Due testi cardini del novecento in due nuove e preziose traduzioni: Trilce di C.Vallejo, tradotto da Lorenzo Mari per Argolibri, e La terra devastata di T.S.Eliot tradotto da Carmen Gallo per il Saggiatore, a cento anni dalle prime edizioni.
Intervergono:
Carmen Gallo, poeta e traduttrice
Lorenzo Mari, poeta e traduttore
Martha Canfield, Docente Lett. Ispanoamericana, Università di Firenze
Donatella Izzo, Docente di Lett. Angloamericana, L’Orientale di Napoli
Andrea Raos, poeta e traduttore
Michele Zaffarano, Istruzioni politico-morali (all’indirizzo dei nostri giovani poeti sul reperimento e sulla assimilazione dei concetti nuovi). [dia•foria, coll. floema, Viareggio 2021.
Conceptual Refractions – The Aesthetics of the Book
The digitalization has called into question the continued utility of print media, given the ease of accessibility and dissemination of digital publication formats. At the same time, however, the special importance given to its digital properties also highlighted the book’s significance as an item of social and cultural production. Following this line of argument, the panel aims to assess from a philosophical, historical and artistic point of view the social and cultural dimensions of the book. In so doing, particular attention will be given to questions regarding materiality, space, time, network and communities, and images.
This clip is made up of 25 minutes worth of images from ESA’s Philae lander, and was processed by Twitter user landru79. (Image credit: ESA/landru79)
Look at this amazing GIF. That snowy-looking scene wasn’t captured on Mount Everest, or in some canyon in Antarctica. That’s the view from a lander on the surface of a comet.
Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.
As several astronomers and casual observers pointed out in the replies to landru79’s original tweet, the “snowstorm” depicted almost certainly isn’t a true snowfall of the sort experienced on Earth and other planets. Instead, there are likely two or three different phenomena creating the snowy effect.
Up close to the camera, dust particles backlit by the sun are likely moving around, mimicking the look of snow on Earth. Cosmic rays may also be creating snow-like artifacts on the images. And those dots in the background, that appear to be falling straight down and disappearing behind the cliff? Those appear to be stars, which look like they’re falling because the comet is rotating as it orbits the sun every 6.5 years.
thanks to the staff and editorial board of the First International Colloquium of Visual Poetry, for the lectures and dialogues, the videos and the online art exhibit.
and… thanks for hosting one piece by me in the exhibit (here and below)
