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Manuel Peruzzo
Editorial director

Manuel Peruzzo

Ho scritto sul Foglio, Linkiesta, Link Idee per la tv e in altri posti. Non ho mai pubblicato un libro. Ho molte più idee di quelle che mi va di realizzare

Areas of expertise

  • critica culturale
  • media e società
  • intelligenza artificiale nell'editoria
  • cultura digitale
  • costume e generazioni
  • politica italiana
  • giornalismo culturale
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11 articles
Società

I miss when I liked the future

Memories of the Nineties leave me cold. Then I think about 2019, about brunch with C. and the stupid plans we made, when I took it for granted that I had time

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Media

Nostalgia

We don't just miss the past: we sell it, play with it, campaign on it. Here, what interests us is what we do with it.

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Media

Imperi

For centuries, conquering the world took an army. Today all you need is a platform, a surname, a desirable body, or an internet connection.

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Attualità

My master is coming

I built a newspaper with AI. Now I spend my nights fixing distorted images, broken links and invented court rulings, while paying subscriptions to teach the machines the work I paid them to do.

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Politica

The culture twinks aren't serious but want to be taken seriously

How Italian cultural institutions have changed their recruitment criteria, and why blaming twenty-year-olds gets you nowhere

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Notifiche

Chocolate ice cream and textual analysis

The maturità is the only Italian civic rite left innocuous enough for everyone to use it as an excuse to talk about something else

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Media

The Age of Hallucination

We devoted the first issue to hallucination because it's the word this era uses to accuse machines of a vice that is, first of all, our own

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Notifiche

Banning social media won't get teenagers to read Proust

England wants to ban social media for under-sixteens, but taking kids away from TikTok isn't enough to give them their adolescence back

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Notifiche

Gen Z has discovered that working sucks

Work sucks, but the sooner you learn it the sooner you grow up

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Notifiche

The disappearance of faces

Actors and bakers, politicians and TV presenters all have the same face — retouched, botoxed, anonymised

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Notifiche

General Vannacci's hallucination

General Vannacci is the media construction the entire political spectrum needs

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