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Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) was an American author, philosopher, and futurist known for his works on consciousness, psychology, and the nature of reality. He is best recognized for his contributions to the counterculture movement and his exploration of alternative belief systems, particularly through his influential series, the "Illuminatus! Trilogy."
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Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) was an American author, philosopher, and futurist known for his works on consciousness, psychology, and the nature of reality. He is best recognized for his contributions to the counterculture movement and his exploration of alternative belief systems, particularly through his influential series, the "Illuminatus! Trilogy."
II-The usurer, the death of hospitality and the guises of usury: a representation of usury in The Three Ladies of London.
Ebrei … in dialogo. È noto che, soprattutto nel mondo medievale, prevalse la tendenza verso una diffusa ostilità nei confronti del mondo ebraico, in un'atmosfera di sospetto o di disprezzo: il giudeo era ritenuto 'infedele'; l'ebreo è il... more
l'evento del mese the event of the month mai di discutere se re Lear, stanco e vecchio, faccia bene o faccia male a delegare il proprio potere alle figlie e a dividere fra di loro il regno, con le disastrose conseguenze che ne derivano.... more
l'evento del mese the event of the month mai di discutere se re Lear, stanco e vecchio, faccia bene o faccia male a delegare il proprio potere alle figlie e a dividere fra di loro il regno, con le disastrose conseguenze che ne derivano.... more
This study seeks to contribute theoretically and practically to the field of arts management. Specifically, it explores issues in opera management. In particular, it examines an identified understanding of the opera canon as one of the... more
This short essay, starting from the mimetic theory of the French anthropologist René Girard, gives an interpretation of The Merchant of Venice. The story of to the contract signed between the Jew Shylock and the merchant Antonio takes... more
Margarethe Wallmann's staging of Puccini's Tosca at the Vienna State Opera premiered on April 3, 1958, with set and costume design by Nicola Benois, starring the famous soprano Renata Tebaldi in the title role. Since then, it has been... more
The idea for a special issue of Theatre and Performance Design, 'On Models', arose from our previous scholarly work on models in theatre and architecture and our practice backgrounds in both disciplines, and we would like to thank the... more
Taking Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Circular Ruins” as a starting point, the current article assesses the presence of gnostic ideas in the work of the Argentinian author. After pondering the context and sources for Borges’s... more
Taking Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Circular Ruins" as a starting point, the current article assesses the presence of gnostic ideas in the work of the Argentinian author. After pondering the context and sources for Borges's... more
The chapter examines the sociological content of The Merchant of Venice. It particularly focuses on the behavior of three characters: Antonio, the merchant (to whom the work is dedicated, although he is not the main character), the... more
The thesis is an exploration of the realm of the inner space by transcending the beta state * (normal waking consciousness) and reaching out to the subtler states of being, exploring their nature. The inner space is the mind itself, which... more
The following essay explores the issues of idealism, ontology, and the fantastical in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Borges' fascination with philosophical idealism began when he was introduced to philosophy as a child by his father, the... more
T he story "El Aleph" is fundamentally spatial in its concerns, and offers a range of insights into not only the nature of human spatiality itself but also the ways in which space and literary expression relate to each other. Despite... more
Besides "classical" (and legitimate) readings, Kafka's text seems to be open to a nonconventional interpretation able to point out the intrinsically "existential" trait of the text. The point of view is given by man's finite structure.... more
Esta conferência é um longo comentário ao Canon Episcopi, de Regino de Prüm. Defende-se que só existe uma forma de religião em todos os povos da terra. Esta tese é rara e está contra todas as ideias habituais sobre a diversidade religiosa... more
The importance of "Borges and the Cabbala" has been well recog-nized by several critics. The two major works in this field are by Saúl Sosnowski (1976) and by Jaime Alazraki (1972). The former sees Borges's interest in the... more
Speech given at the FECRIS conference in Bordeaux, France, in September 2021 What does a famous social psychologist have to do with Playboy magazine, conspiracies and cults? Apparently nothing, but there is an idea in popular culture... more
Bodies and ideas, words and images, define our experience of history. As the stock-in-trade of scientists and poets, philosophers and artists, kings and peasants, messiahs and slaves, anarchists and imperialists, astronauts and... more
Una proposta di traduzione In Avventure dell'Interpretazione (Edizioni ETS, 2015) Alessandro Serpieri dedica un capitolo alla libertà e ai vincoli nella traduzione di un testo drammatico. Riprendendo la
Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, and Terence McKenna are three of the most influential figures of the late-twentieth century psychedelic counterculture. Their liberal use of terminology derived from magic, alchemy, occultism, and other... more
Contemporary operatic scenography has been undergoing broad aesthetic, theatrical and technological transformations. My dissertation analyzes the work of three key designer-directors-Robert Wilson, Achim Freyer, and Karl-Ernst Herrmann-in... more
– The chapter examines the sociological content of The Merchant of Venice . It particularly focuses on the behavior of three characters: Antonio, the merchant (to whom the work is dedicated, although he is not the main character), the... more
The scenic fortune of The Merchant of Venice marks a turning point in 1741 thanks to the interpretation of the character of Shylock by the actor Charles Macklin, consecrated by Alexander as ‘the Jew that Shakespeare drew’. A recognition... more
The psychedelic dimension of religious experience occupies a marginal position in the scholarship of American culture. For the last seven decades, scholars have viewed the psychedelicist church movement as, variously, an excuse for taking... more
In this paper I will argue that Argentinian short story novelist Jorge Luis Borges best exemplifies some issues covered in the structuralist and post-structuralist narratology of Gérard Genette and Roland Barthes, namely nestling... more
Il desiderio di vendetta, la voglia rappresentata e pienamente espressa di distruggere un avversario fonte di tante umiliazioni. È questo il motivo di fondo della bella e ombrosa commedia di Shakespeare Il Mercante di Venezia; un testo... more
The following essay explores the issues of idealism, ontology, and the fantastical in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Borges' fascination with philosophical idealism began when he was introduced to philosophy as a child by his father, the... more
The irrefutable primacy that desire and curiosity attain in the pursuit of knowledge often manifests itself in the Icarian endeavour towards exhausting all possible avenues of knowledge attainment. This utopian wish to reach a stage where... more
È difficile dire quale sia la realtà e quale la finzione nel Mercante di Venezia, chi sia il mercante e chi l’ebreo. La storia di Shylock si snoda dalla pagina scritta, dalla scena, per arrivare al mito. Scivola nel tempo, da Venezia e... more
Circuits I + II 2 Matric – Patric expression 3 The 4 temperaments of Hippocrates I 4 The 4 temperaments of Hippocrates II 6 The reptilian and amphibian brain 8 Circuits III + IV... more
In the literary classification, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice should be formally considered a comedy, but it could be barely considered such a kind of work. In fact, at the center of the scene, there is the tragedy of Shylock, the... more
Robert Wilson's The Three Ladies of London offered its first audiences entertaining stereotypes of 'naturally' vicious southerners who corrupt the vulnerable English with lechery, greed, papistry, and love of foreign luxuries. The only... more
The psychedelic dimension of religious experience occupies a marginal position in the scholarship of American culture. For the last seven decades, scholars have viewed the psychedelicist church movement as, variously, an excuse for taking... more
In-class handout for a course I'm co-teaching at Swarthmore College in spring 2020 with my colleague Prof. Luciano Martínez. The course is entitled "The Short Story en las Américas." It's cross-listed as an English and Spanish and... more
"Il mercante di Venezia? Una cri-tica della società, che si cela nei dettagli, nella complessità dei personaggi, ma soprattutto nelle ambiguità linguistiche che il testo lascia al lettore". Così spiegava Dario Calimani, anglista e... more
In the opening to Howl (1956), Allen Ginsberg glorified "angelheaded hipsters" as the paragons of authentic religious seeking. Published a year later, Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) placed this archetype for "hip" spirituality center... more
Folien zu Menschentypen und Wilson´s Schaltkreisen Schaltkreise I + II 2 Matrisch – Patrische Ausprägung 3 Die 4 Temperamente des Hippokrates I 4 Die 4 Temperamente des Hippokrates... more
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The term "zine" is an abbreviation for "fanzine", a self-published, non-commercial periodical customarily distributed at cost through the mail. The North American culture of fanzine publishing originated in the 1930s, and reached an apex... more
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Translation is one of the fundamental resources and conditions for religious propagation. As it relates so closely to the spread of Buddhist teachings, we may see translation as a specific manifestation of the Bodhisattva Way. Thus, we... more
Notes on Matt Cardin, “In Search of Higher Intelligence: The Daemonic Muse(s) of Crowley, Leary, & Robert Anton Wilson,” in Angela Voss & William Rowlandson (eds.), Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence, Cambridge Scholars,... more
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