Ma va' là! – Page 5

Virus, linguaggio ed economia (appunti per resistere al collasso)

March 5, 2020 kappazeta Comments 1 comment

Will the Next Big One be caused by a virus? Will the Next Big One come out of a rainforest or a market in southern China? Will the Next Big One kill 30 or 40 million people? David Quammen, Spillover: animal infections and the next human pandemic …nel punto in cui si incontrano il sistema dei media e il nostro sistema nervoso. J. G. Ballard, citato da Antonio Caronia nella postfazione a La mostra delle atrocità Language! It’s a virus!Language!…

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Nulla è inevitabile: su capitalismo della sorveglianza e riappropriazione degli strumenti digitali (e delle nostre vite)

February 21, 2020 kappazeta Comments 6 comments

Cedere occhi, orecchie e nervi a interessi commerciali è come consegnare il linguaggio comune a un’azienda privata o dare in monopolio a una società l’atmosfera terrestre. Antonio Caronia, Virtuale Forget the cliché that if it’s free, “You are the product.” You are not the product; you are the abandoned carcass. The “product” derives from the surplus that is ripped from your life. Shoshana Zuboff, The age of surveillance capitalism Here, a not-insignificant percentage of the population has so decisively internalized…

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Provenza in bici: un percorso olfattivo-sensoriale

January 28, 2020 kappazeta Comments 0 Comment

Now that a few months have passed after we got back to our “normal” lives – even if sometimes our minds are still struggling to fit back in the ordinary – we are thinking to keep using this website as a place to share our projects: writing, radio, music, travels… whatever they might be. I’d like to start this new use with a page I wrote for a tourist book guide about Provence that never saw the light. So here…

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Une impasse bien française (of taxes and the state vs nomadic life or: I hate French bureaucracy)

December 9, 2019 kappazeta Comments 3 comments

Empires first and modern states to follow have always wanted to make nomadic peoples settle. They struggled to. They used force and violence to stop them from moving around. They set borders (which are inherently violent and deadly). Power was the reason: how can you impose power to someone whose movements and lives you cannot control? But that was history, right? Well, the intricate ways of French bureaucratic state are up to the task in 2019. It’s a kind of…

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Two Italian globe-trotter cyclists on the French radio: the podcast is now available

November 19, 2019 kappazeta Comments 0 Comment

I am back, in the end. Mery had moved back to Avignon at the end of august while I was still traveling and working around Europe. You know we had some issues with the flat we moved back to, so we decided to move (again!) and this will happen by mid december. That means that we are still surrounded by boxes (mainly books, a lot of new ones) and quite a few of our clothes are still packed. Is it…

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So… how is it to get back to “normal” life?

September 4, 2019 kappazeta Comments 1 comment

Long time no writing, we know. But the first three weeks back in Europe were a kind of friendly limbo for us: time spent in Faenza and in Bologna, families, friends, dinners and drinking, lots of train rides, washing and unpacking, just a bike ride (but hey, the Apennines are beautiful mountains, we almost forgot that!). That was not “normal” life, of course: no work, not in our flat, much needed time to catch up with what happened while we…

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More than two weeks around China: of a different way of traveling, pandas and dépaysement

July 6, 2019 kappazeta Comments 0 Comment

Since the moment we packed our bikes in Almaty we feel a little bit lost. After more than 8 months on the road, through seasons and countries, leaving the bike and keeping on going without them is weird. I have to say that it took me these entire first two weeks in China to get used to a different way of moving around. As I wrote on our Facebook page a few days ago: “on the bike the ‘in between’…

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Pour les amis francophones : notre carte postale d’Iran pour l’épisode 32 de Pause Vélo

June 12, 2019 kappazeta Comments 0 Comment

Enfin, quelques mots en français ! Et pas que de mots, même des sons ! Pendant notre voyage on a été en contact avec Pause Vélo, un podcast en français dédié au monde de la petite reine: des émissions pleines de belles expériences, des curiosités et d’humour, la bicyclette dans toutes ses possibles declinaisons. Notre petite carte postale est bien on air dans l’episode 32, publié aujourd’hui et disponible sur YouTube et sur Soundcloud. Vous allez entendre ma voix autour…

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Kyrgyzstan: the mountains, the beauty and the fun… in comics!

June 8, 2019 kappazeta Comments 0 Comment

What better than a rainy day in Almaty to put together some sketches about our much enjoyable time in Kyrgyzstan? For sure one of the most beautiful countries we’ve crossed on our bikes. And since our cycling days are over for this trip, better to indulge in good memories to keep our minds (and legs!) distracted from the fact that we are not riding, right? So… enjoy!

Uzbekistan, a country in between past and future

May 23, 2019 kappazeta Comments 0 Comment

After rushing through Turkmenistan, the first feeling when we crossed the border into Uzbekistan was: relax! Less kilometers and the time for a cold beer, as a kind of a reward. The more we travel East the less we know about the countries we are cycling through: on the good side, this gives us fresh eyes to look at what we see and experience. We like to talk to the people we meet, ask them questions and learn about the…

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