Short critical essays

Exercises in analysis and resistance to give tangible expression to how power takes shape, and how it shapes reality.

01 - Il paese dei ba-bà

What happens if we pull The Betrothed out of the past and look at how power is wielded in a small town today? This short essay plays with comparisons between the reality of local life and the classics – from Manzoni to Weber to Plato.

02 - Dove non si vede nulla

“The job of a light is not to shine in all its glory. The job of a light is to stay lit.” A father’s resistance to the crushing weight of the Wehrmacht inspires the strength to look beyond the darkness that reason sees.