Performative Thinking in Humanities

Abstract

Convergence of scientific and artistic language in the interpretation of the unknown natural reality

Marina Iorio
Istituto di Scienze Marine

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISMAR-CNR)

marina.iorio@cnr.it

The scenic transcoding of virtual scientific realities, invisible to the human eye (for example the morphology of the ocean floor or the discovery of buried geothermal reservoirs) through the search for new artistic and aesthetic forms in the performative thought and in the field work of Marina Iorio: ten years of dialogue with an extra-scientific audience.

Science Art, Virtual images, Digital Art, Abstract Art, Oceans

Transpositions of languages

Ékphrasis, or a transcoding experiment

The Observation Wheel

Lorena Grigoletto

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli

lorigrigoletto@gmail.com

The purpose of this essay is to examine the process of transcoding by which certain philosophical concepts have been translated into the characters of my fairy tale The Observation Wheel. This fairy tale is about a giant merry-go-round to which a motor is added and which, as a result, undergoes such an acceleration that its perceptual capacity is profoundly transformed, as well as its ability to know itself and others. In the introductory essay, I comment on the relationship between philosophy and fairy tales, on the rhythmic character of this literary genre, and on the concepts on which my own fairy tale is built, namely temporality, technologization, acceleration, alienation, and death. However, given that the essay is written in a phase subsequent to the creation of the tale, it carries out a double movement, namely the representation of the experience of transcoding concepts towards the specific characters and structure of the tale and, at the same time, from these towards the recovery, of the same concepts through a mnemonic operation, which is therefore necessarily retroactive and deformative, revealing the essential ekphrastic nature of the thought processes.

Ekphrasis, Fairy Tale, Philosophy, Rhythm, Acceleration.

A Dialog about Passions: Malebranche and Gaetani

Alessandro Stile

Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISPF-CNR)

stile@unina.it

In this virtual interview between Nicolas Malebranche ad Niccolò Gaetani dell’Aquila d’Aragona, the philosophers discuss the theme of Passions, and the answer they give to the interviewer’s questions faithfully reproduce the texts of the two authors.

Interview, virtual dialogue, stoicism, pleasure, virtue

Rebellion and recognition

Albert Camus

Fiorinda Li Vigni

Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici

fiorinda.livigni@gmail.com

Le premier homme, the posthumous novel by Albert Camus, offers the key to the whole of the writer’s work and to his sensitivity. It is linked to the first notes of the Cahiers (1935) and to the writings collected in the book L’envers et l’endroit (1937), where the nostalgia for a lost poverty and the image of a silent mother come to the fore. In the setting of the Algiers of his childhood, a world of light and freedom, Camus’s choice to fight for the humiliated is outlined, without renouncing to beauty and admiration: the rebellion keeps men united in the name of a value that binds and transcends them.

Poverty, World, History, Value, Solidarity

Camus 2020

Working Notes

Rosario Diana

Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISPF-CNR)

rosariodiana61@gmail.com

Text of the melologue that closes the Trilogy on Recognition. The show has not yet been made due to the pandemic. In the work, the Author presents a critical analysis of the absurd in Albert Camus in the form of reading notes.

Absurd, Music, Theater, Commitment, Politics

L’Infinito by Leopardi

melologue for thre reciting voices, viola and cello

Rosario Diana

Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISPF-CNR)

rosariodiana61@gmail.com

The Author presents an experiment of linguistic transposition between poetry and music. Leopardi’s famous poem, L’Infinito, and some thematically related fragments from Zibaldone become the text of a melologue in which the poetic text interacts with the sound and helps to indicate the principles of musical composition.

Dissemination, Composition, Restricted view, Atonality, Counterpoint

_Imitation_

melologue for two reciting voices, viola, cello and recorded voice

Rosario Diana

Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISPF-CNR)

rosariodiana61@gmail.com

The Author presents an experiment of linguistic transposition in which the structure, the pitches of the sounds and the compositional techniques of the melologue are obtained with the title and content of a poem by Giacomo Leopardi, Imitation, inspired by a composition by a French poet Antoine-Vincent Arnault, Le Feuille [The leaf].

Dissemination, Transposition, Composition, Giacomo Leopardi, Antoine-Vincent Arnault

The Intermediality between Writing and Music

About a Recent Book

Rossella Gaglione

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli

rossellagaglione@hotmail.com

The paper aims to highlight some themes from a recent book by Franco Gallo and Paolo Zignani, Nietzsche e Schumann. Musica, scrittura, forma e creazione, about the relationship between Schumann’s music and Nietzsche’s thought. Within the interpretative horizon of the paradigm of intermediality, the writing first analyzes the compositional forms of both artists, gestures of breaking with respect to tradition. However, Schumann and Nietzsche are also the pretext to explore other foundational themes of the relationship between music and philosophy.

Philosophy, Theorein, Praktein, Musical Composition

Tribute to Stravinsky

Fifty Years after his Death

Benedetta Tramontano

Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli

bene_98@hotmail.it

Four illustrations commissioned by RTH / PTH to Benedetta Tramontano and dedicated to Stravinskij for the fifty years of the composer’s death.

Theodor W. Adorno, The Rite of Spring, Sergej Pavlovič Djagilev, Composition, Poetics of music