Politica
The idea of having time
I live, like everyone, in the terrible hallucination that time is infinite.
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
In New York, Italian certainties become provincial
In New York, Italian certainties become provincial, success shrinks, and even social democracy looks like an American novelty. Notes from Harlem on the stories we tell ourselves to keep feeling like the center of the world.
America has become a phantom limb
The America we thought we knew is gone, but we keep feeling it. Giancarlo Loquenzi on the phantom pain of an amputated point of reference
Media
Does the Gaza of the feeds have anything in common with the real one?
Alongside the real Gaza, made of war, siege and destruction, there exists another: an algorithmic Gaza, built by the feeds as a place of identity, guilt and moral belonging.
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
The public isn't always right
On the end of a collaboration, on the structural fragility of those who create for others, and on what it means to lose a dream at the hands of someone who never had one.
More articles
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
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
Gen Z has discovered that working sucks
Work sucks, but the sooner you learn it the sooner you grow up
The disappearance of faces
Actors and bakers, politicians and TV presenters all have the same face — retouched, botoxed, anonymised
General Vannacci's hallucination
General Vannacci is the media construction the entire political spectrum needs