In the Confined Space of Identity

After all, identity is the last remaining resource when there is a dearth of tools to imagine a different future, when we close our eyes to the possibilities of alteration.– Francesco Remotti, L’ossessione identitaria (translation by the author) From academic papers to claims in the form of TikTok or Instagram carousels, the leitmotif of the most […]

Three Colours, or: “What Will Happen?”

The story goes like this. There is a great artist, the greatest, perhaps, of all times. He is mysterious and enigmatic; he never made his word public, no one ever had access to his thoughts. It is painful to me to tell the tale, painful to keep it silent too, says Aeschylus’ Prometheus; as the years pass by, Zima – […]

One of these Sounds is Not like the Others, One of these Sounds doesn’t Belong

Every time I get the inspirationTo go change things aroundNo one wants to help me look for places Where new things might be found.– The Beach Boys There is a latent struggle that runs through much of Mark Fisher’s writing, and which finds its ultimate formulation in the introduction to the unfinished Acid Communism. Namely, the […]

Myth and Mass Media

Media Studies is a relatively young discipline. But its youth is a disruptive, feverish, tentacular one. There would have been no Media Studies without Marshall McLuhan, and, perhaps, no McLuhan without the outburst of the electronic era, and of mass media. The incalculable influence of mass media on society made necessary to pose certain questions, […]

Digital Patchwork, Shattered Narratives

«The chances are that you are reading these words on a mobile device. There is a good chance that you are spending a lot of time on that device every day. If that is the case, you are not alone» . When I first read the incipit to Digital Tarkovsky, it was 2018. The rudimentary […]

Remarks for a Metaphysics of Passages – Part III

Evil, the tendency to hold forms in their disintegration as if they were not always fragmented, is indispensable to the awareness that each passage is one. Evil is not horror in itself; it is horror for eternity.

Remarks for a Metaphysics of Passages – Part II

The totality of the past – of the images of the past – is the jewel brought as a dowry to a redeemed humanity. "There is a secret understanding between past generations and ours" – secret to everyone, even to the poles of that very understanding

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Remarks for a Metaphysics of Passages – Part I

Where theories fail, where cyborgs, brains in tanks, Avatars and Terminators dance without a stage, the real is articulated in the passage. And each passage is a practical dimension, it is the where and the when in which one cannot but proceed, or disintegrate.

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Beyond the End of the Night

Responding to Jean Monnet as follows: Europe will make itself in crises, and it will be the sum of the lessons learned on the path it has taken towards its own realisation.

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all that you ever hated all that you ever loved was here

Even if there is an order in the cosmos, it does not include the human being.

Radical Exoticism – Part III

Along the irreversible path of universal progress, nothing "wild" is dead, everything rises or will rise again with vehemence and virulence, "right in the heart of our ultra-sophisticated and ultra-vulnerable systems, disarming them" without gasping.

Radical Exoticism – Part II

Once the Earth has been circumscribed as a sphere, as a finite space, through the omnipotence of the media, all that remains is the fatality of circular tourism that is exhausted in the absorption of all differences

Radical Exoticism – Part I

If economy is libidinal, and libido is essentialy economical, can we think of a space in which appears a rational comunality?

The Hyperobject that therefore We are in (II)

The irremediable ontological caesura that materializes between the thing and the way it appears to other things makes all relations move on one, the same, side of the crack, leaving the outside lying on the opposite one.

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Towards a Post-Work Society

The politics of time offers a response to the crisis of work, inviting us to talk about the conditions for freedom and the kind of society we want to live in.

The Hyperobject that therefore We are in (I)

Attraction and repulsion coexist, on the one hand as terror for the unknown, on the other as a desire to unveil: a (ir)reality that emerges intermittently, at the interstices of the real, pushing us to question it.

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Exiting the Vampire Castle

We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other.

Ecology as Eco-logic

Ecology encapsulates a myriad of speeches, often tangent to each other but not directly related, frantically revolving around the nebulous core that is its principle, the question: how do we think ecology?

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Markets, Politics and the Political

Can economics be trusted in taking care of the most pressing questions of today in a neutral and unideological way?

Positive Thinking

The myth of positive thinking is one of the most peculiar figures of contemporaneity. What are the effects of this existential posture? What is its utility? And what are its causes?

Desire, Thought

Introduction to the "On Desire" Variation. It begins with the question about the ancient, obscure interlacement between desire and thought. But - why desiring?

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