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    Psychological contract breach and job performance of new generation of employees: Considering the mediating effect of job burnout and the moderating effect of past breach experience
    with Dongping Yu, Ke Yang, Xinsi Zhao, Yongsong Liu, Shanshan Wang, and Maria Teresa D’Agostino
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    With the intensification of COVID-19 epidemic, it becomes prominent to discuss the issue about the influence of psychological contract breach on job performance of new generation of employees. Based on social exchange theory, fairness theory, and conservation of resource theory, this study constructed a relationship model between psychological contract breach and job performance of new generation of employees with considering the mediating effect of job burnout and the moderating effect of past …Read more
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    Ambienti non difendibili. "Parasite" di Bong Joon-Ho
    Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey 7. 2020.
    The worldwide success of the latest Bong Joon-ho’s movie, Parasite, can be explained with its stylistic solutions, that are the point of arrival of a twenty-years long career as filmmaker who worked both in his homeland and in the USA. The unusual choice of filming a black comedy full of social aspects has succeeded thanks to his enlarged experience. The frame composition and the camera movements look always appropriate to show the conquer of the inner spaces in the big and luxurious house of Pa…Read more
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    In the late 50’s the emergent talent of Thomas Pynchon induced the future author to take up the challenge of writing his early tales in which some scientific ideas took the form of short tales filled with paranoid and manic characters. The most known of these tales was “Entropy”, first published in 1960. Here a young man named Callisto firmly believes that the stagnation of the temperature at 37° F is the certain omen of an imminent paralysis of human relationships because of the increase of the…Read more
  • The traditional cultures of Native American tribes and populations have been humbled for a very long time by the WASP dominant vision of the US destiny. Through particular laws like the sadly well-known Indian Removal Act, the colonization of North America went on through the entire 19th century, often forcing the Natives to move away from European-populated areas, towards Indian reservations or worse accommodations. Thanks to the attention of Franz Boas, George Hunt and many more, in the last y…Read more
  • When the USA became an economic and political power, at the end of the 19th Century, the american culture had just set up the pillars of its long-time paradigm. The fulcrum of this pattern was the image of the free man with countless opportunites ahead of him, the single man who can change the world he lives in. That’s why in 1860 Ralph W. Emerson wrote: «One man is made of the same stuff of which events are made; is in sympathy with the course of thing, can predict it». He can predict it, he ca…Read more
  • Although the very different cultural traditions drove a deep wedge between Western and Eastern civilizations, some points of intersection can be identified to build and to prop up an ideal bridge. For the most of us as Europeans, the notion of ‘sublimation’ belongs primarily to the Freudian achievements, but the lexicon of Physics holds a larger meaning of it. In literature, cinematography and arts we can observe various types of individual sublimation in action in many different ways. Ozu Yasuj…Read more
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    Many novels, tales and movies have been released in the last third of the 20th century, in coincidence with the increasing diffusion of synthetic drugs in Europe and America, in not a few cases trying to understand the reasons of young men and women for this selfdestructive choice. Trainspotting, the first novel published by scottish author Irvine Welsh in 1993 and made into movie by english director Danny Boyle in 1996, shows us a slice of life populated with boys and girls who use heroin witho…Read more
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    La morte dell'uomo come metafora dello sradicamento ontologico -- Partecipazione e sradicamento : la morte come rottura della comunione intersoggettiva -- L'amore come apertura alla dimensione partecipativa : in cammino verso la salvezza.
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    Posidippo, Ep. 52 Austin-Bastianini (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309 col. VIII 25–30): In morte di Timone o di Aste?
    Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 154 (1). 2010.
  • Il robot che viene dal freddo
    Kainós 6. 2006.
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  • Svestire le dee
    Kainós 8. 2008.