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Zona Tortona: author Harriet Russel and the wonder of childhood
Per chi pensa che Zona Tortona a Milano esiste solo quando c'è il Salone del Mobile si sbaglia di grosso. Vi consiglio di percorrerla questi giorni . Magari portatevi ancora l'ombrello e un paio di scarpe comode e curiosate tra le vie. Sarete sorpresi di trovare artigiani e piccoli gioielli culturali quasi nascosti come la Libreria 121 (via Savo...
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May 24, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: book, experience, harriet russel, milan, social, sustainability, zona tortona | Leave A Comment »
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#13 Conscious project
Hasan Hujdur has the cool and calm collectedness that behoves a Dervish sage. Like a bridge over troubled waters, he spans the turbulent stream of wild and wily eddies and undercurrents that perturb the lives of lesser mortals. He’s a long-time denizen of Toledo, Oregon. But his own personal America is epitomised by a Buick Riviera of 1963 vintag...
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Feb 07, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: book, bosnia, buick riviera, hasan hujdur, miljenko jergovic, oregon, poet, review, toledo | Leave A Comment »
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#13 Conscious project
Formerly professor at Cambridge and currently Full Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence, the historian Paul Ginsborg is an important point of reference for the world of socially committed voluntary and charitable organisations. It's a world that includes a vast number of persons who all feel the need to actively ...
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Feb 07, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 911, blair, book, business, consumer, consumption, corporations, economic, economy, family, fiat, financial, florence, historian, internet | Leave A Comment »
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#14 Refresh
Mr. Sharpe, what is your relationship to information nowadays? Do you feel to be in contact with the babble of the world, to “refresh” is relevant for you and for a writer in general?
My relationship to information is like that of a fish to water. The very oxygen that feeds each cell of my body is tainted with information, and, to paraphrase K...
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Jan 24, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: berthelme, book, delillo, educator, emily dickinson, eugenides, franzen, information, internet, kafka, lilia ambrosi, literature, matthew sharpe, morrison, novel | Leave A Comment »
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#15 Techno-ecology
“Yes friends, I firmly believe that one day water will be used as fuel. The hydrogen and oxygen that go to make it up are a source of heat and light…” So spoke Julius Verne in 1874. His words not only strike us today for their foresightedness, but they also hold out hope for us in an age faced with at least three major threats such as food sh...
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Jan 17, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: activist, book, democracy, economy, editorialist, energy, hydrogen, jeremy rifkin, julius verne, lilia ambrosi, oxygen, review, thermodynamic, writer | Leave A Comment »
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#25 Innovage
“…that feeling we all have sometimes that everything we say or do is not our own, that we as people are only quotations from our environment, that we are carried along by the merciless stream of history and reality... the complications arise when one tries to give that feeling an identity. I do not think it can be done within a conventional nov...
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Jan 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: afraid, book, cinema, critic conscience, documentary, feeling, fiction, god twins, hamsun, historical figure, history, human complexity, identity, innovation, journalist | Leave A Comment »
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#0 Experimentation and innovation
It was Claudio Magris, the famous writer from Trieste and author of "Danubio" and "Microcosmi", who put illycaffè in contact with Inge Feltrinelli herself. The dynamic president of the homonymous publishing group leader in Italy in the book marketing sector through its Librerie Feltrinelli chain stores wanted illy espressos to be served at the bar...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bar, book, bookstore, carlo feltrinelli, claudio magris, espresso, illy, illycaffe, inge feltrinelli, la feltrinelli, librerie feltrinelli, megastores, milan, naples, shops | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
In his essay "How to write a dissertation", Umberto Eco recommends that students avoid playing the part of the solitary genius holed up in their room, writing. He suggests that we should always discuss things with others, so our work can be read and criticised.
Over the years, this warning has been a constant thorn in my side. I always try to work...
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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: acceptable, approach, artist, at home, best, black, book, creative, culture, genius, idea, job, luca campigotto, maestros, modus operandi | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
Can you tell us how your blook was created?
The process was different from the traditional route followed by Italian publishing and media. In 2005, we read an inquiry in El País entitled La Generación De Los Mil Euros: young people aged 25-35 forced into temporary jobs with a salary of 1000 euros a month. It was a similar situation to what we h...
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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: antonio incorvaia, blog, blog hunters, book, community, cooking, dialogue, e book, el pais, emotional, fiction, forum, germany, greece, holland | Leave A Comment »
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#26 Re-Evaluate The Error
The great Russian woman poet, Marina Cvetaeva, once wrote: “I’ve trained my soul to linger outside the window… I simply wouldn’t allow it
into the house, the same way as one wouldn’t let in a stray dog or an exotic bird”. That’s one, and not so infrequent, a way of keeping at bay those silly and seemingly unaccountable tricks played ...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: astrolabio, being unique, book, creation, desires, disorder, errors, ever tried, fail again, fail better, faulty behaviour, gabriella ripa di meana, idealisation, individuality, inevitable | Leave A Comment »
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#15 Techno-ecology
Established in South Africa seventy years ago, the Corporation currently employs 17,000 workers and operates out of countries in all five continents, turning out five million tons of paper a year. Thanks to these figures, Sappi [ www.sappi.com ] is the number one paper-milling company in the world. Its claim to leadership, though, has not blinded i...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bio fuel, book, communication, continents, corporation, deforestation, direct mail, electonic screen, energy, environment, fibres, forests, friendly, future, number one | Leave A Comment »
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#10 Nomadic knowledge
How much, do you feel, does literature contribute to the diffusion of knowledge?
In so far as they represent possible ways of living, mirrors in which to view ourselves, yardsticks that can help us in making choices and taking decisions, works of literature contribute to disseminating knowledge. The make-believe world of literature suggests that ...
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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: achei, article, artist, beppe fenoglio, book, bruno gambarotta, carlo emilio gadda, carlo lucarelli, community, dcisions, digital, experience, fiat, fragments, frame | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
“What the hell is it?”. American historian and writer Paul Collins’ literary travels, published in Italy by Adelphi, usually start from this question, which struck him when he came across some oddity found in an old book. A cultured, meticulous curiosity rooted in the need to understand what has been buried in and by history. To mark a passio...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aberration, abilities, autism, autistic people, beta testing, book, characters, company, curiosity, exploration, family, feelings, genetic and societal forces, history, humanity | Leave A Comment »
