A friend of mine just emailed me about the passing of Rafael Videla, the military dictator who ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1981, after leading a coup against then president and Peron’s widow, Isabel. His was one of the most vicious military regimes in Latin American history, responsible for the …
A few of months ago, The New Yorker published an article by journalist Jon Lee Anderson on Venezuela’s most famous slum: the Tower of David. Originally built as headquarters for one of the country’s largest banks, today the Tower seems to symbolize late Hugo Chávez’s Revolution biggest failure. As a …
Como lo prometí, aquí van los vídeos de las charlas ofrecidas por Solomianski y Peluffo con motivo de la presentación de sus libros, recién publicados por Editorial A Contracorriente. Parte 1 Parte 2 (7) Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on …
Recién hace unos días asistí a una charla sobre la novela sentimental del siglo XIX dictada por la crítica y profesora de …
Hoy se celebran 19 años de la muerte del director italiano Federico Fellini. Nacido en 1920, Fellini murió luego de una serie …
Funes y la memoria Estoy leyendo el libro Borges y la memoria: Un viaje por el cerebro humano de “Funes el memorioso” …
A brief comment on the recent U.S. Presidential Debate. The President’s performance was definitively disappointing but somehow unsurprising. His opponent showed greater …
This season I got myself involved with a book circle to discuss the book Teaching for Critical Thinking by Stephen D. Brookfield. …
Recién publican un obituario que su servidor escribiera sobre Hobsbawm en Prodavinci.com, una revista cultural venezolana. (5) Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious …
Just got news of Eric Hobsbawm’s passing. One of the greatest historian of the 20th century, Hobsbawm (95) was respected by both …
As part of IQ2, literary critic Terry Eagleton and philosopher Roger Scruton met for a debate on culture at the Royal Institution …
The dialectics of films Reading Stanley Cavell’s Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes (1984), I came across with this sentence: “Fantasy …
Recién me acabo de mudar y me ha tocado decidir qué libros me llevo conmigo y cuáles dejo almacenados. Imagino que tomar …
La apertura de Frenesí Es sabido que Hitchcock suele comenzar sus películas de una manera más bien convencional. Es verdad, hay películas que …
He decidido ponerme el reto de escribir, en el lapso de un año, una reseña de cada film que Alfred Hitchcock dirigiera, …
Watching Frank Capra’s unforgettable Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) with my teenage son the other day reminded me of the incredible …
The New Yorker has recently published an excerpt from D. T. Max’s biography of David Foster Wallace, America’s iconic post-modern writer. Foster Wallace …
Jacobin has just published the whole series of interviews that Megan Erikson did on Žižek for Big Think, the online Knowledge forum. …
The news of director Tony Scott’s passing has completely rocked Hollywood and the industry. In an apparent suicide, Scott jumped off a …
Después de cinco décadas como líder incuestionable de las listas de mejor películas de la historia, El ciudadano Kane (1941), de Orson …
I’m currently reading Charles Mackay‘s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds. Mackay was a not-so-well-known Scottish poet and essayist from the 1900s. …
Regardless of von Trier’s affair in Cannes, I totally agree with Žižek on his assessment of the former’s latest film, Melancholia (2011). He says that von …
Just read an interesting essay by Brooke Harrington on the South Sea Bubble of 1720. According to Harrington, this sad event was …
Reading some comments (this one and another and another) on Nolan’s latest Batman installment reminds me how Byzantine our opulent, postmodern intelligentsia can be sometimes. …
It may seem crazy to put both Will Ferrell’s and Bertolt Brecht’s names on the same line. What in the world could …