The Autumn of the Patriarch: How to Read Trump, Bukele and Orbán with a 1975 Novel
The Autumn of the Patriarch, published in 1975, does not narrate a dictatorship. It…
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Varlam Shalamov and the Model the Twenty-First Century Inherited from the Gulag
Varlam Shalamov spent fourteen years in the camps of Kolyma, in the far north-east…
Metropolis Was Not a Prophecy. It Was a Diagnosis
In 1927, Fritz Lang filmed a city divided into two halves that do not…
Colombia on the Couch: a Psychological Portrait of a Joy That Hurts
Colombia arrives at the consultation without having made an appointment. That already says something.…
The Borrowed Language as Class Marker and Promise of Empty Modernity
The anglicisms saturating Colombian Spanish, metropolitan French and corporate Italian are neither accidents of…
The Catholic Church and the Long Plunder of Latin America
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes · Since 1492, the Catholic Church operated in Latin…
How AI Agents Eliminate Jobs Without Their Holders Knowing
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes · In most service companies around the world, labour…
The Disappearance of Space and Time, or Why No New Musical Genres Are Born
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes · INITIAL SYNTHESISSince the year 2000, no mass musical…
Lorca in the Algorithm, or Perfect Authenticity is a Market Forgery
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes · INITIAL SYNTHESISIn 1933, Federico García Lorca delivered a…
One writes when neither speech nor silence is possible any longer. This is the second year.
The first website lasted a year. It was functional, in the way that windowless…
Your Children Have Already Ingested It: the Teflon DuPont Knew Was Toxic
In 1961, DuPont’s internal laboratories confirmed that Teflon coating caused liver damage in rats…
Three Mechanisms by Which the United States Erased War from Its Conscience
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes · INITIAL SYNTHESISSince 1973, the United States has known…