The Chilean author discovered in the Cuban intellectual’s writings a source of inspiration that shaped her thinking and her connection with the island. Poet Jaime Quezada revisits this relationship through a collection bringing together literary, journalistic and essayistic material gathered over years of research. Fausto Triana A virtual, […]
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Protection or prison? The paradox of victimhood
In 2006, Ofer Zur argued that reducing someone to a role shaped by past experiences can limit their ability to regain control of their lives. Social support remains essential, but responding to suffering also requires facing complexity and recognising individual agency rather than relying on a single explanation. Nigel […]
A phrase that sets the language of gestures in motion
For anyone unfamiliar with Mandarin, the expression can be used to ask for help, point out an address on a map or attract a taxi driver’s or shopkeeper’s attention. It also opens contact from either side: visitors use it, and hosts say it to travellers and customers. Luis Melián […]
Alfredo Jaar’s clarinet call
A new study by Florencia San Martin looks at the work of Alfredo Jaar and the political valency of his visual, mostly installation, art. Sean Sheehan Jaar’s work challenges political indifference with images and gestures that solicit more than passive spectatorship. Five years after moving to New York […]
Barbarism never left, it just took a pause
Media companies remain silent and the opposition clings to digital platforms while completely abandoning community work. In this vacuum, through networks of solidarity, complaints and an Erasmian spirit, citizens must face stigmatisation, blacklists of inconvenient people and extrajudicial executions Germán Ayala Osorio* The regime that was recently installed […]















