The World Is the Road to God: The Encyclical Laudato Siʼ and the “Ecological” Vision of Pope Francis

Today, the response to the consequences of present and future environmental catastrophes tends to take three forms: one purely technological-productive coming from the alliance between States and the Market; another one, which is essentially movementist, is confusedly fragmented into initiatives, often contradictory to each other, without having a strong ideological–political vision at its base; and the third one refers to apocalyptic or posthuman messianisms of a philosophical–religious nature. None of the three forms envisions a radical transformation of the current political–economic system. In this context, the voice of the Catholic Church emerges strongly to denounce the systemic reasons for the environmental disaster and at the same time to oppose the current system another system, centered on alternative assumptions. This article will analyze the encyclical Laudato Si’ (2015), which, sometimes mistaken for a simple text on Christian ecology, should actually be interpreted as a manifesto for a new world, based on the idea of a total anthropological and socio-political revolution. The analysis of the Encyclical is intended to highlight the historical–theological foundations and the ability to adapt some of the cornerstones of Catholicism (in particular of the Franciscan and Jesuit matrix) to the resolution of the current ecological emergency

Odisseo torna a Itaca: il grande viaggio della scrittura. Per un’analisi mediologica dei testi antichi

The article proposes a mediological analysis applied to Homeric texts and in particular to the Odyssey. The study is based on three main phases: the reconstruction of the medial framework within which the poems are born and constitute themselves; the observation of the various representations of poetic figures read in a mediological sense; the interpretation of some textual metaphors which in turn express a radical medial conflict within Greek society between the 7th and 6th centuries. The Odyssey thus reveals a very powerful operation of re-mediation and integration between different media environments. The poem in fact witnesses the definitive passage from a phase in which writing supports and helps oral performance to one in which writing becomes a winning medium capable of incorporating the oral one, an operation that is the basis of Western literature over the centuries and even millennia

Alessio Ceccherelli, Emiliano Ilardi, Figure del controllo. Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes e Dracula nell’immaginario transmediale del XXI secolo

Review of Figure del controllo. Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes e Dracula nell’immaginario transmediale del XXI secolo by Alessio Ceccherelli and Emiliano Ilardi.Recensione del libro di Alessio Ceccherelli, Emiliano Ilardi, Figure del controllo. Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes e Dracula nell’immaginario transmediale del XXI secolo

I ribelli delle “Terre selvagge”: lunghe durate dell’immaginario fantasy.

The article proposes a mediological reading of The Lord of the Rings through the analysis of Tolkien's original literary work (1953-1955), the 2001- 2003 film trilogy and the first season of the TV series The Rings of Power (2022). In the transformation of the media environment, and in the different relation to the various stages of collective social construction up to the current globalization, the hypothesis is that such imagery is from time to time reused in the identity construction of resisting and "oppositional" communities until it becomes in the current years a source of inspiration for the organization in echo chambers typical of the platform society

LIBRI E RIVOLUZIONI. FIGURE E MENTALITA' NELLA ROMA AGLI ALBORI DELLA MODERNITA' (1770-1800)

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Immaginario o immaginari? Europa e America a confronto. Due casi: il ritorno dell’eroe e la figura del Supereroe

Imagination or imaginations? Europe and America in comparison. Two cases: the return of the hero and the Superhero figure. Over the recent years, the exploration of the notion of ‘social imagination’ has been carried out by searching for the essence, for that archetypal collective deposits that are positioned along a line that goes from Jung to Bachelard to Durand. As a result, research has usually relied on the idea of a universal “imagination”, which derives from disciplines such as – among others – psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. And yet, due to the development of these studies, scholars have discussed the sociologists’ task, questioning whether they have to search for the essential core of the symbolic system or to identify the particular historical and cultural meaning that this absolute system takes on from time to time. This paper intends to inspect the appropriateness of talking about the study of the “imaginations” rather than that of the “imagination”. At first, we illustrate the causes of the historical-geographical differentiation of imaginaries. Then, we enquire into the role of the ideological structure and of the social, spatial, religious and economic contexts as preconditions for the construction of different and therefore specific archetypes. The investigation is performed by considering the American imagination system in contrast to the Catholic-European one. In particular, two main factors are taken into account: the re-functionalisation of Lotman’s archetypal structure, i.e., the relationship between the space of consciousness and the outer space, which is expressed in the myth of the hero’s return home; and the re-functionalisation of the archetype of the hero in the conception of the American superhero

Colchicine for prevention of postpericardiotomy syndrome and postoperative atrial fibrillation : the COPPS-2 randomized clinical trial

IMPORTANCE: Postpericardiotomy syndrome, postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF), and postoperative effusions may be responsible for increased morbidity and health care costs after cardiac surgery. Postoperative use of colchicine prevented these complications in a single trial. OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy and safety of perioperative use of oral colchicine in reducing postpericardiotomy syndrome, postoperative AF, and postoperative pericardial or pleural effusions. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Investigator-initiated, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial among 360 consecutive candidates for cardiac surgery enrolled in 11 Italian centers between March 2012 and March 2014. At enrollment, mean age of the trial participants was 67.5 years (SD, 10.6 years), 69% were men, and 36% had planned valvular surgery. Main exclusion criteria were absence of sinus rhythm at enrollment, cardiac transplantation, and contraindications to colchicine. INTERVENTIONS: Patients were randomized to receive placebo (n=180) or colchicine (0.5 mg twice daily in patients 6570 kg or 0.5 mg once daily in patients <70 kg; n=180) starting between 48 and 72 hours before surgery and continued for 1 month after surgery. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Occurrence of postpericardiotomy syndrome within 3 months; main secondary study end points were postoperative AF and pericardial or pleural effusion. RESULTS: The primary end point of postpericardiotomy syndrome occurred in 35 patients (19.4%) assigned to colchicine and in 53 (29.4%) assigned to placebo (absolute difference, 10.0%; 95% CI, 1.1%-18.7%; number needed to treat\u2009=\u200910). There were no significant differences between the colchicine and placebo groups for the secondary end points of postoperative AF (colchicine, 61 patients [33.9%]; placebo, 75 patients [41.7%]; absolute difference, 7.8%; 95% CI, -2.2% to 17.6%) or postoperative pericardial/pleural effusion (colchicine, 103 patients [57.2%]; placebo, 106 patients [58.9%]; absolute difference, 1.7%; 95% CI, -8.5% to 11.7%), although there was a reduction in postoperative AF in the prespecified on-treatment analysis (placebo, 61/148 patients [41.2%]; colchicine, 38/141 patients [27.0%]; absolute difference, 14.2%; 95% CI, 3.3%-24.7%). Adverse events occurred in 21 patients (11.7%) in the placebo group vs 36 (20.0%) in the colchicine group (absolute difference, 8.3%; 95% CI; 0.76%-15.9%; number needed to harm\u2009=\u200912), but discontinuation rates were similar. No serious adverse events were observed. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Among patients undergoing cardiac surgery, perioperative use of colchicine compared with placebo reduced the incidence of postpericardiotomy syndrome but not of postoperative AF or postoperative pericardial/pleural effusion. The increased risk of gastrointestinal adverse effects reduced the potential benefits of colchicine in this setting. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT0155218

Storia e teoria della serialità. Volume I. Dal canto omerico al cinema degli anni Trenta

L’opera affronta sul piano storico e teorico la complessa evoluzione delle forme seriali, interpretando il fenomeno come una delle basi portanti dell’intera cultura moderna occidentale. Il primo volume, a cura di Giovanni Ragone e Fabio Tarzia, ricostruisce l’archeologia e il primo mainstream della narrazione seriale; il secondo, a cura di Sergio Brancato ed Emiliano Ilardi, è dedicato al Novecento e alla contemporaneità; il terzo, a cura di Giovanni Boccia Artieri e Giovanni Fiorentino, indaga la dimensione seriale nei miti d’oggi: dalla fiction e dalla pubblicità alla musica e ai linguaggi artistici, dall’architettura alla moda e al design. Le tecnologie del racconto seriale ri-mediano e focalizzano zone dell’immaginario collettivo secondo regole stabili, allenando e fidelizzando le audience che le utilizzano per rappresentare e controllare il conflitto sociale e intrapsichico. Esse sono dunque potenti catalizzatori nella formazione di generi e modelli entro i quali costituiscono gli spazi di esperienza estetica fondamentali in ogni cultura per la condivisione e socializzazione della sfera simbolica. Sono forme che cambiano nel tempo, interagendo nel processo di trasformazione dei media: dagli archetipi orali e scritti del mondo antico e medievale alle fasi esplosive che dal barocco portano alle culture delle metropoli, fino all’età matura dello spettacolo di massa e all’intensa ristrutturazione nell’era digitale, con la post-serialità televisiva, l’iperframmentazione e l’auto-serializzazione dei socia