Chiodo

Last name: Chiodo
Brief Bio: What can the humanities tell us about digital technology? My research focuses on technology's historical iterations from the perspective of the humanities. This non-instrumental understanding of technology provides a perspective which extends beyond use to embrace the full range of thought and practice regarding technology over time.
I am currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Italian Language and Literature at Yale University. My dissertation, "Dante's Poetry: Techne and Transcendence" illustrates how the poet's use of metaphor frequently harnessed the lower mechanical arts to explicate the scientific, theological and philosophical premises of his poem. These vernacular metaphors place the mechanical arts within a distinct hierarchy of knowledge, assigning them theological value. My work recovers the material dimensions of these proto-technological metaphors and provides a hitherto unexamined window on the reception of technological innovation in Dante's poetry and its dynamic interaction with poetic form.

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