On November 20 Italy launched a new initiative entitled ‘The Internet For Peace‘ (#I4P on Twitter). The editor in chief of Wired Italy, Riccardo Luna, nominated the Web for the next Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. The first signatory of the manifesto was Ms. Shrin Ebadi, the first Iranian Muslim woman to be awarded the [...]

Acclair Art Valuation Service installation at VanAbbemuseum, photo courtesy Acclair
It has happened to nearly all of us, at least once, to remain flabbergasted on discovering the price of a work of art. Whether we personally consider the piece worthless, over-priced or incomprehensible is relatively immaterial because the commercial value given to art belongs to a [...]

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A detailed account on the French ecological revolution reveals the complex relationship between democracy and ecological politics. In this article Alessandro Mengozzi argues that in order to save its somewhat thwarted future ecological politics should dilute its message, open to a strong mediation and engage in participatory democracy.
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Image Liminal Institute, Amsterdam
Recreating The Berlin Wall is a project by performance artist and co-founder of the Liminal Institute, an international performance unit in Amsterdam, Martin Butler.
The artist aims to orchestrate a ‘Flash mob’, organized through the social networking sites ‘Facebook’, ‘Myspace’ and ‘Twitter’, that will recreate the Berlin wall with the physical presence of [...]

The first edition of the Biennale Democrazia, will take place in Turin the 22 – 26 April 2009, it is an international cultural event entirely dedicated to the ethical and political project of democracy a political system which, by definition, is in constant evolution and development, continually facing new challenges to be overcome. The Democracy [...]