In his paper, "Benjamin, Agamben, and the Paradox of Translation," Paolo Bartoloni offers a theoretical discourse on translation that goes beyond the traditional precincts of linguistics and literary theory as well as the disciplines of cultural studies and postcolonial theory. Bartoloni argues that more recently, the discourse on translation has begun to incorporate epistemological concerns, d...

Nesse artigo, o poema em prosa "Umbra”, de João da Cruz e Sousa (2008 [1891]), é tomado como epítome do espaço urbano derruído, reportando-o a Charles Baudelaire ao pós-simbolista “Sub-umbra”, Artur Sales (1987 [1950]), enunciação estranhamento saturnino (Giorgio Agamben) renúncia (Paul Valéry) justaposição conceito “fugacidade eterna” (BENJAMIN, 2006). Nessa dialética, imagem afloramento calcá...

Negri celebrates a conception of democracy in which the concrete powers of individual humans are not alienated away, but rather are added together: this is a democracy of the multitude. But how can the multitude act without alienating anyone’s power? To answer this difficulty, Negri explicitly appeals to Spinoza. Nonetheless, in this paper, I argue that Spinoza’s philosophy does not support Neg...

A case of human rabies with cardiac involvement and viral inclusion bodies in the heart is presented. The Negri bodies were found in the Schwann cells of the right epicardial atrium, with secondary mononuclear cells inflammation. In the myocardium, an interstitial edema, proliferation of Anitschkov and rare mononuclear inflammatory cells were seen. There was no relevant cardiovascular signs or ...

Francesco Sola, Anna Gualandris, Mirella Belleri, Roberta Giuliani, Daniela Coltrini, Maria Bastaki, Maria Pia Molinari Tosatti, Fabrizio Bonardi, Annunciata Vecchi, Francesca Fioretti, Raffaella Giavazzi, Marina Ciomei, Maria Grandi, Alberto Mantovani and Marco Presta Unit of General Pathology and Immunology and Unit of Histology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University...

To render inoperative the machine that governs our conception of man will therefore mean … to risk ourselves in this emptiness: the suspension of suspension, Shabbat of both animal and man. (Agamben, The Open 92) In The Open, Giorgio Agamben diagnoses the history of both science and philosophy as part of what he calls the " anthropological machine " through which the human is created with and a...

Bringing to light the difference between birth and nation, the refugee causes the secret presupposition of the political domain—bare life—to appear for an instant within that domain. In this sense, the refugee is truly ‘the man of rights,’ as Arendt suggests, the first and only real appearance of rights outside the fiction of the citizen that always covers them over. Yet this is precisely what ...

Walter Reed (1851-1902) Imperial Bacteriology Institute c o r r e c t l y d e m o n s t r a t e d t h a t the etiological agent of rabies was not a protozoan, but a filterable virus a n d t h e a r g u m e n t a b o u t t h e s ignif icance of Negri ’s bodies became wider and more intense, w i t h e m i n e n t p a r a s i t o l o g i s t s taking conflicting positions. For many years, document...

Abstract This article traces the trajectory of theory and praxis around nocività or noxiousness – i.e., health damage environmental degradation drawn by workerist group rooted in petrochemical complex Porto Marghera, Venice. While Maghera was an important setting for early activism influential theorists such as post-workerist Antonio Negri autonomist feminist Mariarosa Dalla Costa, theories pro...