Di Dawie Coetzee. Originale pubblicato il 6 luglio 2022 con il titolo The Modern Urban Form as a Capitalist Construct. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. In un quarto d’ora su internet non son riuscito a trovare quando l’espressione “andare in città” ha finito per significare (secondo un modo di dire inglese, ndt) fare qualcosa con grande…

I could not, in the course of a fifteen-minute internet search, find a definite first attestation of the expression “to go to town,” meaning to do something with great energy or exuberance. That a number of sources report a probable 19th-century American origin is not surprising given that the idiom rests on a metaphoric use…

I have a herniated disc. According to my MRI’s report, I have a “diffuse disc protrusion” that reaches the “center posterior/lateral right of the L5-S1 intervertebral disc”. L5 and S1 vertebrae are located in the lumbar section of your body. The discs are the natural cushion between the vertebrae. When a disc is damaged, it…