Come si cambia. Cronache dell'anno zero

Life, but above all, the world is changing. Claudio Velardi, communicator and "lobbyist," for years split between politics and journalism, a lucid and discreet presence in online and television debate, constructs an intimate, ironic, and profound diary of a faceless year. It's 2020, but in reality we could be in any "year zero" that cancels and suspends life: and, in a certain sense, the world, understood as a "representation," as the painstaking construction of History, of the complex system of relationships—almost never easy, not always happy—between people. It is in these moments, when everything seemingly stands still, that we realize "how things change," to use a beautiful, sad song. There's no despondency in these pages, which are instead hopeful and optimistic, in which Velardi recounts his transformation through glimpses of life experiences, insights into current events, jobs ending and beginning, declarations of love and flashes of pain, reflections on the future. Speaking of lobbying and technology, communications and neuroscience. All heralds of a new world that's already within each of us, even when we don't realize it.