Alberto Ponticelli presents: Cockroach! 
premise that what I am about to write is not a review but just my opinion, or rather what inspired me to read Blatta.
Alberto Ponticelli never ceases to amaze. I knew him as a great artist, how busy rediscovering the complete author. I have read
Roach on a rainy November night in bed, illuminated by a dim light from 30w ... read more and more elaborated thoughts my mind is not always lucid.
Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Philip Dick crowded my vision ...
Alienation. Ideology. Historical materialism. Self-awareness. Men Blasé. Sci.
Why?
all began in a claustrophobic room / cell in which a man "lives" of his daily life, or better has agreed to live his simulacrum of life! Every day is exactly the same, every action (wake up, eat, work) is timely like the flow of the hands on the clock ... it's insane!
I open my old sociology book and read: the alienation can be defined as a condition in which men are dominated by forces which they themselves have created and which are opposed to them as alien forces. Karl Marx
The work is external to man, that is not part of his being, man ... and then there is no suggestion in his work, but is denied ... In it, he does not belong to himself but to another. Relationship which is man's relationship with his own activities as alien, not his, the activity as a liability, the force which is weak, the generation which is powerlessness, energy their physical and spiritual man, his personal life ... as an activity directed against himself, which he independent, not belonging to him.
The man is often beset by terrifying nightmares in which appaino visions that oppress their free will, but what they represent?
keep reading Karl Marx.
Ideologies - images nebulae that are formed in the human brain - are in all their forms - moral, religious, metaphysical, etc.. Necessary sublimation of the material process of their lives, empirically verifiable and bound to material conditions. Function of ideology is in this perspective legitimize relations of domination that characterize the present state of things, so that the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, while leveraging the awareness of their condition by the dominated.
of a sudden see a cockroach ...
Why a cockroach? - I wonder -
mumble mumble
Let's see ...
How could a virus be represented graphically?
Personally, when my computer is hit by a computer virus can imagine him in the throes of a colony of hungry ants ... but when I get sick, my imaginary child remember the episodes of the TV series "We are made this way" and also in this condition represent the virus with insectoid appearances ...
I'm crazy?
Back to cockroach and assume is a virus, one of those that disrupt an organism. His appearance
overloading the highly efficient system that we know, so that the protagonist is thrown out in an environment unknown to him that terrifies him.
not enough ... Again I ask for help
Marx
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Every ruling class has in its existential mechanism the virus (the cockroach?) Who will appoint the extinction and natural birth of a new power relationship between classes.
The man is now out of the system on one hand, the alien, but on the other protected him. From what? Responsibilities, the decisions, the awareness of self.
It 's out.
In this new environment has the good fortune to meet a fellow, a woman, who taught him, or should I say, remember, as you live.
a little bit of time both get naked and old habits than the old suits that prevent any contact with his body ... everything changes with the exception of the still present helmet that prevents a proper contact between the faces.
Because the helmet is still there? Why do not they free?
The helmet is perhaps the anchor of society over this coercion? You can live in freedom without being dependent by anything?
Our man can not get rid of his "being socially constructed" and prey to a fit of madness killed punched the woman, her
woman led him guilty of disobedience.
Fists are hurled with force and anger on the woman's helmet and, one after another, destroying the glass mask ...
E 'in this moment that the man sees the human face of his companion, is at this moment which is aware of what really is in these moments that decides to stage his extreme act: suicide!
Ma ... can not die ...
The existing social system is programmed so that every man go back to its primary functions in a new version of itself ...
Death is not covered!
Everything seems to be back to normal in that room / cell that we met on the first page.
Not so!
The man seems to have memories of its recent past pre suicide, and for the first time we readers can see his eyes behind the reflective surface of the helmet ...
The case, the same already appeared at the beginning of the story, that the words of the protagonist seems to be the last chance of salvation in a crisis .... the case must be opened!
And so it is ....
Man disappears ...
The room we are shown empty ...
The case is open on the bed .... ...
Philipp Dick
you ask, the reality exists for all of our subjectivity or ceases to be when we are not here anymore?
Last note:
Ponticelli choose to display its tables in grayscale ... is random?
And if it was a criticism of current society? The individuals who compose it?
George Simmel:
blasé man sees all things at all as it were dull and gray and feels unworthy of provoking a reaction. If it is established in man's conviction that we can obtain all the possible varieties of life for the equivalent amount of money, he will become necessarily blasé
