The fury governing our world was already in the Iliad, and Homer knew how it ends
Homer wrote the Iliad nearly three thousand years ago. The first word of the…
ESSAYS
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Essays
In-depth texts: cultural analysis, political reading and history as a tool for understanding the present.
Aimé Césaire and the moral laboratory Europe exported before importing its consequences
What is most unsettling about the Discourse on Colonialism is not its verbal violence…
Rosa Parks, or the day refusing to give up a seat changed the mechanics of power
Some gestures make no noise when they happen and yet shift the world. That…
The Autumn of the Patriarch: How to Read Trump, Bukele and Orbán with a 1975 Novel
The Autumn of the Patriarch, published in 1975, does not narrate a dictatorship. It…
Varlam Shalamov and the Model the Twenty-First Century Inherited from the Gulag
Varlam Shalamov spent fourteen years in the camps of Kolyma, in the far north-east…
Metropolis Was Not a Prophecy. It Was a Diagnosis
In 1927, Fritz Lang filmed a city divided into two halves that do not…
Colombia on the Couch: a Psychological Portrait of a Joy That Hurts
Colombia arrives at the consultation without having made an appointment. That already says something.…
The Borrowed Language as Class Marker and Promise of Empty Modernity
The anglicisms saturating Colombian Spanish, metropolitan French and corporate Italian are neither accidents of…
The Catholic Church and the Long Plunder of Latin America
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes · Since 1492, the Catholic Church operated in Latin…
The Disappearance of Space and Time, or Why No New Musical Genres Are Born
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes · INITIAL SYNTHESISSince the year 2000, no mass musical…
Lorca in the Algorithm, or Perfect Authenticity is a Market Forgery
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes · INITIAL SYNTHESISIn 1933, Federico García Lorca delivered a…