During his dictatorship, Franco succeeded in affiliating the ideology of his regime with some of the most important anthropological elements any culture can have. The concept of patria, religious rituals, foundational myths and traditional arts were all absorbed by fascism, and we have held on to this muddled association of […]
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Aesthetic terrorism as a social struggle: epidermal solutions for a heart failure
Impact strategies (visual, auditory…) as a form of struggle for some social movements today are not always effective against the system that they are critical of. The danger of these methods is that the epidermal impacts are merely substitutes for profound changes. It is what the popular wisdom would describe […]
Patricia Tafur, and the language of real life
For Plato, the carpenter imitated the ideas of the gods. The painter imitates the idea conceived and created by the carpenter. Armando Orozco Tovar Works of visual and poetic art were for Plato the imitation of an imitation: imitations of a secondary rank. In this context, Plato uses […]
For the liberation of women
An event organised by Socialist Resistance London the coming 23rd of February seeks to defend women’s roles and expose the abuses of rights to which they are subjected. Women continue to be, despite the advances towards the end of the 20thC and the beginning of the 21stC, one of the […]
About the struggles of women
The first of two talks on the subjects of women’s rights and the women’s liberation movement will be taking place, on the 23rd of February. Both discussions will have guest speakers. Although the fight for women’s rights in wealthy, capitalist countries has been successful, for the most part, the rest […]