Andrea Pinotti and Antonio Somaini, “Cultura visuale. Immagini sguardi media dispositivi”, Torino, Einaudi, 2016

  • Francesco Sticchi Oxford Brookes University
  • Andrea Pinotti University of Milan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7509
Keywords: Media Studies, ecology of mind, posthumanism, subjectivity, vision, visuality, prostheses technique, historicity of perception

Abstract

~ Francesco Sticchi ~
The Man with a Movie Camera in the Posthuman Age
The article offers a critical discussion of Cultura visuale, the book by Andrea Pinotti and Antonio Somaini. It examines in particular the posthumanist and ecological tension that emerges in their reflection of the contemporary developments of the discipline, aiming at a reconsideration of the entire field of audiovisual experience.

~ Andrea Pinotti ~
Humankind Has Always Been Post-Human
Reacting to Francesco Sticchi’s critical remarks, my contribution addresses the question of visual culture studies in relation to the connections: vision/visuality, nature/technique, physiology/mediality, on the background of the historicity of perception.

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Author Biographies

Francesco Sticchi, Oxford Brookes University

Francesco Sticchi works as a Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University and at the SAE Institute; He is the author of the book Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema: A Spinozian Analysis of Film Experience (Routledge, 2019). He is currently working on the concept of chronotope proposed Mikhail Bakhtin, as a means to analyze the notion of “precarity” in contemporary media culture.

Andrea Pinotti, University of Milan

Andrea Pinotti is professor in Aesthetics at the State University in Milan. Among his research topics: empathy theories, image theories, visual culture studies, practices of contemporary monumentalization. He has been fellow of various international research institutions. He has published the volumes Cultura visuale. Immagini sguardi media dispositivi (with A. Somaini, Einaudi 2016); Empatia. Storia di un’idea da Platone al postumano (Laterza 2011); Estetica della pittura (il Mulino 2007). In 2018 he has been awarded the Wissenschaftspreis der Aby-Warburg-Stiftung. He is currently running the ERC-Advanced project AN-ICON, devoted to virtual immersive environments.

Published
2020-12-21
How to Cite
SticchiF., & PinottiA. (2020). Andrea Pinotti and Antonio Somaini, “Cultura visuale. Immagini sguardi media dispositivi”, Torino, Einaudi, 2016. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (4), 815-826. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7509
Issue
No 4 (2020): The representation of the Cold war in literature and the arts (1947-1989)
Section
Discussioni

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