Is it possible to influence society with culture? Nicola Lagioia speaks

Early and happy. “I grew up in magazines and with magazines. They are vital and transformative places”, Nicola Lagioia tells Il Foglio, conversing enthusiastically and rediscovering the past in the present, while many are still asleep and take the night porters off the right shift. The occasion for the morning chat is the creation of the multimedia magazine “Lucy-On culture”, of which Lagioia is editorial director and inspirer. “A factory”, he defines it, relying on a word with a challenging reverberation, to summarize the sense of a project that seems to have its strengths in the vigorous trinomial: straight antennas, reticular structure, personal transversality. “In the eighties I was a reader of Frigidaire, Corto Maltese, Shadow line“, remember. “That world allowed me, in fact, access to something that I would never have otherwise encountered, given that not much was happening in Bari and no newspapers or magazines entered my house… And then direct experience was also decisive, as an insider , when for fifteen years I was deputy director of The stranger. There I was able to understand that magazines were places where people met – I remember a very young Alice Rohrwacher, or Matteo Garrone while he was still shooting Roman Summer… In short, we were a place where phenomena took shape. We inevitably intercepted them in advance”.