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WILL COVID-19 SAVE OUR PLANET?

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Covid-19 and climate change have some features in common. They have been both developed due to the relationship between humans and nature in the modern society. They are both global problems and they are responsible of many deaths. For both problems the cause is unknown and we should have been more prepared.  With the virus, many companies closed, and in Italy people are still living in lockdown. As a consequence, the climate seems to have changed. From the cities we can finally see the stars at night and when we breath, the air is clean. Can we be positive for the future? Can we think that Covid-19 had at least one positive effect?   THE IMMEDIATE POSITIVE EFFECT According to Lauri Myllyvirta, a Finnish analyst for the Centre for research on Energy and Clean air , the virus in China brought to the closure of many productive activity and, as a consequence, the reduction of 25% of Co2 emissions during the month of February compared to the previous year. In order to un
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HOW COVID-19 IS HELPING THE MAFIA GROUPS IN CEMENTING THEIR POWER

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THE SITUATION AFTER THAT THE SANITARY CRISIS WILL BE SOLVED  Today is Saturday, April 25, that means that in Italy is the Liberation day , but Italians are still in lockdown. Some companies will open and people will be free to move, at least in their cities, only from Monday, 4 May. The deadline is very close and now the biggest problem, after the sanitary crisis, will be how to solve the economic situation. Many companies will be failed, others will have important loans with the banks. In this period, where there is no cash, people are looking for financial (and not only) help. The government is losing many moneys due to the situation and can’t provide many benefits. This means that people have to find help from a different source: in many cases the mafia and other criminal organizations are ready to support them. Now it’s not so important the source from where you receive the money, but that you can survive. In fact, a report by Europol  - the European Union police agency - wa
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WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER THE ITALIAN LOCKDOWN? 3 JOURNALS IN COMPARISON

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Italy will be in Lockdown at least until the next 3 of May Italy is still in lockdown. According to the Prime Minister Conte, it will be at least until the next 3 of May. He had extended the lockdown, before expected until the 14 April. The news was quite predictable, because the number of infected people is still high and there is no safety to start again the normal life. Anyway, almost all companies were disappointed caused they are still closed, instead abroad the economy is already taking off again. Now all the Italians have the same big question: what will happen after the 3 May? Will be everything as before? Of course, no one has the answer and it’s important to keep daily updated with the spread of the pandemy, but it is quite probably negative. And now the major Italian newspapers are trying to answer, to give to the readers' some relevant information. 3 Italian Journals in comparison  The journalist Alessandra Ziniti wrote in  La Repubblica   that it won
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MEN CAPTURED THROUGH FEMALE LENS

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Boys (don’t) cry WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN When a man loves a woman is a song of the American singer Percy Sledge, but not only. It’s even the last photographic book of the artist Molly Matalon. What’s happen when men are seen by a female perspective? How changed the way they are represented? The photographer answered these questions in his When a man loves a woman, published in April 2020. They became fragile, tender and full of feeling for their big loves. The man she shots are not the classic hyper-masculine characterization of a man, which is a really large, muscular guy, but they look vulnerable and soft. As they really are. THE METHOD In an interview for W Magazine , Molly Matalon explained how she chose the guys in her photographic book. “Some of the people in the book are people I meet on Tinder, but the range of men is so varied that it’s more about an attraction to men or a romantic look at men than it is about any one person.” The same method for
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MASCULINITIES. THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WHAT A MAN IS

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MASCULINITIES IS THE NEW VERSION OF PASOLINI'S LOVE MEETINGS  “ Masculinities ” is a playful, pastel-hued, talking heads film exploring gender roles, patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity. The editorial is presented by NOWNESS, a movement for creative excellence in storytelling celebrating the extraordinary of everyday. The movie is shown at the Barbican, the modern-art centre in London, for the temporary exhibition “ Masculinities: Liberation though Photography ” (already written here ). If Pier Paolo Pasolini was still alive, he would be for sure the director. In fact, the documentary seems to be the new version of his masterpiece “ Love meetings ” (1964), where the Italian intellectual asked to people questions about love, stereotypes and “deviant behaviours”.  Here, “ Masculinities ” brings together members of the British Public with Nowness’s creative community to deconstruct gender identity in its myriad forms. The cast includes gender fluid designer Harris Reed, c
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MASCULINITIES. LIBERATION THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY

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Who run the world? Women are running for their empowerment and freedom from the patriarchate. The " Me too " movement is only an example of how women are creating a group - build on solidarity - to bring awareness on the rights of females.  Beyoncé, in one of her most famous songs, sings  “ who run the world? Girls ” . A toxic idea of masculinity  But what about men? “The image of masculinity has come into sharper focus, with ideas of toxic and fragile masculinity permeating today’s society”. This is the reason behind the new exposition at Barbican in London and called “ Masculinities. Liberation through Photography ” .  In the traditional society not all men have the power and the freedom to decide who they are, only the white straight men from the middle class, namely the hegemonic class. And the other? They have no spaces to express themselves and most of the time they are brought to be ashamed of themselves. As Luke Turner wrote in " Putting men in
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THE MAN OF THE MODERNITY

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Who is the man of the modernity? I asked this question to myself so many times ... He is no more a perfect proportioned body as he was considered in the Ancient Greece and captured by the sculptor  Prassitele,  but neither a moral father who has the power to take decision for all the family, as the stereotypical image during the Middle Age (lead in the Italian movie  Padre Padrone  of Taviani's brothers). Recently in Italy happened something regarding this: The Fashion Week took place in Milan and the Gucci's new seasons collection was debated a lot. Why? Because the  Manifesto , ideated by the art director  Alessandro Michele  called  Masculine, Plural  delineated the man of the modernity, who is free from society and from the classical rules usually attributed to a man (like not wearing a skirt, for example). An other example can be found in the last Sanremo's edition, which is the Festival of the Italian song and where every year, 24 singers
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