BIS REPETITA PLACENT! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

La gran empresa británica, James Valentine, productora y editora de imágenes, atesoró un inmenso fondo a lo largo de sus casi ciento cincuenta años de vida (1855-1995), entre las que destacan por su especial belleza algunas fotografías de las ciudades de Málaga y Granada.

In July 1944, the Red Army was advancing through Eastern Poland when they discovered the first traces of the camps. On reaching Lublin they found an enormous compound behind barbed wire in the city’s suburb of Majdanek. Embedded with the Soviet army were film crews, who made the first images of a Nazi camp, among them the “flight survivors” Olga a…[Read more]

Two fifths of Britain’s leading people were educated privately: that’s five times the amount as in the population as a whole, with almost a quarter graduating from Oxford or Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than the remaining 2894 state schools combined, making modern Britain one of the most unequal places in Eur…[Read more]

This book aims to uncover and assess changes in the EU’s foreign policy towards Ukraine in the times of wide-scale social protests in Kyiv. To accomplish this task, this book enlists and analyses documents, agreements, and treaties which establish the frameworks for EU-Ukraine cooperation. It also identifies the interests of lobbying groups in…[Read more]

CORVIDS * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

CORVIDS * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Marco Heiles, Unterseeboot, in: Peter Glasner, Sebastian Winkelsträter und Birgit Zacke (Hg.), Abecedarium. Erzählte Dinge im Mittelalter, Berlin 2019, S. 244–254.

This article examines the link posited by Virilio and others between the camera shot and gun shot, arguing that this link operates differently in the context of Soviet vs. Western fantasies of agency, community and technology. Comparing THE LOST PATROL (USA 1934, John Ford) with TRINADTSAT (THIRTEEN, UdSSR 1936, Mikhail Romm), it asks what kind of…[Read more]

QRt is the new pop ARt! – by PRURITUS MIGRANS – CC-BY-NC-ND

Nino Migliori, bolognese classe 1923, è una delle figure fondamentali del panorama fotografico italiano – e non solo – che sin dai primi anni di attività ha saputo dare un contributo profondamente originale a quel dibattito estetico che andava delineandosi negli anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso, bilicato, com’era, tra il formalismo di eredità cr…[Read more]

From the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the caliphal status and the legitimacy of the Ottoman sultans were constantly and increasingly challenged. One of the most effective and powerful tools that they utilized in order to strengthen their diminishing image in the eyes of their subjects was the re-appropriation of sacred places, either by…[Read more]

Mai come in questo periodo così difficile torna attuale il tema del rapporto tra l’uomo e la Natura. Una relazione dinamica e complessa che ha visto nella progressiva emancipazione tecnica dell’essere umano, la necessità dell’altra di essere salvaguardata, conservata e protetta, in un’inesorabile inversione dei ruoli che ha visto l’uomo da…[Read more]

Mai come in questo periodo così difficile torna attuale il tema del rapporto tra l’uomo e la Natura. Una relazione dinamica e complessa che ha visto nella progressiva emancipazione tecnica dell’essere umano, la necessità dell’altra di essere salvaguardata, conservata e protetta, in un’inesorabile inversione dei ruoli che ha visto l’uomo da…[Read more]

The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural (“assembly”), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the…[Read more]

Never more than at the present time, so fraught with difficulty, has the question of mans’s relationship with nature been so topical. A complex, dynamic relationship in which the progressive technical emancipation of man has accompanied a growing need for nature to be safeguarded, preserved and protected – the result of an inexorable inversion of…[Read more]

Never more than at the present time, so fraught with difficulty, has the question of mans’s relationship with nature been so topical. A complex, dynamic relationship in which the progressive technical emancipation of man has accompanied a growing need for nature to be safeguarded, preserved and protected – the result of an inexorable inversion of…[Read more]

Enjoy Caustic Humour! * Caustic Humour by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC-BY-NC-SA

Enjoy Caustic Humour! * Caustic Humour by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC-BY-NC-SA