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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

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Deseo y cine

Žižek comienza su Guía del pervertido para el cine (2006) con una advertencia: el problema que afrontamos los humanos no es que tengamos deseos — de hecho, desear es una parte muy importante de lo que somos —; el problema real es … Continue reading

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Žižek, Bosteels y Buck-Morss sobre cristianismo, activismo y ética

Como parte de la conferencia Communism, a New Beginning?, Slavoj Žižek, Bruno Bosteels y Susan Buck-Morss se reunieron hoy en Cooper Union, Nueva York, para discutir la intersección de la ética, la religión y la política en el marco de la … Continue reading

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Two Digressions about Borges, Wittgenstein and the Aesthetic Experience

I. Borges and Shi Huang Ti In his tale “Las murallas y los libros,” Borges tells the story of Shi Huang Ti (or Quin Shi Huang), the Chinese emperor who built the first Great Wall, also remembered for ordering the … Continue reading

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Russell on moral principles

While thinking on my recent posts (here and here) on the controversy between Boghossian and Fish on moral relativism, I recalled something I read on Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography. I’m talking about the chapter on his adolescent years, specifically the section he … Continue reading

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More on moral relativism

A reader pointed out that I should have paid more attention to Boghossian’s arguments against Fish when I wrote my commentary on their virtual discussion on moral relativism. He mentioned a reply to Fish’s reply that Boghossian published thereafter. Also, … Continue reading

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Estética y Wittgenstein

Un poco en la misma tónica de mi comentario anterior, leía días atrás algunas notas sobre estética del filósofo austriaco Ludwig Wittgenstein. Las notas las recopilaron sus estudiantes de unas charlas que Wittgenstein diera en el verano de 1938. Aquí me refiero … Continue reading

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Arte, literatura y las ideas estéticas

En preparación para un ensayo que conecta la película The Matrix y las ideas de Jacques Lacan con algunas novelas de Roberto Bolaño, recién leí un análisis de la película de los hermanos Wachowski que escribiera hace unos años el … Continue reading

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Boghossian vs. Fish on Moral Relativism

Right now, I’m working on a series of papers that include a lot of philosophical stuff and critical theory in analyzing Roberto Bolaño’s work. I guess this makes me somehow keen to any philosophical discussion like the one Stanley Fish and … Continue reading

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Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, RIP

Con las vacaciones y todas mis lecturas atrasadas, no he tenido tiempo de comentar la reciente muerte (el pasado 9 de julio) de quien fuera (quizá) el último representante de toda una generación de intelectuales hispanoamericanos, caracterizada por su independencia … Continue reading

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