Last year, the Milan-based Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, on whose advisory board I serve, launched its important Archives of the Present project which sets out to collect and preserve documentation from contemporary social and political actors who are mobilizing for a more just society and more sustainable development. As Massimiliano Tarantino writes in his introduction to the volume that documents this initiative (an eBook of which the noted archivist Maria Guercio and I are the editors):…
 
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My latest book, entitled Storia rapida della velocità, was published in May 2025 by the Milanese publishing house Il Saggiatore. It proposes a deep and panoramic history of the human fascination with speed: an “anthropology of speed” as it were that travels across epochs as well as imaginings, technologies, narratives, and neuroscience. For the moment, the book exists only in Italian, but editions in other languages, including English, are likely to follow. It was awarded…
 
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