In the Middle
Ages and Renaissance the stultifera navis
or the ship of fools was an allegoric image of people, or maybe a society,
navigating without course and without captain or guide. This symbol was used in
several forms of art to usually express something more in ironic than in a
dramatic way. Nowadays, in after-postmodern times, what was just a symbolic and
ironic image before, now became a very sad reality in the middle of nowhere and
no-country. The efficiency of frontiers as a meaning for home in postmodern
times ended, and was replaced by distant hopes for not so distant lands,
although very far from reaching…
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