“We went down the hill”: Presentation
My new book of poems was presented on June 15th in the Casa della Musica by Enzo Santese, poet, a historian of literature and art critic, and by Claudia Azzola,…
“Sognarsi mortali”: una recensione di Dario Talarico al mio “Gente della mia vita”
Ritrovo oggi per caso questa recensione di Dario Talarico al mio secondo libro di poesie “Gente della mia vita”. La ritrovo bella e mi sento colpita dalla profondità del suo…
Titos Patrikios, 2009
Bello ricordare oggi Titos Patrikios con un mi pezzo ispirato dall’intenso incontro con lui e con i giovani poeti del Concorso Internazionale di Poesia e Teatro Castello di Duino nell’anno…
Complexity: a simple introduction
Truth as a process and not as a possession , writes Ignatius Licata. Complexity as a becoming of knowledge. From physics to social sciences, from big data to game theory…
on the border
on the border of hope, on the border of every pain, on the border between life and death, on the border between humanity and barbarism … She was only seven…
“Trieste live”. Interview about “Youth, Culture and Institutions V edition
Trieste live. Interview on “Youth Culture and Institutions” V edition, the important Study Days organized by the International Study and Documentation Centre for youth culture on the theme “Giochi/ Play…
Identitarian process: on “Anatomia del colpo di scena ” di G.Manfridi
“The absurdity of the plot twist is therefore to be read as a fictitious absurd caused by the overly true coming to crush our conviction that things were as they…
Migrations and exoduses
“The President Donald Trump has alerted the army in view of the arrival of the caravan of 5 thousand migrants on October 13th from Honduras. It’s a “national emergency.” Sadly,…
Amadou Jawo, drama of non acceptance and the Right to citizenship
Amadou Jawo, a 22-year-old young man from Gambia, hanged himself after receiving the long-awaited official news that he had not renewed his residence permit. His own comrades speak of a…
Legal existece and Citizenhip: The problem of accepting migrants
“The fact is that these last two years, in various ways, have definitely marked the break-up of the war on our continent and have shown it also through those who…
Ethics and “The City”
For a critique of Ethics, state and power / to establish the “city” The World Youth Forum Right to Dialogue XI edition was held on theme “Ethics of complexity…
Civil obedience/disobedience
About Civil Obedience / Disobedience. For a critique of contemporary ethics. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE A strong theme of democracy, which has animated entire movements of which no one would…
September 24: The ‘complexity of Ethics’. I talk about it for the RIA boradcast Sconfinamenti
“The trespasses begin within us and open us to a world that must be learned and built in dialogue ” Today an intense interview on the World Youth Forum Right…
September 16th: right of/ right to (after the Summer School on the citizenship of “minors”
Talking about the citizenship of the “minors” has immediately led to reflect on a fundamental difference in legal language, that between right to and right of. The “minor”, it has…
After some years…
After a few years of life, study and fight against cancer I resume attending this site and in particular my “intellectual diary” made up of readings and meetings, dialogue and…
2013, May 15th: Aby Warburg and the human tragedy
From “Lectuere on Serpent Ritual” cit. in Ernst H, Gombrich, Aby Warburg. An intellectual Biography ,1970 (italian transl.Una biografia intellettuale, Feltrinelli Milano 1983, p. 194): Quinto appunto Il mio punto…
2013, 6 maggio: Marvellous Schubert! //Emmanuel Levinas
Marvellous Schubert: sonata in A major D959 and Sonata in B flat major D960. Pianist Paul Lewis **** Thinking over “separation” and “transcendence” (from Totality and Infinity by Emmanuel Lévinas)
2013, 4 maggio: Paul Hazard and “Europe”
Da Paul Hazard, La crise de la conscience Europeenne (1935), trad. it Einaudi 1946 p. 483: Che cos’è l’Europa? Una forma contraddittoria, a un tempo rigida e incerta. Un groviglio…