"Writing is therapy, sometimes I wonder how all those who don't write, compose music or paint, manage to escape madness, melancholy, panic fear
which are implicit in the human situation". — Graham Greene, "Escape"

The blog has different purposes or perhaps can be read from different perspectives. It is certainly a professional and academic diary where you can note down the main research, teaching (including experimentation on artificial intelligence-assisted teaching) and institutional activities carried out in recent years, to keep track of them and be able to find them again at the right time. But it is also a notebook of travels and stories of cultural experiences and innovation (such as Uqbar, the IISE, the HUB, magazines and posts on national blogs) which have involved many friends with whom we have traveled part of the road together.

In short, for now, the idea is to put together a series of even scattered "notes" to build the pieces of a more ambitious project: a personal and collective biography that recounts the many battles carried out from the end of the 80s to today in difficult but fascinating territories where, alongside natural beauty, the kindness and friendliness of a people, the delight of food and the mild climate, a unique ability to grasp the tragic and passionate essence of life, a serious cultural and social backwardness coexist and politics, one of the worst criminal organizations in the country, a deeply scarred territory and, for some years, also a widespread tiredness that risks turning into resignation and oblivion.

For this "corsair notes", in the hope that the story of those who have chosen to remain in a suburb of Southern Italy, of those who have chosen to do a little more than their duty in their work environment, of those who have chosen to add the civic dimension to that of family, work and individual pleasure, can give food for thought, suggest paths and initiatives, but also highlight mistakes and defeats, to the youngest in the many challenges and battles that still await them to preserve the beauty of the places, give dignity to their land and a bright future to their children.

The posts are published in chronological order, some of them date back to a youthful period but testify to the energy and desire to face challenges and plan for the future.