Sociology
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Paolo Ercolani
The last God
Internet, market and religion are building a post-human society
A passionate reconstruction and a clear analysis of today’s Network society: we have information on everything but we don’t know anything, we communicate with everyone, but we don’t know anyone, we feel omnipotent beings, but we desperately look for a new God...
9788822055170year: 2012month: februaryformat: 12,5 x 21 cmpages: 240Mario RiccaRiace, the future is
How to defend ourselves from false beliefs and scientific lies
In Berlin, Wim Wenders has declared that “the true utopia is not the Fall of the Wall, but what has been achieved in some lands of Calabria, Riace in the head”. Enough to make a movie on it. But this is not an utopia. Developing intercultural model proposed by Riace is a future that has fluorished by now, reinterpreting in an original and surprising way the challenges of globalization.
9788822053831year: 2010month: marchformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 192Annamaria RiveraRules & fires
Metamorphosis of racism
Institutional racism nourishes people’s xenophobia and uses it to legitimize itself: a vicious circle typical of today’s Italy. The refusal of the migrants – if not as manpower –, the contempt of minorities and cultural difference draw the picture of a country on the brink of disaster.
9788822063076year: 2009month: juneformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 264Fabio MerliniThe unimportant efficiency
Essay about disorientation
In the age of efficiency, we are all asked to excel and keep abreast of the times. To stop oneself is a sign of inadequacy, a guilt; it is almost like an admission of defeat. Is there a way out?
9788822053770year: 2009month: marchformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 160Chiara PlataniaMazes of taste
From the gods' kitchen to McDonald's hamburger
In the age of genetic manipulation and global standardization of taste, food loses every kind of connection with tradition and memories of taste and smell. We have to trace the thousand-year-old story of nutrition to understand what is going on.
9788822053763year: 2008month: octoberformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 200
