Month: November 2019
"Elevation and depth": harmonies and contrasts in the Apollonian
ELEVATION AND DEPTH:
HARMONIES AND CONTRASTS IN APOLLINEO
29 NOVEMBER, 18,30 pm - MILAN,Β Court of Miracles
A Red Death in gray Venice
A year ago we published this article to honor the memory of Nicolas Roeg, who has just passed away. Today, on the anniversary of his death, and following the recent news events concerning the lagoon city, rereading these notes on the archetypal dimension of "Don't Look Now" can help us also reflect on human frailty in a world where desacralization and the constant threat of loss of meaning reign: a world that seems ever more dangerously, day after day, on the verge of sinking.
The esoteric futurism of the Russian Cosmists
Cosmism is the miracle of a synthesis that the West knew for the last time in the Renaissance and that took root in the Soviet Russia of the "space race" in the last century: an attitude rather than a real current, a crossroads of experiences and researches ranging from esoteric futurism to transcendental pragmatism, from magical realism to idealistic materialism, from humanism to transhumanism.
Charles Fort and the restlessness of the extraordinary
Critic of science that he defined as "exclusionist", that is, inclined to accept only data that confirmed accepted theories and reject data that cast doubt on them, Charles Fort proceeded, in the manner of the ancient collators of "wonders", to collect and analyze all the so-called anomalies, those "damned facts" that had no place in scientific models, influencing to a certain extent the whole sphere of the "alternative reality" of the twentieth century, such as ufology, space archeology and cryptozoology.
"Revolutions of Consciousness"
MENS EX MACHINA presents: WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2019 AT 19:30 β 2:30 Largo Maurizio Vitale, TURIN REVOLUTIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS THE LEGACY OF THE 70'S COUNTERCULTURE The political, musical, sexual, psychedelic, religious andβ¦
Spiritual autobiography
The transcription of two long interviews released in 1969 and 1971, as well as three articles published in "Ur", integrate and complete the autobiographical picture of Julius Evola, which the Roman philosopher had already exhibited in his 1963 work "The path of cinnabar". In the texts collected here, Evola ranges with great ease from youthful readings to mathematics studies, from futurism to Dadaism, from his relations with GuΓ©non to small portraits of famous people with whom he was in friendly relations, such as Marinetti and Ezra Pound.
The "Great Game" by Jacques Bergier
"Lover of the Unusual and Scribe of Miracles" (as his visiting card stated), co-author with Louis Pauwels of the cult book "The morning of the wizards", explorer of infinite spaces, cosmonaut of inner space, scientist, agent secret, visionary, alchemist: all the faces of Jacques Bergier in his autobiography, "I'm not a legend", just published in Italian by Bietti publisher.
