Few are the covers I really enjoy. In my opinion there are two kind of covers: imitative and appropriated. This one makes me cry. Imitative covers are those trying to emulate and repeat songs as they are. They only have one essence: the essence of the original song, static and elitist. Therein lies the potential for…
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 believe democracy has two fields: the political field and the ideological field. To the former they belong the actors, while structures belong to the latter. We can say that democratic arenas are constituted by one political spectre parallel to one ideological spectre, both transversely fractionated by three main tendencies: left, centre, right. All the mentioned before is true for any…
Considering freudian neurosis as the suppression of all libidinal instinct, pornography turns to be a mechanism of sexual annulation. Porn industry seems, initially, as a cultural contradiction, for it is meant to stealthily praise the satisfaction of the sexual desire that we’re demanded to subjugate; in second term, substitute it. Illustration extracted from: http://unapolillaalrededordelaluz.blogspot.mx/2008_06_01_archive.html Nevertheless, this…
Uncommon to many Mexicans, I don’t usually watch television, whether TV or through Internet. The truth is, whenever I watch TV, I watch U.S. content. The other day I was watching the last season of Breaking Bad on Netflix. In one chapter I heard the expression “rocks on it?” I’d never heard it before, but contextualized by…
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…
Justin Bieber is the pop figure of millions. He´s the guy that dwarfs as he grows bigger. They guy who unleashes controversy and negative critics as he attracts huge coverage. Guy who reduces himself. The Canadian “artist” grows smaller in two ways: through his audience and through himself. The former because his audience, rather than exploding, implodes.…
“ Do you want to conserve a sweet memory of this love? Then lets love today and tomorrow lets say Goodbye!” Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Love is global, but not universal by those means: everyone experiences love through ones own particularity and from ones own individuality. And a couple experiences it through two individualities. Because love…
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…
