Monthly Archives: February 2021

Why Censorship is the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Art

(Updated Sep. 23, 2021) Reading Slavoj Zizek’s old book “Tarrying with the negative” (1993), I came across this delightful anecdote about a Yugoslavian cut of Ben Hur, the American movie about early Christian Romans: What we must bear in mind … Continue reading

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Finanzas Políticas: Subiendo el Salario Mínimo (o No)

(He lanzado una nueva newsletter, Finanzas Políticas, en la que voy a centrarme en la intersección entre dos de mis grandes pasiones. No olvides registrarte aquí si te gusta y quieres recibirla por email; algunas entradas serán gratis pero si quieres verlas … Continue reading

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Media Messaging At Work: the Capitol Riot

(Updated June 19, 2021) Glenn Greenwald, in Substack, has a wonderful piece on how anti-Trumpist propaganda triumphed beyond all expectations in the wake of the Capitol Riot in January. Five Trump supporters were killed, one of them arguably through excessive … Continue reading

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Esteroides imperiales: la economía de EEUU en los 2020s

(He lanzado una nueva newsletter, Finanzas Políticas, en la que voy a centrarme en la intersección entre dos de mis grandes pasiones. No olvides registrarte aquí si te gusta y quieres recibirla por email; algunas entradas serán gratis pero si quieres verlas … Continue reading

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The Mini-Coup Strategy: How the European Union Took Over a Continent

The brilliant Perry Anderson, one of the greatest essayists of our time, reviews a history of the European Union in the London Review of Books, and his chosen title (or that of the LRB editors) is The European Coup. I … Continue reading

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