We often turn a blind eye to death in the West. But why? After all, prevailing common sense tells us that every life ultimately ends in the same way: with death. Mabel Encinas Not all cultures share our fatalistic view of death. It’s a sad fact that death […]
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Autonomist Abdication?
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi is an old school Italian marxist. Rising up during the 1960s, he spent years in exile in France, during the repression of the 1970s. Steve Latham Now a new superstar of the far left, he has released a new book, “Schizo Mail”, based on short […]
Find the guilty one…
This is the title Francis Fergusson gives the summary of Sophocles tragedy “Oedipus the King”, which according to Umberto Eco is the maximum condensation, that allows you to know something about a novel that’s not more than a two hundred page essay. Armando Orozco Tovar But going back […]
Disasters: hitting the poor the most?
There are two themes I want to explore in this article. The first is that all disasters are essentially man-made. Secondly, that the poor are always hit by far the worst. Nigel Pocock It might seem surprising to my readers to make the assertion that earthquakes and other […]
Context, or how to break with the myth of the individual
The great majority of books on psychology refer to the individual person. It would seem as if each individual person were isolated from their social context. Mabel Encinas The idea of starting with an individual is fortunate and unfortunate at the same time. On the one hand the […]














