★It is a handbook of practices for not going mad while the world burns. ★A botany of what continues to grow in the interstice between amazement and collapse, between fascination and horror, between the wonder that break and the wonder that saves.

There’s a fundamental question that assails us when everything around us collapses and chaos seems to be spreading: How can we move forward without going mad?
This book is certainly not a survival manual for moments of crisis with definitive solutions and clear instructions, but an investigation into the human spirit that will help us discover the practices of cultural resistance that continue to blossom and grow within the cracks of the apocalypse, and that amaze us precisely for this.
Andrea Colamedici and Maura Gancitano take us on a philosophical and critical journey that documents the “flowers” that bloom in the most unlikely places. Despite knowing that the habitat is already compromised and that many of these cultural life forms are already on the verge of extinction, the authors have compiled a precious herbarium, the fruit of years of study and practice, demonstrating that wonder can sprout where it shouldn’t—in the interstices between amazement and fear—and that it is capable of taking stubborn and contrary forms. This confirms that humanity, despite everything, continues to generate beauty and meaning even when it knows it is all futile. A book that discovers that uncertainty can transform into a precious tool, that wonder is not dead, and that there are many gardeners in the world ready to cultivate it with senseless stubbornness and joy.