The Sum Total Newsletter is evolving into a travelogue through contemporary culture: we are based in Rome Italy, and besides writing about life and culture here, we take on some of the most poignant issues effecting our lives today.
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Of the many Homeric monsters in Chris Nolan’s latest blockbuster epic “The Odyssey,” Odysseus battling the Monster Heatwave κύμα καύσωνα didn’t make the final cut. Here is the missing storyboard.
This podcast is a reminder that it was the Lisbon earthquake that brought into question the validity of divine providence, and the importance of empirical research. Too bad we forgot this lesson.
An alternative perspective on Artificial Intelligence, "Artificial Imagination" is the first in a series of almost entirely hand made Sum Total Podcasts.
Ischia's verdant landscapes are part of an incredible ecosystem. Tourists have been flocking for decades, writers have turned this place into a literary wonderland. And the frogs are thriving.
Back in 2000 I began producing a series of comic strips surveying the contemporary landscape: at the time I was working on the architecture of totalitarianism, but I veered off here a bit to make this
Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library Vestibule is precisely how I imagine the insides of a black hole to be like. Think of Stanley Kubrick’s all white room in 2001 A Space Odyssey. But in the negative
The Centro della Fotografia, Rome's first public exhibition space for photography, opened on January 30 in the ex-Mattatoio, inside the 19th century slaughterhouse that is becoming a brand of its own.
Its been one year to the month since the exhibition Monument counter Monument opened at the Embrice Gallery in Rome. The world we inhabit is evermore fragile, evermore unstable. What will be left?
Located just off the Via Francingina, the ancient pilgrimage road leading to Rome, the villa, renamed Lammonite, radiates around a stone tower and an impluvium. It feels like a medieval village.
MACRO, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome opened in 2010 but its been up and down since then. The newest director, Cristiana Perrella, promises a broader focus on Rome. Will it succeed?
