28/05 — 31/10/2026
PEANUT FIELDS NEAR FRIENDSHIP
26/10/2026, 06.00 PM
PEANUT FIELDS NEAR FRIENDSHIP #3
Giuseppe Allegri, Bruno Montesano
26/10/2026, 06.00 PM
Talk
In the third instalment of Peanut Fields Near Friendship, Giuseppe Allegri, who describes himself as an “ageing, sedentary investigator of the rugged thousand inclined planes between the mainstream and subcultures”, is in conversation with Bruno Montesano, a scholar and essayist in the social sciences and an activist in the field of cultural labour. At the heart of the encounter is an unexpected intergenerational friendship, sparked by shared political urgencies and spilling over into a thousand unforeseen commonalities.
«A friendship suspended between resonances, dissonances, attunements to the future anterior, perhaps even to the present past. A friendship that sounds like an imaginary cadavre exquis: plural cadavres exquis of memories and practices that precede and follow us, like paths no longer interrupted, but emerging through the co-presence of impossible encounters. It is an opportunity to evoke the intermediaries who accompany us in that immortal collectivity of private friendship which overflows into a public fellowship of friends. Invisible threads will be drawn from the second half of the twentieth century, across metropolitan subcultures and social, musical, and cultural upheavals. Threads woven by eternal terrible boys and girls, tireless and indolent freelancers of lost time, in the thousand non-state public spaces, in the bar-asylums of artistic multitudes, erratic and sedentary, lost between morning aphasias and nocturnal verbosity, in the pleasure of the night, with its visual, acoustic, and aesthetic trajectories still to come.»
Image: Nicola Toffolini, PòST #11, 2022 / 2023, penna e gouache acrilica su carta / pen and acrylic gouache on paper, cm 250,0x140,0
BIO
Giuseppe Allegri is a researcher and essayist with a PhD in State Theory and Comparative Political Institutions. He teaches Public Law, Information and Communication Law at Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on social rights, transformations in labour and welfare, basic income, European integration, and new urban institutions. He is a founding member of Basic Income Network Italia and an editor of OperaViva Magazine, and contributes to il manifesto. His publications include Il reddito di base nell’era digitale (2018), the co-edited volume La città come istituzione, entro e oltre lo Stato (2023), and, with Giuseppe Bronzini, a new introduction to Ventotene. Un Manifesto per il futuro (2025).
Bruno Montesano holds a PhD in Political Philosophy and Sociology from the Universities of Turin and Florence, with a dissertation on Karl Polanyi and the ambivalences of protection in its social and national dimensions. Together with Michele Cangiani, he is co-editing a new edition of The Great Transformation, forthcoming from Einaudi in 2027. He is currently a subject expert in Political Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca. He has been a visiting researcher at Fordham University and, in 2026, a visiting postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He has lectured and participated in conferences on the relationships between Zionism, colonialism, and nationalism, themes explored in the volume he edited, Israele-Palestina. Oltre i nazionalismi (2024). He is a member of the editorial board of Iride and has published articles and reviews in Studi Politici, Cambio, Polémos, Filosofia Politica, Indiscipline, and Endoxa. He contributes to il manifesto and La Stampa.
