Alessandro Giammei

Alessandro Giammei is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Yale University. His latest books are Ariosto in the Machine Age (Toronto 2023) and Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting (Verso 2023, co-edited with Ara H. Merjian).

Contributions

A Violent Peace: Media, Truth, and Power at the League of Nations by Carolyn N. Biltoft

The title of this swift, powerfully written monograph on the archives of the League of Nations in Geneva offers a prodigious portrait of its real object of study: the so-called “interwar” period in European culture. Rather than a mere history of the League itself, A Violent Peace reads like a humanistic treatise on the most magmatic chronotope of western late-modernity: the ironically utopian, painfully bureaucratic, Freudianly fascist years that put into question, arguably for good, earlier concepts of reality, opinion, State, and world.