Damiano Benvegnù
Biographic Data
| ID | 794637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damiano Benvegnù |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damiano |
| FAMILY NAME | Benvegnù |
| SIGNATURE | BENVEGNÙ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Slaughterhouse (Macello)
The Blood of the Beasts is a well-known 1949 short French documentary film written and directed by Georges Franju. It takes viewers into the brutal reality of Paris's abattoirs and displays scenes of workers butchering horses, cattle, and sheep. It is a striking cinematic experience, in which black-and-white lyricism mixes with real-life horror. A few years ago, I tried to watch The Blood of the Beasts on YouTube, and the channel remarkably asked…
A Thickening of the Network”: Joseph A. Buttigieg and “Gramsci's Method”
Characterizing the Anthropocene. Ecological degradation in Italian twenty-first century literary writing
Characterizing the Anthropocene. Ecological degradation in Italian twenty-first century literary writing." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 24(3), pp. 549–550
Deadly Mirrors: Animal Death in Tommaso Landolfi and Stefano D'Arrigo
From Hegel to Heidegger and Agamben, modern Western philosophy has been haunted by how to think the connections between death, humanness and animality. This article explores how these connections have been represented by Italian writers Tommaso Landolfi (1908-79) and Stefano D'Arrigo (1919-92). Specifically, it investigates how the death of a nonhuman animal is portrayed in two works: 'Mani', a short story by Landolfi collected in his first book …
Only for Them: A Manifesto for Animality Through Philosophy and Politics
Language and reality in Gian Mario Villalta’s neodialect poetry
This article investigates the relationship between the Italian questione della lingua and Gian Mario Villalta’s neodialect poetry. It emphasizes how Villalta’s poetic dialect engages the conflicting linguistic experiences of the poetic subject as well as the socio-historical transformations that have occurred in the reality of his community. This analysis demonstrates how Villalta’s neodialect poetry constructs an original form of dialogical real…
Toward a Minor Michelstaedter
Carlo Michelstaedter (1987–1910) is mostly known for his tragic suicide and for his undefended tesi di laurea, titled La persuasione e la rettorica. He has thus been commonly regarded as a marginal, peripheral thinker, and his work has been often placed on the outskirts of the Italian philosophical and literary canon. In this article I focus precisely on Michelstaedter as a minor author, and on his work as an example of minor writing, but in ligh…
Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species
Book Review| April 01 2015 Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. Edited by Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 320 pp. Paperback. $17.38. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8055-9.). Damiano Benvegnù Damiano Benvegnù Search for other works by this author on: This Site Go…
Images of Narcissus: Figuring Identity in José Lezama Lima and Pier Paolo Pasolini
The figure of Narcissus has always exerted an uncanny power of attraction. The story of the beautiful boy, who falls in love with his own reflected imago and then dies in the moment of recognition, seems in fact to concern every subject in his own process of identification. Many writers have thus reused Narcissus as a metaphor for the artistic subject, where the mirror image and the death of the boy display the intrinsic tragic duplicity of every…
Uno sguardo dalla periferia: Appunti per una storia novecentesca della poesia in dialetto nel Triveneto
The so-called Triveneto is--for economical, anthropological, sociolinguistic, and literary reasons--a particular case within the Italian survey. In the twentieth century alone this macroregion has seen a unique and uneven development that has changed sometimes destroyed its previous anthropological and linguistic (i.e. dialect) continuity. This paper explores the consequences and relationships between this particular "sviluppo disuguale" and the …
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Uno sguardo dalla periferia: Appunti per una storia novecentesca della poesia in dialetto nel Triveneto
The so-called Triveneto is--for economical, anthropological, sociolinguistic, and literary reasons--a particular case within the Italian survey. In the twentieth century alone this macroregion has seen a unique and uneven development that has changed sometimes destroyed its previous anthropological and linguistic (i.e. dialect) continuity. This paper explores the consequences and relationships between this particular "sviluppo disuguale" and the …
Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species
Book Review| April 01 2015 Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. Edited by Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 320 pp. Paperback. $17.38. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8055-9.). Damiano Benvegnù Damiano Benvegnù Search for other works by this author on: This Site Go…
Images of Narcissus: Figuring Identity in José Lezama Lima and Pier Paolo Pasolini
The figure of Narcissus has always exerted an uncanny power of attraction. The story of the beautiful boy, who falls in love with his own reflected imago and then dies in the moment of recognition, seems in fact to concern every subject in his own process of identification. Many writers have thus reused Narcissus as a metaphor for the artistic subject, where the mirror image and the death of the boy display the intrinsic tragic duplicity of every…
Toward a Minor Michelstaedter
Carlo Michelstaedter (1987–1910) is mostly known for his tragic suicide and for his undefended tesi di laurea, titled La persuasione e la rettorica. He has thus been commonly regarded as a marginal, peripheral thinker, and his work has been often placed on the outskirts of the Italian philosophical and literary canon. In this article I focus precisely on Michelstaedter as a minor author, and on his work as an example of minor writing, but in ligh…
Only for Them: A Manifesto for Animality Through Philosophy and Politics
Language and reality in Gian Mario Villalta’s neodialect poetry
This article investigates the relationship between the Italian questione della lingua and Gian Mario Villalta’s neodialect poetry. It emphasizes how Villalta’s poetic dialect engages the conflicting linguistic experiences of the poetic subject as well as the socio-historical transformations that have occurred in the reality of his community. This analysis demonstrates how Villalta’s neodialect poetry constructs an original form of dialogical real…
Characterizing the Anthropocene. Ecological degradation in Italian twenty-first century literary writing
Characterizing the Anthropocene. Ecological degradation in Italian twenty-first century literary writing." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 24(3), pp. 549–550
Deadly Mirrors: Animal Death in Tommaso Landolfi and Stefano D'Arrigo
From Hegel to Heidegger and Agamben, modern Western philosophy has been haunted by how to think the connections between death, humanness and animality. This article explores how these connections have been represented by Italian writers Tommaso Landolfi (1908-79) and Stefano D'Arrigo (1919-92). Specifically, it investigates how the death of a nonhuman animal is portrayed in two works: 'Mani', a short story by Landolfi collected in his first book …
A Thickening of the Network”: Joseph A. Buttigieg and “Gramsci's Method”
Slaughterhouse (Macello)
The Blood of the Beasts is a well-known 1949 short French documentary film written and directed by Georges Franju. It takes viewers into the brutal reality of Paris's abattoirs and displays scenes of workers butchering horses, cattle, and sheep. It is a striking cinematic experience, in which black-and-white lyricism mixes with real-life horror. A few years ago, I tried to watch The Blood of the Beasts on YouTube, and the channel remarkably asked…
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