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How to write (about) a city one loves and, at the same time, despairs of, for being so much less than what it is and could be? How to brush up against it in language, registering some of its intensities, rhythms and flows, its catastrophes and dreams? Partially and in pieces, perhaps, knowing that inevitably so much more will be overlooked and concealed than can ever be revealed. The following texts — part of an ongoing, unfinished series — emerge from numerous journeys to Sicily and Palermo over the past decade, and in particular two periods of immersive research in and around the old city in the spring and autumn of 2012.
E SÉ QUALCUNofA QUALCHE COSA?
(And what if someone were to do something?) Padre Pino Puglisi: Palermo graffito
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Williams, D. (2014). Performing Palermo: Protests Against Forgetting. In: Whybrow, N. (eds) Performing Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137455697_2
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