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Il Nome Multiplo Di Umberto Eco
Un articolo di Andrea Ridolfi, con la ricostruzione del caso e commenti.
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Extractions: E' nata la Religione del Pendolo? E' lecito condannare Umberto Eco se un gruppo di giovani, ispirandosi ad un suo romanzo, fomenta il caos nei media e promuove culti blasfemi? Immaginate che la finzione de Il pendolo di Foucault esca dalla pagina scritta, contagi menti malate e prosegua la sua trama confondendo realta' e fantasia in un caos amorale. In Italia e in Europa si e' diffuso grazie a internet un movimento giovanile tanto delirante quanto oscuro e cinico, chiamato Luther Blissett , che ha trasformato Il pendolo di Foucault e la semiotica di Umberto Eco nella bibbia sovversiva di una religione "pop" contro il sistema dei media, in un di gioco di ruolo "reale" con la storia dell'esoterismo. Un anonimo pamphlet apparso recentemente, dal titolo
Umberto Eco And His Travels In Hyperreality
umberto eco in his essay, Travels in Hyperreality, saw the emergence of the age of simulation. He recognized that when simulations promise us something better than real, it is often a disguised sales pitch. Commentary on eco's commentary.
http://www.transparencynow.com/eco.htm

Extractions: Traveling Through Hyperreality With Umberto Eco An early description of the way contemporary culture is now full of re-creations and themed environments was provided by Umberto Eco. In a brilliant essay, Eco saw that we create these realistic fabrications in an effort to come up with something that is better than real a description that is true of virtually all fiction and culture, which gives us things that are more exciting, more beautiful, more inspiring, more terrifying, and generally more interesting than what we encounter in everyday life. In his description of Disney, Eco also saw that behind the facades lurks a sales pitch. Put these ideas together and you have a succinct characterization of the age, which is forever offering us something that seems better than real in order to sell us something. That makes Umberto Eco one of the forerunners of contemporary thinking on this subject. (One) of the early theorists of simulation was the Italian writer and literary critic Umberto Eco, who went on a tour of America to get a firsthand look at the imitations and replicas that were on display in the nation's museums and tourist attractions. The essay that he subsequently wrote describing his trip, bore the odd title "Travels in Hyperreality," which made it sound more like science fiction than the brilliant work of culture criticism it turned out to be. The essay, which is dated 1975, also had an anomalous quality to it. Looking at it, today, it reads like a strange combination of Postmodern philosophy and something out of the Sunday travel section, full of sardonic descriptions and exaggerated denunciations that focus on the cultural shortcomings of America.
LESELUST - Umberto Eco - Baudolino *** Zeitgenössische Italienische Literatur -
Historischer Roman. Rezension von Daniela Ecker.
http://www.die-leselust.de/buch/eco_umberto_baudolino.htm

Extractions: Im finstersten Mittelalter gelingt es einem jungen italienischen Schelm, durch seine lebhafte Phantasie und die Gabe, stets das zu formulieren, was andere gerne hören wollen, dem Leben als einfacher Bauerntöpel zu entfliehen und stattdessen an den Hof Kaiser Friedrichs zu kommen, der als Barbarossa bekannt ist. Baudolino lernt Friedrich im Nebel kennen und hilft dem verirrten Kaiser, wieder zu seinen Truppen zu finden. Dieser findet Gefallen an dem hellen Köpfchen und lässt ihn unterrichten. Sein erster Lehrherr, Bischof Otto, ist gerade dabei, eine Chronik zu verfassen. Und hier lernt Baudolino auch bereits ganz Wesentliches seine Zukunft: es kommt nicht immer darauf an, die Wahrheit zu erzählen. Wenn man davon überzeugt ist, dass etwas passiert sein kann, dass etwas existieren kann, dann sollte man davon berichten, als wäre es wahr. Eine Praktik, die Baudolino sich nicht erst aneignen muss.
Umberto Eco
Biographie, entretien, critiques de romans.
http://www.lexpress.fr/Livres/Dossiers/Dossier/eco/dossier.asp?id=13504
Borges
Suplemento monogr¡fico del diario Clarn, con colaboraciones de Ernesto S¡bato, Antonio Tabucchi, umberto eco, Ricardo Piglia, Susan Sontag, Juli¡n Barnes, Bioy Casares y otros; adem¡s, rese±as biogr¡fica y bibliogr¡fica y diversos documentos sonoros que recogen palabras de Borges en su propia voz.
http://www.clarin.com.ar/diario/especiales/Borges/html/Menu.html
From Internet To Gutemberg
A lecture by umberto eco.
http://www.hf.ntnu.no/anv/Finnbo/tekster/Eco/Internet.htm

Extractions: According to Plato (in Phaedrus) when Hermes, the alleged inventor of writing, presented his invention to the Pharaoh Thamus, he praised his new technique that was supposed to allow human beings to remember what they would otherwise forget. But the Pharaoh was not so satisfied. "My skillful Theut, he said, memory is a great gift that ought to be kept alive by training it continuously. With your invention people will not be obliged any longer to train memory. They will remember things not because of an internal effort, but by mere virtue of an external device." We can understand the preoccupation of the Pharaoh. Writing, as any other new technological device, would have made torpid the human power which it substituted and reinforced - just as cars made us less able to walk. Writing was dangerous because it decreased the powers of mind by offering human beings a petrified soul, a caricature of mind, a mineral memory.
Umberto Eco
SUPERFICTIONS. umberto eco. Italian synthetic modernist whose work underpinsmany of the theories about what is real (?), and what is original?
http://toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au/moci/encyc/entries/eco.html
Umberto Eco
. . . abstracted from the Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers by John Lechte, Routledge, 1994.
http://acnet.pratt.edu/~arch543p/help/Eco.html

Extractions: Note: the following has been abstracted from the Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers by John Lechte, Routledge, 1994. Umberto Eco is known to a world-wide audience for his two novels, The Name of the Rose , and Foucault's Pendulum . Both works allude to aspects of past and present theories of signs, as well as to a vast array of scholarly (those of the Middle Ages in particular) and other texts (Sherlock Holmes in the Name of the Rose , and the Corpus Hermeticum in Foucault's Pendulum Eco was born in 1932 in Piedmont, Italy. Before becoming a semiotician, he studied philosophy specialising in the philosophical and aesthetic theories of the Middle Ages. His thesis at the University of Turin on the aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas was published in 1956 when he was 24. Three years later, Eco contributed a chapter called 'Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale' ('The development of Medieval aesthetics') to a four-volume handbook on the history of aesthetics. In 1986, the lengthy chapter came in an English translation under the title of Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages . This erudition, we have noted, has been put to good effect in Eco's fiction, but does , it have any real connection with his work in semiotics? One can answer in the affirmative here for two reasons. First, as Todorov and others have shown, the age of Thomas Aquinas is also a chapter in the history of sign theory. The Aristotle who so influenced the 'Angelic Doctor' has also left his mark, Eco recognises, on more contemporary semiotics - such as in the theory of metaphor .3 Second, as a medievalist, Eco became fascinated by the writings of James Joyce where one finds liberal references to Aquinas, Aristotle, Dante, Medieval bestiaries, and rhetoric.
Eco, Umberto. Serendipities.
eco, umberto. Serendipities Language and Lunacy. Tr. by William Weaver.Oct. 1998. 128p. index. Columbia, $19.95 (0231-11134-7). DDC 401.
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Extractions: How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine Eco, Umberto. Serendipities: Language and Lunacy. Tr. by William Weaver. Oct. 1998. 128p. index. Columbia, $19.95 (0-231-11134-7). DDC: 401. Eco, known for his intellectually stimulating best-sellers, most recently Island of the Day Before Michael Spinella (Booklist/October 15, 1998) Top of Page Adult Booklist Index Booklist Archive ... Subscribe to Booklist Magazine
Umberto Eco
Biografia e opere dello scrittore di Alessandria.
http://www.alice.it/romanzo-convforli/eco.htm

Extractions: promoters Umberto Eco Umberto Eco Opera aperta , Milano 1962; Apocalittici e integrati , Milano 1964; Trattato di semiotica generale , Milano 1975; Lector in fabula: la cooperazione interpretativa nei testi narrativi , Milano 1979). In La struttura assente (Milano 1968) fa un bilancio dell'esperienza, delle trasformazioni e degli esiti ultimi dello strutturalismo. Umberto Eco (Alessandria, 1932).Since 1971 is teacher of Semiotic at the University of Bologna. Essayist and novelist, among his works we can remember the essays: Open work Lector in fabula:the narrative cohoperation into narrative texts Kant and the ornitorinco , 1997. His activity of novelist counts three works: The name of the rose The pendolum of Foucault , 1988 and The isle of the day before
Booklist: Eco, Umberto. Baudolino.
How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine eco, umberto. Baudolino. Oct.2002. 528p. Harcourt, $27 (015-100690-3). The challenges and
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Extractions: How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine Eco, Umberto. Baudolino. Oct. 2002. 528p. Harcourt, $27 (0-15-100690-3). The challenges and joys of this Italian professors internationally best-selling Name of the Rose Brad Hooper (Booklist/July, 2002) Top of Page Adult Booklist Index Booklist Archive ... Subscribe to Booklist Magazine
Umberto Eco Vorgestellt Von Www.Bruder-Franziskus.de
Biografie, Bibliografie und Rezensionen, Links.
http://www.bruder-franziskus.de/eco/

Extractions: Umberto Eco wurde in Deutschland vor allem durch seinen Roman "Der Name der Rose" bekannt, dessen Original 1980 in Italien erschien. Darin verquickt Eco in unnachahmlicher Weise eine packende Detektivgeschichte mit Betrachtungen über das Mittelalter, die Bedeutung der Klöster und der Kirche (wobei er auch nicht an Kritik spart) und schafft es mit Leichtigkeit, ebenfalls seine Belehrungen über die Zeichenhaftigkeit der Welt und unsere beschränkte Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit einfließen zu lassen. Dabei befleißigt sich der heute 68-jährige Autor einer wunderbaren Sprache und intelligenter philosophischer Anmerkungen. Auch sein zweiter Roman "Das Foucaultsche Pendel" ist ähnlich gehaltvoll wie unterhaltsam. Der Leser bekommt einen tiefen Einblick in die Welt des Okkulten, die verschiedensten Glaubensrichtungen der Esoterik, in die Geschichte des Templerordens und die Kabbala. Spannend serviert, trotz des düsteren Hintergrundes mit prächtigem Humor gespickt und mehr als empfehlenswert.
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Guardian Unlimited Books | Authors | Eco, Umberto
umberto eco (1932). On this site. 27 Oct 2002, You couldn't make it up umbertoeco proves that a little lie can go a long, long, long way in Baudolino.
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Extractions: Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Newsroom Soulmates Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Guardian Weekly Money Observer Home Guardian Review By genre Reviews ... Editor, cultural commentator (his subjects have included Disney, the James Bond phenomenon and Chinese revolutionary comic books). His primary career was as an academic, working in aesthetics, literary criticism and - most famously - semiotics, a term coined by John Locke in 1690 ("the doctrine of signs; the most usual whereof being words, it is aptly enough termed also Logike, logic: the business whereof is to consider the nature of signs, the mind makes use of for the understanding of things, or conveying its knowledge to others"). Eco defines it as "a scientific attitude, a critical way of looking at the objects of other sciences".
MediaMente: Umberto Eco
Offre cenni biografici e bibliografici oltre ai testi di alcune interviste al noto scrittore.
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Extractions: Nato ad Alessandria il 15 gennaio 1932, si è laureato in filosofia presso l'Università degli Studi di Torino. Dal 1971 è professore ordinario di Semiotica presso l'Università degli Studi di Bologna. Ha precedentemente insegnato all'Università degli Studi di Firenze, all'Università di Sao Paulo (Brasile), alla Northwestern University, Chicago, alla Yale University, alla Columbia University, New York. Saggista e narratore, Umberto Eco è presidente onorario del Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e Studi Cognitivi presso l'Università della Repubblica di San Marino; è membro del Consiglio per le Relazioni Italo-Americane, e membro del Comitato tecnico dell'Istituto per lo Studio dell'Innovazione nei Mass Media. Dal 1959 è consulente editoriale della casa editrice Bompiani . E' stato cofondatore della rivista
Guardian Unlimited Books | Links | Eco, Umberto
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Extractions: Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Newsroom Soulmates Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Guardian Weekly Money Observer Work online 'The Holy War: Mac vs. DOS Cult of the cliché: Eco on Casablanca 'Freedom is an unending task': Eco defines fascism Background Italian bibliography 'I have a polychronic personality...' 1995 interview University of Bologna: Eco's homepage 1995 interview: Eco on information ... Semiotics resources online
Umberto Eco (Portrety)
A humorous cartoon portrait of the author, at a Polishlanguage website.
http://www.dc.slupsk.pl/graniak/galeria/u_eco.htm
TecaLibri: Umberto Eco: Opere
Le copertine, la bibliografia e alcuni brani scelti.
http://web.genie.it/utenti/t/tecalibri/E/ECO_OPE.htm

Extractions: copertine in rete TecaLibri Umberto Eco: opere Nasce il 5 gennaio ad Alessandria, Piemonte, Italia. 1956 Il problema estetico in San Tommaso 1959 Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale, in Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica 1961 Storia figurata delle invenzioni, a cura di U. Eco e G.B. Zorzoli. 1962 Opera aperta. Forma e indeterminazione nelle poetiche contemporanee, Bompiani, [ rif. Diario minimo Apocalittici e integrati 1965 Il caso Bond, a cura di O. Del Buono e U. Eco. 1965 Le poetiche di Joyce 1966 I tre cosmonauti, illustrato da Eugenio Carmi. 1966 La bomba e il generale, illustrato da Eugenio Carmi. 1967 Appunti per una semiologia delle comunicazioni visive 1968 La definizione dell'arte 1968 La struttura assente 1969 Dove e quando? Indagine sperimentale su due diverse edizioni di un servizio di 'Almanacco', a cura di U. Eco e al. 1969 I sistemi di segni e lo strutturalismo sovietico, a cura di U. Eco e R. Faccani. 1969 L'arte come mestiere, a cura di U. Eco 1969 L'Industria della cultura, a cura di U. Eco. 1970 Socialismo y consolacion, edited by U. Eco.
Eco, Umberto
eco, umberto. The critical activities of umberto eco (b. 1932) are remarkablyvaried. He has written extensively on medieval aesthetics
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/umberto_eco.html

Extractions: The critical activities of Umberto Eco (b. 1932) are remarkably varied. He has written extensively on medieval aesthetics, James Joyce, the nature of the open work, forms of mass communication and culture, Semiotics , and theories of reception. He has also written two novels, The Name of the Rose (1980) and Foucault's Pendulum (1988). This eclecticism is reflected by Eco's diverse professional interests. In addition to holding the chair of semiotics at the University of Bologna, he has been a regular contributor to numerous Italian newspapers and magazines, among them Il giorno, La stampa, the Corriere della sera, La repubblica, L'espresso, and Il manifesto. Between 1954 and 1959 Eco was editor for cultural programs at the Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI). Moreover, he has been at the forefront of a number of avant-garde organizations in Italy, notably the Gruppo 63. As one might expect, these interests are often mutually informing; his work in semiotics, for example, complements his cultural criticism and novels. In addition to his direct involvement in these activities, Eco has assumed the role of a kind of cultural historian, documenting the vicissitudes of various critical movements and cultural trends, not to mention his own earlier formulations and engagements. In this respect he exemplifies the engaged intellectual that he himself has often discussed. As he puts it in the preface to Travels in Hyperreality (1986), "My way of being involved in politics consists of telling others how I see daily life, political events, sometimes the way I look at a movie. I believe that it is my job as a scholar and a citizen to show how we are surrounded by 'messages,' products of political power, of economic power, of the entertainment industry and the revolution industry, and to say that we must know how to analyze and criticize them" (xi). Eco has managed to address a larger audience through his journalism and novels without suffering any decline in scholarly output.
Umberto Eco's Piece On Mac And DOS, Catholic And Protestant
A brief bit of wit from eco himself on personal computing operating systems, and the religious divide betwixt the two main churches.
http://www.simongrant.org/web/eco.html

Extractions: The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the "ratio studiorum" of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory, it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach - if not the Kingdom of Heaven - the moment in which their document is printed. It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that not all can reach salvation. To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself: a long way from the baroque community of revelers, the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment. You may object that, with the passage to Windows, the DOS universe has come to resemble more closely the counterreformist tolerance of the Macintosh. It's true: Windows represents an Anglican-style schism, big ceremonies in the cathedral, but there is always the possibility of a return to DOS to change things in accordance with bizarre decisions.....

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