Loredana Di Martino
Biographic Data
| ID | 1200311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loredana Di Martino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loredana |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Martino |
| SIGNATURE | DI MARTINO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crossing the Borders and Challenging the Boundaries of White Feminism in Italy
This article investigates how some white Italian feminists have begun to reckon with the colorblindness of their theories, as well the ethnocentrism of hegemonic feminist traditions in the Global North, and are contributing to the development of a critical white feminism. An examination of key feminist texts from the 1970s will be followed by an investigation into more recent iterations of difference feminism that have critically reengaged and re…
Rebuilding Ethical Desire in the Era of Narcissistic Jouissance
This article argues that in Il padre infedele, Antonio Scurati deals with the loss of social responsibility that characterises the current era of hyperhedonism, forging a post-metaphysical form of parenthood that, similarly to Massimo Recalcati’s ‘father-witness’, transforms narcissistic jouissance into ethical desire without resurrecting the Law of the Father. Furthermore, it contends that Scurati’s ‘father-witness’ is an embodiment of the ‘writ…
I was an Elephant Salesman. Adventures between Dakar, Paris, and Milan
Foreword by Graziella Parati Introduction by Rebecca Hopkins Selling Illegal Africa The Market in Abidjan DakarRiccione Street-Smart ... Beach-Smart Italian Money Paolo il Nero Girls from Senegal Police ... Just Joking! Germany via Paris A Month in Paris The Foreign Legion From Paris to Riccione The Car-House Double Malaw Chief Laman A Senegalese Lunch A Dresser in Piacenza The End of Ma Milanese Chronicles A Run on the Beach Dakar via Moscow Lif…
From Pirandello's Humor to Eco's Double Coding
It is often believed that postmodernist irony is associated only with a poetics of relativism and does not carry an ethical message. In this paper I will argue that Vattimo's philosophy of weak thought, and Eco's theory of the postmodernist irony shed new light on the relationship between irony and social commitment, and contradict both the view of postmodernism as divorced from ethics, and the idea that there was a radical break between modernis…
Crossing the Borders and Challenging the Boundaries of White Feminism in Italy
This article investigates how some white Italian feminists have begun to reckon with the colorblindness of their theories, as well the ethnocentrism of hegemonic feminist traditions in the Global North, and are contributing to the development of a critical white feminism. An examination of key feminist texts from the 1970s will be followed by an investigation into more recent iterations of difference feminism that have critically reengaged and re…
I was an Elephant Salesman. Adventures between Dakar, Paris, and Milan
Foreword by Graziella Parati Introduction by Rebecca Hopkins Selling Illegal Africa The Market in Abidjan DakarRiccione Street-Smart ... Beach-Smart Italian Money Paolo il Nero Girls from Senegal Police ... Just Joking! Germany via Paris A Month in Paris The Foreign Legion From Paris to Riccione The Car-House Double Malaw Chief Laman A Senegalese Lunch A Dresser in Piacenza The End of Ma Milanese Chronicles A Run on the Beach Dakar via Moscow Lif…
From Pirandello's Humor to Eco's Double Coding
It is often believed that postmodernist irony is associated only with a poetics of relativism and does not carry an ethical message. In this paper I will argue that Vattimo's philosophy of weak thought, and Eco's theory of the postmodernist irony shed new light on the relationship between irony and social commitment, and contradict both the view of postmodernism as divorced from ethics, and the idea that there was a radical break between modernis…
From Pirandello's Humor to Eco's Double Coding
It is often believed that postmodernist irony is associated only with a poetics of relativism and does not carry an ethical message. In this paper I will argue that Vattimo's philosophy of weak thought, and Eco's theory of the postmodernist irony shed new light on the relationship between irony and social commitment, and contradict both the view of postmodernism as divorced from ethics, and the idea that there was a radical break between modernis…
I was an Elephant Salesman. Adventures between Dakar, Paris, and Milan
Foreword by Graziella Parati Introduction by Rebecca Hopkins Selling Illegal Africa The Market in Abidjan DakarRiccione Street-Smart ... Beach-Smart Italian Money Paolo il Nero Girls from Senegal Police ... Just Joking! Germany via Paris A Month in Paris The Foreign Legion From Paris to Riccione The Car-House Double Malaw Chief Laman A Senegalese Lunch A Dresser in Piacenza The End of Ma Milanese Chronicles A Run on the Beach Dakar via Moscow Lif…
Rebuilding Ethical Desire in the Era of Narcissistic Jouissance
This article argues that in Il padre infedele, Antonio Scurati deals with the loss of social responsibility that characterises the current era of hyperhedonism, forging a post-metaphysical form of parenthood that, similarly to Massimo Recalcati’s ‘father-witness’, transforms narcissistic jouissance into ethical desire without resurrecting the Law of the Father. Furthermore, it contends that Scurati’s ‘father-witness’ is an embodiment of the ‘writ…
Crossing the Borders and Challenging the Boundaries of White Feminism in Italy
This article investigates how some white Italian feminists have begun to reckon with the colorblindness of their theories, as well the ethnocentrism of hegemonic feminist traditions in the Global North, and are contributing to the development of a critical white feminism. An examination of key feminist texts from the 1970s will be followed by an investigation into more recent iterations of difference feminism that have critically reengaged and re…
Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Educational and Social Studies (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works) · Italian Literature and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)