Tommaso Gorla
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Tommaso Gorla is an Italian artist and researcher, as well as the founder and chief editor of the visual culture journal Anima Loci (2019). His interests revolve around the agency of images and their affective role within processes of memory and recollection. He works as an associate lecturer at the University of Westminster, the Camberwell College of Arts, and London Metropolitan University, as well as at Accademia Santa Giulia in Brescia, Italy. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the EHESS, Paris.
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Despite being one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the few with no Amtrak train transit. While you cannot get in or out of the city by train, it does have a humble light rail system, built in the face of public… Read more »
Until not so long ago, by sailing the northern seas, one could glimpse entire islands appearing and then suddenly vanishing among the tides. But these floating territories, at times even added to maps, may in fact have been the gargantuan body of the Kraken, a legendary monster with multiple arms,… Read more »
On the island of Malakula, part of the nation of Vanuatu, when the time is deemed right by their elders, the youth of the community partake in a coming-of-age ceremony to become manples: literally “men-place.” Anthropologist Jacopo Baron reflects on his personal involvement in these rituals and on the profound… Read more »