Here is a list of publications stemming from this research project which address the connections and exchanges between computer and digital culture, and Italian literature.
Books
Eleonora Lima (2020). Le tecnologie dell’informazione nella scrittura di Italo Calvino e Paolo Volponi. Tre storie di rimediazione. Firenze University Press, 2020.
E. Lima (in preparation). Narrating Computing: Italian Authors Write Computer Culture (book in preparation for Legenda).
Articles and Chapters
E. Lima (2023). ‘The Android as a New Political Subject: The Italian Cyberpunk Comic Ranxerox.’ In K. Dihal and S. Cave (eds.), Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines, Oxford University Press, 55-72. DOI:10.1093/oso/9780192865366.003.0004.
E. Lima (2023). ‘Dino Buzzati Interpreter of Silvio Ceccato: Il grande ritratto and Its Debt to Cybernetics.’ Quaderni d’Italianistica, 43(3): 79-101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41352.
E. Lima (2023). ‘Le città invisibili as Cybertext and Cyberspace: Italo Calvino, Ted Nelson, and Arata Isozaki,’ Italian Studies, April, 78: 192-209. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2220538. [Runner Up for the journal Italian Studies article prize]
E. Lima (2021). “Technology.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015. Article published March 25, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1097.
E. Lima (2020). ‘Mechanized Women and Sentient Machines: Language, Gendered Technology and Female Body in Luciano Bianciardi and Tiziano Scarpa’. In Enrica Maria Ferrara (ed) Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity. Palgrave, pp. 163-184.
E. Lima (2020). ‘Between Divinity and Dullness: The Advent of Personal Computers in the Italian Literature’, Quaderni d’Italianistica, vol. 40 no. 2, pp. 5-42.
E. Lima (2017). ‘Paolo Volponi’s La macchina mondiale as a Cybernetic Utopia: The Limits of a Solely Allegorical Interpretation.’ Forum Italicum, Fall 2017 issue, Vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 618-640.
Others
[Report] M. Clancy, B. Çetin, R. Kg, E. Lima, A. Osipov, E. Pedigo, S. Roddy, P. Treusch, R. Tweed. (2022). ‘The Voice of the Artist in the Age of the Algorithm.’ The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. July 2022. https://sagroups.ieee.org/global-initiative/wp-content/uploads/sites/542/2022/07/ead-artists.pdf.
[Blog post] E. Lima, ‘When Literature and Technology Fail to Align.’ Web blog post. Interdisciplinary Italy. 25 September 2019.