Pierpaolo Antonello

• PhD
• Senior Lecturer at Yale University

The “Centro Studi René Girard politico” organizes the conference: Reading Achever Clausewitz: war and the end of history in René Girard. The conference will be held at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua on 4th and 5th September 2024. The Centro Studi is calling on scholars, researchers and...

Il Centro Studi "René Girard politico" organizza il convegno: Leggere Portando Clausewitz all'estremo: guerra e fine della storia in René Girard. Il convegno avrà luogo presso il Dipartimento di Scienze politiche, giuridiche e studi internazionali nell'Università di Padova, nei giorni 4 e 5 settembre 2024. L'incontro vuol essere l'occasione per far...

This essay brings Michel Serres' «books of foundation» into a dialogue with René Girard's theory of the origin of culture, by extending Girard's insights about the foundational mechanism of cultural and social order on a spatial matrix, broadly defined. Foundational myths are predicated on ritualistic sacrificial practices that structure both the p...

Taking as its point of departure the existing critical literature on the intersections between René Girard’s and Giorgio Agamben’s anthropogenetic theories, this essay aims to add further considerations to the debate by discussing some of Agamben’s intuitions within a Girardian paradigmatic explanatory framework. I show how by regressing the archeo...

This essay examines Bruno Munari’s innovative picture books within the broader context of his ‘major’ artistic work. Specifically, it illustrates and discusses how Munari’s production that is linked to Futurism, Abstractionism, or Concrete art, has been remediated in his books and activities for children. Munari’s work is on this score an unparalle...

This essay examines three exemplar cases of Italian industrial cinema, a genre that experienced a particular and extended apogee during the decades of Italy’s economic boom: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Sette canne, un vestito (1948), Ermanno Olmi’s Costruzioni meccaniche Riva (1956), and Vittorio De Seta and Franco Dodi’s Gela 1959: pozzi a mare (1960...

- Political Fellini: Journey to the End of Italy, by Minuz Andrea , translated by Marcus Perryman, New York-Oxford, Berghahn, 2015, 196pp., £56.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78238-819-7. - Volume 22 Issue 1 - Pierpaolo Antonello

Bruno Munari was one of the most important and eclectic 20th century European artists. Dubbed the ‘Leonardo and Peter Pan’ of contemporary art, he pioneered what would be later labelled kinetic art, playing a key role in the constitution and the definition of aesthetic programs of groups such as Movimento Arte Concreta and Programmed Art. He became...

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2016.1176696

Partendo dalle premesse teoriche del volume Postmodern impegno, in questo intervento si tenta di definire quali potrebbero essere le possibili configurazioni dell’impegno da un punto di vista critico e accademico nel contesto odierno, tenendo conto dello spostamento paradigmatico della critica internazionale che sta ponendo sempre più l’accento sul...

Che questa discussione su Dimenticare Pasolini si trovi in un numero speciale di «Between» dedicato all’insegnamento e agli ottant’anni di Remo Ceserani, è una felice intuizione dei suoi redattori. Si tratta certamente della sua collocazione più adatta e un giusto tributo a uno dei comparatisti e teorici della letteratura che con più acume e più ap...

This article discusses the theme of nuclear threat in Italian narratives and culture during the ‘Cold War’ (1945–89). Texts are discussed by a range of authors, including Leonardo Sinisgalli, Edoardo De Filippo, Elsa Morante, Leonardo Sciascia, Paolo Volponi, Alberto Moravia, and Marco Belpoliti. For much of the century the atomic bomb has been vie...

Questo saggio sostiene che c’è stato un abuso della nozione di ‘crisi’ nel contesto critico italiano, il quale ha spesso trascurato aspetti cruciali inerenti la produzione cinematografica e proponendo analisi alquanto schematiche, spesso fortemente ideologizzate, rispetto al rapporto tra estetica e politica. Il saggio critica inoltre il legame caus...

Italy provides an important national cultural context for the global mapping of constantly growing interest in René Girard's thought and in mimetic theory. Girard is widely and unquestionably recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of our times. Interviews, public interventions, and excerpts of his books are featured quite regularly in I...

This essay discusses Bruno Munari's understanding of the relationship between art and technology in the light of his early collaboration with the Futurist movement. It explores the legacy and influence of Futurist experimentation in Munari's opus, starting from his early works in the late 20s, up to mid-century. It also discusses Munari's progressi...

This conversation was held in Pordenone, Italy, in September 2008, during a major cultural event that takes place every year. What follows is an expanded version of our conversation, including a few questions she received from the public and a few more questions that Judith Butler kindly took from us after the event. As she writes on contemporary p...

This book challenges widespread and largely negative assumptions about Italian postmodernism and postmodernism in general. It considers contemporary Italian culture as a particularly interesting testing-ground for pluriform struggles of an ethical or political kind, struggles which build upon, whilst rejecting the essentialist assumptions behind, c...

In an interview with Gabriella Poli in 1976, Primo Levi explained that all his books had been born in pairs, as twins: two books on his Lager experience - If This is a Man (Se questo è un uomo, 1947) and The Truce (La tregua, 1963) - were followed by two collections of science-fiction short-stories - Storie naturali ('Natural Histories', 1966) and...

Configurations 8.2 (2000) 165-169 In an interview published in Configurations in 1993, Bruno Latour suggested that Michel Serres should be regarded as "the patron saint" of this journal, for no other contemporary intellectual has elaborated such a comprehensive system of thought based on the epistemological principle of communication and contaminat...

Submitted to the Department of French and Italian. Copyright by the author. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2002.

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