Browsing Vol. 02 No. 2, April 2003 by Subject "1900-1999"
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CRASH: Metafisica dell'ubiquità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)The culture of the twentieth century is characterized by three industrial products: the cinema, the car and science-fiction. All three relate to the way we experience time and space. In his novel Crash, J.G. Ballard uses ... -
L'ultimo upgrade
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)The symbiosis between man and technology is obvious in the robot who is the main character of the movie Bicentennial Man, adapted in 1999 from Isaac Asimov's short story bearing the same title. The humanist search of ... -
La narrativa italiana contemporanea e il postumano: Tre esempi (con qualche divagazione)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)This article attempts to identify a general model that would help us to understand and interpret the relationship between Italian literature and what has been called the "post-human". It does so through the analysis of ... -
Morphing informatique et hybridation technologique: Des artistes plasticiens à la recherche de leur double
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Philip K. Dick: Psichedelici orizzonti, perversi accoppiamenti e nuove alterità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)In Philip K. Dick's narrative hyper-realism, the description of how artificial beings intensify their natural capacities goes back and forth between drug-inspired hypertrophic suggestions, and the chimerical images that ... -
Sonhos de Chico Xavier
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)This article deals with a peculiar figure on the Brazilian scene, an author of spiritualist works known as Chico Xavier (April 1910 - June 2002), and in particular with a passage of his biography, which was widely circulated ... -
Verso una civiltà di cyborg?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)More and more often, nowadays, we hear talk of biotechnology, of contaminations between natural things and technical products, of hybrid creatures, of androids and cyborgs. And as it often happens, when strongly innovative ...
