through europe

I know there is one where women rule. Perfect matriarchy, with women sleeping with everyone and men looking after children. It is in some jungle in Africa, or maybe in South America. I heard there is another one where everyone shares everything, in some sort of perfect communism without bureaucracy or secret police. And there must be another one where people with mental or physical disabilities are treated like gods. Not sure where that one is, or how many people are there. Anyway, all of them, all these isolated tribes lost in jungles, I am sure, live in perfect harmony with nature, their spiritual selves, each other, the universe, animals, women, wealth...

1.   Uomini precari

Precari. L'umanità ed il mondo. Precaria. La condizione umana nel mondo. Incertezza, insicurezza, instabilità: il peculiare contenuto dell'esistenza collettiva. Il termine, “precario”, deriva dal latino precarìu(m), a significare propriamente “ottenuto con preghiere”, da prex, precis, appunto, “preghiera”. Nel diritto romano, ci riferisce alla concessione di un bene, gratuitamente o con un canone simbolico, con patto di restituzione, in qualsiasi momento e senza necessità di preavviso; ora, indica un comodato del quale non è stato stabilito il termine di scadenza e che prevede, quindi, che il bene dato in godimento, possa essere richiesto in restituzione in qualsiasi momento.

rubber to the road, roaring rage : burning. shelby gt and he jet setting arizona afternoon sunbaked desert setting, black and blasting fast. busting past, empty space. dense air, hot and sand. salt white blurring visions blinding, grey strip scissions sections right and left : Lee racing leftlane lest he die – test drive.

he hand heel holding the wheel, right between bottle and gear. whiskey wet his lips, cigarette breath. chuck the butt, had enough : eight years of endless effort, crosscountry constant concrete slabbing. fatigue facing, work waking fifteen hour days exerting. building bridges, making gaps : pissing from pittsburgh to portland, constructing the world. tens of tons a son of steel and stone, unshaven. alone.

Recent events in the East End of London around anti-gay stickers put up supposedly by some Asian youth have triggered clear manifestations of Islamophobic sentiments amongst LBGTQ groups in London. Thus far there has been no evidence as to who is responsible for the act. The stickers had quotes from the Qur’an that refer to Allah’s vengeance. There was supposed to be a pride march organised after the stickers were put up; the East End Gay Pride (EEGP), which was eventually cancelled [1].

At the moment in Japan, the government is trying to make the situation look as normal as possible, by veiling crucial information on the degree of radiation and the calamitous condition of the reactors. This menacing situation notwithstanding, it does not show any intension to terminate its pro-nuclear power policy. In accordance with the benefit of TEPCO (The Tokyo Electric Power Co), it is instigating temporal blackout in large areas outside central Tokyo, as if sending the message to the people: no nuclear power, no electricity.