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Gao brothers: The Utopia of hugging for 20 minutes

2012; Issue: 247 Linguagem: Inglês

1033-4025

Naima Morelli,

Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Utopias are dangerous. Utopias are more dangerous underneath an obelisk where people are talking of the latest contestant into the Big Brother house (it already exists?) and Maria De Filippi's reality TV show. The Piazza del Popolo in Rome belongs to the people. Generally, utopias and the people do not match very well. This could sound a little bit snobbish, but if you give the people a utopia you rob them of a mainstream dream. Or at least in the Piazza del Popolo.