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Additional publications

• Venti Journal 3.2, “Cross-Cultural Atmospheres”, with KOIAS · 2026 · in Italian, English and JapaneseInterview with Emanuele Coccia on Atmosphere
• Delo · 2025 · written in English, published in Slovene translation“Cross-Cultural Breathing: A Slovene–Japanese Dialogue on Atmosphere and Breath.”
• lay0ut magazine · 6 May 2023 · FR → ITEmanuele Coccia, “Il demone dei videogiochi”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 9 November 2022 · IT“Serie TV e Poesia, Enjambement e Cliffhanger: Sull’impossibilità di finire.”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 11 July 2022 · critical introduction · IT“L’intensità come paradigma della modernità — Un estratto da La vita intensa di Tristan Garcia.”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 26 April 2022 · IT“Editoriale #6 — Che la poesia è dappertutto.”
• lay0ut magazine · 30 March 2022 · EN → IT · the opening of McCarthy’s 2018 Harvard Magazine profile of Fred Moten, collected in Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?Jesse McCarthy, “Low End Theory” — an extractOpen  →
• lay0ut magazine vol. 0 · 2022 · IT“TikTok: Dall’immagine alla voce — Per una poetica dei social media.”
• lay0ut magazine · 25 January 2022 · DE → IT, with a text by Sebastian BrassMarcel Beyer, three poems — “Poetica dell’orecchio”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 1 October 2021 · FR → ITEmanuele Coccia, “Con i piedi per il cielo”Open  →
• Exhibition text · Guardaroba, Foyer, Schiavo Zoppelli Gallery, Milan · 2021 · IT“Il guardaroba alchemico di Federico Cantale”
• Flash Art International · 19 July 2021“Video as Public Space #4: TikTok, from the Image to the Voice.”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 29 March 2021 · DE → ITChristian Lehnert, three poems, with an introduction — “La poesia di Christian Lehnert: il respiro che sorge”Open  →
• Exhibition text · Rimpiattino, the former Galleria Margini, Massa · October 2020 · IT“L’oggetto”
• La Balena Bianca · 24 February 2020 · IT“Volare. Non capire Pop-x per capire tutto il resto.”Open  →
• La voce di New York · 2019 · video interview“The World After Plants According to Emanuele Coccia.”Open  →

Public Writing

• Essay · unpublished · 2026Attention is not all you need: on LLMs as Creative MachinesWhat changes when a technical system is described with a word we also use for human experience?
• Essay · Flash Art International · 2021Video as Public Space #4: TikTok, from the Image to the VoiceHow TikTok turns the voice into something that can pass from one body to another.
• Lecture · Poesiæuropa · 2024Poetry and AI: LLMs as (Surrealist) Poetic MachinesChatGPT is very good at writing bad poetry.
• Translation FR→IT · lay0ut magazine · 2023Emanuele Coccia, The Demon of Video GamesEmanuele Coccia, Il demone dei videogiochiAn Italian translation of Emanuele Coccia’s essay on video games and the experience of living through another body.
• Essay · lay0ut magazine · 2022TV Series and Poetry, Enjambment and Cliffhangers: On the Impossibility of EndingSerie TV e Poesia, Enjambement e Cliffhanger: Sull’impossibilità di finireWhat television cliffhangers share with poetic line breaks—and why both make endings difficult.
• Editorial · lay0ut magazine · 2022Editorial #6 — Poetry Is EverywhereEditoriale #6 — Che la poesia è dappertuttoAn editorial on finding poetry beyond poems: in everyday life, images, and digital media.
• Critical introduction · lay0ut magazine · 2022Intensity as the Paradigm of Modernity — An Introduction to Tristan GarciaTristan Garcia, L’intensità come paradigma della modernità — un’introduzioneAn introduction to Tristan Garcia’s La vita intensa that questions the demand to make life ever more intense.
• Translation DE→IT, with an introduction · lay0ut magazine · 2021Christian Lehnert, three poems from Aufkommender AtemThree poems by Christian Lehnert, translated into Italian with an introduction on breath and spirit in his poetry.
• Translation DE→IT · lay0ut magazine · 2022Marcel Beyer, three poems — Poetica dell’orecchioThree poems by Marcel Beyer and an accompanying text by Sebastian Brass, translated into Italian.
• Essay · La Balena Bianca · 2020Volare. Not Understanding Pop-x to Understand Everything ElseVolare. Non capire Pop-x per capire tutto il restoAn essay on Pop-x, the voice, and what happens when everyday language becomes music.
• Exhibition text · Guardaroba, Foyer, Schiavo Zoppelli Gallery, Milan · 2021Federico Cantale’s Alchemical WardrobeIl guardaroba alchemico di Federico CantaleAn exhibition text for Federico Cantale’s Guardaroba, on the transformations of ordinary objects in his sculptures.
• Exhibition text for Giacomo Montanelli · Rimpiattino, the former Galleria Margini, Massa · October 2020The ObjectL’oggettoAn exhibition text for Rimpiattino, on Montanelli’s objects, paintings, and drawings.
• Translation EN→IT · lay0ut magazine · 2022Jesse McCarthy, Low End Theory — an extractJesse McCarthy, Low End Theory — un estrattoAn Italian translation of an extract from Jesse McCarthy’s “Low End Theory,” his essay on Fred Moten.
• Translation FR→IT · lay0ut magazine · 2021Emanuele Coccia, Feet in the SkyEmanuele Coccia, Con i piedi per il cieloAn Italian translation of Emanuele Coccia’s essay on the sky, ecology, and our place in the air.
• Essays, interviews, translations, and exhibition textsMore writingMore essays, interviews, translations, and exhibition texts in the academic CV.
• lay0ut magazine · volume 0, 2022 · Sono hackeratə, July 2023Two print issuesTwo print issuesThe magazine’s two print issues: volume 0 and Sono hackeratə.
• Editorial · the English edition · November 2023lay0ut magazine in EnglishAn introduction to lay0ut for English-speaking readers: its writing, translations, and interest in poetry beyond the page.
• Reading series and open mic · Florence · January — April 2024Pulp-PoetryA series of poetry readings and open-mic nights at LaCité in Florence.
• Writing, editing, and translation · 2021 — 2024lay0ut magazineAn Italian magazine of poetry, criticism, translation, and digital culture.

Alberto Parisi