Closer to a climate refugee than to a billionaire: notes on ecological false consciousness.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

Closer to a climate refugee than to a billionaire: notes on ecological false consciousness.

We are statistically closer to becoming climate refugees than billionaires — yet the collective imagination remains obsessed with wealth, success, and self-fulfillment. This analysis unpacks how capitalism not only exploits ecosystems but reshapes our desires, turning subordination into aspiration. In the face of ecological collapse, dismantling the myth of individual ascent is no longer radical: it’s survival.

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The philanthropic misanthrope. Diagnosis of a contemporary paradox.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

The philanthropic misanthrope. Diagnosis of a contemporary paradox.

We are living through an emotional paradox: we love humanity, yet we struggle to tolerate people. We stand for universal causes, but withdraw from real contact. In this tension between ethical drive and emotional disillusionment, a new figure of our time emerges: the philanthropic misanthrope.
It’s not hypocrisy — it’s a symptom of an age that has severed ideals from relationships, care from intimacy.
Perhaps this is where we begin again: with a bond that is not perfect, but possible — and precisely for that, political.

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We no longer care about the city that excludes.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

We no longer care about the city that excludes.

We no longer care about the city that excludes.
The dominant models of urbanism—patriarchal, capitalist, colonial—have failed. Intersectional urbanism is not a theory: it’s a political urgency. It emerges from the margins, from lived experience, from the cracks of a broken system. To rethink the city is to abandon neutrality, reject compromise, and reimagine space through care, conflict, and interdependence. The new paradigm is already here. We must shift our gaze to see it.

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Urban Hypernormalisation. The city as a stage for collective fiction.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

Urban Hypernormalisation. The city as a stage for collective fiction.

We live in cities that perform transformation without embodying it—hypernormalised spaces where fiction replaces reality. Urbanism today simulates change through aesthetics and efficiency, masking inequality and discomfort. True transformation begins by exposing this fiction, breaking the spell of simulated normality, and reclaiming space as a site of rupture, imagination, and resistance.

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Even the best men get away with it.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

Even the best men get away with it.

Even the best men get away with it.
Today’s female anger is not hysteria—it’s history. It rises from the gap between progressive appearances and persistent inequalities. Between love and imbalance. We’re tired of making patriarchy palatable, of translating our pain into something polite. This anger is not a flaw; it’s a political signal. And we won’t apologize for it.

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How stories won’t save us.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

How stories won’t save us.

Stories won’t save us.
In a world collapsing under systemic violence, polished narratives of justice have become performance. When activism costs nothing, it becomes content—ambient rebellion that soothes, but doesn’t change. True solidarity demands risk, rupture, confrontation. We don’t need more stories that comfort. We need truths that disturb.

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Why Anticapitalism and Eco-Trans-Feminism must march together.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

Why Anticapitalism and Eco-Trans-Feminism must march together.

Eco-trans-feminism and anticapitalism are not parallel paths—they are the same struggle, seen from different angles. A system that exploits land, bodies, and labor cannot be reformed through inclusion or greenwashed solutions. True justice demands radical alliances, not sanitized activism. As Audre Lorde said, there are no single-issue lives—so we must stop fighting single-issue battles.

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Geographies of erasure: ecocide and genocide in Occupied Palestine.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

Geographies of erasure: ecocide and genocide in Occupied Palestine.

In Palestine, ecocide and genocide are inseparable. The land is not just collateral damage—it is a target. Uprooted trees, poisoned waters, and militarized ecologies form a systematic assault on life itself. To name this is not rhetorical: it is a political necessity. Environmentalism that ignores Palestine is not neutral—it is complicit. Because when a land is dying, it is never dying alone.

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If they applaud you, maybe you’re not radical.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

If they applaud you, maybe you’re not radical.

If they applaud you, maybe you’re not radical.
Today, both talent and radicality are shaped by the logic of performance. Marketable, aesthetic, safe. But real radicalism doesn’t fit in an algorithm—it refuses the system altogether. It risks being ignored, distorted, exiled. And maybe that’s where true talent lives: not in applause, but in disobedience.

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Invisible bodies, hostile cities:                     towards an intersectional urbanism of pain, care, and justice.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

Invisible bodies, hostile cities: towards an intersectional urbanism of pain, care, and justice.

Invisible pain reveals invisible injustice. Chronic illness exposes the limits of cities built for speed, silence, and sameness. Intersectional urbanism calls for a radical shift—from performance to presence, from efficiency to care. A just city does not demand resilience. It listens, holds, and adapts. Because there is no spatial justice without bodily justice.

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All men. Every woman.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

All men. Every woman.

Not all men are violent—but all men live in a system that enables violence.
Gender-based violence is not a series of isolated acts; it’s a structure. A culture. A function of power. Until all men recognize their place within that system—and actively work to dismantle it—nothing will change. This is not misandry. It’s accountability.

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The gravity of suffering.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

The gravity of suffering.

Pain is like gravity—inescapable, invisible, and profoundly shaping. It anchors us, teaches us, weighs on us. Yet within its heaviness lies an unexpected strength. Suffering rewrites us, but does not define us. It is a companion, not our master. We carry it, translate it, resist it—and in doing so, remain human.

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Italy's unspoken epidemic:       gender violence and the call for intersectional urbanism.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

Italy's unspoken epidemic: gender violence and the call for intersectional urbanism.

Italy’s epidemic of gender violence demands more than outrage—it calls for a transformation of space. Intersectional urbanism offers a path forward: to reclaim cities as places of resistance, care, and justice. Not through cosmetic reforms, but through radical redesign—where every street becomes a stand against patriarchy, and every public space affirms the right to live without fear.

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The imperative of traceability.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

The imperative of traceability.

Accountability is not optional—it’s the foundation of democracy.
In the face of escalating violence against peaceful protesters, the absence of officer identification numbers in Italy is no longer tolerable. Traceability is a democratic imperative: without it, justice falters and trust erodes. To protect civil rights, every officer must be identifiable. Transparency is not an abstract value—it is the precondition of true security.

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No-stop city: reflections on the transformation of Italian squares in the digital era.
Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi

No-stop city: reflections on the transformation of Italian squares in the digital era.

Italian squares are no longer just historical landmarks—they are battlegrounds between memory and market, presence and digitization. As urban spaces grow more commercial and privatized, the square risks becoming a stage without a public. To reclaim it means defending its political essence: a space for encounter, dissent, and democratic life. In the age of the No-Stop City, slowing down and reoccupying public space becomes a radical act.

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