by Mauro Carbone Mauro Carbone is Distinguished Professor of Aesthetics at the Faculté de Philosophie of the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and an Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Influenced by phenomenology, in particular by Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, his present researches focus on the contemporary screen experiences and...

The pandemic has taken a sledgehammer to most of our contemporary experience, and the global movie industry has been especially bludgeoned. This time, is cinema finally dead?

In a commencement speech to Kenyon College, David Foster Wallace tells a story that sounds like this: “There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?”

Yiğit Soncul & Jussi Parikka This article was first published in Paletten (online) on April 28, 2020 and is reprinted here with permission. I With increasing intensity over the past year, an image has occupied the faces featured across media. From the Australian forest fires to the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic, a visual...

Read this darkly funny in-progress comic by Ivan Ascher about how COVID-19 is turning college campuses upside down--or were they already being turned upside down by administrative politics, new student attitudes, and the neoliberalization of higher ed? Ivan Ascher is an associate professor of political science at the University...

Originally published in Gagarin Magazine (Italy), this interview has been reprinted here with permission. Antonio Gramentieri, aka Don Antonio, is a musician, producer, and journalist. He has worked, as a studio engineer or a musician, with artists such as David Hidalgo, Jim Keltner, Evan Lurie, Marc Ribot, John Convertino, Giant...

It was March 5th, and Italy had already fallen into the coronavirus emergency when, during an online video forum, I heard the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco suggest considering the pandemic as "the first major crash test of the digital era."

The short story of the U.S. 21th century is the tale of four disasters. The first was the response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001–the invasion and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the ensuing era of permanent war and suffering in the greater Middle East. The second was the failed response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

by Rachel Ida Buff Rachel Buff is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an immigration historian. Her most recent book is A is For Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move (2020). This essay was originally published on Medium and is reprinted here with permission. I. Caravan:...

By Dario Cecchi Dario Cecchi is a professor of philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome. This article initially appeared on Fata Morgana Web and is reprinted here with permission. Author’s Note Italy is the European country in which COVID-19 first started its spread and the one in which the number...