Speakers

Marco Mancassola

mancassola-marco Ph. Samuele Bottega

What’s to be done with this body, to make it happier?
Marco Mancassola is a novelist and essayist. His novels – published in Italy, France, Great Britain and other countries – favour the themes of the body. attraction, and today’s emotional and perceptual landscape.
He has written about biopolitics, contemporary aesthetics, feelings and sexuality on the web, in newspapers and in magazines such as Rolling Stone, where he has written the Italia, Amore column for years.
Among his books: Last Love Parade, Story of dance culture, electronic music and my years (Mondadori 2005, new edition from Il Saggiatore 2012); Erotic Lives of the Superheroes (Rizzoli 2008, Gallimard 2011); The friends of the desert (Feltrinelli 2013).