Hijab and the Market
The lead photo from my new article, Cultural Programming, in Tuesday’s Souciant. Taken in Torino, mid-May.
Feature photograph for Joe Lockard’s Common Protests. Shot in London on March 26th, at the anti-cuts protest.
Archived entries for Italy
Captive Audience
“Waiting for Berlusconi,” I joked. Sidewalk sale, en route to Milano. Torino, July.
Greetings From Berlin
Or so I meant to title this post, originally, when I was back home, in Neukölln, last June. In town for a week, to renew our visas, I’d very much hoped to start working on this blog again. Alas, I did not have the time. The first time back in Germany, in two months, we had more than our fair share of things to take care of. Now in Torino, for the foreseeable future, I have every intention of getting back in the saddle, finally. I’ve missed blogging.
The main reason for my absence has been Souciant. Co-editor-in-chief, I’ve been serving as managing editor again, a role I am very familiar with. I’ve also been writing a thousand to fifteen hundred word piece a week, which I’ve been running every Monday, or on Tuesdays, when I am behind. I’ve written approximately twenty essays, 99% of which are keepers. The text will end up constitufting a big part of my next book. That’s been the idea.
Over the last week or so, I’ve been slowly updating different parts of this site. The Press and Clips sections have been brought up to date, with links to my recent publications, as well as to coverage. My good friend Doug Henwood was kind enough to host me a second time this year on his Behind the News show. Our conversation aired last Saturday, courtesy of KPFA in Berkeley. The subject: Anders Breivik, and the European right.
It would be really nice if I could talk about something else going on in Europe. Hence, the wishful thinking of this leftwing sticker, with the image of Lenin. I found it pasted to a mailbox around the corner from our apartment, in Berlin.
Live From Malpensa
A Shepard Fairey doubleshot. My only advice would be to insert the title “Despair” on the cover of Rolling Stone, in place of “Silvio.”
I realize it won’t fit as well on top of il Tricolore. However, I prefer to think of these great magazine covers as though they were a pair.
Mobile phone photo. Malpensa airport giftshop, Milano, November 2009.
Triumph of the Will
NYU Film Institute flyer meets Nazi swastika. Note the Obama campaign slogan détournement. Rome, January 2010.
Pasolini’s Eyes
For someone who died in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to exercise an enormous shadow over Italy. Wherever we were – Rome, Bologna, Florence – flyers inevitably found new ways to repurpose his name.
In this instance, the subject was Pasolini himself. Advertisement for a documentary about the late leftwing director at the Cox 18 spazio sociale. Casa occupata Via Dei Transiti T28 door, Milano, January 2010.
Milanese Pan-Arabism
Egypt is often associated with the color yellow. Viale Monza, March 010.
Syria brands itself as a tourist destination. Piazzale Loreto tube station, 02/10.
In Milano, couscous is frequently found on pizzeria menus. Loreto, 01/10.
