Books
We come to Il nome della rosa in 1980 expecting, on the cover's promise, a medieval murder mystery. We get one, and a fine one, with seven dead monks and a Franciscan detective and a great deal of Aristotle. But the book's engine is not the murders.
Viewpoint
An asymmetric comparison of Camilo JosĂŠ Cela's La familia de Pascual Duarte and Layla MartĂnez's Carcoma (2021).
Books
MartĂnez's house does not haunt. It accounts.
Books
What I found in this book, and was not quite expecting, is that the question of margin and norm is not posed abstractly. It is posed through the body.
Books
Every Sidecar mixed to Meier's specifications is a kind of unconscious memorial to the fact that beauty has no politics, or rather that it is indifferent to them, and this indifference has always been beauty's most troubling quality.
Books
La Straniera is not a linear memoir of migration, but a constellation of scenes where language fails, doubles back, or invents itself on the spot.
agentic AI
When AI Stopped Waiting for Instructions
When AI Stopped Waiting for Instructions
We are transitioning, with breathtaking and heartbreaking speed, from a species that contemplates to a species that merely processes.
A Journey Through Stone and Self
An Architecture of Voluntary Captivity in the Digital Age
Own Your Orbit
(Some of) My album choices from 2025
We are transitioning, with breathtaking and heartbreaking speed, from a species that contemplates to a species that merely processes.
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Elegant, resilient, scarred by time and conflict, yet still standing.
Reflections on BenjamĂn Labatut's 'When We Cease to Understand the World'
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Reflections on Memory, Identity, and the Mysteries We Carry
A Journey Through Stone and Self
A work of such unflinching honesty, such controlled fury, that reading it feels less like turning pages and more like bearing witness to an exorcism.
In the words that Jean-Baptiste Andrea has given us through Mimo and Viola, we find an invitation to examine how we watch over those we love, and how, in turn, we allow ourselves to be watched overâseen, protected, and celebrated despite our imperfections.
An Architecture of Voluntary Captivity in the Digital Age
Why Critical Thinking Has Become Our Most Essential Survival Skill