Correction: Policy Recommendations for Higher Education Institutions to Begin Advancing from Digital Transformation to Bifurcation

Higher education institutions, particularly universities of technology, are ideally situated to advance critical inquiry and implementation of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and digital transformation. This is a fundamental mission of higher education and universities of technology, to act as generators and incubators of technological innovation and educating and training the innovators of tomorrow in responsible and ethical conduct. In this brief communication, we will set out to ...

Human Performance and Health in Sport and Exercise

Fermo immagine, durata, dissolvenza

Si mette in evidenza come nucleo della storia visuale sia la temporalità dell'immagine, soprattutto nel raffronto con la specificità della dimensione verbale, attraverso una serie di case studies: la fortuna delle pitture pompeiane, e dei calchi, fra sopravvivenza dell'antico e dissolvenza fra passato e presente, così come attraverso diversi esempi di un rapporto asimmetrico tra parola e immagine (la figura del centurione nelle crocifissioni lombarde, i graffiti dello steri, delle carte da gi...

From Motes to Heaps of Dust: Waste, Value, and Catastrophe in Dickens and Steinbeck

This essay investigates the symbolic and social meanings of dust in English-language literature, tracing its evolution from a biblical emblem of human mortality to a sign of modern collective crisis. Moving beyond the traditional image of dust as a barely visible residue, the study focuses on instances in which dust becomes an overwhelming material presence—accumulating into heaps or erupting into storms—and thereby shifts from a private, metaphysical reminder of decay into a political and en...