through europe

At the end of the decade which saw Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's Prime Minister and one of Europe's richest men, hospitalized by a well aimed plaster statuette of the Milanese Duomo it may be relevant to ask; what power can a model have?

He was sitting in the garden, like the previous day and the one before. The warmth of the grass, soft under the soles of his feet, suggested that the morning was starting. The old man stretched his back and curled his hands on his lap. He was keeping his eyes half-closed, as he had always done since his childhood, with the carelessness of blind people.

Politics

I can’t find a better way to talk about politics than talking about my own life and the lives of those around me.

I have just moved in with my new housemates. We are four in a house now, and it is taking us a long time to understand how to make things work. Take the fridge, for example. How are we going to share the space there?

 ‘Know that the entire world is a mirror,
in each atom there is a hundred burning suns.
If you break the heart of one drop of water,
a hundred pristine oceans will rise from it.
If you examine each speck of dust
you can find a thousand Adams…
In a grain of millet is hidden a universe;

"30/40 years ago we were still debating about what the future would be; Communist, Fascist, Capitalist, whatever...Today nobody even debates these issues, we all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes; the whole of life on earth disintegrating because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth and so on...
So the paradox is that it is much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism"