SUNSET WEST – PICCOLO AUDITORIUM THEATRE – CAGLIARI – 9 TO 11 NOVEMBER

From Friday 9th to Sunday, November 11, 2012 will be held at Municipal Auditorium in Small Cagliari event “The Decline of the West. Read the crisis in the comparison of literature.” An event organizato the deans of the Book of Sardinia. The event, organized in three days, in four acts is a reflection on the particular historical moment we are going through. To deal with guests from different backgrounds on cultural crisis, thought, and economic alternatives.

Identity on the road. The West saw from elsewhere

Through the voice of writers and writers whose cultural identity is rooted in and out of Italy, told a West compared continuous and tightened with many Elsewhere: to find out if the literature that feeds on other sites shows a West that can be a model economic and cultural to aspire to, or antagonistic system, but also a place that welcomes identity in constant motion and change appearance due to the cultural melting pot.

The sunset landscape

From the reflection of Pier Paolo Pasolini on the shape of the city, discuss on the topic economists, lawyers, environmentalists, journalists, planners, writers, scholars of aesthetics. The landscape is revealed as a mirror of contemporary and sunset: the urban and remote areas, the land and the land, to defend and live in optical decrease, by rethinking how our social and cultural humus and primeval imprint of the soul through the look.

Companies and individuals in crisis: myths of our time

The development of relations and myths on the rise in the age of the Global Village, draw a new map of the deepest motivations of the individual and his relationship with the company. Are mirror the stories of some writers and new forms of film and theater that tell a contemporary story also inspired by the most enlightened intellectuals.

Strategies to survive

Closes the reflection of the decline of the West section dedicated to “what to do?”: What to do because our economy is sustainable, how to understand the mechanisms of finance and the recession, reaching urgent issues such as global political scenarios and the relationship between businesses and workers. To finish with a literary metaphor: the art of boxing as a possible survival, also made to be able to dodge, collect, and with a lucidity, disassemble, if we do not like the strategy of the opponent.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Part I – Identity on the road. The West saw from elsewhere

18.00

Reading from The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Conducted by: Francesca Caferri, journalist

Who we are when we say about us
Mauro Covacich, writer

Iran between past and future
Bijan Zarmandili, writer and journalist

Suspended between East and West: narratives from Romania
Gabriela Adamesteanu, writer, and Mihai Mircea Butcovan, writer, converse with Roberto Merlo language expert and lettaratura Romanian

Identity liquid. Stories without boundaries
Conversation with Ornela Vorpsi, writer, visual artist and Gabriella Kuruvilla, writer, painter
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Part II – The sunset landscape

Ore10.00

Video PPPasolini, The shape of the city (Italy, 1973)
Conducted by: Pierluigi Sullo, journalist

The Common Good
Ugo Mattei, a lawyer and journalist

Contraction and landscape
Paolo Cacciari, journalist

I needed NO
Luke Giunti, environmentalist movement notav and Paola Pilisio movement No Green Chemistry

Lost Horizon
Graziano Bullegas, Italy Nostra

Decrease without alternative
Guido Viale, economist and writer

Sunset in the suburbs of the city
Paul Berdini, urban planner and Andrea Carraro, writer

Landscapes: the tension of existence between sunrise and sunset
Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, a scholar of landscape aesthetics
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Part III – Companies and individuals in crisis: myths of our time

17.30

Reading from Where were all of Paul Di Paolo, The hunting of Laura Pugno, Disorientation of Giorgio Vasta
Conducted by: Stefano Salis, journalist

The emotional relationship at the time of the global village
Luigi Zoja, psychoanalyst

Mythologies. For an imaginary term
Marino Niola, anthropologist

Stories these days
Conversation with the writers Paul Paul, Laura Pugno, Giorgio Vasta

New languages for the rebirth
Roberta Torre, director

At the end, the short projection by Roberta Torre The night he died Pasolini [Italy, 2009, 25 ‘]
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Part IV – Strategies for survival

Ore10.30

Video P. P. Pasolini, Distinction between development and progress [Italy, 1975]
Conducted by: George Meletti, journalist

New global scenarios of the green economy
Antonio Cianciullo, journalist

Economy for all
Andrea Baranes, Ethical Bank

Defends the welfare state enterprises or workers?
Francesco Pigliaru, economist

An alternative is possible
Giulietto Church, journalist and political

Living is Strategic
Davide Enia, writer and actor

A follow So on earth
Play by David Enia with Julius Barocchieri, musician

Small Municipal Auditorium
Piazza Dettori
Cagliari

When
From Friday 9th to Sunday, November 11, 2012

Info and contacts
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Free admission