Far from being a society of mature people, western culture encourages mass narcissism and infantilisation, in ever-increasing numbers. Nigel Pocock What is ‘community’? It is a noun, and has a verbal form, ‘communication’. This gives us the essence of a ‘community’, for it is nothing more or less […]
In Focus
In Focus
The unbreakable vow, Capitalism: our love affair
A ‘love’ that will be lasting our lifetimes. An individual’s relationship with capitalism is very much a passionate, emotional love affair, similar to those read in books and watched on the silver screen. We are so fervent in our consuming that we turn in desperation to loans and lending. […]
I shot a blank, and hit a black
Unlike the shot fired in his heart by the poet José Asunción Silvia on the morning of the 24th of May 1896, that of Candelario Obeso (1849-1884) was heard in his home in Bogotá, the ninth road between Sixth and Seventh Street where, harassed by racial discrimination and due to […]
Interview with actor Luis Tosar
After a career of over twenty years, he is now considered one of the most important actors of Spain. Roles that have given him greater glory have been mostly villains: psychopaths, offenders or prison leaders, among others. However, he says that they are much easier to play than characters that […]
A child of the war in Africa
José Manuel Valdermar Prata spent the first years of his life in his birthplace Benguela, a coastal city west of Angola. At the age of nine, he was already aware that the country had been immersed into a civil war, one which at times seemed to be resolved by peace, […]















