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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Continue readingThe idea of having time
I live, like everyone, in the terrible hallucination that time is infinite.
Continue readingCulture isn't enough
Reading the right books, learning the right names, getting into newsrooms, attending festivals and book launches: it could all look like access to power. Were we wrong?
Continue readingDoes 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.
Continue readingIn 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.
Continue readingAmerica 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
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingIf you want to understand the technological future, look at China
China shows something the West still struggles to think: the digital doesn't erase streets, bodies and neighborhoods, it coexists with them
Continue readingChatbots don't love us
Chatbots don't love us, but they can become real presences in the lives of those who use them. Who is responsible when a technical infrastructure becomes affective? We spoke with Valentina Peri, curator of Artificial Intimacies
Continue reading«Citizen Vigilante»: come si rende immortale un film mediocre
Il vero giustiziere di questa storia, alla fine, è proprio la commissione che voleva punirlo: ha dato a un film di Uwe Boll la sola cosa che non avrebbe mai potuto conquistarsi da solo, l'immortalità
Continue readingPortrait of Looksmaxxing
A twenty-year-old who calls himself Clavicular turned his own jawline into a company.
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Come le carte Pokémon sono diventate un investimento
Grading, aste, influencer e nostalgia hanno trasformato un gioco da cortile in un oggetto che vale soprattutto quando resta intatto
Continue readingL'AI è una bolla che non scoppia
Da tre anni gli analisti annunciano lo scoppio della bolla dell'intelligenza artificiale. Da tre anni i mercati salgono. È una posizione scomoda, soprattutto per chi ha ragione.
Continue readingCome Polymarket decide che cosa è vero
Una scommessa da oltre duecento milioni chiedeva se Zelensky avesse indossato un completo. Le testate dicevano di sì, Polymarket ha pagato il no. Per capire perché bisogna entrare nell’oracolo UMA, dove le dispute sulla realtà vengono risolte con un voto pesato dai token
Continue readingIl tuo ex non è necessariamente un narcisista
I social ci hanno insegnato a riconoscere esperienze che prima restavano mute. Ma quando il lessico terapeutico diventa un repertorio di etichette, finiamo per abitare le diagnosi che ci siamo dati.
Continue readingInstagram e il casting infinito della sinistra contro Meloni
La sinistra cerca un volto per sfidare Meloni: da Pacini a Salis, ogni settimana un candidato nuovo, ogni settimana lo stesso meccanismo. Intanto i veri avversari della premier arrivano dalla sua coalizione, non da Instagram
Continue readingThe internet has decided Erling Haaland is a 'babygirl'
The Norwegian striker stands six foot five, scores with the efficiency of an industrial machine, and carried Norway all the way to the World Cup quarter-finals. Online, though, he posts selfies with bunny filters, wears printed silk pyjamas, and handles memes better than the people who make them
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