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Category Archives: Politics
On Reading Schmitt II: Pluri-versality
Continuing on my reading of Schmitt‘s The Concept of the Political, I have a few comments. In section 6 Schmitt develops his notion of a pluri-versal world as opposed to a uni-versal one. Essentially, Schmitt refuses the idea of a global, uni-versal … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Opinion
Tagged Carl Schmitt, economics, Politics, universalism
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Las brujas de Macbeth I
En su libro sobre William Shakespeare, Terry Eagleton adelanta la ingeniosa tesis de que las brujas de Macbeth constituyen una suerte de célula revolucionaria cuyo objetivo no es otro que el de subvertir el orden social del antiguo reino escocés … Continue reading
Posted in Literatura, Philosophy, Politics, Public Opinion, Terry Eagleton
Tagged Eagleton, Lacan, Literatura, Macbeth, Obscene juissance, teatro, teoría crítica, William Shakespeare
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On Religious Tolerance in Rhode Island
The question of whether religion has a place in civic life has been a constant source of controversy since the emergence of modern liberal-democratic societies—since it was within them that this very notion of civic or public life first came … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Opinion, Religion, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged church and state separation, Foucault, Kant, philosophy, religion
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Margin Call (2011), or a Report on the Banality of Greed
So far, few movies have been as successful as J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011) in portraying the events of the 2008 economic crisis. In fact, the movie achieves something only a few among the best films in history have … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Evil, Films, Philosophy, Politics, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged films, filosofía, financial crisis, greed, Margin Call
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En busca de El pez que fuma
Conversando el otro día con un compatriota que preparaba un curso sobre cine latinoamericano en una universidad de los Estados Unidos, a la pregunta: ¿qué película venezolana incluyes?, su respuesta automática fue “ninguna”. Luego, por supuesto, siguió la sentencia de rigor: … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Films, Politics, Public Opinion
Tagged Cine, El pez que fuma, films, opera, Román Chalbaud, venezuela
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