steve barbaro

{ 11 / 2 / 2025 ~ 4:50 pm }

it’s true what they are saying…

{ 1 / 24 / 2026 ~ 9:32 pm }

This is incredibly disturbing bloomberg.com/news/features/…

"La liberazione dell'ossesso" ("The Healing of The Possessed Man") by Luigi Borro, plaster, 1850 gallerieaccademia.it/en/liberation-…

great essay RE: contemporary Rome … "That tastelessness that was so easy to call American is now everybody’s. It belongs to the class that has the money to build." hits some high notes!! thedial.world/articles/news/…

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E poi l’#Etna ..

the interview is the ubiquitous template-form of the current literary if not full-on mass-cultural moment ... freeflowing & hyper-amendable to readymade production but oft-lacking in rigor if not substance

That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.

Steve Barbaro is on a mission to continue to fulfill some vaguely self-imposed largely detached data-emission quota-pattern on the moribund e-platform.

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"The Necromancer" by Pietro Paolini, ~1630

Onde imponenti sul lungomare di Aci Castello (Catania)

lots of thoughts RE: DeWitt & Gridneff's YOUR NAME HERE ... the perspectival shifts are certainly virtuosic! the cultural referents are self-consciously hyperclever if also of a slight datedness ... fun book to read to be sure

De esas cosas extraordinarias que pasan en Italia, esta vez en Siracusa. De esto que vas andando y ves un edificio corrientito en el que nunca te fijarías. Pero, en los bajos del edificio, en lugar de trasteros o locales para celebrar cumples, hay una cosa sensacional (sigue)

still haven't seen a single anglosphere literary twitter acct become out-&-out fascistic where the "change" was terribly surprising ... it's as if being "anti-woke" is a rational branding mechanism for the talentless ... does seem like there is a greater volume of these accts now

Nearly had a heart attack halfway..

so imaginative; so sweeping ... writing that totally makes its own rules ... everything in "reality" seems fairgame for criticism—including the composition itself