On Myth Making and Nation Building: The Genesis of the "Myth of the Good Italian," 1943-1947

Silencing the Good: Memory, Forgetting and the Belated Reputation of Giorgio Perlasca

“…The movie did not mention Perlasca's problematic past or the process of forgetting that affected him. As Perra argued, the fictional Giorgio Perlasca reproduced the myth of the “good Italian” (Bidussa, ; Fogu, ; Schwarz, ) and softened the boundary between fascism and anti‐fascism. The reception of the mini‐series was raucous (Bechelloni, ) and, especially in post‐fascist political circles, Perlasca's biography was interpreted in a synecdochic way, as a narrative that could be exploited to rationalize more contemporary concerns about Alleanza Nazionale 's attempt to overcome its fascist past.…”

Attention Disorders Between Impairment and Ferality: Towards a Political Aesth-Ethics of Dismantlement

“…As a consequence, "dozens of studies since the 1990s have estimated that about 8 to 35 percent of undergraduates take stimulant pills illicitly to improve their grades; a reasonable estimate among high-pressure colleges is probably 15 to 20 percent." 8 The notion of "attention disorder" is, therefore, a textbook case of the reduction of social issues to personal problems, i.e., of the obfuscation of an infrastructural mismatch into a psychological disability. In their day-to-day reality, many people do indeed benefit from the intake of medication.…”

On the 80th anniversary of the Racial Laws. Articles reflecting the current scholarship on Italian Fascist anti-Semitism in honour of Michele Sarfatti

“…The starting date for this new phase in the historiography of the Fascist persecution of Jews in Italy is unanimously considered to be 1988 (Schwarz 2008(Schwarz , 2012(Schwarz , 2014, the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of the so-called 'Racial Laws', or, more correctly, 'Racist Laws' (Sarfatti 2002, p.5). In addition to the publications associated with official commemorations, such as those promoted by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic, a volume was issued that year which is still today considered fundamental, a special issue of the journal La Rassegna mensile di Israel, jointly published by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities and the Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (hereafter C.D.E.C.…”