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Questo articolo prende in esame in quanto petrotesti tre racconti di fantascienza di Primo Levi: “Cladonia rapida” (da Storie naturali, 1966), “Ottima è l’acqua” (da Vizio di forma, 1971), e “I gladiatori” (da Lilit e altri racconti, 1981). Nello specifico, i primi due di questi racconti commentano la diffusione delle automobili, mentre il terzo si occupa di inquinamento.  Pur non confrontandosi in maniera diretta con questioni ambientali, l’articolo sostiene che questi racconti, dietro il velo della fantascienza, riguardano i cambiamenti drammatici imposti al paesaggio italiano dal boom economico. L’analisi adotta la lente critica della petrocultura e, insieme, del ‘dark green’ teorizzato da Heather I. Sullivan, come strumenti per cogliere le sfaccettature e le contraddizioni della rappresentazione leviana del petrolio.

This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the various internal and external measures undertaken by the European Union to guarantee security of oil and gas supply. It sets out and analyses in a coherent and thorough manner those aspects of EU external policy that are relevant in establishing a framework for guaranteeing energy security for the Union. What makes the book unique is that it is the first of its kind to bridge the gap between EU energy and EU external policy. The book discusses EU policy towards the major oil and gas producing countries of Russia, the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf at the bilateral as well as regional and multilateral level. It brings together not only the dimensions of trade and investment but also other important aspects of external policy, namely development and foreign policy. The author argues that the EU's energy security cannot be achieved through adopting a purely internal approach to energy issues, but that it is necessary to adopt a holistic approach to external policy, covering efficient economic relations as well as development co-operation and foreign policies towards energy producing countries. The book will be a valuable resource for students of EU law, WTO law or international energy law, as well as scholars and practitioners dealing with energy issues.

Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity’s capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer’s identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality. The Resurrection of the Body is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay Saint Paul, the scenario for Porn-Theo-Colossal, the immense and unfinished novel Petrolio, and his notorious final film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, a disturbing adaptation of the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Together these works, Armando Maggi contends, reveal Pasolini’s obsession with sodomy and its role within his apocalyptic view of Western society. One of the first studies to explore the ramifications of Pasolini’s homosexuality, The Resurrection of the Body also breaks new ground by putting his work into fruitful conversation with an array of other thinkers such as Freud, Strindberg, Swift, Henri Michaux, and Norman O. Brown.

Offshore Oil and Gas Development in the Arctic under International Law explores the international legal framework for hydrocarbon development in the marine Arctic. It presents an assessment of the careful balance between States' sovereign rights to their resources, their obligations to uphold the rights of Arctic inhabitants and their duty to prevent injury to other States. It examines the rights of indigenous and other Arctic populations, the precautionary approach, the environmental impact assessment and the duty to monitor offshore hydrocarbon activities. It also analyses the application of the international law of responsibility in the event that the State fails to meet its primary obligations in the absence of a State's wrongful conduct.

This book provides a general overview of syngas technologies as well as an in-depth analysis of the steam reforming process. Syngas is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon oxides which can be made from hydrocarbons, coal and biomass. It is an important intermediate in the chemical industry for manufacture of ammonia, methanol and other petrochemicals as well as hydrogen for refineries and fuel cells. Syngas is playing a growing role in the energy sector, because it can be converted into a number of important energy carriers and fuels. Syngas catalysis creates new options and flexibility in the complex energy network. The steam reforming process is the main technology today for manufacture of syngas. It is a complex intern-mingling of catalysis and heat transfer with restrictions caused by secondary phenomena such as carbon formation. Many of the principles are applicable for other gasification technologies of growing importance. Concepts of Syngas Preparation aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to this complex field of growing importance and gives a detailed analysis of the catalyst and process problems. This book also serves as an important link between science and industry by illustrating how the basic principles can be applied to solve design issues and operational problems.

This chapter analyzes the theme of form, which Pasolini identifies as the foundation of his novel, Petrolio. The author's initial claim that Petrolio is less about a plot than about the birth of a form is usually not taken as the actual foundation of the novel; it is examined as a philosophical statement that is often independent of the events narrated in the text. Consistent with the apocalyptic themes studied in the previous chapters, it is argued that this context “to give birth to a form,” as Pasolini says, signifies a sequence of interrelated concepts: a new way of seeing reality, but also the form of a new reality and the form of a new organism—the fetus of a new humanity. In other words, Petrolio is about the formation of a new world and a new way of inhabiting it.

El valor de un departamento en Manhattan arranca bien por encima del millon de dolares. La estrategia de Prodigy apunto a comprar propiedades y luego duplicar su valor con las remodelaciones para salir con precios acorde al mercado. \"Compramos una propiedad en 450 dolares el pie cuadrado (unos 4.500 dolares el metro cuadrado), le ponemos 550 dolares en construccion y mejoras, nos da un valor de mil y de acuerdo al comportamiento actual del mercado podemos salir a venderlo en dos mil dolares el pie cuadrado (U$S 20.000 el metro). Y esta es la modalidad que nos permite dar ganancias a nuestros inversores\", afirman los emprendedores. -El reporte del ultimo ano dio que los inmuebles se revalorizaron un 19 por ciento y en febrero de 2015 se declaro el record en productos inmobiliarios. Lo que esta dando este crecimiento son las propiedades de lujo y las nuevas residencias. El penthouse de 432 Park se vendio a 90 millones de dolares y eso, obviamente, le da un promedio mucho mas alto al mercado; y se acaba de vender sobre la Quinta Avenida, en la calle 64, un apartamento por 77 millones de dolares a un multimillonario catalogado por Forbes como el hombre 40o mas rico del mundo. Lo compro a un precio de 5.600 dolares el pie cuadrado (56.000 el metro cuadrado). -Pensamos que la valorizacion va a depender del ingreso de la propiedad. El estimado para Nueva York es un ocho por ciento de crecimiento anual, pero nosotros queremos ser un poco mas conservadores. Creo que vamos a estar en un cinco por ciento para el tipo de propiedades que nosotros estamos vendiendo. O sea, si usted compra hoy una propiedad en AKA United Nations le daria una rentabilidad del cuatro por ciento, pero tiene adicionalmente una valorizacion del cinco por ciento. Con lo cual, si esta propiedad vale 1,2 millones, en un ano va a valer 1,29 millones.