The Abstract
Reading the Content Economy from Europe
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The Abstract is the English-language counterpart of this site. It is a newsletter about what happens to publishing, media, and cultural production in the age of generative AI and fragmenting platforms — written from a European perspective, for readers who share the questions but not the language.
It began here in 2017 as an Italian blog and was relaunched in 2026 as a long-form newsletter on Substack. New essays appear once or twice a month. The Italian work — on education, publishing, semiotics, and the Italian intellectual tradition — continues on this site; The Abstract is where the same questions travel in English.
Recent essays
23 July 2026
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Europe’s extension on high-risk AI systems makes validation no less urgent. The Fable 5 case showed, in forty-eight hours, what happens when an organization doesn’t know
18 June 2026
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Why the right learned the postmodern lesson better than its teachers — and wh…
22 May 2026
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Why the term explains almost nothing, why that matters politically, and why K…
14 May 2026
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Win-sets, regime types, and the arithmetic of gaps when the guarantor withdraws.
7 May 2026
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The mind has always been the last tool we built. This time the tool answers b…
24 April 2026
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France, Italy, and the Mediterranean they share — but only one inhabits