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Inequalities Book Club

Until November 7 2025
Free admission upon registration
A series of talks dedicated to reading as a space for reflection and confrontation, Inequalities Book Club aims at exploring some of the themes of the 24th International Exhibition through three appointments of collective discussion around a selection of texts proposed by the exhibition's curators. The project invites readers to discuss issues related to the inequalities that mark our society. The events take place in Cuore – Triennale's Research, study and archives center, and are open to all those who wish to participate, independently reading the proposed books and freely sharing ideas and points of view. The Book Club aims to create a temporary reading community, where books become a tool for understanding the present and imagining the future.
The program
September 26, 6.30 pm Io sono confine by Shahram Khosravi (Elèuthera, 2019, English edition: 'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) An ethnographic and autobiographical narrative by the Iranian anthropologist that subverts the border gaze
October 17, 6.30 pm Chthulucene. Sopravvivere su un pianeta infetto by Donna Haraway (NERO Editions, 2019, English edition: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Duke University Press, 2016) The American philosopher rethinks our coexistence in the time of the Anthropocene
November 7, 6.30 pm Costruire e abitare. Etica per la città by Richard Sennett (Feltrinelli, 2018 e 2020, English edition: Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Penguin, 2019) A study by the American sociologist on cities as political, open and plural spaces
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Info
Those attending are encouraged to read the volumes independently before each talk.
Are in interested in additional reading tips? Find out what the curators of Inequalities read. Reading list
Credits
Conceived and promoted by: Triennale Milano'sResearch center and ICONE – Centro Europeo di Ricerca di Storia e Teoria dell’Immagine, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele
Part of the public program of the 24th International Exhibition Inequalities

Highlights

A book about borders but especially about those who violate them, inviting us to change our perspective. Ethnographic research on the not only physical but also imaginary nature of borders takes its starting point from a firsthand experience of illegal migration. Self-narrative is combined with ethnographic writing in a wide-ranging inquiry into the current border regime and the key concepts of citizenship, nation-state, rights, and inequality.
This volume questions the scenarios that unfold when humankind, having irreparably altered the balance of planet Earth, ceases to be the center of the world. In this text that draws as much from science fiction as from the great lesson of radical feminism, the author reminds us that everything is interconnected, everything is contaminated, everything affects us.
In an urbanist study, Sennett shows how Paris, Barcelona and New York have taken their modern form and guides us to places that are emblematic of the contemporary, from the suburbs of Medellín in Colombia to Google's headquarters in Manhattan. And he denounces the global spread of the “closed city”-segregated, regimented and subjected to undemocratic control-that from the Global North has conquered the Global South and its monstrously expanding urban agglomerations. According to the author, there is another way of building and inhabiting cities.

Archives and collection

Caleidoscopio nella Sezione introduttiva a carattere internazionale, nel Salone d'onore
Caleidoscopio nella Sezione introduttiva a carattere internazionale, nel Salone d'onore
Interno del Tunnel Pneu, progetto di Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’urbino e Paolo Lomazzi
Interno del Tunnel Pneu, progetto di Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’urbino e Paolo Lomazzi
Modella posa nella sezione del Messico durante un servizio fotografico di moda
Modella posa nella sezione del Messico durante un servizio fotografico di moda
Tre modelle percorrono il Ponte che collega il Palazzo dell'Arte con l'area verde antistante, progetto degli architetti Aldo Rossi e Luca Meda
Tre modelle percorrono il Ponte che collega il Palazzo dell'Arte con l'area verde antistante, progetto degli architetti Aldo Rossi e Luca Meda