Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Spotting Scope Gordon

Alberto Abruzzese and the art of living



Daniela Paola Aglione

" The great political thought that has affected the entire West s'incardina the Greek polis, the Roman civitas and then the Renaissance city. Think about these steps immediately bring attention to the Politics as art land, housing, and then the arts and the tools with which one can govern a whole. "These words spoken by the enigmatic smile of the great intellectual Alberto Abruzzese, before shoot zero on 'Subway Italian experience, defined as a cultural and political disaster.

Unlike foreign European metropolis, the few populous Italian city did not have the ideal conditions to enjoy the great transformation: large surface, large resources, convergence of the masses from different corners of the state or from abroad.

Experience subway has been lived through the experience of television viewer. The offer extended (...) more channels with the arrival of the next Mediaset Rai monopoly, was able to bring to life the citizen-viewer the spectacle of variety: new territories, new geographies, the "foreigner" The other examples of lives and cultures ... all experiences in practice in London or Paris, but in Italy that are worn outside the box table.

Although somewhat original, the cultural and social phenomenon turned out to be almost a disaster: the citizen-viewer is soon transformed into a consumer, Italian politics, already weak with his charismatic figures revealed broad consensus only for the quality of representation through the stereotype of a spoken language, gestures, imaginative, consistent with a language - the television - that for better or worse had school. Sometimes literally.

Read the whole interview Alberto Abruzzese HOUSE ON LIVING AND BUSINESS

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