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In the lesson held during the Corso Superiore di Disegno, Roberto Sanesi addresses the ambiguous relationship between sign and voice. If the code-sign - whether it be the stable one of writing or the freer one of the visual arts - marks its support in an immutable way, the voice that emerges is as multiple and different as the individualities to which that voice belongs: the readers of a book, the public of a painting. The whole body of literature, poetry, and art are entangled in the gap between the collective and the individual, between the outlined and the intangible. Starting from his experience as a translator of the great Anglo-Saxon literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, alternating personal reflections with the reading of his own works, Sanesi sketches the contours of this ephemeral body, cornered by the question: what do you translate when you translate? 21.01.1989, Archive Fondazione Antonio Ratti
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"But I wish this era was over" comments Miriam Mafai, invited by Mario Fortunato at the Ratti Lectures, to discuss the issue of control over women's bodies. Starting from the assumption that the principle of habeas corpus "historically applies to everyone except women", Mafai traces a path that goes from the consideration of the female body in revealed religions, and rapes considered as spoils of war to the very ancient practice to establish a legal affiliation for women, whether to their father, husband, brother or even a "curator of the womb". All forms of control, according to anthropologists, can be traced not only to the woman's body itself, but also, and above all, to her reproductive capacity. Mafai therefore critically analyzes the achievements of the twentieth century and the result of a fertile encounter between radical movements and feminist struggles: from the possibility of access to the judiciary, the birth control pill, and the law on abortion. The conclusion, however, can only be bitter: far from being resolved, the question of control over women's bodies is reflected in the issue of the Eluana Englaro case, which was a recent event at the time, involving every phase of the life cycle, including its end. 06.03.2009, Archive Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Language: Italian
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