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Today, as every year, many capitals and institutions around the world pause to commemorate the atrocities of the past. Memory is a sacred act, a moral commitment to prevent the brutality of man toward his fellow beings from repeating itself. But to what extent can we consider our duty of memory fulfilled when the world continues to consume a systemic tragedy before our eyes? When we speak of genocide, many nations rightly evoke the most devastating historical experience of th

“ I cannot touch things. They are there, in front of me, yet they always remain beyond my reach, as if an invisible skin separated them from me. Objects, faces, feelings: everything appears distant, inert. My life flows like a catalogue of aborted attempts. This is why I say that boredom is nothing but a defect of reality”. This is how Dino, the protagonist of Boredom , might write. In him, boredom is neither languor nor laziness: it is the very substance of his existence. Ar

Every year we celebrate it as if it were an act of freedom. The countdown, the toast, the collective promise that this time it will be different. The new year arrives loaded with moral expectations: improve yourself, get back in shape, work harder (or better), love better, finally be “enough.” New Year’s Eve has become the great secular ritual of our time: an illusion of control over time, over the future, over ourselves. And yet, if we stop for a moment, a less comforting tr

The era of emotional numbness Horror, destruction, and suffering.Our everyday life is constantly stimulated by what’s happening in Gaza: images and videos scroll across our screens at the speed of a click — yet our brain doesn’t seem to feel it anymore.How did we get here? Starting in 1965, the Vietnam War marked a turning point in civilian involvement in international affairs. The “first televised war” triggered a deep public awareness, largely due to the visual trauma of t

They say September is the perfect month to start over, and yet things are going from bad to worse: the Israeli government has bombed...