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The Transnational Samurai: Nation-building and Community Searching in the Twentieth Century Italian Far-right
Green Hall 0-S-9This talk explores the origin and development of the Italian fascination with Japanese samurais in the aftermath of the 1904 Russo-Japanese War and the rise of a young, nationalistic movement in Italy. Far from representing a simple, exotic, and monolithic image, the samurai warrior inspired multiple adaptations ranging from the loyal soldier to the spiritual […]
Dangerous Flight: Amerindian Featherwork, Michelangelo, and the Violence of Natural History
Louis A. Simpson International Building - A71In Michelangelo’s drawings for Tommaso de’ Cavalieri the motifs of wings and feathers have long been understood to serve metaphorical ends, alluding simultaneously to Neoplatonic concepts of divine ascent and the dangerous allure of mortal desire. In this paper, I propose that this double-edged hermeneutic, deeply informed by Dantean and Ovidian poetics of flight, could […]
Antikythera: Philosophy of Planetary Computation in the Design Studio (Recent Projects and Provocations)
219 Aaron Burr HallAs Stanisław Lem once put it, some technologies are instrumental, providing a means through which to change the world, but others are ultimately existential in significance, revealing aspects of reality previously unknowable and thus changing how intelligence knows the world and comprehends itself. Computation, both discovered and invented, is both instrumental and existential. Antikythera […]
