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Michael Collins, the Silent Hero
This story begins in Rome in the early 30s. A beautiful young nanny—let’s imagine her as a kind of Sophia Loren or Monica Vitti—lulls a baby. He is the son of an American couple, the Collins, who, for work reasons, live in Italy and have hired her (despite she barely speaking English) to care for | … |
Legacy, Poverty, and Marginalization
It is possible that the tinge suggested by the concatenation of the title I have chosen for this text might strike the reader as obvious—like everything that gets trapped within a discourse. So, I must warn you: though we might get to the same point, this route won’t parade any enemies for stoning, nor fathers | … |
Faced with Utopia, Give Yourself a Place
It was exactly 500 years ago that the first edition of Thomas More’s On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia appeared. Utopia, as it is commonly known, turned out to be a signifier that has managed to adhere—without it being its original aim— plenty of human projects of the | … |