Review of Zeros and Ones (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 12 Aug 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

The exasperated formal experimentalism leads nowhere if it supports a thesis as the ambivalence of reality. God would hide in the world and it would be up to us to see the apocalyptic glass half empty or the integrated, condescending, glass half full. This would be the (provisional?) conclusion of Ferrara's decades-long analysis. Revolutionize existence (Marx) or accept it (Jesus)? Destroy the Vatican as a "symbol of Christianity" (sic, instead of "Catholicism") or preserve it? Perhaps to achieve the much longed-for reconciliation/redemption you need a real or metaphorical drug, such as sex (the scene of the copula starring his wife Cristina Chiriac) or such the gaze of a child. Abel finds himself by getting lost between the obstetrics and pediatrics wards.