Drrrrrrr…Drrrrrrr…Drrrrrrr… Lo smartphone vibrava derapando sul piano della scrivania come un insetto ferito. Per un attimo fui indeciso se schiacciarlo con un pietoso pugno sulla corazza nera di silicone o lasciarlo agonizzare fino all’ultimo ronzio …
Poesie
ci piombano addosso i dottorandi americani, desiderosi di studiare questa parte del mondo così spesso afflitta da esplosioni di violenza interetnica. Prima del loro arrivo non sapevamo che l’omicidio fosse un fenomeno indigeno delle nostre …
Poesie da Heimskaut
Ósigur Enn hefur veturinn betur Jörðin sporðreisist Sólin teygir sig eitt andartak upp úr sjóndeildarhringnum Hjarnið skurn undir fótum mér Sconfitta Ancora una volta l’inverno ha la meglio La terra s’inclina all’indietro Il sole si …
Seascape
Gliding past his wife’s pale shoulder, Pavel’s gaze rested on Cora’s smooth sunburnt skin, taking in every detail. Seated leg-crossed in front of them, she sifted the sand through her fingers telling them about the …
Eating Kebabs on the Ponte Vecchio: First-Year Writing and Global Perspectives at NYU Florence
Introduction In the Spring semester of 2013, all the teachers of Writing II (the second semester writing course for first-year students) at NYU Florence were asked to develop a global reading list and to replace …
Interview with Perri Klass and Larry Wolff
A New Humanism? Voyages: The centrality of the human being underpinning modernity is being challenged by biology on one hand and technology on the other. Is the formulation of a new humanism necessary, and if …
Ecology and Thought: Virus Sapiens and Homo Stultus
Nothing brings more evidence to human resources and human misery than a moment of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity to reflect on human nature through the microscopic lens of a virus. This unexpected …
Dall’Antropocene all’Ecozoico: La filosofia e il cambiamento climatico globale
Ho recentemente avuto occasione di scrivere un saggio sui discorsi tenuti dai presidenti dell’Associazione Filosofica Americana (APA) negli anni Trenta (1931–1940) (Henning 2015a). Districandomi fra gli svariati temi filosofici esposti in una trentina di discorsi, …
Paper Boats
An Artists’ Book by Patricia Silva & Lyall Harris This photo-documentary illustrates our common humanity and the distressing loss of identity taking place in contemporary mass immigration to Europe. Central to this book is its …
Calìbrio
Man and the environment have always been a necessary combination: human beings find their own identity both in a personal and a territorial way. The environment, to better shape its ethnological / anthropological needs, without …
Booked for Safekeeping: A multi-generational exploration of Community Policing and Mental Illness
“Booked for Safekeeping” is a short-form, non-linear, experimental video that addresses faltering outlets for the containment and expression of violent impulses, the reactionary bluster of discourse in contemporary society and the isolation and paranoia developing …
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