Tag Archives: Italy
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
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: Temporal zones of ill-being
Elena Fontanari
‘Freedom!’, exclaims Ben during an interview conducted in Berlin in April 2019, ‘I desire only freedom: I want to choose where to live, which kind of job I can do. I want to move out from Berlin, visit my friends, my family. You know that feeling of being imprisoned? I feel exactly like this,Read 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