Hegel famously described Napoleon as the world soul riding through Jena, the city where he was teaching between 1801-1806. The German philosopher believed every era to be ruled by a particular spirit of the time, which,…
This time I’ve been expanding way beyond Italy – hence the title – and way beyond minimalist music. The mix opens with an excerpt from a live set by Mace, one of Italy’s most interesting urban…
German Marxists in Naples In the mid-1920s Naples became a refuge for a group of Marxist theorists loosely associated with what later came to be known as the Frankfurt School. The city had long been a…