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The Vertiginous: Temporalities and Affects of Social Vertigo: Ordinariness
Elena Miltiadis
December 1932. A mark in time and a plan drawn on blank paper. A genesis. A date so recent that it could still exist as part of living memory. The dark pencil traced the regular shapes of streets and squares that soon became a new city, built by the fascist regime on reclaimed land thatRead more
Futile Political Gestures: The Politics of Prefiguration: Fascist Gestures in Predappio, Italy
Paolo Heywood
‘I myself remember how, in the 1930s, even in the midst of our anti-fascist engagement, we could only laugh at Mussolini’s posturing and gestures – the rigmarole of fascist ritual – without attempting to understand their true import’. (George L. Mosse) A crowd of men in black clothing filled the open area in frontRead more