Tesi di Master

Fermentation, the human acquired practice of transforming food through the collaboration with microorganisms such as yeasts and bacteria, is a wide and interdisciplinary matter, concerning vastly different disciplines: from microbiology to anthropology, from chemistry to philosophy. Simply put, fermentation demonstrates the infinite connections existing within our reality and its consideration can be fruitful both from … …read more

This thesis explores the intertwining narratives of wine, spirits, and drunkenness in art history, examining the cultural, social, and symbolic significance of these elements. In this case, I have examined the presentation of wine, spirits, and drunkenness in art in two significant art periods: the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century and late 19th/early … …read more

Approaching the Aesthetic Sensibility and Epistemology of An Artisan-Farmer and its Cosmogonic Possibilities The two central problematics of this thesis are the historical marginalisation of artisanal knowledge and practices, and the increasingly endemic crisis of reality which is being experienced in Western modernity. I argue that these two seemingly distant problems are in fact symptoms … …read more