We are all immersed in a mediatic bain-marie, deceitful and sentimental, in
a new phase of capitalism: that of fiction. The aim
of fictional capitalism (based on seduction, on the dream of
being unique) is no longer the manufacture of material
goods, but the creation of a universe full of good cheer, a
controlled reality, as simple and infantile as a reality
show. Read "Pianeta McTerra"
(Sperling & Kupfer Editiori) and you will have no difficulty recognising it. Unsettling but true

"I believe in the only crystal ball I have left: a
brain," writes Giulietto Chiesa in "Cronache
marziane" (Fazi), a book carried along on the thread of sharp and lively
polemic, aimed at all those who have not resigned themselves
to the prevailing state of affairs. Once again,
the author examines the specific ways in which multinationals,
banks, and Western governments that preach and export democracy
at gunpoint exercise their tyranny, from practice
to bureaucracy to politics. He does not spare the dream machine,
the all-pervasive contemporary media system that crushes
minds, the relentless erosion of our freedoms and
our rights. And, seen against the light, he allows a bitter and ferocious
picture to emerge of what our world, if it is not already,
seems destined to become very soon. Perhaps
it is possible to avoid the drift of this global tyranny;
there are still spaces in which to give life to a new humanism and a new
spirituality, but there is no time to lose and we must
act immediately.
Indispensable and illuminating