The aim of the journal Contesto is to make theoretical dissemination on two main topics that in the last decades, contrary to popular opinion, are showing a vitality and interest that we consider worthy of attention and in-depth study for students, scholars and simple enthusiasts. On the one hand the phenomenon of independent publishing in all its forms, contemporary and otherwise, on the other the sociology of texts and more generally the book sciences, in

The aim of the journal Contesto is to make theoretical dissemination on two main topics that in the last decades, contrary to popular opinion, are showing a vitality and interest that we consider worthy of attention and in-depth study for students, scholars and simple enthusiasts. On the one hand the phenomenon of independent publishing in all its forms, contemporary and otherwise, on the other the sociology of texts and more generally the book sciences, in

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Salento Moderno brings together a range of private homes built since the 1950s in Salento, in the area to the south of Lecce: single and double-family dwellings which, in terms of quality and variety, represent a unique example of spontaneity and aesthetic anarchy on the Italian architectural panorama. The study is carried out with the contribution of three photographers and two historians of architecture, and examines a highly peculiar phenomenon from an unusual perspective. In

In school we learned that The Platonic Hyperuran was the heavenly place where things of the real world, imperfect by definition, exist in their most perfect form. We do not know if indeed the vases and flowers reproduced in Daria Tommasi's latest book are the perfect version of the flowers of this world, but no one will ever be able to prove otherwise, so you will have to trust.