In a strongly masculinized society such as ours, the female body is inevitably the scene of a conflict that is played on both the ethical and the aesthetic level, to the point that between two phenomena conventionally linked to fashion, like the miniskirt and the mustache, the former generates more sensation and chatter than the […]

Pornography exists in our society as a heterotopia, namely a space with specific boundaries, within which common rules, practices, expectations and interdictions are suspended, transformed or even subverted. Is it yet possible to imagine a “trespassing” of porn beyond the space that it has been assigned? If so, in what terms? An adult film actress […]

New technologies, especially social media and algorithms, have reinforced existential tensions that are changing culture today and contributing to the fragmentation of the social fabric. How should we act in order to subvert these dysfunctional developments? Engineer and entrepreneur, Nell Watson works in the field of artificial intelligence and studies the ethics of machines and […]

Although Native Americans are the true Americans, they live as exiles in their own lands. Thus, they entertain a very complex and conflictual relationship with their own identity and with their own places. Art and music are strongly marked by these conflicts. A graduate in piano at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory of Bari, Emanuele Arciuli […]

Let us imagine our everyday language as a space in which we venture daily, and we exchange a certain type of objects (words) following certain rules. Within this space, however, they can create frank areas, real heterotopias where the rules of ordinary language are transformed, suspended or reversed: it is the poetic language, which is […]

Let us think about a dish as a physical and symbolic place, where one can explore ancient and future flavors, near and far, attractive and sometimes even scary. In this place, indeed, one could also find something seemingly unacceptable: an insect, for instance. Is it possible to rethink our gastronomic culture starting from bugs? After […]

Memes have never been just an innocent joke, but an actual language, with its own grammar, codes and rules. A language that comes from an immaterial heterotopia called the internet, and that we all inhabit as citizens. So how were memes born, and how has their function evolved over the years? Alessandro Lolli holds a […]

Although the sea appears as the most hostile of spaces, almost a negative image of our adaptive environment, that has not prevented humans to face it and cross it, up to colonize all the lands and habitable islands in our planet. How could that happen? How can we define our spirit of adventure, and how […]

School is the space where to imagine a better society, which we do not yet know: this is why it is important to rethink the school not as a place for learning and evaluation, but as a place to exercise equality and resist the ideologies of individualism, competition and of violence. Christian Raimo is an […]

In an age of social, ecological and economic reorganization, the common feeling tends more and more to perceive the city as a hostile space to live in, quite the opposite of our homes. Is it though possible to reverse this point of view, and to find out that we can feel even safer in the […]