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March 2020

ARE YOU HAPPY?

During his residency at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, the photographer Göran Gnaudschun (b. 1971, lives and works in Potsdam, Germany) avoided the postcard-perfect Rome that attracts millions of tourists. For the series Are You Happy? the artist instead trained his lens on the Eternal City’s eastern periphery and its residents. They live in cramped conditions, in tenements surrounded by brownfields. Only a stone’s throw away, the ancient city wall sep
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April 2020

COLORE INFERNO

Colore inferno Artisti spezzati dalla Grande Guerra speaks and fantasizes about various artists who died during the First World War: Umberto Boccioni, Antonio Sant’Elia, August Macke, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Louis Pergaud, Saki, Mata Hari, Luciano Serra, Franz Marc, with the language of sequential images. The volume contains nine stories where Cecilia Valagussa and Ariel Macchi tell the unfortunate and allegorical events of each artist, whom, for various reasons, participated in the First World W
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April 2020

NÉ OBBEDIRE NÉ COMANDARE

This revolutionary declaration precedes by almost 2500 years the historical appearance of anarchism, which built on its philosophy of life precisely on the refusal to command and obey. The original approach of this libertarian lexicon is precisely to approach the anarchist idea in an absolutely non-canonical way, or through keywords that apparently have nothing to do with a political ideology, but rather refer to an existential perspective. What is exposed here is in fact a pra
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April 2020

PER UNA SOCIETÀ ECOLOGICA

Is there really no remedy for this phenomenon called "civilization" which appears to be on the verge of destroying a natural world formed in millions of years of organic evolution? Certainly the solutions must be found far from the prevailing instrumental reason, which responds to the logic of domination over nature rooted in that dominion of man over man who has shaped both our social structure and our vision of nature. In fact, Bookchin shows how it wa
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April 2020

HOW TO BE A GRAPHIC DESIGNER WITHOUT LOSING YOUR SOUL

Graphic designers constantly complain that there is no career manual to guide them through the profession. Adrian Shaughnessy draws on a wealth of experience to provide just such a handbook. Aimed at the independent-minded, it addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work and avoid becoming a hired drone working on soulless projects. It offers straight-talking advice on how to establish your design career and
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April 2020

I SEEM TO LIVE. THE NEW YORK DIARIES, 1950–2011. VOL 1

I Seem to Live. The New York Diaries, 1950–2011 is Jonas Mekas’s key literary work. The first volume of this magnum opus, covering the period from 1950-69, appears posthumously one year after his death. It stands on an equal footing with his cinematic oeuvre, which he initially developed together with his brother Adolfas after their arrival in New York. In 1954, the two brothers founded Film Culture magazine, and in 1958 Jonas began writing a weekly col
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