How to Defeat State Parasites

Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I recently returned from Edinburgh, a city that, besides being rainy and picturesque, hosted a conference on Virtual Research Environments, a topic obscure to most people and, above all, impossible to explain to my grandmother when she asks: “What do you talk about at these meetings?” Now, when I say “grandmother”, do not make the mistake of imagining a meek, dazed ninety-five-year-old. She is simply the spearhead of a generation that has lived through, and grown stronger through, war, 1968, the economic boom, Canale 5, Mike Bongiorno, soap operas, and Young Signorino. She is sharp, always ready with an answer, impossible to deceive, skilled at outmaneuvering others, and hard to bend to anyone’s will. Basically, a bulldozer. These are the people they should make films about. Robocop and Marvel superheroes look like timid newlyweds by comparison.

Parasites on Daniele Bailo

How to Defeat State Parasites