We just need to break out of this existential torpor and take action, because no one will do it for us. The work to be done is primarily social; we must all realize that how we feel is not a one-size-fits-all situation.

For all these reasons, the thousands of dead left by Ag Ghali's group across the lands of Mali and West Africa are a continuation of a rite that seeks, in violence and extremism, traces of a divine that transcends God himself—and which can only be sought and experienced in the musical nights of the desert.

The most tremendous success of the contemporary global order has not been ruling the world, but persuading people that governing themselves is a bad idea. No sophisticated conspiracy was needed.

Let's face it, the myth of the self-made man is out of fashion. However, it remains the only valid reason in the West to feel fulfilled, or alternatively to be moved by a screen, even though ultimately it's all so selfish and despicable, fake and banal in its own way, but somehow so damned true.

Polarization is not a sign of democratic vitality; it is proof that consciousness has become fragmented. Today’s enemies are not those of yesterday. The agents responsible for the crisis are not the names that circulate in partisan discourse.

What we can say with certainty is that contemporary art, more than a muse of hyperstition, is a parody of the cosmic void and the human crisis. To save art, perhaps we need to resort to a gesture that isn't desperate, but rather lucid and radical, one that the Dadaists would probably have appreciated: that is, to stop making art, to stop art itself.

Ci si dimentica spesso che i gazawi vivono sotto perenne occupazione illegale dal 1967, con una grande fetta della popolazione residente all’interno dei campi profughi, dipendente economicamente dagli aiuti umanitari per vivere.

Now that you’re unsettled, please read on. The foundation of this thesis does not come from the Zionist world, which offers a vision in which they are the “true” residents of those lands, and therefore entitled to commit something as horrific as genocide. It comes, rather, from a historical-political consideration that, unfortunately, very few still have the courage to articulate.

Lo stile di Arlt si oppone alla norma piccolo-borghese dell’ipercorrezione; è uno stile fatto con gli scarti, i resti, sempre in ebollizione. Non è lingua da salotto, ma lingua della strada, sporca e indisciplinata: uno scrivere che non si vergogna dei suoi errori, perché gli errori sono il segno della vita che pulsa […] Il suo accesso alla cultura fu “criminale”; una letteratura interpretata come una rapina piuttosto che una carriera: un colpo di mano, una conquista disperat

We all live in our own bubbles, in a society divided into classes and stereotypes. Under the illusion, fostered by the internet, of being interconnected with one another, we are in reality isolated.

Here too, the response is not heroism—it is seriality. And this is precisely what Ubu-esque power fears most: the clown may reign, but it is not yet written that his reign must become our normality.

The issue does not lie in being “phallic” or physically possessing a phallus, but in its eminently dynamic nature—its capacity to adhere to and dis-adhere from psychological, cultural, and communal models which are never fixed but instead reflect a retroactive freedom: not a “power” preceding the act but a continuum of micro-performances that create the sensation of an origin which, in reality, never existed.

Let us repeat it once more, like a shamanic ritual: produce, consume, rot.

Tutto ciò porta a trarre l’unica soddisfazione da se stessi e dal crescere del proprio ego, in una forma di autoerotismo contemporaneo in cui nuovi ermafroditi inneggiano ad un’indipendenza radicale divinizzata, per cui più sei indipendente dalla comunità e “auto-utilitario”, più ti senti potente e gonfi il petto, più ti senti invincibile e alzi il mento, più ti senti Dio e istituisci un nuovo sistema di valori.

When we’ll learn to think like the shoreline, we will finally be able to build upon the sea.

Here I seek instead to mobilize Gómez-Cruz (2022)’s proposal of understanding the digital as vital because of its relation to the very shape of life.

From the 1950s onward, thanks to major technological investment and post–Korean War industrial modernization, Japan had rapidly become the world’s second-largest economy and the most profitable manufacturing power.

What emerges from this spectrum of perspectives is, in my view, some defining questions: who decides on European rearmament and what are the motives guiding these decisions?

The issue of rearmament is a complex one, without any single or clear-cut answer—as the previous essays have already shown. Faced with such complexity, the first, almost healthy instinct is to ask questions, to believe that by refining and finally asking the right question, the right answer might begin to take shape.

The time has come to react. The time has come to break with the politics of the ruling classes, with their constant attempts to divide the oppressed and trigger wars among the poor.

In recent months, social media and news outlets around the world have been bombarding us with reports and political statements predicting the end of the world—ever since the warmongering President von der Leyen announced the need for a sinister plan to boost military spending among EU member states.

In today’s political discourse, events carry a certain value — and the data describing them carry an even greater one. “Greater” is not a random word: it suggests that descriptive data are an aggregate of various events, ideally complete but often partial.

A Chronicle of Inner Surrender 

Morning of September 13. They caught the killer of Charlie Kirk, the young ultraconservative, ultra-Trumpian activist assassinated by a sniper’s bullet while hosting a public debate at the University of Utah.

The False Myths of Italian Cinema

Italy, in the silent era, did well. We produced, exported, and were appreciated. Then came Fascism. Like all socialist regimes, it danced a love-hate tango with capitalism.

Heresy is walking barefoot through fire just to feel your skin scream freedom.

Despite the absence of a universally valid method of application, and despite its cultural and historical connotations, we can nonetheless identify—at least within the Western tradition—a common thread that links the various shades of meaning the word beauty has taken on, without betraying its semantic richness.

Si la libertad existe solo en su acepción negativa, entonces cualquier acción positiva – sea estatal o privada – destinada a corregir desequilibrios o proteger a los más vulnerables se convierte en un abuso, una interferencia intolerable. Toda política activa se transforma en atropello.

WHAT ARE WE REALLY SEEING WHEN WE SCROLL?

I’ve always joked that cooking is humanity’s everyday way of playing with fire and heat—becoming something halfway between poet and chemist.

Do you now understand why things with us are sometimes so difficult? Can you put yourself, just for a moment, in the shoes of someone who has made frustration a daily exercise?

How can a man truly fight patriarchy?

In the beginning was cinema, writing, and innovation. The idea of writing—graphing—with movement: cine. Or rather, of writing movement itself.

She realised in this way that war was the greatest of reversals: probably the only situation in which it is not worth it at all to be in your twenties and have your whole life ahead of you.

Dejó la heroína, pero sigue buscando nuevos abismos: alcohol, noche, soledad. Es poético, desagradable, violento, genial, dulce. Traza un rumbo. Se vuelve mito mientras todavía está vivo.

Without a regulatory idea of art, how can one distinguish a work that deserves to be appreciated from those celebrated out of habit or passive conformity to a certain propaganda?

I am a child of my generation, of those born without art in the gray 1980s, in that provincial twilight that smelled of cheap cigarette smoke and faded promises.

The home has always represented one of the most fundamental archetypes for human beings—not only as a physical space but as a deep-rooted structure that shapes our very presence in the world.

Beyond the raw numbers of landings—still significant, even if not yet as alarming as they may become in the near future—the cultural, political, social, and demographic tensions surrounding immigration are becoming increasingly prominent and impactful for the country.

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