted to:

  • Laughter, comedy and philosophy in literature
  • Analysis of one or more of the theories of laughter
  • Psychology of laughter
  • Laughter as a social phenomenon
  • Analysis of the figure of the laughing philosopher
  • Analysis of the relationship between comedy and philosophy

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ODRADEK CFP: Remediation: art, technology and humanity

21 Sunday May 2017

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art, augmented reality, cibernetica, cyberculture, Ester Fuoco, humanity, intermedialità, intermediality, literature, McLuhan, media, Net.art, New Media Art, nuovi media, realtà aumentata, realtà virtuale, Remediation, scrittura, technology, tecnologie digitali, Videomapping, virtuality

CALL FOR PAPERS

Remediation: art, technology and humanity

ODRADEK. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories

Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories is an International Journal (http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index) founded by Zetesis (www.zetesisproject.com) Research Group on the Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry. Zetesis is a Research Center related to the University of Pisa History, Philosophy, and Arts Department.

The Journal publishes in online version powered by Open Journal System (OJS)

ISSN: 2465-1060

Section Editor: Ester Fuoco (Università degli studi di Milano)

Authors are cordially invited to submit papers for the upcoming fifth edition of the Journal that will deal with

Remediation: art, technology and humanity

Submission deadline: October 30, 2017

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A medium is an extension of ourselves, everything that has been created by the human being to increase their possibilities of and related to his body (action, expression, perception). The message of a medium its strictly link to the transformation that’s produced in human relationship and it’s in this aspect that can be defined that the medium is the message (McLuhan 1964).  Remediation is the representation of one medium in another and it’s the key future of new media. Combined technologies and art has redefined and deconstructed the classical paradigms of creative process and aesthetic theories.

Proposals are not limited to, but may address any of the following topics:

  • Ethic and Philosophy of cyberculture
  • New Media Aesthetic
  • Theories and conceptualizations of media in live performance
  • Historical developments and transformations of media
  • New Media Art, Videomapping and Net.art
  • Contemporary manifestations of intermediality
  • Impact of technology on changes in communication paradigms
  • Virtual and augmented reality in contemporary art
  • Technology and literature
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Remediazione: arte, tecnologia e umanitàUn medium è “ogni estensione di noi stessi”, qualsiasi cosa l’uomo abbia inventato per estendere le possibilità – di azione, comunicazione, percezione – del suo corpo. Il messaggio di un medium o di una tecnologia è nel mutamento di proporzioni, di ritmo e di schemi che introduce nei rapporti umani in questo senso, e solo in questo senso, il medium è il messaggio (McLuhan 1964). La remediazione, la rappresentazione di un medium all’interno di un altro, è una caratteristica fondamentale dei nuovi media digitali. Le nuove tecnologie, applicate alle arti, hanno ridefinito o decostruito i paradigmi tradizionali dei processi creativi e dei canoni estetici di un’opera d’arte.

Si propongono di seguito alcuni spunti di riflessione:

–        Aspetti etici e filosofici della cultura cibernetica

–        Estetica dei nuovi media

–        Teorie e criticità delle tecnologie digitali applicate agli spettacoli dal vivo

–        Evoluzione storica dello sviluppo di nuovi media

–        New Media Art, Videomapping and net.art

–        L’Intermedialità nell’arte contemporanea

–        Impatto delle nuove tecnologie sui paradigmi sociali e della comunicazione

–        Realtà virtuale e realtà aumentata nell’arte contemporanea

–        Nuove tecnologie applicate alla scrittura

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