Indigenous Intermediaries: New perspectives on exploration archives

This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of exploration by focusing on the various indigenous intermediaries – Jacky Jacky, Bungaree, Moowattin, Tupaia, Mai, Cheealthluc and lesser-known individuals – who were the guides, translators, and hosts that assisted and facilitated European travellers in exploring different parts of the world. These intermediaries are rarely the authors of exploration narratives, or the main focus within exploration archives. Nonetheless the archives of exploration contain imprints of their presence, experience and contributions. The chapters present a range of ways of reading archives to bring them to the fore. The contributors ask new questions of existing materials, suggest new interpretive approaches, and present innovative ways to enhance sources so as to generate new stories.

Dietro al microfono. Intellettuali italiani alla Radio svizzera (1930-1980)

A gripping essay on the role that Italian intellectuals played in the organization and scheduling of Swiss public radio between the Fascist period and the so-called Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead). The book What was the role of Italian intellectuals in the history of Swiss radio broadcasting culture? And what images of Switzerland and Italy were conveyed between 1930 and 1980? Ever since it began in the 1930s, Italian-language Swiss radio, a national public service broadcaster addressed to a linguistic minority, drew from intellectual resources external to its own political borders, a characteristic that contributed to defining its profile. During the Fascist period, for example, Italian intellectuals could express themselves from the microphones of this radio with a freedom that they were not allowed in their home country: Benedetto Croce’s 1936 speech is a memorable case in point. Subse-quently, when the interview and debate formats tended to undermine that of the radio lecture, journalists and writers such as Pier Paolo Pasolini and Eugenio Montale took advantage of the debating space that Swiss Italy offered them. By analysing the written and audio sources, many of which unpublished, Nelly Valsangiacomo’s essay reconstructs a complex as well as fascinating radio broadcasting panorama, brought to life by the voices of some of the greatest Italian intellectuals, such as Elio Vittorini, Maria Corti, Indro Montanelli, and Dario Fo. Voices that can now be listened to once again thanks to a web page completing the book: www.rsi.ch/dietroalmicrofono (Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana/Italian-language Swiss Radio and Television)

Maria Petyt

Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine.

Results and Conclusions of the Project "Complex Model for Risk Assessment and Treatment in Industrial Processes" (Mopori)

Research of Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance in Flight Simulation Training Device

Imanência e devir-animal na obra de Alexander McQueen

Este ensaio busca compreender aspectos da lógica de construção do sentido na obra do designer de moda inglês Alexander McQueen. Para enfrentar tal problema, aproximamos o campo da moda com o da filosofia e articulamos noções de estética, imanência, semiótica e design. Considerando que McQueen questionou o processo de desenvolvimento sustentável do planeta, abordaremos de forma especulativa conceitos e valores simbólicos presentes em sua obra para enfocar a temática da deriva cultural e da mutação da espécie humana. No escopo deste ensaio, organizado em quatro seções temáticas – a imanência e o devir; o trágico e a deriva; o híbrido e o louco; a sustentabilidade e a crise – questionaremos sobre a matéria semiótica de McQueen quanto à sustentabilidade, buscando conteúdos imanentes ao discurso do designer.

A irrupção da juventude na fotografia de moda

Resenha de RAINHO, Maria do Carmo Teixeira. Moda e revolução nos anos 1960. Rio de Janeiro: Contra Capa, 2014, 396 p.

A riqueza escondida: por uma genealogia da austeridade das aparências

Tradução de PERROT, Philippe. La richesse cachée: pour une généalogie de l´austéritédes apparences. In: BURGUELIN, Olivier; PERROT, Philippe. Parure, pudeur, étiquette.Communication, n. 46. Paris: EHESS/ Centre d´Études Transdisciplinaires, 1987.

La relación entre biotecnología y progreso como “valores indiscutidos”. Sus implicancias éticas y políticas

Fil: Pfeiffer, Maria Luisa Cecilia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina

Brincadeira lúdica: o faz de conta