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What are the ET’s? Why do we not already have a mass contact scenario? With all the billions and billions of planets, stars and galaxies, by logic alone we can conclude that we cannot possibly be alone and the sole sentience of the... more

What are the ET’s? Why do we not already have a mass contact scenario? With all the billions and billions of planets, stars and galaxies, by logic alone we can conclude that we cannot possibly be alone and the sole sentience of the universe. The universe is billions of years old and surely by now has produced a sentient life form, logically and by similar conclusions, many more than just one, that can indeed travel the stars with the technology to manipulate time and space in order to traverse long distances across it’s vastness. But where are they? What do we have as evidence for their existence?
The Drake equation allows a degree of estimation.

L’articolo prende in considerazione il “proto-romanzo” 'Delle metamorfosi cioè trasformazioni del virtuoso'. Scritto nel 1582 dal predicatore Lorenzo Gerli, più conosciuto con lo pseudonimo di Lorenzo Selva, narra la trasformazione del... more

L’articolo prende in considerazione il “proto-romanzo” 'Delle metamorfosi cioè trasformazioni del virtuoso'. Scritto nel 1582 dal predicatore Lorenzo Gerli, più conosciuto con lo pseudonimo di Lorenzo Selva, narra la trasformazione del protagonista Acrisio in serpente. L’opera, divisa in quattro libri, risulta un’articolata commistione di generi e registri, in quanto lo scrittore inserisce nel testo tredici novelle e numerose digressioni (poesie, disquisizioni di ordine culturale e religioso). L’operazione di Selva, fortemente collegata all’Asino d’oro apuleiano e alla morale tridentina, presenta al pubblico un testo inedito e ibrido. Il contributo mette in luce le caratteristiche formali e contenutistiche dell’opera prestando un particolare riguardo al contesto – culturale, letterario ed editoriale – in cui il “proto-romanzo” Delle metamorfosi prende forma.

Dossier que elaboré para la gran artista de manejo de Inconsciente Colectivo sanador en su arte, la guatemalteca Rocío HerCam

Cosa accomuna due oggetti culturali come il racconto della trasformazione dei pirati in delfini del III libro delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio e Origin, la serie di immagini in movimento dell'artista visuale contemporaneo Daniel Lee? E,... more

Cosa accomuna due oggetti culturali come il racconto della trasformazione dei pirati in delfini del III libro delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio e Origin, la serie di immagini in movimento dell'artista visuale contemporaneo Daniel Lee? E, soprattutto, cosa li rende così distanti?

Résumé: Cet article est tiré du livre « La métamorphose identitaire » (Duval, 2019) une recherche descriptive explicative (Trudel, L., Simard, C., Vonarx, N., 2007) par étude de cas multiples qui « … vise à tirer des conclusions d'un... more

This paper is about the themes of magic, metamorphosis and symbolism in Shakespeare's The Tempest and also provides some background knowledge of magic, how it was perceived during Elizabethean and Jacobean times and how the play uses... more

This paper is about the themes of magic, metamorphosis and symbolism in Shakespeare's The Tempest and also provides some background knowledge of magic, how it was perceived during Elizabethean and Jacobean times and how the play uses these perceptions in its own dealing with the theme of magic.

The Russian philosopher Nikolai Onufrievich Lossky (1870–1965) adhered to an evolutionary metaphysics of reincarnation according to which the world is constituted of immortal souls or monads, which he calls “substantival agents.” These... more

The Russian philosopher Nikolai Onufrievich Lossky (1870–1965) adhered to an evolutionary metaphysics of reincarnation according to which the world is constituted of immortal souls or monads, which he calls “substantival agents.” These substantival agents can evolve or devolve depending on the goodness or badness of their behavior. Such evolution requires the possibility for monads to reincarnate into the bodies of creatures of a higher or of a lower level on the scala perfectionis. According to this theory, a substantival agent can evolve by being gradually reincarnated multiple times through a sort of process of metamorphosis from the level of the most elementary particles all the way up to the level of human beings or even higher. In “Ученiе Лейбница о перевоплощенiи какъ метаморфозѣ” (“Leibniz’s Doctrine of Reincarnation as Metamorphosis,” 1931), Lossky argues that the works of Leibniz contain scattered elements of such a systematic evolutionary doctrine of reincarnation as metamorphosis and he attempts to reconstitute this doctrine. The present article is intended as an historical introduction to the translation (published in the same journal issue) of Lossky’s “Leibniz’s Doctrine of Reincarnation as Metamorphosis.”

Finding equivalence translations is the central and difficult task of a translator. The aim of this study is to compare how Willa and Edwin Muir, Stanley Corngold and Joyce Crick have solved the issue of equivalence while translating... more

Finding equivalence translations is the central and difficult task of a translator. The aim of this study is to compare how Willa and Edwin Muir, Stanley Corngold and Joyce Crick have solved the issue of equivalence while translating Franz Kafka´s The Metamorphosis from German into English exemplified on the non-equivalence words “ungeheuer”, “Ungeziefer”, “möbelerschütternd” and “Donnerwetter”. The strategies used by the translators to translate the chosen non-equivalence words will be identified, the translations will be compared to each other and the original version and the quality of the translations will be evaluated in terms of how well they convey the meaning of the original. Additionally, the difficulties translators are faced with when translating works of Franz Kafka will be addressed.

"Metamorphosis in insects is a remarkable phenomenon where the larva undergoes a striking morphological reorganization to give rise to the adult. Over the years, various physiological factors and pathways that govern metamorphosis have... more

"Metamorphosis in insects is a remarkable phenomenon where the larva undergoes a striking morphological reorganization to give rise to the adult. Over the
years, various physiological factors and pathways that
govern metamorphosis have been discovered, and at
the same time, some understanding about the origins
of this phenomenon has also emerged. This review
summarizes the current state of knowledge of both the
mechanisms underlying metamorphosis, as well as the
theories put forward to explain its evolution.
"

Cortázar fusiona las técnicas de Dante y la mitología de México.

Il libro VI delle Metamorfosi si apre con un mito, quello di Aracne e Minerva, in cui centrale è l’ecfrasi delle tele composte dalle due sfidanti per mostrare la propria maestria nell’arte della tessitura. Il saggio si propone di... more

Il libro VI delle Metamorfosi si apre con un mito, quello di Aracne e Minerva, in cui centrale è l’ecfrasi delle tele composte dalle due sfidanti per mostrare la propria maestria nell’arte della tessitura. Il saggio si propone di analizzare da un lato come la complessa struttura ecfrastica ovidiana sia stata recepita nei principali moralizzamenti e volgarizzamenti tra Tre e Cinquecento, dall’altro se e con che modalità sia stata ripresa nella tradizione letteraria italiana.

A method for the exploration of design space in traditional Islamic geometrical patterns is presented. The method uses traditional Islamic geometry as a starting point and performs a metamorphosis operation for geometrical creation and... more

A method for the exploration of design space in traditional Islamic geometrical patterns is presented. The method uses traditional Islamic geometry as a starting point and performs a metamorphosis operation for geometrical creation and exploration of possible variations.

This paper looks at the philosophy of power, alienation and what's more, minor writing through an examination Franz Kafka's short story, The Metamorphosis . In the story the hero awakens a titan, caterpillar-like animal, which winds up... more

This paper looks at the philosophy of power, alienation and what's more, minor writing through an examination Franz Kafka's short story, The Metamorphosis . In the story the hero awakens a titan, caterpillar-like animal, which winds up changing his life, employment and family connections. The hidden subjects are estranged worker and activity of force through brain control. The premise is Karl Marx's part on Estranged Labor and the ideas of commodification, objectification and antagonism. There is additionally an investigation of Antonio Gramsci's idea of administration of force, which is fundamentally seen as controlling the brain by implication. Capital, including private property, riches and assets, has a tendency to amass in the hands of lesser and lesser individuals, leaving nothing for the masses or the worker that creates the riches. Force movements and capital streams however are both packed in a couple hands. Destitution material as well as of brain also, is a vital by-result of industrialist improvement through creation. The human worker turns into an item utilized for increasing the value of an item and in the process loses his compassion.

Bovelles redefines the ideal of sapientia inherited from patristic and humanist sources by adding a heroic layer. His wise is a Promethean figure who acquires the heavenly flame of wisdom to elevate himself to the heights of immortality.... more

Bovelles redefines the ideal of sapientia inherited from patristic and humanist sources by adding a heroic layer. His wise is a Promethean figure who acquires the heavenly flame of wisdom to elevate himself to the heights of immortality. However, unlike the Titan and other ancient heroes cherished by earlier humanists, Bovelles' larger than life figure is not tormented in the face of growing knowledge, As, in particular, a comparison with Giordano Bruno's later reinterpretation of the Actaeon myth shows, Bovelles' wise achieves himself without risking death or destruction, Instead, he trusts the circle of self-knowledge (scientia sui) to traverse his entire being and bring about self-induced transformation. Ultimately, Man becomes his own maker.

The negative transformation of Gregor Samsa in „Metamorphosis“ into a half-monster and a half-non-animal is succeeded by a process of anagnorisis, which in our own reading represents a series of negations: "ungeheuer", "Ungeziefer",... more

The negative transformation of Gregor Samsa in „Metamorphosis“ into a half-monster and a half-non-animal is succeeded by a process of anagnorisis, which in our own reading represents a series of negations: "ungeheuer", "Ungeziefer", "Untier". This is the transition that we shall label "negative anagnorisis" and, following the model of Aristotle, we shall use it to denote a transition from knowledge to a lack of knowledge. We defined the first negation, using Freud’s theoretical framework, as negation-repetition. Its clear-cut mark is the erasure of the difference in relation to the opposite. While negating itself, it, in fact, repeats itself. The second mode of negation was defined through Adorno’s propositions – as negation, rupturing the repetition. The negation-repetition succeeds to materialize itself into a singular object of negation. With Adorno this type of negation will be a material rupture of the event, the moment in Kafka’s prose when the train (the object) is launched into the social. These two types of negation – negation-repetition and negation-rupture of the repetition – work out and form together a third mode of negation: negation-metamorphosis or the means by which the metamorphosis becomes a series of ruptures.
In this sense, the metamorphosis in Kafka’s story is not the initial alteration but the synchronization of the focal point and the background in the process of negative anagnorisis, viewed as rupture and gradation in the continuum of negation.

In this thesis I analyse examples of intersubjectivity in five science fiction films, two books and one TV show, between humans, and with fictional aliens. I describe the visual and narrative forms these exchanges take – like speech,... more

In this thesis I analyse examples of intersubjectivity in five science fiction films, two books and one TV show, between humans, and with fictional aliens. I describe the visual and narrative forms these exchanges take – like speech, sign, movement and metamorphosis – and consider, by drawing on film phenomenology, how they affectively catch up the viewer. I also excavate their conceptualisations of intersubjective relations by comparing them to the relations between anthropologist and subject. I argue in favour of a valuation of alterity and the transformative experiences that occur on contact with an alien Other in fiction, but critique those figures who undergo a complete dissolution of self. I argue that in order to foster an interspecies ethics through watching science fiction cinema those fictions must narrate intersubjectivity in a way that does not flatten that Other into knowability. I ultimately then work towards uncovering the ways particular
visual exchanges can be supportive of a posthuman ethical strategy for better future interspecies relations.

Metamorphosis as it is represented by some pre-historical artists seems problematic for our occidental point of view. In fact, it seems to be strongly against identity and law of non-contradiction. Becoming in general is also viewed as an... more

Metamorphosis as it is represented by some pre-historical artists seems problematic for our occidental point of view. In fact, it seems to be strongly against identity and law of non-contradiction. Becoming in general is also viewed as an error or exception by our classic point of view. This very claim can conduct to theories of non-classical logic. Deleuze and Guattari in their monumental work had tried to offer enormous contributions in order to comprehend the becoming phenomenon. Through a pre-historical representations analysis, with also an intrusion in contemporary art's field, I want to confront with possible metamorphosis representations remain theoretically founded in the deleuzian proposal in dialogue with phenomenological inquiry. New principle of individuation and analysis of expression provide new looks to arisen problems with classical logic and metamorphosis representations, which will be acceptable and comprehensible as art shows.

L’idea di metamorfosi indica fin dall’antichità classica la trasformazione dei corpi, individuali e collettivi, il loro incessante mutare forma e, insieme, la permanenza della vita al di là del loro nascere e morire. Una nozione e al... more

L’idea di metamorfosi indica fin dall’antichità classica la trasformazione dei corpi, individuali e collettivi, il loro incessante mutare forma e, insieme, la permanenza della vita al di là del loro nascere e morire. Una nozione e al tempo stesso un’immagine, alla quale filosofia e poesia, riflessione estetica e politica non hanno cessato di pensare e che hanno riproposto in forme sempre nuove per leggere e rappresentare la realtà passata e presente, e poterne cogliere le più diverse e cangianti manifestazioni, senza ridurle ad astrazioni fisse da classificare ed archiviare. All’idea di metamorfosi è stato dedicato un ciclo di seminari svoltosi nell’autunno 2018 presso l’Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, in collaborazione con l’Accademia delle Belle Arti di Napoli. Il presente volume è frutto di quei seminari e delle riflessioni e discussioni da essi suscitate fra i giovani partecipanti.

This article explores the relationship between Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and contemporary writings about natural organisms, including Goethe's own botanical studies. The article argues that Goethe's novel should be... more

This article explores the relationship between Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and contemporary writings about natural organisms, including Goethe's own botanical studies. The article argues that Goethe's novel should be read as a meditation on the disunity of biological and human form. The defining feature of human as opposed to biological life is the former's dependence on representation, which makes human form both open-ended and malleable. Aesthetic representation achieves in this context a central yet ambiguous role within the economy of human life: While the subject (Wilhelm) is involved in acts of aesthetic self-fashioning, larger social forces (the Tower Society) make use of art to orchestrate their normative interventions. The article ends by situating Goethe's novel in relation to Foucault's lectures on liberalism and biopolitics, arguing that Wilhelm Meister shows what the liberal “art of governing humans” would look like when applied not to populations but to individuals as self-conscious actors engaged in their own constitution.