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Matilde Catanese
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Cultural anthropologist · cultural psychiatry · synthetic culture · classification, provenance, epistemic trust · Italy & the Mediterranean
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Reading up on Beato Angelico before our trip to Florence back in January.

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An art historian points to Fra Angelico’s Coronation of the Virgin beside his Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin, two early Renaissance panels in gilded frames. The group studies open books around a table with a patterned cloth, with magnifying glasses and Turkish delight nearby.
September 18, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Another creature from the archive, my 2020 master’s thesis.
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Title page of Matilde Catanese’s 2020 University of Miami MA thesis, In Vino Veritas: A Comparative Study of Cognitive Models in Sardinia and Miami.
September 8, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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I have been thinking along similar lines about how measurement partly produces political coordinates. #STS #NLP
September 8, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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printing approximately a trillion pages for the analog version of my attention seminar this term. Let’s find out if it’s worth it.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 2 READING DAN SINYKIN AND JOHANNA WINANT JESSE CORDES SELBIN N. KATHERINE HAYLES YAEL SEGALOVITZ READINGS "Introduction: What Close Reading Is." In Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2025), 1-10. "Read with Attention': John Cassell, John Ruskin, and the History of Close Reading." Victorian Studies 58, no. 3(2016): 493-521. "Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes." Profession, 187-99 (2007). "Probably Not Book Learned at All': The Gender of Attentive Reading in Woolf and Lispector." Poetics Today 47, no. 1(2026): 29-50. DROP EVERYTHING AND READ EXERCISE While doing the reading this week, keep track of the distractions that interrupt you. These may be things like notifications, friends they arise. Then
September 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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New Blog Post: From the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

Dr Matilde Catanese and Dr Attilio Mastino write about their article ‘The missing register of Roman belonging: natio between civitas and origo’

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Between City and Empire: Natio in Roman Inscriptions
Dr Matilde Catanese and Dr Attilio Mastino write about their article, ‘The missing register of Roman belonging: natio between civitas and origo,’ published in BICS.
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September 2, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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An anthropology of a synthetic object’s plausible past. I trace Cantoscena’s AI-generated “lost song” through virality and disclosure, asking how platform metadata shaped its provenance. New and open access in New Media & Society, published by @journals.sagepub.com.

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The year is a dropdown menu: Platformed provenance and the viral afterlives of AI-generated retro music - Matilde Catanese, 2026
This article examines how generative AI media becomes believable and shareable when it is packaged as a rediscovered archive and distributed through commercial ...
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August 30, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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Published in BICS with Attilio Mastino. The article examines forty-one inscriptions to reconstruct natio as a register of belonging alongside civic status and named origin. Open access.

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The missing register of Roman belonging: natio between civitas and origo
ABSTRACT. This article argues that, in imperial Roman epigraphy, natio functions as an intermediate register of belonging, positioned between civic members
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August 28, 2026 at 10:48 AM