Time without Becoming is the text of a lecture Quentin Meillassoux gave at the Middlesex University in May 2008. He makes a summary of the […]
A History of the Iconoclastic Controversy
This book reports the most famous dispute between the Church and the State over the presence of paintings, mosaics, and statues in churches, in the […]
Yaghnobi Studies I. Papers from the Italian Missions in Tajikistan
The new publication series, opened by the present volume, has the ambition to fill a gap in the research landscape in the field of Asian […]
The Oriental Cults in Roman Britain
What are the reasons behind the contamination of oriental cults in Roman Britain? What circumstances led to this spiritual upheaval, the results of which contributed […]
Cinema and Art as Archive
As Jacques Derrida wrote in 1995, while considering Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear today than the word “archive”. Nevertheless, the historic-cultural dimension of the contemporary discursive practices in cinema and art develops in the semantic openendedness of the term, in the repositioning of the idea of archive.
Paolo Gioli: The Man Without A Movie Camera
In a historical moment when cinema is definitively abandoning analogue production and reception modalities, the cinematographic work of Paolo Gioli occupies an important and meaningful […]
Crime and Custom in Savage Society
This book is one of the most important works of modern anthropology. Starting from his studies of the Melanesian society on the Trobriand Islands of […]
The Archives. Post-cinema and Video Game Between Memory and the Image of the Present
The digital age has witnessed the development of a new kind of archive: immaterial, “living and moving,” largely user-generated, and conceived for managing a wide variety of audio-visual materials, besides traditional films and videos.
The history of Abyssinia
This book presents a scrupulous and clear account of the history of Abyssinia: from the earliest records of it to the events of 1935. The book describes the country, the people, but also the legendary origin of the kingdom.