On Education: Conversations with Riccardo Mazzeo

1. The crisis of contemporary education between mixophilia and mixophobia

2. José Saramago:"There are ways of being happy that are simply hateful"

3. Gregory Bateson and his third level of education

4. From ballistic missiles to the smart ones: from closure of mind to "permanent revolution"

5. The hundred years oak trees have grown from ridiculously minute acorns

6. Looking for a genuine "cultural revolution"

7. Depravation is the cleverest strategy of deprivation

8. It takes but a few minutes and a couple of signatures to destroy what took thousands of brains and twice as many hands and lots of years to build

9. The youth as a disposal tip for the excesses of consumer industry

10. The effort to improve mutual understanding is a prolific source of human creativity

11. The unemployed may always play lotto, don't they?

12. Disability, abnormality and minority as a political problem: the examples by Wells and Saramago

13. Being indignant is not enough for swarm-like ephemeral political groupings

14. The riots of defective consumers and the never-ending minefields

15. Richard Sennett: "Informal, open-ended cooperation is how best to experience difference"

16. From the Lacanian "discourse of the capitalist" to the Baumanian "discourse of consumerism"

17. Zizek and Morin: does religion necessarily have a monotheistic nature?

18. If even Proust's pétite madeleine is exploited as the last resort for consumerism

19. On fuels, sparks and fires

20. On globalization coming of age