When travelling through cities like Rome or Paris (specially in the latter) I had the strangest deception, for it had an indifferent nature to me. The thing is, there´s nothing to expect from these places since all expectations are covered. It´s the worst sensation any touristic destiny can offer; emptiness. One knows what to expect,…
The paradox of diferences lies in that where differences are given is within the common. For a specific situation they correspond two antipode responses. Lets think on a couple who just broke their relationship. We will find that response Diferences proceed from distinct contexts, from unequal experiences, from diversely lived lives. Within the same common…
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…
One has the costume of entering abandoned houses or forgotten places. There relies one charm of a kind, a paralyzed momentum in time and space, of everything that was but was not, of events pretended to be and meant never to happen, of facts never thought to occur but that, somehow, did happen. Places abandoned in forgetfulness and forgotten in abandonment.…
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…
