The Sum Total Newsletter
Peter Thomas LangThe Sum Total Newsletter is evolving into a travelogue through contemporary culture: I am based in Rome Italy, and besides writing about life and culture here, I take on some of the most poignant issues effecting our lives today.
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Notes on the School of Uselessness: what can you possibly learn from an ideology that is basically irrelevant? Yet it might come as a surprise to discover just how relevant is irrelevance.
I was tasked with taking sketch notes during the proceedings on the first day of the Scuola inutile, or School of Uselessness. I thought i could be like Makkox on the TV show Propaganda Live, or maybe a courtroom artist, but in the end I ju...
La Scarzuola is a fantasy world located in a remote part of Umbria. The architect behind this folly wanted to make an esoteric retreat from reality. Would such a thing be possible today?
Mario Solari speaking to visitors in the Teatro dell’ Arnia, inside la Scarzuola built by his uncle, Tomaso Buzzi. Solari conducts the tours through the grounds giving a great slapstick performance. Photo PtL.
Off a remote dirt road near...
Tourism or trespassing? The Domus Aurea was buried and forgotten following Nero's death. Centuries later, artists broke into the underground ruins and discovered the grotesque. Now it's our turn.
Ninfeo di Ulisse e Polifermo, Domus Aurea, The Golden House. Photo PtL.
It’s almost pitch black down here in the underground halls of the Domus Aurea. My eyes gradually adjust to the light, allowing me to see where I stand in this caverno...
The seduction of the useless: a contemplation on the uncertainty of ordinary things that don’t always have purpose.
Artist’s rendition of a Tralfamadorian, as described by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., in his book “The Sirens of Titan.” Art: PtL
One of the most useless artifacts ever described in literary fiction is without doubt the small broken metal strap of an...
Odysseus and the Monster Heatwave: a short graphic story on the one monster Nolan left out of his Odyssey: the one that is wreaking havoc on our world right now.
Here below is a presentation of each graphic panel with clearly legible typed captions in glorious analogue color detail:
The Monster Heatwave.
“We have violated the Will of the Gods!”
“But Odysseus, we live in the Bronze Age.“
“The...
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