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Sono passati 10 anni da quando Vincenzo Consolo ci ha lasciato per sempre. Il grande Pablo Picasso, un po’ arrogantemente, amava dire: “io non cerco, trovo”. Altri, invece, cercano per poter trovare. Vincenzo Consolo apparteneva […]
“The document UNITED IN MAIL ART reports the birth and development of this form of artistic expression known as MAIL ART … without a doubt, the largest in relation to the number of participants, extension […]
An empathetic painting Bedri Baykam’s painting is vital. Indeed, it is life in itself, a pure and plain state of mind. You enter the story, and you do not leave it until after imagining yourself […]
“I mari del Sud”. Some notes, on the occasion of poet’s 70th anniversary of his death Seventy years have passed since the death of Cesare Pavese. Then he advised not to gossip. Today it […]
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) disseminated the memories of her life in two important books, which are the most widely read ones among her extensive and partly still little known literary work here in Europe. In 1933 […]
New Times, New Drives CARMELO STRANO (*) The driving direction is changed, by thinking of the future as well as of an mmediate commitment in the current emergency. Attention has been paid to the need […]
I wait, absorb, accept From last to first of Your abuses. [Bartolo Cattafi, da Libertà,1980] Disease and literature Between 1926 and 1930, Virginia Woolf, the unforgettable author of Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, Lighthouse Trip and […]
Class struggle today, at the time of coronavirus Someone, something will have taken away half of life from every human on earth. For how long? Will it be enough to set off a new class […]
Julius Evola and Maria de Naglowska 1. After writing the book Metaphysics of Sex in 1958, Julius Evola sometimes thinks back to his past existence, above all to the one related to the magical practices […]
If we are to place a date of birth for contemporary China, we should choose the 1970s. To be more exact, February 1972, when the American president Richard Nixon went, for the first time, on […]
The works of most architects are about form, space, and structure. SITE’s work is about ideas, attitudes, and contexts. My definition of “de-architecture” is finding a way of dissecting, shattering, dissolving, inverting and transforming certain […]
I have a photo from the sixties (a shot by Ferdinando Scianna), in which a pretty frame of Caltanissetta town has been made around the figures of Nanà (hypocoristic nickname of Leonardo Sciascia familiarly used […]
On the occasion of the exhibition at the UniversitàStatale di Milano, within Bookcity 2019 Images are “symbolic complexes […] ‘connotations’ (multi-voices): they leave room for interpretation” (V. Flusser, for A ‘Philosophy of Photography’ (Folisofiadellafotografia), […]
Last 20th October, in La Paz there was no one on the street: everybody was glued to the televisions to hear the results of the election day. On state TV, political analysts rejoiced for the […]