2023-07-21 19:35:40
by IDA BOZZI
Saturday 22 in the App, Sunday 23 July at the newsstand: the story of the socialist “artificial intelligence” that foundered with Allende. And then Colson Whitehead and Zadie Smith
A season of utopia that lasted less than three years, but which cultivated, among other things, the dream of a socialist, humanist, democratic “artificial intelligence”. With an extensive report on the “Cybersyn project” born in Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende, the new issue of “La Lettura” opens, #608, on Saturday 22 in the App and Sunday 23 on the newsstand.
The article that opens the issue, by Alessia Rastelli and the contemporary historian Gianni La Bella, recounts and shows with a rich iconographic apparatus and renderings, the almost novel idea that had as protagonists the Chilean engineer Fernando Flores and the British cybernetics guru Stafford Beer, to create with Cybersyn a “grassroots” management of the companies nationalized by Allende. Evgeny Morozov, interviewed in the service, dedicated a podcast in 9 episodes (The Santiago Boys, produced by Chora Media and Post-Utopia) to the project. An adventure that ended 50 years ago, on 11 September 1973, together with the Allende presidency, crushed in bloodshed by Pinochet: the articles by Andrea Mulas (a chronology) and Cecilia Bressanelli (an upcoming film by Alessio Cremonini) are dedicated to various aspects of the story.
In addition to the most recent number of the insert previewed already on Saturdays, the “La Lettura” app for smartphones and tablets also offers the archive of all the issues released since 2011 and every day an extra digital-only focus, the Theme of the Day. Subscribing to the App costs €3.99 a month or €39.99 a year, with one week free. The subscription can also be subscribed from the desktop starting from this page. For subscribers, the contents are also visible from PCs and Macs starting from their Profile page
Returning to the supplement, there are many themes. Relaunched by an anthology of short stories (Omenana, Fantastic tales of the African continent, Nero), the Afro-futurist literary trend revives, in which African cultural traditions, technology and social themes (migrations and colonial exploitation) merge: Matteo Trevisani writes about it. And on the threatened body of black people, from slavery to today, Igiaba Scego reflects, starting from the essay by the scholar Simone Browne Dark matters. Dark Matters (Meltemi).
Two great literary returns tell America and England today: the new novel by two-time Pulitzer Colson Whitehead (Crook Manifesto , Doubleday; on August 29 in Italy for Mondadori) is reviewed by Marco Bruna, while Matteo Persivale reads The Fraud by Zadie Smith (from September 5 for Hamish Hamilton in the United Kingdom and for Penguin in the USA; in autumn in Italy for Mondadori).
The graphic novel by Giuliano Piccininno is dedicated to the journey to Italy of the artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) and its surreal stairways: an insight into Escher, by Pierluigi Panza, is today’s Theme of the Day in the «La Lettura» App.
The issue closes with a discovery: the coach of the national football team that won two World Cups and an Olympics, Vittorio Pozzo, had always been considered a fascist. Forgotten documents show that he, on the other hand, actively joined the Resistance: the story and the archive papers are in the article by Alessandro Fulloni.
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