DIGITAL BREAKUPS. AN EPIC JOURNEY. A FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY.

“Disco Sour is a hallucinatory trip through a future which feels just a phone-swipe away. There are notes of Pynchon, Stross, Heller and Stephenson here, but this is very much Porcaro’s book. It’s wildly inventive, scarily plausible, and it’s also very, very funny.”

Dave Hutchinson

 

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A politician addicted to dating apps embarks on an existential odyssey to save democracy from being swiped away.

DISCO SOUR has been awarded the 2018 “Altiero Spinelli Prize for Outreach: Spreading Knowledge about Europe” from the European Union.
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A story about.

Algorithms

DISCO SOUR portraits a tech-addict generation, working obsessively, all-time connected but struggling with feelings and relationships.

Europe

DISCO SOUR is an act of political activism. After all, if we can’t imagine multiple future scenarios for Europe how do we expect to build a better one?

Adventure

DISCO SOUR is a journey with a unique soundtrack, a fight for democracy, and a collection of fragments from a modern lover’s discourse.

About the Author.

Giuseppe Porcaro is a writer and political geographer interested in possible worlds, the future of politics, and the strange ways technology transforms our relationships.

His first novel, Disco Sour, was inspired in part by a journey to Chile in 2013, during which he managed to miss three connecting flights across two continents in 72 hours. What began as an improbable travel experience eventually became a speculative journey through democracy, algorithms, desire and digital breakups.

Alongside his writing, Giuseppe works in European foreign policy and strategic foresight. Through his creative project Europarama, he explores imagined futures, places and relationships through conversations, encounters and field notes.

Journal.

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