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A trip to Georgia

Tbilisi – Georgia – sits quietly on a corner of the Caucasus, not Europe anymore, not…
Existenzminimum in Hampstead

There was a time when Modernism‘s programmatic fracture with exhausted ways of building, dwelling, thinking was celebrated…
Digital Vanguardism: Internet Trends 2018 & Adair Turner

Apropos Digital Vanguardism, two nice pieces of information are out: [A] – Mary Meeker’s long awaited “Internet…
Apostasy

A stuffy atmosphere pervades Kingdom Hall, the suburban assembly point for the small community of Jehovah…
Stillness – “can art ever be more complete, more powerful?”

Just when one feels overwhelmed, the mind cannot stop wandering around, thinking becomes pointillist and will…
“Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less” (Marie Curie)

Quick notes jotted down after the splendid seminar / conversation between Yuval Harari (of “Homo Sapiens”…
Smart Creatives

The best cultures are aspirational. “Over time many companies get comfortable doing what they have always…
Ross: The Industries of the Future

The importance of a book like “The industries of the future”1 by Alec Ross can hardly…
Silicon Valley and Utopia

In a deep contribution (“Occidente senza Utopie”, Il Mulino, 2016: see video below: Italian), Massimo Cacciari argues…
Katharsis

Modern art is an attempt to burst free of the constraints of tight narrative structures, a…