Francesco Di Bernardo
Biographic Data
| ID | 368950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Di Bernardo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Bernardo |
| SIGNATURE | DI BERNARDO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9972-4003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘We want what you have’: Faustian Finance in The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Capital
‘We want what you have’ is the most emblematic sentence in Lanchester’s Capital: it is printed on a postcard left in the houses of Pepys Road and evokes the spectre of house repossessions followed by the 2008 financial crisis. Conversely, in literature the repossession by definition is that of Faust’s soul by Mephistopheles. Ian Watts (2006) tracing the origins of the Faustian myth recounts the historical and fictional roots of the myth and affir…
Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism
Jeremy Gilbert’s new book is an intellectually compelling work which not only provides a detailed and rigorous account of the philosophical, cultural and historical formation of individualism in Western world and its latest developments under the aegis of neoliberal cultural hegemony, but most importantly seeks to envisage viable alternatives to both the hegemonic culture of competitive individualism and to conservative communitarianism
Uribismo and the Wounds of the Colombian Conflict in Santiago Gamboa'sPlegarias nocturnas
Santiago Gamboa's Plegarias nocturnas (Night Prayers) (2012) depicts Álvaro Uribe's years in power and the systematic stigmatisation of dissent perpetuated during his mandate (2002–2010). By offering a reading of the text, this article addresses the novel's cultural representation of Uribismo, the set of beliefs, ideals, and ideological structures at the heart of Uribe's power and rooted in two centuries of entrenched oligarchical power. The arti…
Noviembre
Furukawa Hideo. Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima. Trans. Doug Slaymaker with Akiko Takenaka. New York. Columbia University Press. 2016. 147 pages. Although the cataclysmic destruction visited upon Japan on March 11, 2011, by an earthquake of unprecedented magnitude and its attendant tsunami still loom large in the national consciousness, it is the nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power…
The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
In his 2006 book About Time: Narrative, Fiction, and the Philosophy of Time, Mark Currie proposed a re-conceptualisation of narrative time, asserting the importance of prolepsis and the future tens
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The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
In his 2006 book About Time: Narrative, Fiction, and the Philosophy of Time, Mark Currie proposed a re-conceptualisation of narrative time, asserting the importance of prolepsis and the future tens
Noviembre
Furukawa Hideo. Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima. Trans. Doug Slaymaker with Akiko Takenaka. New York. Columbia University Press. 2016. 147 pages. Although the cataclysmic destruction visited upon Japan on March 11, 2011, by an earthquake of unprecedented magnitude and its attendant tsunami still loom large in the national consciousness, it is the nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power…
‘We want what you have’: Faustian Finance in The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Capital
‘We want what you have’ is the most emblematic sentence in Lanchester’s Capital: it is printed on a postcard left in the houses of Pepys Road and evokes the spectre of house repossessions followed by the 2008 financial crisis. Conversely, in literature the repossession by definition is that of Faust’s soul by Mephistopheles. Ian Watts (2006) tracing the origins of the Faustian myth recounts the historical and fictional roots of the myth and affir…
Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism
Jeremy Gilbert’s new book is an intellectually compelling work which not only provides a detailed and rigorous account of the philosophical, cultural and historical formation of individualism in Western world and its latest developments under the aegis of neoliberal cultural hegemony, but most importantly seeks to envisage viable alternatives to both the hegemonic culture of competitive individualism and to conservative communitarianism
Uribismo and the Wounds of the Colombian Conflict in Santiago Gamboa'sPlegarias nocturnas
Santiago Gamboa's Plegarias nocturnas (Night Prayers) (2012) depicts Álvaro Uribe's years in power and the systematic stigmatisation of dissent perpetuated during his mandate (2002–2010). By offering a reading of the text, this article addresses the novel's cultural representation of Uribismo, the set of beliefs, ideals, and ideological structures at the heart of Uribe's power and rooted in two centuries of entrenched oligarchical power. The arti…
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