Sumários
M. Călinescu / Futurism
23 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi
End of discussion of Calinescu's text. Introduction to futurism: history of the movement, its progressive opening to the visual arts, the futurist serata, Russolo's futurist music, presentation of the founding Manifesto of Futurism by Marinetti and its core elements.
M. Călinescu and the avant-gardes
21 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi
Introduction and discussion of Calinescu's text on the idea of the avant-garde: modernity and the avant-garde; the history of a military metaphor: its use in political discourse (utopian socialism) and then its critical reassessment in the field of aesthetics (e.g., Baudelaire's mistrust); the primacy of the aesthetic connotation of the avant-garde in early 20th-century discourse and the subordination of the political impact of the trope. The main features of avant-garde culture: revolutionary ethos, negative element, temporality and vision of history, leadership, vision of tradition as oppressive, anti-conformism, its internal contradictions and the crisis of the avant-garde (1960s, postmodernism).
Proust - Un amour de Swann
16 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi
Love as pathology: Théodule Ribot and experimental psychology; illness as experiment and its importance for the studies of human faculties such as memory, will, and creativity. Closing remarks on the final pages of the book: the last audition of the sonata and Swann's disillusionment.
Proust - Un amour de Swann
14 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi
The instability of judgment in the field of art, human relationships, and one's social standing. Swann's fall from grace with the Verdurins and the antagonism with Forcheville. A pathological depiction of love (use of metaphors and comparisons that convey a vision of love as illness): its problematic implications and possible explanations.
Proust - Un amour de Swann
9 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi
Intoxication as a consequence of the misuse of art and the further developments of the topic of idolatry. Jealousy as a form of slavery. The ungraspable image of Odette and the impossibility of love (i.e., controlling the lover at any time and in any point in space), its inevitable failure.