Browsing Vol. 02 No. 2, April 2003 by Title
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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 ... -
Lo strano caso del Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde, alle radici della cultura di massa
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)In the twenty years between 1850 and 1870, there takes place within the cultural sphere the maturation of a conception of the world based on generalized trust in the virtues of science. From Darwin's theories of evolution, ... -
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 ... -
Simone BERNARD-GRIFFITHS et Jean SGARD, Mélodrames et romans noirs. 1750- 1890, Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2000.
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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 ...