Camouflaged as democratic, we are living in times of false liberty, where each person feels free to dress and be… different, but nowadays ‘different’ is just an adjective: everyone is the same, and if they didn’t conform they would be different…
Author: The Prisma
The changing meanings of the word ‘Police’
Everyday life forced early man to defend himself against the threats of the environment, whereby it started to plan, create and apply this concept until it became an actual entity. Silvio Gonzalez The first institutionalised police force that came about in the modern world was in the UK, […]
The woman and the city: unforgivable misogyny
The world was built on ‘machismo’ when it was said that God was a man. A concept from which Bogota never escaped: a warped city until it became a metropolis without a beginning or end, of which the Spanish conquistador arbitrarily changed the name, from Bacatá to Bogotá.
The seduction of walls
“You have to relate the graffiti to the world of art and remove anything crude…” The same could have been said about graffiti during the eighties. Armando Orozco Tovar It was the time when “street artists” made an appearance, their closest predecessors being the “jucos”, communist activists, or members of […]
Reparations and genetics: Have they anything to say to each other?
Genetic modification and reparations for slavery might seem on first appearances to be somewhat distant companions. Nigel Pocock How should we define ‘GM’? If we limit the definition to a laboratory, deliberately excluding the social context, then we are unlikely to make a connection between reparations and GM. […]
