Caterina Diotto
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co-edited with Fancesca Cecconi and Paola Zeni Under these almost infinite forms, an expression by Roland Barthes borrowed to title this collection of essays dedicated to the theme of narration, amounts to a declaration of intent: the studies gathered here – united by a heuristic, analytical and wide-ranging investigative aspiration in the field of narrative
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Walter Benjamin considered reading – along with thought, dreams, waiting, opium and intoxication – a source of “profane illumination” . Moments of intuited truths, connections between horizons of apparently distant meanings, flashes and glimmers, fragments, instants. A contact with truth that indifferently weaves aesthetic impressions, hallucinations, dialectical images and logical reflections into kaleidoscopes of meaning.
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co-authored with Mariateresa Muraca, Annamaria Piussi, Chiara Zamboni. Translated by Caterina Diotto. The original version, in italian, was published here. This column stems from a desire to explore issues concerning ecology, which are essential in the times we live in, through the embodied and relational lens of gender difference. We are looking for a method,
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Introduction to the session “Mythical violence”
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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference 2019 This research explores Benjamin’s reflections on the Novel, and the evolution of his perspective through the years. The analysis begins from the concept of the Novel as Benjamin defined it in The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism. Then it compares that perspective to its new
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FORLab – Laboratorio sulle Forme e le Origini del Romanzo’s conference “I linguaggi della narrazione percorsi tra Letteratura, Filosofia, Teatro e Cinema”, co-organised by the Departments of Human Science, and Cultures and Civilizations, Università degli Studi di Verona, 7th-8th November 2018 Original title: Walter Benjamin e la forma romanzo tra finito e infinito
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What are populisms? What are their main characteristics, what narrative mechanisms do they deploy that are capable of gathering the feelings of the multitude? Through the historical-political reflections of Ernesto Laclau, Pierre-André Taguieff, Marco Revelli, Chantal Mouffe, Donatella Di Cesare, Valentina Pazé and Roberto Esposito, and the philosophical thought of Simone Weil, Jean-Luc Nancy, Walter
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Faced with the spread of the populist right in Italy and Europe, this article proposes, as part of the Great Diotima Seminar 2018 “Sbilanciamoci dalla parte della politica delle donne” a philosophical reading of the phenomenon through the works of Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy. Three authors and three imbalances towards the politics
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International Walter Benjamin Conference 2019 “Benjamin’s Beginnings” This reaserch explores Benjamin’s reflections on the Novel, and the evolution of his perspective through the years. The analysis begins from the concept of the Novel, as Benjamin defined it in The Art Criticism in German Romanticism, but considering the essays on language as a conceptual background. Then
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Starting with the experience of the Community of “Living History” initiated by Marirì Martinengo, this article reflects on the epistemological and political intertwinings of history, historiography and political narratives. “Stories play a very important role in History. A dialectical and profoundly political role: it is through the wide meshes of the narrated stories that the
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