Tag: Italy
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Interview with Francesco Franchi of Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s top financial daily, on the role of the visual journalist. Some wonderful examples showcased in the video, and interesting to hear his influences, including Nicholas Felton. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Uncontrolled Denominations with Leone Contini Wednesday, 22 January 2014 16:00 Dumpling-making workshop 19:00 Performance-lecture, tea, conversation, tasting Venue: Delfina Foundation Guest artist Leone Contini makes art that plumbs the ironies and predicaments of Prato, Tuscany — one of the most stereotyped environs in contemporary Europe — where one-fifth of the population are factory workers from…
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The present democracy in the world that arguably come the closest to match Baudrillard’s theory of the transpolitical is perhaps the Republic of Italy under the Presidency of Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi’s three periods in Office (1994-1995; 2001-2006; and 2008-2011) makes him the longest serving post-war Prime Minister of Italy. Simultaneously, Berlusconi has had an extensive…
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I want to focus on my country, in order to recall two issues, very negative and correlated risks. First of all, I want to underline the “risks of the political atmosphere”, the risk that judges and PP can unconsciously be conditioned by “atmosphere influences”. A few days ago a first instance court in Milan sentenced…
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Beppe Grillo: Italian population living in a “gigantic ‘Truman Show’”
So the long-standing debate about the independence of Italy’s public broadcaster, RAI – addressed in Mapping Digital Media: Italy, and by the Open Media Coalition, Italy’s media reform movement – has now received the Grillo treatment. Italian comedian Beppe Grillo last week accelerated debate in Italy about the independence of broadcast media and journalism from…
Sameer Padania 