Month: August 2021
The first Nietzsche and the birth of the tragedy
"No other book by Nietzsche has such a long and arduous preparation behind it": this is how Giorgio Colli introduces the most mystical and tormenting text of the German philosopher, whose death today is the 121st anniversary.
The "pagan" origins of the Bolognese festival of porchetta
Lorena Bianconi is the author of the booklet "At the origins of the Bolognese Porchetta festival" (Clueb, 2005), the celebratory occasion of August 24 which characterized the Bolognese summers for at least 500 years. The author questions the supposed medieval origins of the festival and through an anthropological reading of its rituality, the comparison with ancient pre-Christian cults and analyzing the ritual use of the pig in the ancient world, she concludes that it could be the relic of ancient rituals. pre-Christian connected with seasonal change.
HP Lovecraft, the New Babel and the advent of the New Dark Age
As some "Sunday critics" say, Lovecraft always put before the alleged racial hatred the viscerally felt horror in the first person towards the advent of the modern world, the empire of machines and total depersonalization, in which every individual and his highest visions are swallowed up and inserted in a cosmic framework of universal tragedy, devoid of any higher outlet. And New York was, of course, raised in the image of the New Babel, which engulfs ancient traditions and human differentiations in a continuous, abject ritual of collective depersonalization, standardization and dehumanization.
HP Lovecraft, the New Babel and the witch hunt 2.0
The controversy raised to the Hugo Awards 2020 on the literary and "ideological" legacy of HP Lovecraft has reopened the question, which exploded ai World Fantasy Awards 2011, of the alleged racism of the Providence Dreamer, which would make him a problematic author for some. But how much did HPL's "racialist" beliefs really influence the genesis of his work, and especially the drafting of The Horror at Red Hook, your most controversial story, a manifesto of the revulsion felt towards the city of New York?
Pupi Avati's fantastorico Elsewhere
For the 45th anniversary of the theatrical release of the cult film "The house with laughing windowsβ(August 16, 1976), we also propose this interview released by Pupi Avati to Andrea Scarabelli in October 2019, on the occasion of the release of βIl Signor Diavoloβ.
βThe house with laughing windowsβ: fetishes and (self) sacrifices
Exactly 45 years ago, on August 16, 1976, "The house with laughing windows", the cult-movie by Pupi Avati ascribable to the so-called vein of the Β«Padano GothicΒ». In the film, the disturbing element of the peasant culture in which the Emilian director grew up and more exotic black suggestions, from Caribbean macumbas to self-sacrifice shared by the mystic and the madman, converge.
