Tommaso Labranca

Tommaso Labranca (18 February 1962 – 29 August 2016) was an Italian essayist, novelist, journalist, writer, and radio presenter.

Tommaso Labranca
Born18 February 1962 (1962-02-18)
Milan, Italy
Died29 August 2016 (2016-08-30) (aged 54)
Pantigliate, Italy
OccupationWriter

Life and career

Born in Milan, Labranca started his career in the 1980s as a translator and an editor of fanzines. Interested in the Italian trash culture, which he considered as "the last major manifestation of Italian creativity",[1] between 1992 and 1994 he directed the magazine Trashware, and he became first known for the books Andy Warhol era un coatto ("Andy Warhol was tacky", 1994) and Estasi del pecoreccio ("Extasy of the bad taste", 1995).[2] In the 1990s he was part, together with Niccolò Ammaniti, Isabella Santacroce, Tiziano Scarpa and others, of a literary movement known as "i cannibali" ("the cannibals").[2][3]

In 1997 he debuted as a television writer with the Rai 2 nostalgia show Anima mia, and starting from 2000 he collaborated with several radio stations including Radio Rai and Radio 24 as a writer and a presenter. In 2013 he founded an independent publishing house, 20090. His last work was the essay Vraghinaròda. Viaggio allucinante fra creatori, mediatori e fruitori dell'arte ("Vraghinaròda. Fantastic voyage between creators, users and mediators of art", 2016).[2][3]

gollark: What do you mean "all of the possible forms of a square diagram with two or more sides"? There are infinitely many of those. And how do I just pronounce a diagram without a predetermined mapping?
gollark: Also, I have no idea what an "objective → semantic buffer" is and I think you're underestimating the difficulty of implementing whatever it is.
gollark: I can't actually source this, having checked *at least* two internet things.
gollark: In any case, I am not a linguist, but I think it's technically possible to produce an AST from English, or something like that, but really impractical. There is no regular grammar, words can't be cleanly mapped to concepts because they carry connotations pulled in from common discourse and the context surrounding them, many of them mean multiple things, you have to be able to resolve pronouns and references to past text, etc.
gollark: I am not aware of there being 22 base units of words or whatever.

References
  1. Ranieri Polese (29 August 2016). "Addio a Tommaso Labranca. Scoprì il trash della modernità". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  2. Valeria Rusconi (30 August 2016). "Addio a Tommaso Labranca, outsider della letteratura e della tv italiana". La Repubblica. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  3. Masolino d’Amico (29 August 2016). "È morto lo scrittore Tommaso Labranca, aveva 54 anni". La Stampa. Retrieved 4 September 2016.


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