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		<title>Buenos Aires, Argentina</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residenza artistica a Buenos Aires (AR) dal 15 maggio all&#8217;11 giugno. Al lavoro sul prossimo libro. QUI maggiori informazioni. Un grazie a Fundación Tres Pinos, LAENE Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo e Canicola. Nos vemos en la Capital!]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Residenza artistica a Buenos Aires (AR) <strong>dal 15 maggio all&#8217;11 giugno</strong>. Al lavoro sul prossimo libro. <a href="http://www.paoloparisi.org/oesterheld/" target="_blank"><strong>QUI</strong></a> maggiori informazioni.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Un grazie a <a href="http://www.fundaciontrespinos.org/" target="_blank"><strong>Fundación Tres Pinos</strong></a>, <a href="http://www.laene.org/" target="_blank"><strong>LAENE Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo</strong></a> e <a href="http://www.canicola.net/" target="_blank"><strong>Canicola</strong></a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Nos vemos en la Capital!</em></p>
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		<title>Flashes of Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Don Pettit In space I see things that are not there. Flashes in my eyes, like luminous dancing fairies, give a subtle display of light that is easy to overlook when I’m consumed by normal tasks. But in the dark confines of my sleep station, with the droopy eyelids of pending sleep, I see [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/letters/posts/post_1334853361737.html" target="_blank"><em>by Don Pettit</em></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In space I see things that are not there. Flashes in my eyes, like luminous dancing fairies, give a subtle display of light that is easy to overlook when I’m consumed by normal tasks. But in the dark confines of my sleep station, with the droopy eyelids of pending sleep, I see the flashing fairies. As I drift off, I wonder how many can dance on the head of an orbital pin.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The retina is an amazing structure. It’s more impressive than film or a CCD camera chip, and it reacts to more than just light. It also reacts to cosmic rays, which are plentiful in space.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Cosmic rays are fragments of atoms—some the pieces of faraway exploded stars, some leftover debris from when the universe formed. These atomic fragments move at high speeds, and like X-rays, penetrate deep into material where they are eventually absorbed. Fortunately, our atmosphere absorbs most of them, so they do not pose significant problems for Earth dwellers (except for the many unfortunate effects to our bodies that we have collectively named “the aging process”).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Space is different. Free from the protection offered by the atmosphere, cosmic rays bombard us within Space Station, penetrating the hull almost as if it was not there. They zap everything inside, causing such mischief as locking up our laptop computers and knocking pixels out of whack in our cameras. The computers recover with a reboot; the cameras suffer permanent damage. After about a year, the images they produce look like they are covered with electronic snow. Cosmic rays contribute most of the radiation dose received by Space Station crews. We have defined lifetime limits, after which you fly a desk for the rest of your career. No one has reached that dose level yet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When a cosmic ray happens to pass through the retina it causes the rods and cones to fire, and you perceive a flash of light that is really not there. The triggered cells are localized around the spot where the cosmic ray passes, so the flash has some structure. A perpendicular ray appears as a fuzzy dot. A ray at an angle appears as a segmented line. Sometimes the tracks have side branches, giving the impression of an electric spark. The retina functions as a miniature Wilson cloud chamber where the recording of a cosmic ray is displayed by a trail left in its wake.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The rate or frequency at which these flashes are seen varies with orbital position. There is a radiation hot spot in orbit, a place where the flux of cosmic rays is 10 to 100 times greater than the rest of the orbital path. Situated southeast of Argentina, this region (called the South Atlantic Anomaly) extends about halfway across the Atlantic Ocean. As we pass through this region, eye flashes will increase from one or two every 10 minutes to several per minute.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Our brain interprets its sensory input and creates a map of reality. Philosophers have for centuries contemplated this question. As Plato wrote, we see only the shadows of a larger and richer reality. On Space Station, I drift off to sleep, thinking of the nature of the “real” universe while observing my personal reality of dancing fairies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Don&#8217;s blog also appears at <a href="http://blogs.airspacemag.com/pettit/" target="_blank">airspacemag.com</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>Seduction of The Innocent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 11:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report by Paul Coates. Produced by Jim Peck. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Aired October 9, 1955. A KTTV Production, Los Angeles, for Times-Mirror. In 1954 the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency conducted an investigation into how the comic book industry was supposedly contributing to the moral decay of a nation&#8217;s youth. The investigations were [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">A report by Paul Coates. Produced by Jim Peck. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Aired October 9, 1955. A KTTV Production, Los Angeles, for Times-Mirror.<br />
In 1954 the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency conducted an investigation into how the comic book industry was supposedly contributing to the moral decay of a nation&#8217;s youth. The investigations were spurred on by a number of articles that blamed comics for the rise in juvenile delinquency in post-war America. Chief among the critics was Doctor Frederic Wertham, whose book, &#8220;Seduction of The Innocent&#8221; has been blamed for nearly single-handedly crippling the entire comics industry.</p>
<p>In 1955, the comic book publishers formed the self-regulating organization, The Comics Code Authority, which great impacted on how comic books were perceived by the public and what kind of stories were told in the comics for decades. The effects of the virtual witch-hunt from this period in American history still has effect on the comic book industry to this day.</p>
<p>&#8220;Confidential File&#8221; was aired in 1955, after the senate hearings and the formation of the Comics Code, but it serves as a perfect example of how the media reacted to the comic book industry, and sought a scape goat by blaming the comic book publications for society&#8217;s own lack of responsibility in raising its children. A blame game that would later manifest itself when later TV cartoons, rock and roll music, Dungeons &amp; Dragons, videogames, and so on would become the new whipping boy for those that didn&#8217;t want to look to themselves for the state of their own children and society&#8217;s sad state.</p>
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		<title>Back to SOUL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BACK TO SOUL &#8211; una personale di Paolo Parisi  OPENING 28 Aprile h 19 /// dal 28 Aprile al 20 Maggio 2012  c/o Spazio Meme, via G. Bruno 4, Carpi (MO) spaziomeme.org La mostra racchiude una cinquantina di ritratti, eseguiti a pennarello secco, delle grandi Signore della storia della musica blues e jazz. Una galleria [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>BACK TO SOUL &#8211; una personale di Paolo Parisi  </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>OPENING 28 Aprile h 19 /// dal 28 Aprile al 20 Maggio 2012  </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>c/o Spazio Meme, via G. Bruno 4, Carpi (MO) <a href="http://www.spaziomeme.org/" target="_blank">spaziomeme.org</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">La mostra racchiude una cinquantina di ritratti, eseguiti a pennarello secco, delle grandi Signore della storia della musica blues e jazz.<br />
Una galleria cronologica che va dalle icone sacre come Billie Holiday e Nina Simone fino alle voci meno note della storia del blues femminile, attraversando decadi e generi diversi dal blues del delta, al gospel, fino al soul degli anni sessanta e alle contaminazioni con il jazz passando per lo swing e le big band. Un tributo realizzato da un vero appassionato della materia che prende in considerazione non solo voci leggendarie, ma anche grandi strumentiste e compositrici come Lil Hardin Armstrong e Mary Lou Williams.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Son illustrazioni che in maniera incisiva ed essenziale arrivano al cuore dei soggetti ritratti. Parisi, non divaga su dettagli inutili, ma si concentra sull’essenziale, ogni cosa è funzionale e necessaria, non c’è un di più, regna il perfetto equilibrio della composizione e delle linee.<br />
Son tratti nudi che a volte pur concedendosi qualche ombreggiatura, vogliono riprodurre donne nella loro essenza, senza fronzoli e orpelli.<br />
Lo sguardo dell’artista non ha mediazioni, arriva al nucleo e propone una visione che è ben lontana da un gesto d’ adulazione e da uno sguardo lezioso nei confronti dei suoi soggetti.<br />
In una “piccola” illustrazione riusciamo a cogliere, o per lo meno ci piace pensarlo, tutta la personalità e la storia che si cela dietro a quel corpo-volto anche quando è descritto in maniera molto sintetica.</p>
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È un atto d’amore da parte di Parisi verso queste donne e artiste; cogliendole con sguardo apparentemente severo che non concede nulla, fa riaffiorare la loro l’eleganza, la loro vibrazione, la loro fierezza, la loro energia, il loro soul.<br />
Una serie di “istantanee” al tratto che bloccano le eroine del blues in pose elaborate e mai banali, ritratte nel bel mezzo d’intense performance vocali e strumentali, ma anche in atteggiamenti più rilassati e colloquiali, primi piani su volti dall’intensità magnetica.<br />
L’essenzialità del segno nero fluido e corposo di Paolo non ha però nulla a che vedere con il minimalismo, al contrario, convive tranquillamente con la capacità di descrivere il particolare tanto che, quando posiamo lo sguardo sulle linee apparentemente scarne con cui sono tratteggiati strumenti musicali, scorci di sale d’incisione e di palcoscenici, vestiti ora vistosi, ora castigati, ci viene svelata la vivacità e la complessità di questi personaggi e del mondo a cui appartenevano.<br />
Questa mostra è un altro omaggio dell’artista a quello che più lo appassiona: “Il jazz, la black music e in generale la cultura afroamericana”; già l’aveva dimostrato con il libro “Coltrane” e i lavori realizzati per la Soul Jazz Record.<br />
Il blues così come il jazz sono linguaggi che hanno molto da spartire con il fumetto, erano e sono generi popolari che hanno sviluppato codici espressivi raffinati e complessi; espressioni artistiche nate oltreoceano alla fine dell’Ottocento la cui natura ibrida a metà strada fra arte pura e genere di intrattenimento ne rende spesso difficile la collocazione.<br />
Nei disegni di Paolo Parisi questo legame sembra trovare un’ ulteriore conferma.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Francesca Pergreffi e Filippo Bergonzini</p>
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		<title>The Sounds Of Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the late 1970s, NASA launched two small spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, and sent them through our solar system, past the planets, and then far out into interstellar space. Voyager 1, now the most distant human-made object in the universe, and Voyager 2, close on its heels, continue their ground-breaking journey, studying the [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In the late 1970s, NASA launched two small spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, and sent them through our solar system, past the planets, and then far out into interstellar space.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Voyager 1, now the most distant human-made object in the universe, and Voyager 2, close on its heels, continue their ground-breaking journey, studying the region in space where the Sun&#8217;s influence ends and the dark recesses of interstellar space begin.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The entire Voyager program is considered by many to be the most productive, and certainly the most cost-effective, space program ever.<br />
Outer space is filled with all sorts of electronic waves. The two Voyager spacecraft detect these electronic signals and then, with radio transmitters as powerful as a small lightbulb, transmit the signals back to earth, where they are converted to audible sounds.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, I know: electronic waves and energy are not &#8220;sound.&#8221; These sounds were derived and created from the transmitted signals by converting the electronic waves to audible frequency. The resulting sounds are fascinating and haunting.</p>
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		<title>COMICS AND THE U.S. SOUTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMICS AND THE U.S. SOUTH is an essay collection that offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Edited by Brannon Costello and Qiana Whitted, with contributions from an interdisciplinary group of outstanding scholars, this [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.southerncomics.com/" target="_blank"><strong>COMICS AND THE U.S. SOUTH</strong></a> is an essay collection that offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Edited by <strong><a href="http://uiswcmsweb.prod.lsu.edu/ArtSci/english/English_People/item21425.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">Brannon Costello</span></a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.qianawhitted.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">Qiana Whitted</span></a></strong>, with contributions from an interdisciplinary group of outstanding scholars, this collection contributes to and also productively reorients the most significant and compelling conversations in both comics scholarship and in southern studies. Cover image from Jeremy Love&#8217;s <strong><a title="" href="http://www.amazon.com/Jeremy-Love/e/B0041NJND2/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Bayou</em></span></a></strong><em>. </em></span></p>
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<h2><span style="color: #000000;">TABLE OF CONTENTS</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">I. The South in the National Imagination</span></strong></span></h2>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/M.-Thomas-Inge/e/B001HQ2MXO" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">M. THOMAS INGE</span></a>, </strong>Li’l Abner, Snuffy, and Friends: The Appalachian South in the American Comic Strip</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://dept.harpercollege.edu/english/faculty_cremins.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">BRIAN CREMINS</span></a>, </strong>Bumbazine, Blackness, and the Myth of the Redemptive South in Walt Kelly’s Pogo<strong> </strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://uiswcmsweb.prod.lsu.edu/ArtSci/english/English_People/item21425.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">BRANNON COSTELLO,</span></a> </strong>Southern Super-Patriots and United States Nationalism: Race, Region, and Nation in Captain America</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">CHRISTOPHER WHITBY, “The Southern Thing”: Doug Marlette, Identity Consciousness, and the Commodification of the South</span></li>
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<h2><span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;">II. Emancipation and Civil Rights Resistance</span></h2>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://english.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/francis-conseula.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">CONSEULA FRANCIS,</span></a> Drawing the Unspeakable: Kyle Baker’s Slave Narrative</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">TIM CARON, “Black and White and Read All Over”: Representing Race in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s <em>Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery</em> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://publications.umw.edu/mediaresourceguide/faculty/grichardumw-edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">GARY RICHARDS,</span></a> Everybody’s Graphic Protest Novel: <em>Stuck Rubber Baby</em> and the Anxieties of Racial Difference</span></li>
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<h2><span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;">III. The Horrors of the South</span></h2>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;"><a title="" href="http://www.qianawhitted.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">QIANA J. WHITTED,</span></a> Of Slaves and Other Swamp Things: Black Southern History as Comic Book Horror</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;"><a title="" href="http://www.cmich.edu/chsbs/x30938.xml" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">JOSEPH MICHAEL SOMMERS,</span></a> Crooked Appalachia: The Laughter of the Melungeon Witches in Mike Mignola’s <em>Hellboy: The Crooked Man</em> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://climas.u-bordeaux3.fr/index.php/membres/membres-actuels/5-labarre-nicolas-mcf-civilisation-americaine" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">NICOLAS LABARRE</span></a>, Meat Fiction and Burning Western Light: The South in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s <em>Preacher</em> </span></li>
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<h2><span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;"> IV. Revisualizing Stories, Rereading Images    </span></h2>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.plu.edu/english/faculty-staff/Mandaville.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">ALISON MANDAVILLE,</span></a> A Visitation of Narratives: Dialogue and Comics in Randall Kenan’s <em>A Visitation of Spirits</em></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;">ANTHONY DYER HOEFER, A Re-Vision of the Record: The Demands of Reading Josh Neufeld’s <em>A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge</em></span></li>
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<p>Available at <a href="http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1427" target="_blank"><strong>University Press of Mississippi</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>Desaparecidos, la prima ammissione di Videla</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;ex dittatore rivela per la prima volta che i corpi delle vittime che i loro corpi erano stati fatti scomparire per evitare proteste nel paese e da parte della comunità internazional. (da La Repubblica, 14 aprile 2012) Jorge Rafael Videla ammette per la prima volta che durante la dittatura in Argentina dal 1976 al 1983, [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>L&#8217;ex dittatore rivela per la prima volta che i corpi delle vittime che i loro corpi erano stati fatti scomparire per evitare proteste nel paese e da parte della comunità internazional.</em> (da <a href="http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2012/04/14/news/argentila_videla_ammette_di_aver_ucciso_pi_di_7_000_persone_durante_la_dittatura-33291378/?ref=HREC1-6" target="_blank"><em><strong>La Repubblica</strong></em></a>, 14 aprile 2012)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Jorge Rafael Videla ammette per la prima volta che durante la dittatura in Argentina dal 1976 al 1983, lui fu a capo della giunta fino al 1981, sono stati uccise &#8220;sette-ottomila persone&#8221; e rivela che i loro corpi erano stati fatti scomparire per evitare proteste nel paese e da parte della comunità internazionale.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Non c&#8217;era altra soluzione&#8221;, ha dichiarato Videla, che ha 86 anni, è in un carcere militare, dove sconta una condanna all&#8217;ergastolo, in una lunga intervista (20 ore in tutto) al giornalista Ceferino Reato, che ne ha scritto il libro Disposicion Final. La confesiòn de Videla sobre los desaparecidos, che uscirà oggi nelle librerie del paese. La prima lista di persone da eliminare era stata stilata tre mesi dopo il golpe che portò Videla al potere, rivela inoltre l&#8217;ex militare.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Noi della giunta militare avevano concordato che questo era il prezzo da pagare per vincere la guerra contro la sovversione e che tale decisione doveva rimanere nascosta perchè la società non doveva accorgersene. Dovevamo eliminare un grande gruppo di persone che non potevano nè essere portate in tribunale nè uccise apertamente&#8221;, ha affermato, secondo una anticipazione pubblicata dal quotidiano La Nacion.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nel 2010 l&#8217;ex dittatore argentino è stato condannato all&#8217;ergastolo perché riconosciuto colpevole di aver fatto sequestrare, torturare e fucilare 31 detenuti politici che erano in balia regime in un carcere di Cordoba tra l&#8217;aprile e l&#8217;ottobre del 1976, cioè poco dopo il golpe da lui guidato il 24 marzo dello stesso anno.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Videla ha ammesso per la prima volta la responsabilità della morte di 7-8.000 persone, ma in Argentina oltre 30mila uomini e donne, durante la dittatura militare (1976-1983), furono arrestati e fatti letteralmente sparire nel nulla. Desaparecidos. Si trattava per lo più di giovani e giovanissimi spinti dalla volontà di ribellarsi al regime instaurato dopo la caduta di Peron: studenti che si riunivano per contestare i provvedimenti sempre più restrittivi messi in atto dalla giunta militare guidata dal generale Videla.</p>
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		<title>Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A master storyteller and artist. There is poetry in every panel.&#8221; &#8211; Esquire Oakland Museum of California &#8211; April 14, 2012 &#8211; August 12, 2012 Based in Oakland, Daniel Clowes is internationally acclaimed for award-winning comics, graphic novels, and screenplays. With nearly 50 publications in multiple reprints and editions in ten languages, Clowes is credited [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>&#8220;A master storyteller and artist. There is poetry in every panel.&#8221; &#8211; Esquire</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://museumca.org/" target="_blank"><strong>Oakland Museum of California</strong></a> &#8211; April 14, 2012 &#8211; August 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Based in Oakland, Daniel Clowes is internationally acclaimed for award-winning comics, graphic novels, and screenplays. With nearly 50 publications in multiple reprints and editions in ten languages, Clowes is credited as the cartoonist most responsible for developing the graphic novel into a credible literary form. The film version of <em>Ghost World</em> (2001), directed by Terry Zwigoff, earned Clowes an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://museumca.org/exhibit/daniel-clowes-a-first-survey" target="_blank"><em><strong>Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes</strong></em></a> reveals original drawings and artifacts in an inspired installation environment. The exhibition, which is the first major survey of the work of Daniel Clowes, is accompanied by an extensive full-color monograph.  <em>Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes</em> is organized by guest curator Susan Miller and Senior Curator of Art René de Guzman, with exhibition design by Nicholas de Monchaux.  This exhibition is made possible in part through the generous support of the Oakland Museum Women&#8217;s Board, the OMCA Art Guild, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Meridee Moore and Kevin King, and Brooke Devine.</p>
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		<title>The Wire 337</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE WIRE 337 /// March 2012 Review by Rob Young Jazz is often left to the grey hand of collegiate musicologists to write its histories and biographies, that in theory the graphic &#8216;novel&#8217;, with its aptitude for portraying subjectivity and psychodrama, and its provisational, extemporised aesthetics, ought to be well suited to telling the life [...]]]></description>
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<p><span id="more-3019"></span><strong><em><a href="http://thewire.co.uk/" target="_blank">THE WIRE</a> 337 /// March 2012</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Review by <strong><a href="http://www.electriceden.net/" target="_blank">Rob Young</a></strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Jazz is often left to the grey hand of collegiate musicologists to write its histories and biographies, that in theory the graphic &#8216;novel&#8217;, with its aptitude for portraying subjectivity and psychodrama, and its provisational, extemporised aesthetics, ought to be well suited to telling the life of a figure such as John Coltrane. Paolo Parisi&#8217;s loose draughtsmanship feels improvisational enough to carry the weight, and his narrative jumps across time to flutter past brief vignettes from the short span of Coltrane&#8217;s life, from recording sessions at Rudy Van Gelder&#8217;s Hackensack studios to the momentous conquest of Mount <em>Ascension</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Parisi captures Coltrane&#8217;s serious &#8211; mindedness well &#8211; &#8220;Are you the one that never smiles?&#8221; asks his first wife Naïma, meeting him in a club in 1955. He draws the young boy John as a vulnerable soul sheltering from the world by hunching over his sax, an image that recurs as the adult Coltrane surrounds himself in a protective canopy of musical notes on stage. Via quotes from the last interview he gave (to jazz critic Frank Kofsky in 1966), Coltrane&#8217;s interest in the mystic vibration of sound forms a perpetual motif, although the cosmic reverberations of what he was aiming at remain relatively unexplored. Similarly, there&#8217;s barely any examination of Coltrane&#8217;s personal relationships with the musicians of his core developmental period &#8211; ie the McCoy Tyner/Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison outfit &#8211; and no mention at all of Jones&#8217;s replacement by Rashied Ali in 1966, because Jones didn&#8217;t want to play as free as the leader was demanding. Instead there&#8217;s emphasis placed on the saxophonist&#8217;s relationship with the Black Power movement and his support of ailing fellow musicians Eric Dolphy. Parisi doesn&#8217;t shrink from the violent and narcotic contexts that surrounded the 1950s jazz economy, and he touchingly handles Coltrane&#8217;s romance with Alice McLeod, the pianist who shyly approached him backstage at Birdland in 1963 and later renewed the acquaintance, becoming his wife and eventual keeper of his spiritual flame, as well as an incredible musician in her own right.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Above all, the book didn&#8217;t need to be so clever in its liberties with chronology. Of all people, Coltrane&#8217;s development followed a steady, yet relentlessly progressive curve, and Parisi&#8217;s cut-up, time-shuffling approach works against the subject matter. But this short book feels like an affectionate tribute, despite the caveats.</p>
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		<title>Come fare a pezzi un inganno che non venga ricostruito dopo due giorni</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tratto da &#8221;Come costruire un universo che non cada a pezzi dopo due giorni&#8221; (1978) di Philip K. Dick, 16/12/1928 &#8211; 2/3/1982. Tradotto e pubblicato da Alessandra Daniele. Da CARMILLA ON LINE &#8221;Scrivendo romanzi e racconti che si ponevano la domanda &#8220;Che cos&#8217;è la realtà?&#8221;, ho sempre sperato che un giorno avrei trovato una risposta. [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Tratto da &#8221;Come costruire un universo che non cada a pezzi dopo due giorni&#8221; (1978) di <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" target="_blank">Philip K. Dick</a></strong>, 16/12/1928 &#8211; 2/3/1982. Tradotto e pubblicato da Alessandra Daniele. Da <strong><a href="http://www.carmillaonline.com/archives/2012/03/004217.html#004217" target="_blank">CARMILLA ON LINE</a></strong></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8221;Scrivendo romanzi e racconti che si ponevano la domanda &#8220;Che cos&#8217;è la realtà?&#8221;, ho sempre sperato che un giorno avrei trovato una risposta. È la speranza anche della maggior parte dei miei lettori.&#8221;<br />
&#8221;Il problema è concreto, non è solo una sfida intellettuale. Perché oggi viviamo in una società nella quale i media, i governi, le grandi corporation, i gruppi religiosi e politici producono continuamente realtà fasulle, ed esiste l&#8217;hardware adatto a instillare questi pseudomondi nella mente di lettori, spettatori, e ascoltatori.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8221;Lo strumento principale per la manipolazione della realtà è la manipolazione delle parole. Se siete in grado di controllare il significato delle parole, sarete in grado di controllare le persone che devono utilizzarle. George Orwell l&#8217;ha evidenziato nel suo romanzo <em>1984</em>. Un altro modo di controllare le menti delle persone però è quello di controllare le loro percezioni. Se riuscite a fargli vedere il mondo nel modo in cui lo vedete voi, allora la penseranno come voi.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8221;Vogliamo parlare dei serial polizieschi? Le automobili escono sempre di strada, vanno a sbattere, e prendono fuoco. La polizia è sempre buona e vince sempre. Tenete presente questo punto: la polizia vince sempre. Che lezione edificante. Non bisogna mai combattere l&#8217;autorità, e semmai lo si fa, s&#8217;è destinati alla sconfitta. Il messaggio implicito è: siate passivi. E&#8230; collaborate. Se l&#8217;agente Baretta viene a chiedervi informazioni, dategliele, <em>perché l&#8217;agente Baretta è una brava persona di cui ci si deve fidare. Lui vi vuole bene, e voi dovreste ricambiarlo.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Così, nei miei testi, continuo a chiedere: &#8220;Cos&#8217;è reale?&#8221; Perché siamo costantemente bombardati da pseudorealtà prodotte da gente estremamente sofisticata, che adopera meccanismi altrettanto sofisticati. Non diffido tanto dei loro moventi, quanto del loro potere. Ne hanno moltissimo. Ed è un potere straordinario, quello di creare interi universi, universi della mente. Avrei dovuto immaginarlo. Io faccio la stessa cosa. È il mio lavoro creare universi in cui ambientare un romanzo dopo l&#8217;altro. E devo costruirli in modo che non cadano a pezzi dopo due giorni. O almeno questa è la speranza dei miei editori. Voglio svelarvi un segreto però: a me piace costruire universi che cadano a pezzi. Mi piace vederne lo scollamento, mi piace vedere come i personaggi nei romanzi affrontano il problema. Ho una segreta passione per il caos. Dovrebbe essercene di più.&#8221;</p>
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