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Henry Jenkins
Convergence Culture in the Age of Covid 19: A Fever Dream
“I am Kino-Eye. I am a builder. I have placed you, who I’ve created today, in an extraordinary room which did not exist until just now when I also created it. In...
Stripsody: Transforming Comics into Vanguard Art
Take the language of comic strips and give it to one of the most charismatic avant-garde singers. Pair her with an abstract painter who doubles in graphic design. Wrap up by putting...
Media Borders in Our Minds
There are some recurring basic concepts in the humanities and social sciences that seem to be under perennial debate. They are constantly under attack for being ‘simplistic’ or criticised for being vague...
Intermediality, Literary Studies and Anglophone World Literature
In the last twenty years, intermediality and related concepts such as adaptation (Linda Hutcheon), remediation (Jay David Bolter/Richard Grusin) and transmedia (Henry Jenkins) have become exceptionally productive in a range of disciplines...
Advertising Olivetti: The Male Chauvinist Pig Wants You
There is a photograph, taken around 1920, of the Olivetti manager Domenico Burzio. Olivetti was the first Italian company to make a typewriter, and it went on, after World War II, to...
Modern History through Visual Sources in the A-Level Curriculum
How can we help history students engage with sources? This is a key question for many history teachers. A-level history students find deconstructing sources easy. Yet, they find using ‘biased’ evidence, especially...
Opera Aperta: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Literature
When Umberto Eco published his seminal essay Opera aperta [The Open Work] in 1962, a number of experiments across literature and computer machines had set the ground of what we call today...
Cognitive Studies as Transdisciplinary Esperanto
This summer in Edinburgh, at the conference of the Society for Italian Studies, the first entirely cognitive-oriented panel was presented. The transdisciplinary perspective allowed by the cognitive lens enabled the panellists to...
Emma Dante’s ‘Heracles’: The Relational Activity of Media in the Theatre
Emma Dante, the groundbreaking director of plays and operas, works on textuality with a visual and visionary eye. Through contextual codes borrowed from a number of media she builds a network of...
De-code Gender: A Knitted Perspective
During the International Conference, Interart/Intermedia Experimentation in Italy Through the Ages, Royal Holloway 12-13th April 2019, I had the honour of presenting the collaborative and cross-disciplinary project </unravel;> which I have worked...