Escritos corsarios

Corsair Writings collects the articles that Pier Paolo Pasolini published from 1973 until his assassination in 1975. Posthumously published, Pasolini was still able to organize the book, review the evidence, and write the introductory note. Taking Italy as a model for any Western country, Pasolini analyzes the degradation of a society focused on consumerism, the growing cultural homogenization, the invisible revolution of conformism, the total commodification of the human, aspects that continue to mark our societies today. A countercurrent thinker, with wild energy and launched into a radical critique, he denounces a nightmarish uniformity in which there is only room for consumerist conventionalism and the idolatry of merchandise, which we see repeated today in the thoughtless submission to technology. This urgent political essay is the true literary invention of Pasolini's last years, while he witnessed the disappearance of the world from him. As Alfonso Berardinelli affirms, 'the strength of the Escritos corsarios resides, above all, in the emotional and moral reality of their mourning'.