Imagine someone who takes the public transport for the first time, someone who needs not to make use of it, used to to cars, his own, his parents, his driver, his friend’s or couple. This person makes an effort not to touch anyone or anything, avoiding even to hold from the tubes. This person, in general, tends to avoid…
I´m a huge fan of Monopoly, the game of property trade (and destroying your competence). The other day, a common university day, I discovered a forgotten 100 “monopolies” (as I like to call the game’s currency) bill between the pages of my book The Zombie Survival Guide, a gift given to me one day we gathered to play…
I love being barefoot (I do so even at my universities’s library…sometimes). It is a couple of year old costume of mine. Phototgraph by Carole R. Farell, obtained from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/semper-somnium/7126862269/ There is no major moral and material tissue unlinking us from our surrounding environment than a shoe. As for the moral tissue, using footwear is an ethical requirement; it…
Polarized pluralism, introduced by Giovani Sartori, alludes to a political spectre whose parties maintain a strong presence in the ideological extremes (left & right). Centralized-ideology parties (center-left & center-right) are forced toward the extremes in order to find coalitions. It’s a centrifugal dynamic system. According to theorists, this creates an unsustainable democracy with serious goverbability problems. Political…
Rodrigo Borja defined publification as “the modern phenomenon of converting recently private affairs or those of exclusive people´s concern into public subjects”[1]. It consists on simply transforming private issues into public ones, being that this can influence complex societies’ organisation and governance. It seems that, in many cases, publification is a round process. Private matters turn into public, but in order…
