Steven Wilson at Combo in Milan presents Requiem For A Village, his new album out November 6: a preview listening session, a meeting with the audience and a DJ set.
Category: MAIN NEWS
PROJECT PANAMA: WHY ANTHROPIC DIGITIZED AND DESTROYED MILLIONS OF BOOKS
Anthropic’s Project Panama is making headlines these days. One detail in particular is hard to ignore: millions of books bought, cut apart, scanned, and then sent to recycling to feed artificial intelligence systems. But if […]
THE POINT ISN’T TO WEAKEN REFLECTION. THE POINT IS TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THOUGHT MUST GO.
About yesterday’s article, there’s one point I keep coming back to. They tell us that increasingly powerful systems could, within a few years, become a threat to humanity. It’s a scenario that deserves attention, certainly. […]
WHEN AI BUILDERS TELL US AI IS DANGEROUS: REALITY OR NARRATIVE?
The story got really interesting—and in some ways troubling—when Jacob Coxon, 27, a researcher who worked first at OpenAI and then at Anthropic, decided to leave with a pretty heavy statement: we are building increasingly […]
WHITE MILANO: FASHION, RESEARCH AND TRENDS IN A SINGLE DISTRICT
During Milan Fashion Week the city changes pace. Shows, presentations, events, showrooms, palaces, industrial spaces, locations that change every time. It is a diffuse kind of fashion, constantly moving around Milan and forcing operators, press […]
HERMÈS VS LOUIS VUITTON: TWO IDEAS OF LUXURY, TWO IDEAS OF POWER
The story between LVMH and Hermès has resurfaced once again and, beyond the financial aspects, it says a lot about two different ways of understanding luxury. Reuters has reconstructed court documents showing that as early […]
LONDON STARTS OVER FROM MEMORY. FROM SWINGING LONDON TO A NEW IDENTITY
LFW London Fashion Week kicked off on September 17. The first collections already show some interesting signals. Not a clear direction yet. Probably not even fully conscious. But something seems to be moving: London is […]
MILAN FASHION WEEK: BEYOND THE RUNWAYS, THE SUPPLY CHAIN DESERVES MORE RECOGNITION
From September 22 to 28, Milan returns to the center of international fashion with Spring/Summer 2027. The calendar is very packed and confirms how Fashion Week has become something more than the runway alone. Today […]
TOMMY HILFIGER BETWEEN URBAN SPORTSWEAR AND CLASSIC: NEW YORK FASHION WEEK, AMERICAN FASHION AND POP CULTURE
Tommy Hilfiger has always been a bit of a mystery to me. A powerhouse American brand. Instantly recognizable. With a significant history. Yet I’ve always struggled to really place it. On one side, […]
WHEN AUDIOVISUAL BECOMES A SYSTEM: WHAT’S LEFT OF THE WORK?
At the peak of image dematerialization, Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey chooses the extreme physicality of IMAX film. But it would be a mistake to turn this into nostalgic praise for analog. Nolan isn’t going backward. He […]
MICHAEL KORS, WHEN FASHION BECOMES ARCHITECTURE
At New York Fashion Week, Michael Kors brings Spring-Summer 2027 to the runway. He starts not with decoration, but with form. The reference is American modernism. Think Alexander Calder, Carmen Herrera, Ellsworth Kelly. Clean geometry, […]
THE QUESTIONS WE NEED TO ASK ABOUT GENERATIVE AI
HOW MUCH AGI SCARES US For years the debate on artificial intelligence focused on an almost philosophical question: could a machine ever think, create, or reason like a human being? Today that question is starting […]
VENICE 83 AND ITALIAN CINEMA. FIVE FILMS, ZERO PRIZES. THE PROBLEM RUNS DEEPER
Five Italian films in the main competition. Not a single award. That’s not enough to declare Italian cinema in crisis. But it’s enough to ask whether this result reveals something deeper. Italy did win one […]
RICCARDO SCAMARCIO. FROM ITALIAN CINEMA’S HEARTTHROB TO BEST ACTOR AT VENICE
For a long time, Riccardo Scamarcio was mostly the good-looking face of Italian cinema, the one from Tre metri sopra il cielo, who almost overnight became the idol of a generation and one of the […]
BBC, RAI AND OTT PLATFORMS. THE BATTLE TO KEEP AUDIENCES BY REINVENTING THEMSELVES
Sara De Marco published a reflection on BBC’s new direction. “Opening roads, creating paths, unlocking possibilities.” That formula strikes me as very effective. It captures the direction British public broadcasting is trying to take. […]
HUGEL. FROM MARSEILLE TO IBIZA, THE DJ WHO TURNED UP THE HEAT THIS SUMMER
Some tracks you recognize instantly. Even when you have no idea who made them. HUGEL built part of his success on that familiarity: vocals that stick in your head and beats that carry you […]
NINA KRAVIZ. FROM A SIBERIAN RADIO TO TECHNO’S BIGGEST STAGES
Today Nina Kraviz is one of the most recognizable names in global techno. DJ, producer, singer, and founder of her own label. Over the past twenty years she has built a very precise […]
ALDO, GIOVANNI AND GIACOMO. THIS TIME, THE NEW FILM HAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo return to theaters with Magari un’altra volta, directed by Tobia Passigato and hitting screens January 28, 2027. But this time, the trio seems to have chosen less predictable ground than traditional […]
PENÉLOPE CRUZ AND JAVIER BARDEM AT VENICE 83 WITH BUNKER
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem return to the big screen together at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival with Bunker, Florian Zeller’s film presented in competition. In the film they play husband and wife. Just […]
