Roland Barthes’ Mythologies: A Well of Literary Wisdom
A literary personage is neither the psychological outcome of an eery aery fluke, which may be termed “fiction”, nor bread swelled by merely leavening dough with the sour sweat of …
Edvard Zeind Palafox
A New Watershed in Aesthetic History: The Microscope
I’ve been weening the time-honored distinction between ancient and modern art. Time, I guess, isn’t a keen concept to split art. I’m going to talk a bit about this. Will …
The Fivefold Scaffold of Art
If metaphysics is the morningtide of art, and if the whilom is arrayed by the minion ideas of soul (“Seele”), world (“Welt”) and God (“Gott”), and if these flapping cloddish …
Dialectic and Beauty
Amidst a rainy night I was reperusing some Encyclopedia Britannica’s articles, and since by hook or by crook, as the folkloric phrase runs, I always meet German mythologies and Greek …
I, too, Sing America. I am the Jewish Brother
This piebald comparative inquiry is the kernel of two experiences with two wenches. As I was gallivanting across a rut of kennels of a street of New York, I saw …
The Structure of our Modern Digital Public Opinion
The following topics constitute the structure of the digital reputation of a public figure, and are either solid props to ameliorate or sustain it or accursed arms to destroy it. …
Six Anthropological Fonts of Corruption
The ensuing anthropological depictions of moral corruption, I hope, will be useful for those propagandists who are working on behalf of justice. This brief text is the result of my …
If we understand our mind, our fights will disappear
I pretend to teach how I perused public opinion and caused social conflicts when I was a political propagandist. I will not do this anymore. I am repented. Our mind …
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: an Ironic Compendium
With a simple reasoning we could explain the theory that sustains the great book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, hoisted by Edward Gibbon. That reasoning is: a society …
Nermina’s Chance, un libro de raigambre judía
Leía la nueva novela de Dina Greenberg (Universidad de Pennsylvania), amiga mía, rotulada Nermina’s Chance[1] (1), y “pari passu”, o paralelamente, leía Cuatro historiadores de Indias, un tomito del magno …