Elephant & Castle

edited by Fabio Cleto (Università degli studi di Bergamo), Stefania Consonni (Università degli studi di Bergamo) Carmen Sancho Guinda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and Karen Van Godtsenhoven (Ghent University)

In the third and last issue devoted to the interdisciplinary space-time notion (and image) of ‘movement’, we explore the concept and phenomenology of ‘regeneration’. After defining the notion’s prospective-and-cognitive nature as a shared modelling of experience and the weaving of its discursive and textual dimension, we focus on that subtle, intricate and sometimes broken geometry which gives shape to textual, representative and socio-cultural processes of crystallization, transmission, evolution, survival and regeneration within an increasingly complex ecosystem, which includes (and often mingles) film, TV, literature, music, fashion, art, and various other entertainment practices. Based on a deep interrelation between communicative surfaces and models of cultural production and consumption, and surrounded by the more and more elastic and permeable boundaries of present-day communicative genres and creative codes, regeneration therefore appears as key to a ceaseless movement that keeps the objects of our culture, as we know them, in a state of presence.