2015 Program
Event #25
Marco Belpoliti, Gianfranco Marrone, Anna Stefi
Laziness, fatigue, and our constant running
Nowadays, we only seem capable of the sort of laziness that Roland Barthes calls “sullen”: that is, loaded with all the guilt our lives are rife with. We want to be competitive, and up-to-date with the world’s rapid pace. But where is it we’re going? Are we still capable of halting, without perceiving it as defeat? What have we lost, since discarding the pleasure of wasting time, and perhaps not just that? Setting off from Roland Barthes, who describes the pleasure of laziness, we attempt to reflect upon these issues in current society: time and laziness, hesitation and weariness, idleness, waste, and the meaning of time set aside for nothing at all.
Marco Belpoliti an essayist and writer, teaches at the University of Bergamo. His works include: Il corpo del capo (2009); Pasolini in salsa piccante (2010); La canottiera di Bossi (2012); L’età dell’estremismo (2014), Primo Levi di fronte e di profilo (2015) published by Guanda. He writes for la Repubblica and l’Espresso; he co-directs the series «Riga» for Marcos y Marcos with E. Grazioli. With Stefano Chiodi he is coordinator of the online magazine and publishing house Doppiozero. Ahis essay La strategia della farfalla (Guanda) came out in June.
an expert in semiology, works in contemporary media, arts and language. His latest books include: Addio alla Natura (Einaudi, 2011), Stupidità (Bompiani, 2012), Gastromania (Bompiani, 2014). He teaches at Universitá di Palermo.
is an essayist and editor at Doppiozero, as well as a grant researcher at the Università degli Studi di Bergamo. She specialises in autobiographies and has published an ebook devoted to Georges Perec (Doppiozero).
Event #6
Alessandro Barbero
The historian's responsibility. Gaetano Salvemini: from Socialist interventionism to anti-Fascism
Event #8Approfonditamente
Marco Rossi-Doria, Giulia Tosoni
Kids and school: what, how and where are they learning
Event #13Approfonditamente
Adolfo Ceretti, Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Alfredo Verde
Gender-based violence: Perpetrators, victims and models of intervention.
Event #22
Alessandro Barbero
The historian’s responsibility. Marc Bloch: from the Sorbonne to the Gestapo prisons
Event #25Approfonditamente
Marco Belpoliti, Gianfranco Marrone, Anna Stefi
Laziness, fatigue, and our constant running
Event #26
Eugenio Borgna, Simonetta Fiori
Knowing ourselves and knowing others: a different way of being responsible
Event #35
James R. Flynn, Armando Massarenti
Without an alibi: a voyage across life’s greatest questions
Event #38
Alessandro Barbero
The historian’s responsibility. Ernst Kantorowicz: from the Freikorps to McCarthyism
Event #57Children / Kids
Sante Bandirali e Lorenza Pozzi di uovonero
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