Odd numbers“I like telling stories that won’t be out of date by tomorrow,” says producer Michele BongiornoFrom marketing to film production, and a documentary film about Lucio Fontana. “I’m curious to see where artificial intelligence will take us, but at the same time I try not to let myself be swept away by the rush.” InterviewbyFrancesco Palmieri4 OCT 26
the interviewMarcello Fois wins the 64th Campiello Prize with his mature novelThe Sardinian writer and the immense distraction. “Literature serves to connect, something we never do. We are a country that confuses everything, complication with complexity, but the latter is necessary.”byGiuseppe Fantasia4 OCT 26
It’s time for false prophetsTodd and the other Pythias, paid by the West to proclaim that we shall all die because of progress and freedomFrom Chomsky to Butler, right through to Agamben and the sociologist – scion of the French intelligentsia and author of "La dislocation". It is the age of impostor oracles, weary of the democracy in which they wallow and all too fond of autocracies.byGiulio Meotti3 OCT 26
THE BOOKSo much has been written about Moses, yet his mystery remains elusive Drawing on the etymology of the Greek verb from which the word ‘phantom’ derives – and which relates to the semantic field of ‘appearing’ – Giacomo Petrarca explores the figure of Moses, starting from what he defines as an ‘excess of presence’ byMatteo Moca3 OCT 26
In the house by the seaNavigating the perilous chaos of memories with Jon Fosse“Lei è Ales”, by the Norwegian Nobel laureate, is a novel about love, grief and waiting, which precedes the monumental “Settologia”. More than twenty years after its initial publication, it is now available in bookshops from La Nave di Teseo.byElisa Veronica Zucchi3 OCT 26
MagazineMe contro Te, the child-charmersThey make them fall in love and then sell them all sorts of things. How Luì and Sofì’s machine works (which may well have jammed)byLicia Raimondi3 OCT 26
magazineIt’s not just Ranucci. Here are the new trailblazers of journalismOn the stage where Ranieri and Caselli used to perform, there are now Travaglio, Cruciani and Saviano. Journalists are now the stars of our time; they make constant appearances on stage and call them ‘shows’byFrancesco Palmieri3 OCT 26
Current affairs from an anti-modern perspectivePalazzeschi, the futurist who was wary of progressAs he reached maturity, the writer gradually distanced himself from the avant-garde ideals of his youth. Yet he retained an awareness that history does not turn backbyGiuseppe Balducci3 OCT 26
boundless aspirations and more nonsenseAlfred Jarry and the essence of the absurdA hundred years ahead of the ‘trolls’. His Pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions, is alive and well. With Ubu, he derailed logic and common sense. This is the debt of gratitude the 20th century owes himbyMarco Archetti3 OCT 26
A Love of ArchitectureArt and technology. Spartaco Paris’s pamphlet “per un umanesimo politecnico”The author seeks to break new ground, refusing to resign himself to an inevitable technocratic fate. Practising architecture, today more than ever, means focusing first and foremost on building services, even before any formal considerations.byManuel Orazi3 OCT 26