“Advice: don’t read/ A Clockwork Orange – it’s a foul farrago/ Of made-up words that bite and bash and bleed./ I’ve written better books… So have other men, indeed./ Read Hamlet, Shelley, Keats, Doctor Zhivago.” – Anthony Burgess Regardless of Burgess’ attitude towards his most controversial book, A Clockwork Orange (1961), he inadvertently forced people… Continue reading A Clockwork Orange: 60 Years Later
Category: Society
Modern Feminism; A Question of Who?
In today’s society feminism is a phrase that is applied liberally without any deliberation. Many women feel detached from the phrase and some would admit their disillusionment with the movement. In this article, an extracted spoken dialogue between the writers is presented, where the exploration of the definition of feminism is undertaken. Through this, a… Continue reading Modern Feminism; A Question of Who?
The Repackaging of Sexism: Gender and spirituality on social media
The rise of “new age” spirituality The occult exists between science and art: covering a range from alchemy to astrology. Whether it is a daily horoscope or blaming everything on mercury’s retrograde; astrology is what is most associated with new age spirituality. With the current state of our world, many have turned to these new,… Continue reading The Repackaging of Sexism: Gender and spirituality on social media
Humanity’s Natural Religiousness
Humanity’s natural religiousness: a western approach Believing in anything, whether it be a god, a spirit, or a weekly horoscope, is sure to be alien to someone who does not share the same views. Dismissing another’s faith is easy, what is rare is to hold absolutely no personal opinion about spirituality and what lies beyond… Continue reading Humanity’s Natural Religiousness
Welcoming the New Year Through the Lens of Traditions
The New Year has been celebrated around the world for at least 4 millennia but not at the same time or way for everyone. It is celebrated on the last day of the Gregorian calendar in only some cultures. The earliest recorded festivities date back some 4000 years ago to ancient Babylon. The first new… Continue reading Welcoming the New Year Through the Lens of Traditions
The Social Dilemma
What is The Social Dilemma? First streamed in 2020, the documentary continues the looming conversation of humans’ addiction to technology as sort of an exposé. Over the hour and a half span of the documentary, we hear from various tech experts, and former employees of these companies, and see what they have to say about… Continue reading The Social Dilemma
The Milanese Dilemma: Homelessness and Poverty
The towering skyscrapers of Garibaldi and Citylife attempt to cast a shadow over an emerging crisis gripping Milan. The ever-present sight of those sleeping on the streets exposes the harsh realities of wealth disparity and xenophobia haunting both the city and Italy at large. A sight almost as common as Aperol Spritz and all-you-can-eat sushi: in… Continue reading The Milanese Dilemma: Homelessness and Poverty
How does Squid-Game Succeed in Cross-Cultural Communication?
It’s hard to stay indifferent about Squid Game. After the twentieth time that I watched someone carve out a shape from a candy-like brittle piece on TikTok, I finally logged on Netflix and binge-watched the whole season. 456 players – gamblers, gangsters, people in debt, immigrants, terminally ill men – compete in a series of… Continue reading How does Squid-Game Succeed in Cross-Cultural Communication?
Is Bocconi Inclusive?
We’ve interviewed a transgender student to find out. Introduce yourself: My name is Samuele Appignanesi, I’m from Marche. I am 20 years old and I’m in my second year of CLMG. How would you define gender identity? So, gender identity is often overlooked, because in western culture it’s considered to be linked to the biological… Continue reading Is Bocconi Inclusive?
In Defense of Political Correctness
graphic by @francifausti A MEDIA TRIAL Some of you may remember that a few months ago a popular Italian comedian, Michela Giraud, tweeted about Demi Lovato coming out as non-binary by saying: “She now wants to be referred to as ‘them’, like Wizard Otelma (a popular Italian television character)” – a quite unnecessary statement that,… Continue reading In Defense of Political Correctness