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@concajulian.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:27 PM

🎙️ THE POWER OF READING | UMBERTO ECO

Can books extend our lives? Explore Umberto Eco’s reflections on literature, memory, and the timeless power of knowledge.

🎧 A journey beyond one lifetime.

#UmbertoEco #Podcast #Literature #Reading #books

@dbcurren.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 3:57 PM

“ #Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a #book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.” - #UmbertoEco

@fidromanistik.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:11 AM

„Der Name der Rose" als #GraphicNovel:

Der italienische Comiczeichner #MiloManara hat #UmbertoEcos Mittelalter-Krimi in Bilder übersetzt. Im Zentrum steht eine vergiftete Bibliothek, in der sieben Todesfälle auf Antworten warten.

www.fr.de/kultur/liter... (€)

@boblivion.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 12:00 PM

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #howtotravelwithasalmon #eco #umbertoeco #travel #america #train #apocalyptic #failure #tunnel #station #returntotheplanetoftheapes

@constant-reader.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 12:54 PM

Quoting//

"Freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric." ⸻ #UmbertoEco

Eco's example was, that after years of listening to #Mussolini's grandiloquent bombast, a few sincere words uttered by the partisan leader #Mimo was a source of joy.

Hollow rhetoric thrives where free speech is curtailed.

Image of a man shouting thru a megaphone: with the words "WORDS HAVE POWER!" coming out of it. Underneath, the caption: "TELL THAT TO A TSUNAMI"

@blogcpolitic.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 10:10 AM

Culte de l'action. Un des critères du fascisme #umbertoeco

@courtfisk.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 6:35 PM

🎬 The Name of the Rose (1986)

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud admitted to casting the ugliest actors he could get b/c he wanted the monks to feel 'real'.

#TheNameOfTheRose #FilmTrailers #SeanConnery #BookSky #UmbertoEco #FilmSky #MovieSky #OTD

@nevereverdave.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:33 AM

"UK's 'dismal' #Eurovision song choices to be examined by #MPs"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We've arrived at 13 already. Not like #Westminster has any real issues awaiting attention etc etc etc..

#UmbertoEco Steps to #Fascism

Two copies of the same illustration for full Alt Text inclusion.

PAGE ONE of two

1. The cult of tradition. "One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements."

2. The rejection of modernism. "The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism."

3. The cult of action for action's sake. "Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation."

4. Disagreement is treason. "The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge."

5. Fear of difference. "The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition."

6. Appeal to social frustration. "One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups."

7. The obsession with a plot. "The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia."

8. The enemy is both strong and weak. "By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."

9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. "For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle."

10. Contempt for the weak. "Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology."

PAGE TWO of two.

11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. "In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death."

12. Machismo and weaponry. "Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality."

13. Selective populism. "There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People."

14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. "All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning."

@maickelronzino.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 3:27 PM

#UmbertoEco

@maickelronzino.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 1:38 AM

"El espíritu crítico opera distinciones, y distinguir es señal de modernidad. En la cultura moderna, la comunidad científica entiende el desacuerdo como instrumento de progreso de los conocimientos. Para el Ur-Fascismo, el desacuerdo es traición".
#UmbertoEco

@maickelronzino.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 12:38 AM

#UmbertoEco

@ainvencaodomeueu.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 2:40 PM

"O Nome da Rosa" foi o primeiro romance publicado por Umberto Eco. Ambientado em 1327, o enredo é uma fascinante mistura de ficção medieval, mistério e filosofia.

#ONomeDaRosa #UmbertoEco #Literatura #Cinema #Mistério #História #Filosofia
#ClássicoLiterário #HistóriaMedieval #IdadeMédia

@lauremordray.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 7:24 AM

Un grand classique, qui se vérifie chaque jour, et toujours un peu plus.
Et le pire, c'est que l'imbécile croit toujours que c'est l'autre, l'imbécile.

#UmbertoEco #citation #RS #imbécile

La citation de la semaine

Les réseaux sociaux ont donné le droit de parole à des légions d'imbéciles qui, auparavant, ne faisaient que discuter au bar après un verre de vin, sans causer de tort à la collectivité. On les faisait taire tout de suite, alors qu'aujourd'hui ils ont le même droit de parole qu'un prix Nobel. C'est l'invasion des imbéciles.
Umberto Eco

@maickelronzino.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 9:16 PM

#UmbertoEco

@pirckheimer.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 3:45 AM

Umberto Eco und die Pirckheimer, Teil I: „Eine Bibliothek der Welt“

Am 18.09. im Kino Filmkunst 66 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Präsentiert von der Pirckheimer-Gesellschaft e.V.

#umbertoeco #rarebook
#filmkunst66 #Pirckheimer

pirckheimer-gesellschaft.org/blog/umberto...

@maickelronzino.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 9:24 PM

#UmbertoEco

@maickelronzino.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 7:20 PM

"...en la raíz de la psicología Ur-Fascista está la obsesión por el complot, posiblemente uno internacional. Los secuaces deben sentirse asediados. La manera más fácil para hacer que asome un complot es apelar a la xenofobia".
#UmbertoEco

@maickelronzino.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 2:29 AM

"Desde la declaración atribuida a Goebbels ("Cuando oigo la palabra cultura, busco mi pistola") hasta el uso frecuente de expresiones como "intelectuales degenerados", "universidad, guarida de comunistas", la sospecha hacia el mundo intelectual ha sido siempre un síntoma de Ur-Fascismo". #UmbertoEco