Actuality | Non-fiction

Sovereignty cannot be negotiated
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Of Adriano Segatori
Sovereignty cannot be negotiated
Source: Italicum
Sovereignty – this one with a capital S – is first and foremost a mental conception, a psychological attitude, a true spiritual style.
A characteristic of man is to talk about what no longer exists, and health is the most striking example of this. When people meet, they don't report good blood pressure data or the regularity of their bowel movements, but they list flaws, various annoyances and disorders. The exact same mechanism is in place for other issues that concern personal and collective life.
There has been rant about family and education ever since the family was decimated by individualistic selfishness and the exercise of the most disparate vicious rights, and education has been excommunicated by the exaltation of spontaneity and uncontrolled independence. Dozens of authorizations are required and school photos are prohibited in the name of privacy since everyone posts the most obscene revelations of their physical and mental life on social networks. We talk too much about freedom and democracy when houses are transformed into forts and the life of citizens is forced between cameras, grates and armored doors.
In short, the real void is always filled by an imaginary surrogate: it is the law of nature. Read More

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Actuality | World Economy

Here is finance without even financiers anymore
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Comment and report by Marco Milioni
It sounds like a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future… or the incarnation of an inhuman entity with diabolical traits? (M.M.)
Alexandre Laumonier is an expert in high frequency trading and artificial intelligence. He is the author of 6|5, a book that describes the history and protagonists of a story that seems to be told in a novel by Philip Dick. And which instead is terribly concrete, real, especially given the results of the crisis 2008. And Sniper tells it, a financial algorithm that can determine the successes and failures of entire companies in a few nanoseconds
The financial market crisis told by those who invented it. Who is not a broker and not even an unscrupulous capitalist. In fact, he's not even a man: it's just an algorithm. It's the idea he had Alexandre Laumonier, expert in high frequency trading and artificial intelligence. His blog Sniper in Mahwah it is among the reference sites in studies on current economic flows. It may be for this reason that Leumonier wrote 6|5, the Revolt of the machines, just translated into Italian by Linda Valle for the series Not of the publishing house Nero. Read More

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Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

Fiction and geopolitics, how storytelling tells reality
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Of Carlo Freccero
Fiction and geopolitics, how storytelling tells reality
Source: Formiche.net

Television writer, writer, mass media expert and political communication expert, in a conversation with Formiche.net he delves into a topic dear to him, lo storytelling politico, starting from American fiction

“Series are a form of geopolitics, they manage to make the real understood more than the real” and if to say it and Carlo Freccero you can't help but believe him. Television writer, writer, mass media expert and political communication expert, in a conversation with Formiche.net explores a topic dear to him, lo storytelling politico, starting from American fiction, capable, explains Freccero, to be ahead of the curve more than any other form of communication, also the election of Donald Trump to the White House. While in Italy…
He said fiction is truer than truth, what does it mean?
It's very simple, fiction must be understood as critical storytelling of reality. Because of this, in some way it is capable of anticipating this reality, because he knows how to grasp the spirit of the time. If I think and read Hause of Cards, which was the perfect portrait of Clintonism in its declinations, it was inevitable that Trump would then arrive. And not only that. Another sensational example of how the series have rewritten power is 24, which had already anticipated September 11th, what is called the state of exception, and I could continue. But there is a very important fact, that is, US politics can be understood through the critical vision of American seriality, what an eye opener, it does a ferocious debunking of reality that mainstream newspapers are not capable of doing. Read More

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