As someone before me has already pointed out, there are various elements that unite the communication of Renzi, the aspiring leader of the Italian left, to that of Pope Bergoglio. First of all, the constant effort of appearing in rupture with the past and with the predecessors. Verbal, body and advertising language communicate only one thing:
Observing the language of the press linked to the phenomenon of grillism is an excellent method to grasp the systems of thought and methods of propaganda. Let's try to draw some lines starting from ilfattoquotidiano.it. By analyzing the semantics and lexicon of titles and articles, we can easily see how often terms occur
From a linguistic analysis of the recurring expressions in job advertisements and in the descriptions that companies provide regarding the mission and the search for new staff "to join the team", it turns out that, in addition to there being little material for the more standardized, it always oscillates between
When it is time to march, many do not know that the enemy is marching at their head. The voice that commands them is the voice of their enemy. And whoever speaks of the enemy is himself the enemy. Bertold Brecht, On the wall, in Brecht, Poesie, edited by L. Forte, Einaudi, Turin, 2005.
It seems that Travaglio was admitted to emergency hospital this morning. «I exaggerated – he said – I really exaggerated» – commenting on the muscular atrophy in the genitals which seriously affected him. «The government crisis was too exciting: I masturbated 89 times yesterday alone; I just can not stop; I don't have it
A political (or even, simply, electoral) project should not be a program divided into points in which one promises to do this, this, and that. A political project - or a leader who embodies it - should imagine Italy (or even Europe and the world) in the next five, ten, twenty
Social democratic thinking is certainly a minority and marginal thought in this historical context. And, certainly, the hegemonic role of market ideology keeps him even further in the corner and paints him as old. Unfortunately, however, it is equally true that, especially in Italy, there are no sufficiently authoritative and intelligent figures to get it off the ground.
To find an answer to why we arrived at the Letta government I would start from the words of Antonio Gramsci: "Some whine pitifully, others swear obscenely, but no one or few ask themselves: if I too had done my duty, if I had tried to assert my will, my advice, it would happen
My translation for Daidaidai Milano of the article by Ian Traynor which appeared in The Guardian on 24 April 2013. Citizens' trust in the European Union has fallen to historic lows in the six main countries of the Union itself, raising fundamental questions about its democratic legitimacy for more than three years in the worst crisis that
If we all began to behave as well-informed citizens, we participated with intelligence and culture in public affairs, we had a sense of community and the sense of being part of a common project, things would gradually (but significantly) improve and we could finally go back to be a country of which
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