{"id":595,"date":"2018-10-24T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/?p=595"},"modified":"2024-10-02T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:43:09","slug":"biological-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2018\/10\/24\/biological-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Biological intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last October 12 I participated in a roundtable titled\u00a0<strong>Biological, therefore literary, intelligence,<\/strong>\u00a0within the 8<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/2018.internetfestival.it\/\">Internet Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2018\/10\/24\/biological-intelligence\/if\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-596\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/IF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/IF.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/IF-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/IF-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2018\/10\/IF-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Designed and coordinated by the writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coltisbagli.it\/\">Matteo Pelliti<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/radioeco.it\/if2018-intelligenze-biologiche\/\">event<\/a> was pivoted on the discussion of how literary studies can relate to biological, neuroscientific, and evolutionary insights that are currently reshaping our ideas on the origins of artistic expressions.<\/p>\n<p>Building on the redefinition of literary criticism I proposed in my last book <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2018\/06\/20\/life-against-literature\/\">Vita contro\u00a0letteratura<\/a>, I\u00a0 discussed these issues with professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laboratoriodiletteratura.it\/\">Alberto Casadei<\/a> (Universit\u00e0 di Pisa), who recently published the fascinating book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilsaggiatore.com\/libro\/biologia-della-letteratura\/\">Biologia della letteratura. Corpo, stile, storia<\/a>; and Michele Cometa (Universit\u00e0 di Palermo), author of the study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raffaellocortina.it\/scheda-libro\/michele-cometa\/perche-le-storie-ci-aiutano-a-vivere-9788860309006-2540.html\">Perch\u00e9 le storie ci aiutano a vivere. La letteratura\u00a0necessaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October 12 I participated in a roundtable titled\u00a0Biological, therefore literary, intelligence,\u00a0within the 8th\u00a0edition of the Internet Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[184,167,199,249,250,252,251],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","tag-alberto-casadei","tag-biology","tag-literary-criticism","tag-matteo-pelliti","tag-michele-cometa","tag-neurocognitive-sciences","tag-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}