Liquid Times Are Over. Solid Monsters Are Back

By | October 20th, 2018|LRO 98|

When I proposed that the book written with Professor Bauman be entitled "The Return of the Pendulum" it was because those words, suggested in his mail of 08/23/2012, strongly caught my attention. Wise is he who can read between the lines of the social discourse not only what is happening in the present but also [...]

The Cambridge Analytica Scandal as Symptom?

By | September 29th, 2018|LRO 93|

States began treating civil populations like data sets in the late 1990s.[1] In 2002, the National Security Agency (NSA), established its Information Awareness Office (IAO), whose motto is Scientia est potentia – knowledge is power. Since knowledge was now being produced in “ones and zeroes”, the agency understood it had to reorient its gaze.[2] A [...]

Berlin Chronicle

By | November 1st, 2016|LRO 52|

It is often said that Berlin will become the new London, the chosen home of a multitude of immigrant communities who shape and define the city's charm, along with a vast mix of young students and professionals, plus the presence of an enormous amount of artists and musicians. Previously, Berlin was known mostly for its [...]

A Syrian Love Story – documentary by Sean McAllister

By | October 30th, 2015|LRO 06|

"Between man and love, There is woman. Between man and woman There is a world. Between man and the world There is a wall".1   So goes the poem by Antoine Tudal, "Paris in the Year 2000", quoted by Lacan in the Écrits; but, as for Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, [...]