The main focus of the articles published by Franco Cassano since the second half of the 90s in many national newspapers (and later collected in Modernizzare stanca) is the mythology of progress, the idea of an unlimited productivity, the domination of speed and technology in every human sphere, social competition and individualism as a kind of civil religion. These themes seem to be linked to the critique of capitalism made by the late Pasolini, with particular reference to the category of “development without progress”...