Lorenzo Fabbri
Biographic Data
| ID | 274719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo Fabbri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Fabbri |
| SIGNATURE | FABBRI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speculative Whiteness
The Black Medici in Two Acts
A Note on the New Cover
Early Modern Media Theory
This essay investigates how Machiavelli's Clizia problematizes any clear-cut distinction between the private and public realms by accenting that the proper governance of desire is crucial to avoid catastrophic socio-political disruptions. Integrating Louis Althusser's and Michel Foucault's takes on Machiavelli, I forefront the engaged dimension of the play. In fact, I argue that Machiavelli's account of the comic consequences of disorderly appeti…
Queer neorealism
‘Cinema is the most powerful weapon’ – Benito Mussolini’s motto loomed in capital letters over the 1937 inauguration of the massive production hub being built in the outskirts of Rome, reminding the film industry what was expected of it. Notwithstanding the effort to deploy cinema as a key technology for governing the nation and the empire, in the early 1940s film became a battlefield for the Regime. This essay excavates from the closet of memory…
Neorealism as Ideology
Although the very existence of neorealism has been under scrutiny at least since the 1950s, an obstinate outlook on Italy's cinema history still reduces all national films to anticipations, prolongations, or betrayals of this elusive new wave. Why is this the case? In this article, I explain the persisting critical hegemony of neorealism from the point of view of ideology critique. I argue that Bazin's and Deleuze's influential accounts of neorea…
From Inoperativeness to Action
On the Limits of Violence
On the Limits of Violence Giorgio Agamben (bio) and Lorenzo Fabbri Translated by Elisabeth Fay Editor's introduction In February 1970, a twenty-eight-year-old Giorgio Agamben sends a letter to Hannah Arendt. After introducing himself as a friend of Dominique Fourcade, with whom Agamben attended Martin Heidegger's 1966 and 1968 seminars in Provence, Agamben proceeds to express his gratitude to Arendt: her books, he writes, provided him with a "dec…
Philosophy as Chance
Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of Magnificence
F.W. Kent. Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of Magnificence. The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 230 pp. + 21 b/w plates. index. illus. bibl. $36.95. ISBN: 0-8018-7868-3. - Volume 59 Issue 2
La città dei crucci
William J. Connell. La città dei crucci: Fazioni e clientele in uno stato repubblicano del '400. Florence: Nuova Toscana Editrice, 2000. x + 318 pp. index, append. $15.49. ISBN: 88-87263-10-8. - Volume 56 Issue 1
From Inoperativeness to Action
Early Modern Media Theory
This essay investigates how Machiavelli's Clizia problematizes any clear-cut distinction between the private and public realms by accenting that the proper governance of desire is crucial to avoid catastrophic socio-political disruptions. Integrating Louis Althusser's and Michel Foucault's takes on Machiavelli, I forefront the engaged dimension of the play. In fact, I argue that Machiavelli's account of the comic consequences of disorderly appeti…
Queer neorealism
‘Cinema is the most powerful weapon’ – Benito Mussolini’s motto loomed in capital letters over the 1937 inauguration of the massive production hub being built in the outskirts of Rome, reminding the film industry what was expected of it. Notwithstanding the effort to deploy cinema as a key technology for governing the nation and the empire, in the early 1940s film became a battlefield for the Regime. This essay excavates from the closet of memory…
Neorealism as Ideology
Although the very existence of neorealism has been under scrutiny at least since the 1950s, an obstinate outlook on Italy's cinema history still reduces all national films to anticipations, prolongations, or betrayals of this elusive new wave. Why is this the case? In this article, I explain the persisting critical hegemony of neorealism from the point of view of ideology critique. I argue that Bazin's and Deleuze's influential accounts of neorea…
Philosophy as Chance
La città dei crucci
William J. Connell. La città dei crucci: Fazioni e clientele in uno stato repubblicano del '400. Florence: Nuova Toscana Editrice, 2000. x + 318 pp. index, append. $15.49. ISBN: 88-87263-10-8. - Volume 56 Issue 1
Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of Magnificence
F.W. Kent. Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of Magnificence. The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 230 pp. + 21 b/w plates. index. illus. bibl. $36.95. ISBN: 0-8018-7868-3. - Volume 59 Issue 2
Philosophy as Chance
On the Limits of Violence
On the Limits of Violence Giorgio Agamben (bio) and Lorenzo Fabbri Translated by Elisabeth Fay Editor's introduction In February 1970, a twenty-eight-year-old Giorgio Agamben sends a letter to Hannah Arendt. After introducing himself as a friend of Dominique Fourcade, with whom Agamben attended Martin Heidegger's 1966 and 1968 seminars in Provence, Agamben proceeds to express his gratitude to Arendt: her books, he writes, provided him with a "dec…
From Inoperativeness to Action
Neorealism as Ideology
Although the very existence of neorealism has been under scrutiny at least since the 1950s, an obstinate outlook on Italy's cinema history still reduces all national films to anticipations, prolongations, or betrayals of this elusive new wave. Why is this the case? In this article, I explain the persisting critical hegemony of neorealism from the point of view of ideology critique. I argue that Bazin's and Deleuze's influential accounts of neorea…
Queer neorealism
‘Cinema is the most powerful weapon’ – Benito Mussolini’s motto loomed in capital letters over the 1937 inauguration of the massive production hub being built in the outskirts of Rome, reminding the film industry what was expected of it. Notwithstanding the effort to deploy cinema as a key technology for governing the nation and the empire, in the early 1940s film became a battlefield for the Regime. This essay excavates from the closet of memory…
Early Modern Media Theory
This essay investigates how Machiavelli's Clizia problematizes any clear-cut distinction between the private and public realms by accenting that the proper governance of desire is crucial to avoid catastrophic socio-political disruptions. Integrating Louis Althusser's and Michel Foucault's takes on Machiavelli, I forefront the engaged dimension of the play. In fact, I argue that Machiavelli's account of the comic consequences of disorderly appeti…
A Note on the New Cover
The Black Medici in Two Acts
Speculative Whiteness
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