The soul of Milan
that runs the subway and sits
Anna Maria Pasetti
Dig in the bowels of a city to overturn the order. And
become a party. Urgent practical need
conceptual, but also
a game. This puzzle which consists
Metro Milan (Historica,
166 pp, € 13.50) Paul Melissa,
writer of exploration. Napoletano
but "Milan" for 10 years, has de-
composed his staff
conquest of the city in a new
cahier (in fact inserted in the series
Cahier travel)
Dadaist flavor that puts the people at the center
underground in the literal sense,
or people who use the subway
Milanese. "The subway
is the best place to observe
others and remember that we are
similar to them," says on page 87.
Milan, as elsewhere, can therefore be
ethnographic
those from the crowded tunnel. "Manual for
conquer a city," reads the caption
although the author states "more than
unmanuale think of a space to experiment and tell
mutant
across."
The anthropological approach of the urban dimension is inspired by George Perec
, which Melissi prepare an essay and
Arrojo
not randomly opening "What
we came here to look for? (..) This
place for us is part of a memory
potential, an autobiography
probable. " The booklet is a wise
combination of density, style and
antidotes to boredom:
destabilizes the structure almost "apollinaireiana"
with stories that mix in the first and third person by trained
long and short poems and songs infrapposte,
quotes, loans from territories
expressive different numbers. And above all
"exercises" of the body and soul
be carried out on docks or on
MM wagons. Some hilarious, provocative
other, more usefully mad: No
Exercise 8 - Log in bringing
meters behind a wooden chairs,
elegant and not too heavy. Find
a free space, system
the chair and sit down. If someone is watching you
or rather speaks to you, you answer
you like to travel comfortably.
No Exercise 5 - You're listening:
collect the speeches of others, let
hit by the voices, words. On a quick note notebook
words,
phrases, fragments of conversations,
in sequence. Once home
recopy the material to order, receive
a single text. Review them 10 times, until
in that confused and meaningless
will appear in all its glaring
clarity.
Bloggista first generation
socialnetworker ahead of its time, cyber-
explorer of the urban-
mutations before the practice becomes worship, Paul
Melissa is also editor of a magazine about books
(Bookshop) and now occupies
academic
Writing in the network. "The Web is a co-author
true in the case of Metro New York:
various characters, stories, anecdotes and information
has left the network before they elaborassi.Oil contrary, the network
helped me to deepen
to what I observed on the ground. " Indefinable and also
for this pleasant, Metro Milan
condensation on a fairly knowable universe
Milan underground trains and more. To be read in anarchist
disorder because "while the controller controls
, remind him that
Foucault Discipline and Punish."
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