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Macro images of Berlusconi and his world.

Factories shutting their doors, jobless workers angry, without any need besides work and freedom. This surrounds us. It’s illusion. We are our work. Not machines. Machines are used and created by men which know how to use them and create them. We are our work. It comes from us, not from what we do, but from [...]

In communication lies the secret of evolution. Biologically and from an evolutionistic point of view it is almost immediate to identify in the capability of single-cells to communicate the key to the birth of multi-cellular organisms. The first molecules would aggregate to proteins or break apart only if they had a connection, a bond, a [...]

“Zarathustra’s gift of the overman is given to a mankind not aware of the problem to which the overman is the solution”
Lampert, Nietzsche’s Teaching, 18.
When will History be our new Light?

Italy’s protagonist in Politics and Economy, aspiring President of the Republic in Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (il Cavaliere) has decided to prevent further accuses and most probably saved his own reputation. He has taken a step back in the promotion of new proposal of law to stop all interceptions of private communications. His personal [...]

© Bill Eppridge/Life/©Time, Inc from the digital journalist

inside Milano’s central train station

No one, deep inside, wants a uniform.
No one desires to work badly.
The more conscientious he is, having a family or strong values, the less he desires to work in a “bad” environment and conditions.
The uniform is a violence: it creates a divergence between outside and inside, between work and no work, outside. As if it could be [...]

Homogeneity of the appearance of a photographic image guarantees completeness to a body of images. It bundles them visually and physically into a One, a Unit, enforcing their weight and importance. Just as “the look” of a painter’s work is given by colours and stroke, canvas and themes so it is with a photographer’s work. [...]

beppe grillo in torino, 2008 – © alessandro fais
Beppe Grillo, Italy’s most well known comedian and blogger has just concluded his Vaffanculo 2 (V2) Day, a one day event with theme: Information and its control in Italy. As Berlusconi (“Tar Head” reffered to his well known hair implants) chose “Forza Italia”, the most popular italian [...]