The 2114
anarchists

In the first two rows Allen Purcell - "the young and progressive president of the newest and most creative agencies in Research" - lose a bedroom and a kitchen gains. We are in the novel Redemption immoral Philip Dick's distant 1956 (effectively the Italian title, the original was "The Man Who Japed") just reprinted by Fanucci in the new, beautiful translation by Tommaso Pincio.
Start claustrophobic: thin plasterboard wall, two folding chairs and a cooker (also used by the sink, table, dresser) occupy the entire space. Thanks to various "space-saving devices" the big room constantly changing: if the bed disappears arrives precisely the kitchen. Remains little room for dressing. The bathroom in the corridor, in common with their neighbors. But Purcell is very proud of that studio, inherited from family and "defended for over 40 years."
From his studio Purcell can see "the cusp - blessed - the Rimor" ie the moral cleansing that governs society by the revolution of 1985. Now we are in 2144 and Purcell is about to lose the valuable apartment, despite being a powerful man, about to get to the top of the mass media system. The eviction takes place by decision of the condominium. The neighbors had gathered, like every Wednesday, to examine the morality of the tenants and was relieved the case of "Mr. A. P. "who was" abhorrent activities entertained with a young woman "that he kissed her. We are in a society where "oh God" is considered a grave blasphemy and where critics of the Rimor are considered dangerous "anarchists" who "want the return of fornication, neon signs, drugs."
The Allen Purcell Rimor bruise that will not only lose the apartment, but self-sue for a serious crime, have damaged the statue of Major Streiter, founder of the Moral Restoration. Yet the reader has the feeling that this gesture will engage a revolt and the novel ends with a slender hope so (a bit 'like in the movies always open yet desperate Dardenne brothers). Even so, before being thrown out by the media, Purcell will be able to play a joke - hence the title - worth going down in history. Not reveal here but I anticipate that if you read this, you hear the phrases "active assimilation" and "threat applicant 'or even the simple word' boil 'put you to laugh uncontrollably.
What is important above all is the kind of future that Dick built in 1956, based on "worst 4". Capitalism-p (ie worst) is mixed with socialism-p, integralism-p,-p technology.
A little 'as in "1984" Orwell - but the outcomes in some ways completely unpredictable - we have a total political control and social and moral anti-sex sets, in addition there is the false popular participation (meetings of condominium) and a highly developed technology micro-robots, popularly called 'table', who were filming everyone and everything, but even with automated systems and anonymous accusation-defense which apparently ensure the fairness of the process but are actually made up and rotten from the beginning. The popular-Monthly meetings are the summit of the "snoop and gossip" over "centuries of sectarian Christians" but Dick also makes a caricature of Stalinist trials, played on micro scale.
Then "sex morbid people hunted for acts of nature. This system is like an immense torture chamber where people stare at each other trying to cogliersi him out (...) witch hunts and stellate rooms. " The translator reminds us that the rooms were established in 1487 starred by King Henry VII and was a high court asked to judge every action and even thought of 'treason' a bit '- I might add - as now disagree with the ECB or with the stock market.
In this society-nightmare "worse 4" seems to be a way out: the "neuro" (as they call with contempt), the antisocial, those who go on tilt can ask for help from the Resort, "mental health", in apparently the only zone where little robots spies or "cohorts" of Rimor can not enter. But really Resort are an alternative to the system or rather they are complete, place and manner in which reabsorb the dissidents, in the words of Purcell "two sides of one coin"? Perhaps the alternative is the "ruins" of a distant atomic war, radioactive districts where but survived a few fragments of the past, including literature, "pornographic" by Joyce, Truman Capote or the "Decameron." By the way, the lost classics of literature (Walter Scott and Charles Dickens) are rewritten by "circles of readers."
The main character is buffoon and desecrating the beginning unconsciously - almost schizophrenic - and then by choice. Dick could not have read (the book was released in 1960) but it seems a definition of Paul Goodman in "The Youth absurd" that became famous during the years of the riots: "As society becomes more compact and complete a criminal act may well be a dumb political move and a political protest is inevitably considered criminal. " In this sense, it concerns us all, anarchists and / or rebels, in this 2011, in the face of this democratic society, more and more compact and complete.

Daniele Barbieri