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2016 Programme

Event #30

Bruno Arpaia, Alessandro Zaccuri

The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes

Like the rest of us, civilizations also leave a mark in the space they inhabit. The proportions change dramatically, yet there is no real difference between the rubble that a climate catastrophe may leave in its wake and the small domestic apocalypse witnessed by our rubbish bins. Remains and rubbish, trash and waste belong to a daily aspect of our existence, simultaneously testifying to a destruction that has already taken place and warning against a planetary cataclysm which may still be avoided. The topic will be tackled by Bruno Arpaia, who imagines a future in which Europe itself is consigned to desertification, and Alessandro Zaccuri, who explores the narrative and artistic uses of rubbish.

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Bruno Arpaia

is a novelist, journalist, editorial consultant and translator of Spanish and Latin-American literature. He is the author of many highly appreciated novels, including L’angelo della storia (2001), Il passato davanti a noi (2006), L’energia del vuoto (2011), Qualcosa, là fuori (2016), all published by Guanda. His essays include La cultura si mangia! (con P. Greco, Guanda, 2013).

Alessandro Zaccuri was born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1963. He lives and works in Milan. His latest novels include “La quercia di Bruegel” (Aboca, 2021) and “Poco a me stesso” (Marsilio, 2022). Available in the Marsilio Tascabili is “Il signor figlio” (2023). He recently published an essay on “Preghiera e letteratura” (San Paolo).
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2016 Programme

Event #30

Bruno Arpaia, Alessandro Zaccuri

The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes

An idea of public space

That place called “home”

The space of words: Helen and Odysseus

The last day of summer

The birth of space (and time)

The birth of space (and time)

The space of war. The First Italian War of Independence

Immunity and the brain: a dialogue between two chief systems. From memory to vaccines.

New males: as teenagers, in couples, as fathers

Tv series: a newly emerged continent

Across the American deserts: a voyage through 20th century collective imagination

What do algorithms think of?

That place is gone

The space of rebellion

Other maps, other worlds. Representations of space

The analyst at the movies: thinking by images

From the stars to Life: one, one hundred, one thousand Earths

Architectural space in the past, the present, the future

Families confined and without borders

The best ideas of our lives. Make room for innovation (the real kind)

The space of absence: Patroclus and Andromache

On the other side of the sea

Play it again

The space of war. The second Italian War of Independence

School is an idea of the world

Asperger Talk Show

Let’s make space for stupidity

Voyages through spaces real and imagined

Is there space for us all? The future of European migrations

When painters left their studios to paint en plein air

The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes

Graffiti, tags and murals: when art extends to walls

The poetry of space. Words and drawings on that place we call home

The river is never wrong

Mirror neurons: anatomy of a revolutionary discovery

The boundaries of the soul and of the world