Tag Archives: Italy

Quotes of the week (VIII)

By Kosmopolit | Published: October 21, 2009
Foreign Policy: The Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said During a U.N. Speech David Mitchell: If academic endeavour had always been vetted in advance for practicality, we wouldn’t have the aeroplane or the iPhone, just a better mammoth trap. Richard Laming It is ironic that the people who complain most about the complexity of the [...]
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Diplomacy vs. Silvio Berlusconi

By Kosmopolit | Published: April 4, 2009
A typical “Berlusconi”:  First he annoyed the Queen during the G20 summit in London, today at the NATO summit Ms Merkel was not amused… Silvio Berlusconi and his diplomatic incidents -  a never ending story? In other countries any of these “jokes” would have resulted in an immediate resignation (+ all the problems regarding human rights, [...]
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Slavoj Žižek: Every state needs its own Balkan

By Tanchi | Published: November 24, 2008
“Every state needs its own Balkan” With this words philosopher Slavoj Žižek started his lecture on ideology and the fall of state borders. The lecture was given in Italian Gorizia which was until 2007 a border town with Slovenia and is a well known habitat of Italians and Slovenes. From this point of view, the [...]
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Kosmolinks #9

By Kosmopolit | Published: January 1, 2008
Goodbye 2007, hello 2008! So, what happened last year? … of course a non exhaustive list The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2007 An Interview with the “Person of the Year 2007″: Putin and the Time Magazine Can it get any better? well, we have to wait and see: Awaiting us in 2008… The [...]
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