Notes

1   Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (New York: Little, Brown, 2000).

2   Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011).

3   Mauro Porcini, “Your Design Process Is Not Enough, Hire Design Thinkers,” dmi:Review 20, no. 3 (September 2009); Mauro Porcini, “Love Letter to Design,” dmi:Review 24, no. 1 (April 2013).

4   Bob Samples, The Metaphoric Mind (Boston: Addison Wesley Longman, 1976).

5   Gillo Dorfles, Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste (New York: Bell 1969).

6   David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste (1760).

7   Plato, Phaedrus, trans. H. N. Fowler, 265d–e.

8   Translated into English by Rosamaria Lavala in The Eternal Child (Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’Italianistica, 1999).

9   Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), 204.

10 Giancarlo Dimaggio, “Miguel Benasayag: ‘Noi, marionette in mano ai coach e agli smartphone,’ ” Sette 28 (February 28, 2020).

11 Miguel Benasayag and Angélique del Rey, Elogio del conflicto (Madrid: Tierradenadie Ediciones, 2012).

12 Dimaggio, “Miguel Benasayag.”

13 Summarized by Umberto Eco in Storia della bellezza (Milan: Bompiani, 2018), 72.

14 See Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), trans. John Listrum (London: Bloomsbury, 2016).

15 Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (New York: Random House, 2006).

16 A reference to the poem “Il sabato del villaggio” (1829), in Giacomo Leopardi, The Canti, trans. J. G. Nichols (Manchester: Carcanet, 1994).