Antonio Moresco's 'Il grido': A Radical Pamphlet on Species Suicide

Antonio Moresco's book 'Il grido' (SEM, 2018) is a radical pamphlet that revolves around the question: 'What happens to intelligent species, humans, if they destroy their own habitat and living conditions?' Moresco describes the work as taking the form of 'an invocation, a laugh, and a cry.' The text critiques the complicity of culture, politics, and economics in perpetuating a tragic denial of the ongoing species suicide. Moresco argues that power structures cannot change without a realization of failure. He emphasizes the power of writing to act in the gap between visible and invisible, citing quantum physics. The author imagines walking with Kafka, Rembrandt, Cervantes, and Goya, discussing how to break the banks of a river destroying life conditions. The book calls for breaking down divisive walls of language and politics, rejecting the scapegoating of migrants, and building a path of emancipation from unlimited progress. The cover features Nicola Samorì's 'Maddalena' (2010). Marco Petroni, design theorist and critic, is noted as a contributor to Artribune.