Writings in English

St. Francois de Sales used to say, ‘I hear of nothing but perfection on every side, so far as talk goes; but I see very few people who really practice it. Everybody has his own notion of perfection. One man thinks it lies in the cut of his clothes, another in fasting, a third in […]

Introduction The only copy of Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy –one of the most important books in the history of literature– at the University of Sydney’s Library, looks like the classic old printed book you find in remote corners of big libraries, old sanctuaries of knowledge: ochre colored pages, vanilla musky smell, oxidized edges and a […]

If humans establish a cybernetic relationship with weapons of war, the last barrier of decency will be lost. War will be reduced to a virtual, distant game. Killing, murder, destruction will be the corollaries of a joystick.

How a fourth generation descendant of presumable “good taste” can be so vehemently vulgar.

Anne McClintock argues that Victorian era advertisers’ raison d’être was not only commercial expansion, but also the legitimization of empire and race through a deliberate, cynical, homogenously coordinated cultural action.  “If all these new commodities were to be managed,” she says –mentioning Thomas Richards– “a unified system of cultural representation had to be found.” “In order […]

In 2010, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its foundation, the Mexican government opened the photographic archives of ‘La Castañeda’, the largest, state-owned psychiatric hospital for the country’s mentally insane. It was originally built to host a total of one thousand patients, but its capacity was far exceeded to fit close to three thousand. It’s […]

Described in its own words, Girl Walk All Day is a “feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follows three dancers across New York City. They turn the city’s sidewalks, parks and architecture into an evolving stage as they spread their joy of movement.” It’s basically a pseudo-voyeur film, though with narrative […]