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Francesca Medaglia

The paper aims to pay attention to the cyclicity of space and time representation of the afterlife in The Good Place. Here the protagonists are stuck in an infernal loop and every time they discover they are in a particularly elaborate infernal circle, their memory is erased and the narration restart. When the story starts over, the demonic narrative is always slightly different from the previous one. The cyclical nature of the narration at a space-time level would seem to perfect the storytelling: through the alteration of the narrative structure, traditional expectations relating to the afterlife are demolished and a dystopian afterlife is narrated.

Renato Gabrielli

This essay aims to provide insights into the relationship between theatre and the automobile through the lens of Mobility Studies and Performance Studies. While cars are commonly featured in visual media, they are rarely seen in theatre due to the inherent limitations of theatrical space. However, some artists have recently embraced this challenge, offering creative solutions both on stage and on the road in site-specific performances. Mobile Thriller, a monologue set in a car traveling on the Milan ring road, was initially performed in traditional theatre venues in Milan and Glasgow. It was later adapted for a performance inside a real car at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This essay discusses the differences between two versions of the play, highlighting how theatrical dramaturgy is always structured around the concept of space.  

Stefania Sini, Noemi Albanese

Lo stile di Lenin, incisivo e dai tratti distintivi ben marcati, è stato per i formalisti banco di prova e di confronto fondamentale per applicare le proprie teorie alla contemporaneità più stringente. Particolarmente indicativo, a questo riguardo, è il numero 1(5) di LEF, uscito nel 1924 e dedicato alla lingua di Lenin. Vi partecipa anche Boris Kazanskij, personalità poliedrica, antichista di formazione, per il quale proprio la retorica e l’oratoria classiche ripensate nella prospettiva del presente divengono chiave di accesso e di analisi del fenomeno del discorso leniniano nonché fondamentale oggetto di dialogo con i membri dell’OPOJaZ alle prese con una necessaria apertura degli orizzonti teorici e metodologici. Obiettivo di questo contributo è presentare per la prima volta al lettore italiano l’autore, ancora poco studiato, e analizzarne l’articolo del 1924, confrontandolo poi con un più breve scritto del 1939 dedicato allo stesso argomento ma di impostazione ben diversa. Di entrambi i testi, inediti in italiano, si presenta in appendice la traduzione.

Giovanni Bottiroli

La tesi principale di quest’articolo è ‘nessuna identità senza confini’. Risulta perciò necessario interrogarsi sull’identità, nella consapevolezza che si tratta di una nozione polisemica: vengono distinti anzitutto due modi dell’identità, la coincidenza (il soggetto indiviso) e la non-coincidenza con se stessi (il soggetto diviso). Questa distinzione è essenziale per comprendere la differenza tra ideologia e teoria: l’identity politics è soltanto un’ideologia dell’identità; e come ogni ideologia è schematica, dogmatica, ed estremamente povera. Ecco perché si occupa unicamente delle forme di soggettività più semplici, e che possiamo definire mediante proprietà (donna, nero, ecc.) oppure mediante parti. Uno degli obiettivi di quest’articolo è mostrare l’arretratezza filosofica, che è anche arretratezza politica, della identity politics. Viene poi indicata la via della complessità, anzitutto tramite la psicoanalisi. La rivoluzione di Freud (Psicologia delle masse, 1921) non è stata però compresa da Lacan. La concezione di un soggetto diviso e flessibile potrà venir sviluppata, da un lato, andando oltre la scolastica lacaniana e, dall’altro, esplorando la dimensione strategica, che continua a venir ignorata dalle teorie dell’evento così come da quelle dell’istituzione.

Louis Pecora, Thomas Carroll

It is common for researchers to record long, multiple time series from experiments or calculations. But sometimes there are no good models for the systems or no applicable mathematical theorems that can tell us when there are basic relationships between subsets of the time series data such as continuity, differentiability, embeddings, etc. The data is often higher dimensional and simple plotting will not guide us. At that point fitting the data to polynomials, Fourier series, etc. becomes uncertain. Even at the simplest level, having data that shows there is a function between the data subsets is useful and a negative answer means that more particular data fitting or analysis will be suspect and probably fail. We show here statistics that test time series subsets for basic mathematical properties and relations between them that not only indicate when more specific analyses are safe to do, but whether the systems are operating correctly. We apply these statistics to examples from reservoir computing where an important property of reservoir computers is that the reservoir system establishes an embedding of the drive system in order to make any other calculations with the reservoir computer successful.

Guido Scaravilli

Recensione di Gloria Scarfone, Il pensiero monologico. Personaggio e vita psichica in Volponi, Morante e Pasolini (Mimesis, 2022)

Aaromal Venugopal, Vanshika Seth, Shreya Subhash Naik et al.

Herein, we report a minireview to give a brief introduction of applications of nanomaterials in the field of forensic science. The materials that have their size in nanoscale (1 - 100 nm) comes under the category of nanomaterials. Nanomaterials possess various applications in different fields like cosmetic production, medical, photoconductivity etc. because of their physio-chemical, electrical and magnetic properties. Due to the different characteristic property that nanomaterials have, they are widely employed in diverse domains. In various fields of forensic science such as fingerprints, toxicology, medicine, serology, nanomaterials are being used extensively. Large surface area to volume ratio of the materials in nano-regime makes the nanomaterials suitable for all these application with high efficiency. This review article briefs about the nanomaterials, their advantages and their novel applications in various fields, focusing especially in the field of forensic science. The basic idea of different areas of forensic science such as development of fingerprints, detection of drugs, estimating the time since death, analysis of GSR, detection of various explosives and for the extraction of DNA etc. has also been provided.

Kam Cheong Au

Through a systematic approach on generating Wilf-Zeilberger-pairs, we prove some hypergeometric identities conjectures due to Z.W. Sun, J. Guillera and Y. Zhao etc., including two Ramanujan-$1/π^4$, one $1/π^3$ formulas as well as a remarkable series for $ζ(5)$.

Takashi Yamakawa, Mark Zhandry

We show the following hold, unconditionally unless otherwise stated, relative to a random oracle: - There are NP search problems solvable by quantum polynomial-time machines but not classical probabilistic polynomial-time machines. - There exist functions that are one-way, and even collision resistant, against classical adversaries but are easily inverted quantumly. Similar separations hold for digital signatures and CPA-secure public key encryption (the latter requiring the assumption of a classically CPA-secure encryption scheme). Interestingly, the separation does not necessarily extend to the case of other cryptographic objects such as PRGs. - There are unconditional publicly verifiable proofs of quantumness with the minimal rounds of interaction: for uniform adversaries, the proofs are non-interactive, whereas for non-uniform adversaries the proofs are two message public coin. - Our results do not appear to contradict the Aaronson-Ambanis conjecture. Assuming this conjecture, there exist publicly verifiable certifiable randomness, again with the minimal rounds of interaction. By replacing the random oracle with a concrete cryptographic hash function such as SHA2, we obtain plausible Minicrypt instantiations of the above results. Previous analogous results all required substantial structure, either in terms of highly structured oracles and/or algebraic assumptions in Cryptomania and beyond.

Shahid Alam, Juvariya Khan

The Ubiquitous nature of smartphones has significantly increased the use of social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and LinkedIn, etc., among the public, government, and businesses. Facebook generated ~70 billion USD in 2019 in advertisement revenues alone, a ~27% increase from the previous year. Social media has also played a strong role in outbreaks of social protests responsible for political changes in different countries. As we can see from the above examples, social media plays a big role in business intelligence and international politics. In this paper, we present and discuss a high-level functional intelligence model (recipe) of Social Media Analysis (SMA). This model synthesizes the input data and uses operational intelligence to provide actionable recommendations. In addition, it also matches the synthesized function of the experiences and learning gained from the environment. The SMA model presented is independent of the application domain, and can be applied to different domains, such as Education, Healthcare and Government, etc. Finally, we also present some of the challenges faced by SMA and how the SMA model presented in this paper solves them.

Emilia David

Presenterò in questo saggio alcuni aspetti che definiscono il personaggio nella letteratura romena degli anni ’80, ’90 del Novecento e dei primi anni 2000, ovvero il protagonista romanzesco che parla soprattutto in prima persona, anzitutto all’interno del paradigma letterario creato in seno al postmodernismo romeno, che è stato il modello più innovativo, interessante e produttivo nella prosa degli ultimi decenni in Romania. Nel panorama della letteratura romena sul finire del Novecento, dominata dalla narrativa che si ispira alla biografia di chi scrive, l’analisi dell’homo fictus presuppone anche l’approfondimento di altre nozioni connesse alla costruzione narrativa e al rapporto che si stabilisce fra realtà e finzione. Nei testi esaminati nel saggio saranno indicati alcuni di questi nessi, dapprima nella prosa di Mircea Cărtărescu e in modo più sintetico in taluni romanzi e racconti di Matei Vişniec e di Ştefan Agopian. Ho privilegiato il personaggio-autore o meglio l’autore-personaggio, ma si potrà notare che tale binomio si carica di valenze molteplici e di sfumature che rendono meno certo e un po’ sfuggente agli occhi del lettore lo statuto della medesima coppia di categorie critico-letterarie.

Stefania Giroletti

Questo articolo si pone l’obiettivo di interpretare la particolare forma romanzo elaborata da Elsa Morante nel contesto letterario novecentesco europeo. Attraversando le dichiarazioni di poetica d’autrice raccolte in Pro o contro la bomba atomica e focalizzando l’analisi sul romanzo d’esordio, Menzogna e sortilegio (1948), si intende mettere in luce la funzione strutturante della trama nelle opere di questa scrittrice, come tensione a un dominio logico-temporale della realtà e come volontà comunicativa rivolta al lettore. Una simile eredità realista – secondo l’interpretazione che di realismo dà G. Lukács – viene osservata nel suo intrecciarsi a modi tipici della letteratura popolare e considerata in relazione dialettica con gli aspetti novecenteschi della scrittura di Morante.

Silvia Fantini

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A. A. Natale, A. Doff

When technicolor (TC), QCD, extended technicolor (ETC) and other interactions become coupled through their different Schwinger-Dyson equations, the solution of these equations are modified compared to those of the isolated equations. The change in the self-energies is similar to that obtained in the presence of four-fermion interactions, but without their ad hoc inclusion in the theory. In this case the TC and QCD self-energies decrease logarithmically with the momenta, which allows us to build models where ETC boson masses can be pushed to very high energies, and do not lead to undesirable flavor changing interactions. Viable TC models may be built along this line including a necessary horizontal symmetry. The different fermionic mass scales are dictated by the different strong interactions. Pseudo-Goldstone bosons acquire large masses in this class of models.

Alberto Manco

L’articolo propone una riflessione sul ludonimo ludus latrunculorum, che, stando alle fonti letterarie, fu uno dei più diffusi ‘giochi da tavolo’ dell’antichità latina. Nel corso del tempo la memoria di tale gioco si è in parte smarrita ed esso è diventato una sorta di oggetto misterioso. Tale situazione si riflette nelle traduzioni italiane, che spesso, poco cautamente, lo interpretano come scacchio dama. The article proposes a reflexion on the ludonym ludus latrunculorum, which has been proven in literary sources to be one of the most widespread “board games” in Latin antiquity. Over time we have partly lost its memory and it has become a sort of mysterious object. This situation is reflected by Italian translations, which often, recklessly, interpret the ludus latrunculorumas “chess”or “draughts.”

Maria Patrizia Bologna

Parole di apertura dei lavori delle Giornate di Studio su “Giochi e giocattoli: parole, oggetti e immaginario”. Opening words of the Study Days on “Games and toys: words, things, and imagery.”

Nick Malleson, Kevin Minors, Le-Minh Kieu et al.

Agent-based modelling is a valuable approach for systems whose behaviour is driven by the interactions between distinct entities. They have shown particular promise as a means of modelling crowds of people in streets, public transport terminals, stadiums, etc. However, the methodology faces a fundamental difficulty: there are no established mechanisms for dynamically incorporating real-time data into models. This limits simulations that are inherently dynamic, such as pedestrian movements, to scenario testing of, for example, the potential impacts of new architectural configurations on movements. This paper begins to address this fundamental gap by demonstrating how a particle filter could be used to incorporate real data into an agent-based model of pedestrian movements at run time. The experiments show that it is indeed possible to use a particle filter to perform online (real time) model optimisation. However, as the number of agents increases, the number of individual particles (and hence the computational complexity) required increases exponentially. By laying the groundwork for the real-time simulation of crowd movements, this paper has implications for the management of complex environments (both nationally and internationally) such as transportation hubs, hospitals, shopping centres, etc.

Rosalba Maletta

Le strategie stilistico-formali di Kafka fanno segno a stati mentali e rappresentazioni della realtà apparentemente incompatibili e inconciliabili; come tali esse lavorano in maniera inquietante sul lettore immettendolo in un cosmo incongruo e inaspettato, dove le leggi della fisica classica paiono non avere corso. Questa peculiare posizione delle tecniche narrative kafkiane viene qui esplorata in connessione con la meccanica quantistica e la «serie complementare consapevole» freudiana. Prendendo le mosse da un apologo ad andamento paradossale, scritto nel 1917 e pubblicato postumo da Max Brod, il saggio esamina i dispositivi retorici e stilistici come corrispettivo delle indagini quantistiche su misurazione, entanglement e doppia fenditura. L’analisi dei fenomeni microscopici e dell’impercettibilmente piccolo nella letteratura di Kafka mette a nudo una processualità che sovverte la Wirklichkeitdel mondo pratico-operativo secondo logiche che sfuggono ai normali processi rappresentativi. Le strategie retoriche sono messe a confronto con l’idea di complementarità della meccanica quantistica che mina l'esistenza di strutture asseverate secondo criteri oggettivi. Meccanica quantistica e serie complementare consapevole freudiana lavorano su idee e rappresentazioni reciprocamente esclusive. Le strategie stilistiche, le scelte retoriche di Kafka sono espressione di questa relazione di dualità. La Serie Complementare consapevole freudiana così come le ricerche bioniane sulla figurabilità psichica e il principio di indeterminazione mantengono la medesima posizione nei confronti della Verità, uno dei soggetti preferiti della fabulatiokafkiana nonché uno dei postulati a tutt’oggi più scandalosi, controversi e discussi della meccanica quantistica. Kafka’s formal strategies of writing sustain seemingly incompatible mental states; as such they do work uncanny, i.e. disquieting, incongruous and foolish all in one. We explore here this quality of Kafka’s narrative techniques, explored in connection with Quantum Mechanics and Freudian Conscious Complementary Series (1938). Starting from a paradoxical apologue of 1917 – posthumously published by Max Brod – this article investigates Kafka’s rhetorical and stylistic devices as a corresponding momentum, a different way of keeping in touch with the imperceptibly small and with invisible phenomena of microscopic as well as unconscious processes in comparison with Wirklichkeitand ordinary matter. Kafka’s rhetorical strategies are consequently compared to the idea of complementarity as well as to the observer effectwhich seems to undermine the existence of an objective world. In a counter-intuitive twist, Kafka’s writing strategies foreshadow quantum superposition and entanglement, where both quantum mechanics and Freudian complementary series (1938) hold onto two mutually exclusive ideas and representations at the same time (the double-slit experiment). The present paper argues that Kafka’s stylistic strategies in writing are expression of these duality relations. The Freudian complementary series (1938) as well as Bionian psychoanalytic investigations of the Uncertainty Principle maintain the same position as for Truth, one of Kafka’s favourite subjects to meditate and to write upon and one of the most discussed postulates of quantum mechanics.

Mariarosa Loddo

I racconti autobiografici di malattia sono da una ventina d’anni oggetto di interesse interdisciplinare, in particolare all’interno delle medical humanities, ma anche, dopo una prima diffidenza, da parte degli studi letterari. Proprio la critica si è trovata inizialmente a non sapere come considerare questi testi che, per via del tema trattato, sembrano appellarsi unicamente a una risposta compassionevole da parte del lettore. L'intento di questo contributo è invece di concentrarsi sulla struttura di questi racconti, che offrono l'occasione di mettere in discussione alcune nozioni narratologiche e indagare come i significati etici legati al testo vengono costruiti nel processo di ricezione. In particolare, verrà messa in luce la dinamica interazionale in cui sono collocati diversi elementi associati alla narrazione, quali il genere di riferimento, la progressione della trama, la postura autoriale e le tracce paratestuali. Illness memoirs have been scrutinized by various disciplines for about twenty years, especially within the medical humanities. Literary studies have been focusing on illness narratives too, although it took some time to overcome the skepticism that surrounded these problematic texts, which used to be considered as lacking in aesthetic quality. On the contrary, this essay seeks to show how illness memoirs can even question some narratological concepts and challenge the way ethical meanings are identified in the text. In order to highlight the genre expectations that play an important role in the reception and in the composition of illness memoirs, I will draw attention on some aspects such as plot progression, authorial posture and paratextual elements.

Naveen Kumar Macha, Bhavana Tejaswini Repalle, Sandeep Geedipally et al.

The CMOS integrated chips at advanced technology nodes are becoming more vulnerable to various sources of faults like manufacturing imprecisions, variations, aging, etc. Additionally, the intentional fault attacks (e.g., high power microwave, cybersecurity threats, etc.) and environmental effects (i.e., radiation) also pose reliability threats to integrated circuits. Though the traditional hardware redundancy-based techniques like Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR), Quadded (QL) Logic etc. mitigate the risk to some extent, they add huge hardware overhead and are not very effective. Truly polymorphic circuits that are inherently capable of achieving multiple functionalities in a limited footprint could enhance the faultresilience/recovery of the circuits with limited overhead. We demonstrate a novel crosstalk logic based polymorphic circuit approach to achieve compact and efficient fault resilient circuits. We show a range of polymorphic primitive gates and their usage in a functional unit. The functional unit is a single arithmetic circuit that is capable of delivering Multiplication/Sorting/Addition output depending on the control inputs. Using such polymorphic computing units in an ALU would imply that a correct path for functional output is possible even when 2/3rd of the ALU is damaged. Our comparison results with respect to existing polymorphic techniques and CMOS reveal 28% and 62% reduction in transistor count respectively for the same functionalities. In conjunction with fault detection algorithms, the proposed polymorphic circuit concept can be transformative for fault tolerant circuit design directions with minimum overhead.