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The sound of poetry. The case of “Andata e Ritorno” Festival

We grow up being used to the idea that poetry is something boring. This scenario is luckily changing. There are a lot of poets who want to stay inside the modernity, want to write about it and above all they…

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Exploring the world between nostalgia and desire

In such a rapidly changing world certainties are strongly needed, and communities share a painful nostalgia for an idyllic past. While powerful people try to stop time a growing tribe of innovators and non-prejudicial individuals build a sort of network…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Why should we care about the arts?

Many things are disappearing from the political agenda: the emerging economic paradigm is totally ignored, as if nothing had happened in the most recent years showing the final breath of manufacturing capitalism; the new social complexities are feared, as if…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Emerging Culture: Weak Labels vs. Strong Views

For many years culture has been too slow: static, self-celebrating, devoted to a club of presumed cultivated individuals; the convention used to consider culture as the source of spiritual value, therefore objective and eternal. Slow culture cannot evolve. Recently what…