Contributors

Edicola 518 is the rebel newsstand for lovers of fine paper. We, the artists of Emergenze, founded it on 1 June 2016 on the site of a historic newsagent’s in Perugia, and have made it a bookshop without equal anywhere in the world. Its selection offers a range unique in Italy of independent magazines, artists’ books, anarchist ephemera, fanzines and self-produced works under our own publishing imprint, Emergenze Publishing. We have defined the space of Edicola 518 as four square metres of infinite space.

The musical career of Max Casacci—guitarist, producer, and founder of Subsonica—began at the age of twenty with live music and soundtracks for film, experimental theater, and contemporary dance. He played in various bands, both in Italy and on international stages, until the formation of Subsonica. Throughout his musical career, Max has moved between the top of the charts and the most underground realms of musical exploration, blending pop and experimental sounds and collaborating not only with much of the Italian independent scene but also with Mina, Eugenio Finardi, Antonella Ruggiero, and Franco Battiato. EARTHPHONIA is the title of the first album created using sounds of nature, released on CD in 2020, and a book published by Slow Food and co-authored with Mario Tozzi, a geologist, science communicator, and environmentalist. The album/book sold 5,000 copies, received excellent reviews, and led to a tour featuring performances at major Italian music, science, and cultural festivals.
On several occasions, Max has welcomed representatives from the worlds of science and culture onto the stage, including Mario Tozzi himself, plant scientist Stefano Mancuso, evolutionary philosopher Telmo Pievani, physicist Guido Tonelli, marine biologist Mariasole Bianco, and philosopher Emanuele Coccia.
URBAN GROOVESCAPES (2022), also released on vinyl by 42 Records, is an electronic and dance music album in which the urban space itself “plays”: noises, acoustic signals, sounds of human presence during sporting events, and celebrity voices are processed and transformed into rhythm, immersing the listener in the sounds of everyday life.
THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (42 Records) is an EP released in 2024 created exclusively with the sounds of wine and its production process inside a Franciacorta winery.

Mauro Magatti is a sociologist and economist. His research focuses on the relationship between economy and society, with particular attention to the transformation of contemporary capitalism, understood as a historical-social construct in which techno-economic, institutional and cultural dimensions interact. Following the influence of his mentors — including Zygmunt Bauman, Luc Boltanski and Bernard Stiegler — he has investigated the relationship between individual experience and major economic, technological and social transformations, developing in recent years, together with other scholars, the paradigm of social generativity.

Director of photography for more than ten years in film, advertising and documentary production, collaborating with brands such as Giorgio Armani, Lavazza and Universal Music Italia. In 2021, during lockdown, he began a path of artistic experimentation, creating architectural installations built with Kapla wooden building blocks, combining two long-standing passions: wood and architecture. His works, built live in front of audiences as genuine performances, are eventually dismantled or demolished in a collective event, forming a cycle of construction and deconstruction that reflects on the transience of beauty. In 2019 he created his first permanent installation, La Stanza Magica, at Casa Bossi (Novara), and in 2022 he launched the Wood Arc project. Since 2023 he has collaborated with the Salvatori brand, experimenting for the first time with natural stone — Carrara marble, Pietra d’Avola, Grigio Versilia — to create permanent installation works.

A professional journalist since 2003, Maria Soave has worked with Il Messaggero and Il Sole 24 Ore — covering the economies of Umbria, the Marche and Tuscany — and with the RCS MediaGroup. In 2004 she joined Rai, initially at Tg3, before moving to Tg1, where she served as head of the domestic affairs desk and presented various editions of the news bulletin over the years, from the late-night to the early-evening and 1:30pm slots. In 2009 she moved from the economics desk to the political desk, remaining there until 2023. Since September 2023 she has presented Tg1 Mattina, while since 2022 she has co-hosted Unomattina Estate on Rai1 with Massimiliano Ossini. Since 2024 she has also presented Agorà Estate on Rai3, a programme dedicated to the economy, employment and housing.