This essay emerges from conversations between an anthropologist and a performance artist from the industrial city of Taranto, in southern Italy—known today to be one of Europe’s most polluted cities due to the continent’s largest and most hazardous steel factory. By focusing on artist Isabella Mongelli’s photographic and theatrical work conducted upon returning to her hometown after years lived abroad, this essay locates the expression of a specific affect coined by Taranto sound artist Alessandra Eramo: la tristezza siderurgica, the sorrow of steel. Tristezza siderurgica yields an ethnographic understanding of the perceptions and representations of homes that have become homely, uncanny, estranged because toxic or otherwise inhospitable. T...
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Silvia Avallone’s acclaimed novel Acciaio (2010) narrates the struggling friendship, complicat...
As Therasiotes – residents of Therasia, a sparsely populated island sitting to the west of the globa...
This article investigates Latife Tekin’s novel Berci Kristin Cop Masallari from a double viewpoint: ...
"Inscriptions of Poison" is an ethnographic, textual, and aesthetic engagement with possession, poll...
The present essay aims at offering some interpretative keys for the ecological disaster of one of th...
Este artigo oferece uma reflexão preliminar para a investigação histórica sobre um aspecto até hoje ...
What is a narrative agent and what are the political effects of a material narrative? This essay add...
Between December 2020 and January 2021, Hanna Baumann and I organized a twofold event around the top...
The article investigates the difficult and controversial landscape of Taranto, a recently industrial...
What can one do when the things and processes used to sustain oneself – physically, economically, em...
Art is not just an art of display, More expression of the author's thoughts and emotions, through a...
The present essay emphasizes philosophy’s responsibility to face the embarrassing reality of a world...
The article focuses on the denunciation of the environmental catastrophe as the central hub of the l...
Brindisi is a city in the South-east of Italy with high industrial density - two coal-fired power pl...
The paper develops a typology of ruins depending on the attempts of defunctionalize and re-functiona...
Silvia Avallone’s acclaimed novel Acciaio (2010) narrates the struggling friendship, complicat...
As Therasiotes – residents of Therasia, a sparsely populated island sitting to the west of the globa...
This article investigates Latife Tekin’s novel Berci Kristin Cop Masallari from a double viewpoint: ...