Lecture (in English) by Paolo GRANATA titled Italo Calvino: Six Memos for the Digital World at the Italian Cultural Institute, Toronto, 2011, December 6th.

Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude, Visibility and Consistency are so-called “Lezioni Americane”, Six Memos for the Next Millennium – six keywords, qualities or values – that Italo Calvino was due to deliver in the context of the Harvard Charles Eliot Norton lectures in 1985-86, but left unfinished at his death. Read today, the Six Memos, are “not just literary proposals”, but part of the new social and cultural sensitivity that emerged at the end of the 20th century. In this lecture through a series of impressive examples, Paolo Granata explores the spirit of Calvino’s Six Memos, probing a new interpretative plot that reveals the sensory component of the digital world.

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