From Firenze University Press Journal: Substantia — Stephen Hyde, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney This essay is a story about “ways of seeing”, and how those ways run beneath the more visible tracks that mark the course of the hard sciences. I am interested in exploring the applications of geometry, particularly non-euclidean geometries, to our…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Politica — Juliana Neuenschwander-Magalhães, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Pressupostos ontológicos e epistemológicos na observação das narrativas do “fim do mundo A imaginação sobre o fim do mundo acompanha a humanidade e varia de tempos em tempos. A cada virada de século ou de milênio o temor reaparece: a ira divina…

From Firenze University Press Book: Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动 — Valentina Pedone, University of Florence Miriam Castorina, University of Florence This collection gathers the contributions of ten scholars on the topic of mobility from China and the cultural representations linked to it. Following the new mobility turn in the social sciences (Sheller and Urry 2006; Hannam, Sheller and Urry 2006…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Ri-vista — Kevin Santus Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano Stefano Sartorio Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano Arianna Scaioli Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano Peripheries, where urbanity transitions to rurality, are spaces of conflict and expulsion (Sassen, 2014). Their intermediate area…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Substantia — Pierandrea Lo Nostro, Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” and CSGI, University of Florence We thought that with the decline of the Covid-19 pandemic the worst had gone and that we could go back to normal life, maybe keeping one eye open on the evolution of the virus variants from time…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Quaderni Culturali IILA — Antonella Medici, Universitat de Barcelona La obra de Daniel de la Barra1 nos habla de la crisis de la mirada colonial. Concretamente, de la crisis de la mirada hacia la naturaleza, de la representación del pai-saje como proceso extractivo y de los puntos de fricción que existen entre imagen, historia…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Aestimum — Nafiseh Golestani, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr Branch, Bushehr, Iran Mehdi Khakzand, School of Architecture & Environmental Design, Iran University of Science & Technology Mohsen Faizi, School of Architecture & Environmental Design, Iran University of Science & Technology Iran Focusing on neighborhoods sustainability is one of the novel approaches to make…

From Firenze University Press Book Giuseppina Forte, University of California Berkeley Kuan Hwa, University of California Berkeley “horše t·uuxi! Native American Student Development recognizes that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xucˇyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Quaderni Culturali IILA — Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira, Instituto Max Planck, Roma Universidade de Zurique, UZH A FÁBRICA DO SELVAGEM: HISTÓRIA DA IMAGINAÇÃO NO OCIDENTE As duas primeiras décadas dos anos dois mil encerraram a utopia do espírito globalizado, a saber, aquela dos corpos que circulam livremente sem fronteiras em um mundo baseado no…