553 research outputs found
Tailoring Cosmopolitanism in the Italian Nordest
Cosmopolitanism has become a potent means through which the fashion industry captures value in the global economy. Recognizing the selling power of a cosmopolitan imaginary, the provincial clothing firms of North East Italy actively cultivate associations with global citiesâ drawing from their flow of people, cultures, images, and ideasâto absorb their urban edge and worldly aura. Located in predominantly rural areas far from established fashion centers, these firms symbolically capture the urbs through distribution, communication, and marketing strategies that endorse citiesâ mythologies of modernity and excitement. Using stratagems centered around metropolitan cosmopolitanism, firms like Benetton and Dieselâprototypes of the industrial system of the regionâskillfully transformed their labels into trendy "cosmobrands" and gained a central place in the topography of transnational fashion networks
The Economy of West African Dance in Italy
Over the past decade, so-called African dance has become increasingly popular in Italy, growing in tandem with local West African diasporic communities and the national concern over immigration. Although the circulation of African dance provides West African migrants with an important form of self-identification and subsistence, it often revolves around problematic discourses rooted on the myth and romance with the primitive. Constructing and capitalizing on the fetishization of black bodies, African dance mobilizes complex economies of desire that rest on an orientalist fascination with the Other. While these economies reify racist stereotypes, they also enable significant communities of knowledge and interracial encounters
Introduction: Fashioning the Global City
Introduction to Streetnotes 20: Fashioning the Global City
Introduction: Walking in the Digital City
The editors introduce the special issue, 'Walking in the Digital City"
Cell-Out: A Long-Distance Mobile Performance of Scores, Reflections, Confessions
âCell-Outâ is a performance, a collaborative investigative enactment of physical, spatial, and communicative mobility in urban areas, and an exploration of walking in the digital city through shifts of space, attention, and time. Claudia Brazzale and Leslie Satin approach walking as dancers whose embodied practices are based largely in Western contemporary dance techniques and somatic / contemplative forms, including early post-modern dance's cultivation of pedestrian movement; their scholarly work is grounded in autobiography and auto-ethnography. The piece centers on a series of compositional scores in which each writer directs the other toward specific actions, places, and areas of focus. Other parts of the piece contextualize and arise from these scores, weaving through the authors' scholarship on dance and space and flowing into their art lives and personal experience. Brazzale's and Satin's explorations of walking and writing as experiential, affective, digressive, phenomenological, anatomical, performative, mnemonic, and analytical emerge from and create a kind of double memoir, enacting their long-term, long-distance relationship and acknowledging the digital tools that support and (re)produce their intimacy--even as the Coronavirus pandemic, which erupted as they were completing their piece, dismantled intimacy worldwide
(Un)covering ground: dance, space and mobility
Ballet and modern dance teachers often exhort students to âtravel across the floorâ and âcover groundâ. These instructions invoke metaphors of travel and mobility that capture an array of common assumptions about dance, space and movement. This essay examines the spatial and mobility discourses that these instructions simultaneously build upon and produce while exploring the seductiveness of techniqueâs promise of mastering space through the moving body.
Threading auto-ethnography with critical theory and moving across different disciplinary fields and writing styles, I explore the ways in which these instructions leak outside the perimeter of the dance studio to feed into the narrative of a dancerâs extended physical, geographical and social mobility. Analysing the mobility and travel discourses of my dance training vis-Ă -vis poststructuralist theorizations of the subaltern power of the nomad and theories of space and place, I argue that this narrative becomes complicit in the construction of an idealized notion of artistic nomadism, which, in turn, aligns with current neoliberal logics organised around the production of mobile subjects
Strategies for Subverting the Tyranny of the Corporate Map: An Interview with Babak Fakhamzadeh
A discussion on using a range of solutions to subvert corporate control of our experience in understanding and relating to our urban environment
Accurate Parametric Inference for Small Samples
We outline how modern likelihood theory, which provides essentially exact
inferences in a variety of parametric statistical problems, may routinely be
applied in practice. Although the likelihood procedures are based on analytical
asymptotic approximations, the focus of this paper is not on theory but on
implementation and applications. Numerical illustrations are given for logistic
regression, nonlinear models, and linear non-normal models, and we describe a
sampling approach for the third of these classes. In the case of logistic
regression, we argue that approximations are often more appropriate than
`exact' procedures, even when these exist.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-STS273 the Statistical
Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Targeted Gold Nanoparticles as Nanosonosensitizers: a new Challenge for the Sonodynamic Treatment of Cancer
âI've danced my whole life, but none of that is useful at allâ: Netflixâs We Speak Dance (2018), Vulnerability and Collaborative Critiques
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