Whether the pandemic has taken us away or given us time is an open question. It certainly took away our habits, but in many cases it gave us time to rediscover something forgotten. The time is the theme of Popsophia, in Pesaro from 8 to 10 July, a festival that makes philosophy an investigation of the contemporary. An appointment, dedicated to Marcel Proust, on the centenary of his death, to broaden the gaze thanks to critical thinking in the investigation of pop phenomena of mass culture.
In the city Capital of Culture 2024 afternoon debates, starting at 6.30 pm, in the Cloister of Palazzo Mosca and evenings of talk and music in Piazza del Popolo. Three afternoons with many guests and insights to crystallize thoughts around today and investigate the feelings of a country that is preparing to emerge from two years of emergency and is dealing with the great ghosts of the past. The evenings will be conducted with the Philoshows who see the alternation of talks with theatrical and musical performances.
The will is to broaden the view thanks to the tools of philosophy and critical thinking. «We wanted to pay homage to Marcel Proust, on the anniversary of the 100th anniversary of his death: Time regained is a wide-ranging reflection on philosophical and scientific time, but also in a pop key on what we feel we have to recover after the years of the pandemic and the lockdown that have restricted our world view and our physical spaces. The time we have lost and that we want to recover, the nostalgia for what is past, but also the anxieties for the future with the threat of the return of the ghosts of the past in the form of war hostilities “he said. Lucrezia Ercoli Popsophia Artistic Director.
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Many guests: from the queen of fantasy Licia Troisi to the duo of philosophers Andrea Colamedici and Maura Gancitano; the writer Igiaba Scego, the journalist Paolo Pagliaro, Carlo Cambi, Filippo La Porta, Carlo Massarini, Marcello Veneziani.
On 9 July at 6.30 pm in the Cloister of Palazzo Mazzolari Moscow Giulia Caminito, winner of the Campiello Prize 2021, goes to the discovery of the poetics of forgotten writers. For Vanity Fair you have created a selection of writers to be rediscovered by telling why it is interesting and important to read and rediscover the thoughts of these women.
Pia Rimini
To read why: He wrote about the condition of women and their pains of love, the sense of inferiority, marriage lies, the violence suffered by many at the beginning of the twentieth century. A writer who died from the Nazi persecution who has given numerous feminist and women’s rights conferences.
Amalia Guglielminetti
To read why: She was able to use late 19th and early 20th century Baroque writing to give an ironic note to the description of characters and events. She managed with intelligence to scoff at the superficial habits of men and women of the time, their aspirations and ambitions, prejudices and incapacities.
Virgilia D’Andrea
To read because: One of the most important anarchist poets in Italy, she traveled and held speeches all over the country, she paid for her poetry with prison and even from prison she has not stopped writing. She opposed Mussolini and told the life of some opponents of the regime.
Sibilla Aleramo
To read why: Telling his life he told the women of his time. She has been a very free woman and has paid for her freedoms and her numerous loves with a bad reputation for her books. In her pages there is the strength to make drastic choices and to devote herself to writing.
Marise Ferro
To read why: It was a very refined translator and a precise connoisseur of French literature who guided her writing. She has talked about the world of women with elegance and sensuality and has always written articles and interventions in their favor.
Livia De Stefani
To read why: She was able to remain eclectic and crossed various genres. You have written perfect short stories about the obsessions of the Italian bourgeoisie and have always had an avant-garde, rich and supple writing. She lived through the golden years of the second literary postwar but she remained in the shadows towards the end of the century.
Laudomia Bonanni
To read why: She is committed to teaching and children’s rights, she has told about women and their pains as wives and mothers always in a provocative and never banal way. In the latter part of her life she was abandoned by her editor and she stopped writing feeling forgotten.
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Source: Vanity Fair
