{"id":3037,"date":"2025-03-13T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quadernicontinentali.it\/senza-categoria\/a-journey-a-discovery-europe-exists\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:06:47","slug":"a-journey-a-discovery-europe-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quadernicontinentali.it\/en\/hightlights\/a-journey-a-discovery-europe-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"A journey, a discovery: Europe exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-0c73f50a corpo-articolo\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-5838f36f\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-fbb7a6ca\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-fbb7a6ca\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-56a3aa8a\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-56a3aa8a\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continental Notebooks is a journey through the latitudes and longitudes of the Old Continent, with its strong and constantly evolving identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, we are witnessing a period of profound transformation, shaped by geopolitical tensions and significant changes in the policies of our historic Atlantic ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The war in Ukraine has brought back memories of the bloody twentieth century, this time entangled with divisive propaganda, economic interests, raw materials and energy profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like when the Holy Roman Empire fell, today, we are once again in a panic, which leads us to believe that we need something that exists formally, but we have never thoroughly considered in terms of structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assumption was simply that the future was ours, and those on the other side were merely the past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We always think in terms of us and them, although we haven\u2019t quite figured out what us really means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manuel Cicchetti\u2019s journey through Europe and his photographs in these Continental Notebooks uncover that a shifting, evolving identity does, in fact, exist \u2014 Europe exists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, all too often, a sense of nationalist ego prevents us from seeing it. Philosopher Xavier Rubert de Vent\u00f3s explained this phenomenon through the Spanish word for us: nosotros, meaning no a otros, as in exclusion, wall, barrier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These notebooks, however, move in a different direction: that of observation, curiosity, and an attempt to capture, with a single picture, the countless threads already woven together, like harmonies already resonating in sympathy that often go unheard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br\/><em>[angelo miotto]<\/em><\/h4>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continental Notebooks is a journey through the latitudes and longitudes of the Old Continent, with its strong and constantly evolving identities. 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