Have you ever been paid in visibility? Visibility is an odd currency, whose value increased ten-fold when the internet era kicked in – say, the beginning of the 2000s. If my visibility liquidity was converted in euros, I’d be a millionaire. What is this visibility retribution? It happens when a professional in some field, aContinue reading “Pay Per Laugh: Il Manifesto and the “Visibility” Currency”
Category Archives: Opinions
What We Talk About When We Talk About Satire
When I think about satire, when I think about my satire, when, in fact, I think about making my satire, I don’t talk about it. The process of creating a satirical illustration is clunky, an idea comes in waves – goes and comes and goes again, then I usually doze off – until, in aContinue reading “What We Talk About When We Talk About Satire”
Satire in Trump’s Era
Lately I’ve been thinking quite a lot about a Woody Allen’s sketch on Nazis, from the movie Manhattan.
Charlie Hebdo e i filosofi blogger
Mi è capitato di imbattermi, ieri, “sfogliando” la homepage de ‘Il Fatto Quotidiano’, in un post di Diego Fusaro, professione “filosofo”, dal titolo Charlie Hebdo, perché sono utili idioti servi del potere. Un titolo che mi ha incuriosito perché amo farmi spiegare il perché delle cose dai blogger, che sono, si sa, tutti un po’ filosofi –Continue reading “Charlie Hebdo e i filosofi blogger”
Alcune Riflessioni Attorno a Charlie Hebdo e alla Satira
C’è un piccolo esercizio mentale che va fatto, quando ci si trova davanti ad una vignetta satirica: accettarne la sfida.
