Leer en español. There was an odd thing about the apartment on Airbnb, the apartment I had rented in Medellín: it seemed that the owner — I’ll call him E — did not live in Colombia, but rather in Chile. His phone number had a Chilean country code. But he always responded very rapidly to any message I sent within the Airbnb app. His message with the details for my arrival mentioned that two neighbors, N and […]
Umberto Eco was born in 1932, in Fascist Italy. He lived the first 13 years of his life under Fascism. In 1995, he published an essay in The New York Review of Books in which he attempted to clarify the meaning of meaning of “fascism:” Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. Take away imperialism from fascism and you […]
https://goo.gl/photos/TK4cZPftPzuFP79r8 El miércoles por la tarde estaba buscando un lugar tranquilo, con buen Internet, para terminar mi ensayo sobre el teatro de la calle como parte del festival Cervantino. Encontré el cafe adjunto al patio del Museo Iconográfico del Quijote. Por el momento, no estoy hablando del museo como museo, sino del café como café, como un lugar social. Hay que decir, antes de todo, que el espacio era perfecto para pensar y escribir. El café estaba […]