(De)colonial travel diary: toward Cape Town
April 10th 2026 There are cities one visits, and others with which one enters into a kind of emotional relationship. From the very first moment one sets foot in them, something stirs in the chest, and a bond is formed that, once one leaves, soon turns into nostalgia: because a piece of one’s heart has […]
(De)colonial travel diary: Lisbon
February 27th 2026 (written in Italian, translated with the help of ChatGpt) I went to Lisbon as a tourist, and yet I don’t like tourism.Or rather: I don’t like myself when I’m being a tourist. There is an inevitable cognitive dissonance that kicks in every time I get on a plane “just […]
(De)colonial Travel Diary: Bordeaux
January 12th 2026 “(De)colonial Travel Diary” is an experiment in travel blogging with a deliberate goal: to take the decolonial method I was trained in outside academic writing and bring it into the exposed, imperfect terrain of personal narrative. I am a historian, and the language I have learned to master is a specialist […]
Episode 22: The World in a City
With the series Bitter Spirits, I crossed a territory of care: these stories were born as an experiment in self-therapy of trauma through storytelling, through dialogue with family ghosts, a few fictional characters, and historical figures of varying fame. It was a nocturnal journey—necessary, at times painful—whose stake was one thing only: to become inhabitable […]
Episode 21: Spitting on Carl Schmitt
“Spitting on Carl Schmitt” is not a gratuitous provocation: it is a symbolic gesture of desertion, in homage to what Carla Lonzi once did with Hegel. For a long time, as happens to many of us, I inhabited—often without naming it—a conception of politics and of the soul grounded in Carl Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction. […]
Episode 20: Picchi’s Honor
In this episode, I attempt a difficult encounter: one with figures that, because of my personal and political history, I have habitually placed in the camp of the “enemy.” Drawing inspiration from the Tarot card of the Sun, I explore the themes of honor and duty—not as abstract or institutional values, but as embodied experiences: […]
Episode 19: Lunatica
This episode grows out of a real experience: a psychiatric hospitalization that took place a couple of months ago, following a severe anxiety attack triggered by a traumatic event. This is not a clinical report and neither a formal critique. It is a fantastic narrative built on the model of the journey to the Moon—the […]
Episode 18: To see the Stars again
This episode begins with a simple question: what actually happens when we say we are foreseeing the future? Starting from this question, I speak about divination, astrology, visions, and family constellations – not as magical or predictive practices, but as different forms of interpreting time: ways in which the past and memory find language […]
Episode 17: Bonfire of the Truths
The Tower is perhaps the most feared of the Major Arcana: it speaks of illusions that collapse, of truths built like structures too rigid to endure, of ambitions mistaken for vocations. In this episode, the Tower becomes a way of interrogating my relationship with my Church of belonging: the University. An institution in which I […]
Episode 16: K. always knocks thrice
History is all a big, fat lie All lives are — first and foremost my own Litfiba, “El Diablo” In the alchemical journey represented by the Major Arcana of the Tarot, the Angel of Temperance is followed by the Devil — a proximity I have always found intriguing. In this episode, I recount […]