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Filippo Spreafico


spreaficoa self-esteemed thinker, decides to change his place of abode in 2007 and moves from Lecco (Lake Como, Italy) to London, in order to finally encounter a much longed for “modernity” and participate in the turbulence of the rainy metropolis. After a year working as a barman and getting in touch with London’s extreme type of multiculturalism, he decides to sharpen his observational skills by starting an Anthropology degree at University College London. In addition to his commitment to the understanding of human nature, he also lives his own brutish life and enjoys playing drums, riding his 70s Halfords bicycle and constantly falling in love with London's East End.

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April 19th, 2011
Published in Politics, Primo Piano
by Filippo Spreafico
Very few movies deserved the attention of the Italian audience-electorate once the topic dealt with the ‘one and many’ Silvio Berlusconi. I am not blaming Sabina Guzzanti’s Dracula and Erik Gandini’s Videocracy (both 2009) to have lacked accuracy or mislead the audience. I do blame them of having offered Italians a reality-to-go by holding the audience hand to hand towards the “communist” (in [...]
November 16th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Blog, Opinions
by Filippo Spreafico
Once a person lands on foreign shores, ampoule the first attempts to untangle the web of a different set of cultural features start from certain linguistic observations. These sudden epiphanies are linguistic revelations that illuminate the way towards the understanding of that new cultural world the foreigner has landed in. A clear example of this conundrum can be found with a comparison [...]