through europe

Il grosso del concentramento è sotto il fortino militare di Exilles, da cui partirà il corteo principale in direzione del cantiere dove sorgerà il Treno ad alta velocità. In testa, lo spezzone dei sindaci no tav, con tanto di fascia tricolore a tracolla. Dietro i bambini, con palloncini e cartelloni colorati.
Prima della partenza del corteo principale, un nutrito gruppo di giovani si stacca per dirigersi verso Sant’Antonio. Siamo tra loro.
Il sole splende sulle nostre teste, mentre proviamo a immaginare quanto forte potrà battere sulle zucche vuote chiuse dai caschi blu.

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.

Geeks are a nice species of creature. Cutely dressed, delicate, fragile, softly spoken to the point of mutism. Yet, they have managed to colonize the collective imagination of an entire generation. This generation. But who are the geeks? And how could this species of shy elves take over the innermost sanctums of the western cultural environment?

All’inizio dell’autunno 2010 Sergio Marchionne ha dichiarato che lui vive nell’epoca dopo Cristo, e non può stare ad ascoltare le considerazioni che provengono da gente che vive nell’epoca prima di Cristo. La blasfema metafora di Marchionne vuol dire che da quando esiste la globalizzazione non si possono rivendicare quei diritti e quelle garanzie sociali che vigevano prima della globalizzazione.

In the early autumn of 2010, Sergio Marchionne declared that he lives in the AD era and cannot be dealing with listening to people who come from the time Before Christ. This blasphemous metaphor means that from the moment globalisation came into existence it has become impossible to defend the social rights that predated it.

"The first thing you have to understand is that this is a fucking professional environment. "It's like any other job. "But its also a lot tougher, you can't blink for a minute, there is always an opportunity to boost your value, make connections, develop your brand. "But we're also not looking for any grandstanding, you aint shit at the moment, and if you peacock yourself around like an asshole, no one is going to want to give your tragic ass a break - no one wants some over inflated ego or some old meat.

He hadn’t the time to get changed and the collar of his shirt was starting to annoy him. It was a stiff collar, almost ceremonial. Considering the total price of the shirt, that short strip of fabric must have been worth at least ten pounds. More or less the reimbursement fund for a whole day spent at ‘work’. And, to be at ‘work’, this kind of shirt was compulsory. There wasn’t a real uniform, apart from the price-tag of the clothes.

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At the end of the 1960s young and cocky Situationists like myself talked of the  Japanese economic miracle – because then it was the Japanese miracle –as being fuelled by amphetamine. The evidence was anecdotal, but it was well known that the cheaply-made drug was a major business for the Yakuza. This particular miracle was manufacturing-based, electronics and autos figured prominently. In modern parlance, it was Fordist.