Faculty Colloquium Series: Manuela Marchesini (INTS) 4/28/20
“The Existence of Italy“ In compliance with recommendations surrounding COVID-19, our Colloquium Series is being moved online for the remainder of the semester. Zoom Meeting information: Meeting ID: 954 5356 0528 https://tamu.zoom.us/j/95453560528 Dr. Manuela Marchesini International Studies, 2019-2020 Glasscock Internal Faculty Residential Fellow Abstract: The co-implication of the flesh and of the imagination in cultural […]
“The Existence of Italy“
In compliance with recommendations surrounding COVID-19, our Colloquium Series is being moved online for the remainder of the semester.
Zoom Meeting information:
Meeting ID: 954 5356 0528
https://tamu.zoom.us/j/95453560528
Dr. Manuela Marchesini
International Studies, 2019-2020 Glasscock Internal Faculty Residential Fellow
Abstract:
The co-implication of the flesh and of the imagination in cultural production has become a prominent theme in contemporary thought, from posthumanist reflections, to embodied cognition, and narrative neurohumanism. These integrated viewpoints graft the symbolic onto the body, highlighting its power to shape dispositions that are not merely mental. Merchants of Enchantments provides a historical perspective on the otherwise transhistorical mirror neurons phenomenon by examining a set of specific Italian cultural artifacts that are at once products of a historically situated imagination as well as imagination-inducing agents. Antonio Moresco’s Game of Eternity (1998, 2009, 2015), in particular, exemplifies a narrative embodied along these non-binary lines, a cosmoecological epic of life as a whole in which Moresco maps metaphysics (gnostic dualism, mysticism) onto physics, biology, and the neurosciences.
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