Some media objects randomly collected during the journey.

A dialogue between Marco Polo and the Kublai Khan

Posted: December 21st, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Links & quotations | No Comments »

Forse l’impero, penso Kublai, non è altro che uno zodiaco di fantasmi della mente.
“Il giorno in cui conoscerò tutti gli emblemi” chiese a Marco “riuscirò a possedere il mio impero, finalmente?”
E il veneziano: “Sire, non lo credere: quel giorno sarai tu stesso emblema tra gli emblemi.”

Da Le città invisibili di Calvino.


Digital and real

Posted: December 6th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Ideas & points of view | No Comments »

“One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we
distinguish the digital from the real.” —William Gibson in a Rolling Stone interview, November 7, 2007


After a lunch with a friend

Posted: December 6th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Ideas & points of view | No Comments »

He suggested that truth should be considered an emotion. Interesting thought, Francesco.