The Abstract
Reading the Content Economy from Europe
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
- The Abstract, Eight Years Later April 11, 2026