Alessandro Cavalli

Paolo Jedlowski

Carmen Leccardi

In this book leading sociologists explore how in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal experience, relations between generations and institutional processes. The authors analyse the entanglement between past and future and explain how our ability to conceive the future is based not only upon the memory of the past, but also on forecasts about environmental crisis. Bringing memory and future studies into a unique dialogue, they highlight the crucial role of the past elaboration processes in freeing the future from the weight of trauma and renewing the ability to hope. Offering a sophisticated and innovative social theory in a burgeoning field, this is a much-needed intervention to the current 'temporal crisis' of social life and sociological debates.

A Conversation Between Memories and Futures

Exploring New Temporal Horizons

In this book, leading sociologists explore how, in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal experience, relations between generations and institutional processes. The authors analyse the entanglement between past and future and explain how our ability to conceive the future is based not only upon the memory of the past, but also on forecasts about environmental crisis. Bringing memory and future studies into a unique dialogue, they highlight the crucial role of the past elaboration processes in freeing the future from the weight of trauma and renewing the ability to hope. Offering a sophisticated and innovative social theory in a burgeoning field, this is a much-needed intervention to the current ‘temporal crisis’ of social life and sociological debates.

A Conversation between Memories and Futures

Slavoj Žižek

Jean

Walter Siti

Julia Kristeva

Werner Herzog

Jacques Rancière

Roberto Esposito

Francesco Casetti

Marie

Richard Schechner

David Freedberg

Paul Schrader

Toni Servillo

Edgar Reitz

Yervant Gianikian

Angela Ricci Lucchi

Julio Bressane

Roberto De Gaetano

Georges Didi

Huberman

Luc Nancy

Mario Martone

Francesco Ceraolo

Louis Comolli

Raoul Ruiz

Marco Bellocchio

José Mondzain

Shinya Tsukamoto

Amos Gitai

24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla complessità del nostro presente. Per la prima volta riunite e tradotte in inglese in un’unica pubblicazione, queste conversazioni offrono al lettore una costellazione unica di autori e temi per pensare il cinema a partire dal nostro presente e viceversa. 24 conversations originally published by Fata Morgana with important scholars and artists who have intended cinema as a place of thought and a form of life. A unique constellation of authors and themes in which cinema and the image, more than any other art form, are inextricably intertwined with the complexity of the contemporary. Edited and translated into English for the first time, these conversations offer to the reader a unique constellation of authors and themes, which leads one to reconsider cinema starting from our present and vice versa. Roberto De Gaetano is full professor of Filmology at the University of Calabria (Italy). He is the author of important books on the relationship between cinema and philosophy (Il cinema secondo Gilles Deleuze, Bulzoni, 1996; Il visibile cinematografico, Bulzoni, 2002; La potenza delle immagini, Ets, 2012), cinema and the contemporary (L’immagine contemporanea. Cinema e mondo presente, Marsilio, 2010), and authors and forms of Italian cinema (Il corpo e la maschera. Il grottesco nel cinema italiano, Bulzoni, 1999; Nanni Moretti. Lo smarrimento del presente, Pellegrini, 2015). He is the Editor of the three-volume edition Lessico del cinema italiano. Forme di rappresentazione e forme di vita (Mimesis, 2014-2016), and the Editor in Chief of Fata Morgana. Francesco Ceraolo (PhD, Qmul) teaches Film Analysis and Theater and Opera at the University of Calabria (Italy). His work mainly focuses on the relationship between philosophy, performing and visual arts. Among his recent publications are Verso un'estetica della totalità. Una lettura critico-filosofica del pensiero di Richard Wagner (Mimesis, 2013) and the chapter entitled ‘Opera’ in Lessico del cinema italiano. Forme di rappresentazione e forme di vita (Mimesis, 2015). He has edited and translated into Italian Alain Badiou’s writings on the theater (Rapsodia per il teatro. Arte, politica, evento, Pellegrini, 2015). In 2015 he was awarded the ‘Arthur Rubinstein – A Life In Music’ Prize by Teatro La Fenice for his musicological scholarship. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Fata Morgana.

CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana

Theodor W. Adorno

Bruno Roberti

Marcello Walter Bruno

Daniele Dottorini

Vincenzo Cuomo

Suzanne Liandrat

Guigues

Monica Dall'Asta

“Trasferire piante dal giardino dell`arte alla terra straniera del sapere, per poter individuare i piccoli cambiamenti di colore e di forma che in tal modo si manifestano. La cosa più importante è la delicatezza nell`afferrare, la cautela con cui l`opera viene rimossa con le sue radici, che poi vanno ad arricchire il terreno del sapere. Il resto viene da sè, poiché nell`opera stessa sono contenuti quei pregi che dovrebbero chiamarsi critica nel solo senso più alto” (Walter Benjamin). Scritti di Theodor W. Adorno, Marcello Walter Bruno, Vincenzo Cuomo, Monica Dall`Asta, Roberto De Gaetano, Daniele Dottorini, Paolo Jedlowski, Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues, Bruno Roberti.

Benjamin. Il cinema e i media

un'indagine sulla lettura ed i consumi culturali degli studenti degli istituti medi superiori in Calabria

Libri e altri media

Jean-Luc Nancy

Georges Didi-Huberman

Jean-Louis Comolli

De Gaetano Roberto

Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremost a collective gesture whose outline creates a field. The gesture made by Fata Morgana, which at the beginning was only an intuition and then it slowly developed, is the same one that makes cinema a place and an opportunity to think about contemporaneity. It is not simply about what happens around us; it is what emerges from within the events which gather around a concept: from the concept of Bíos (issue No. 0) to the concept of the Sacred (issue No. 10). In this perspective, cinema needs to be interpreted and understood as having its own un-specific specificity. It needs to be interpreted and understood in its principal form where it is capable of categorizing its un-specificity, in other words, its autonomous form where it can categorize its heteronomy. This means thinking about a concept starting from cinema, and thinking about cinema starting from the concept. Thus, cinema becomes a special place and an opportunity to think about the universality of the concept (as a marker of contemporaneity) and the concept becomes the perspective from which to conceive cinema. By avoiding the double edged sword of a sterile specificity or of a self serving un-specificity cinema becomes the quintessential way of thinking about modernity where autonomy of aesthetical form is affirmed in its heteronomy, and its individuation imposes itself as a dis-individuation.

Conversations on Cinema

Sociologia della vita quotidiana

Paolo Jedlowski

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