Luminous Shadows
Merchandise hides the relationship of exploitation that makes it possible. This is a Marxian idea that only a few would be willing to refute. With “metaphysical tricks” , the seductive appearance of consumable products in the capitalist society hide and
The aesthetic imperative
Is it now the moment of truth? The crucial moment? Is the crisis, whose cronos stretches back for almost a decade now, the qualitative time to take a stand? The time is now, we tell ourselves. Maybe the time is
Discourse ethics, the imperative of dissent and ethiconomics
Every public uprising in defence of individual or group rights is based on demand a moral nature. The global Indignad@s/Occupy movement basically arose against the «greed» of the financial markets, calling for an ethical —and, by extension, political— revolution with
Night Loops
Live videos, practised by the so-called VJs, is nothing new. There is virtually no club, event or night-time cultural reunion that does not include in its programme the projection of videos as yet another artistic attraction. These activities are no
Only for the masses
Industrialised society, the growth in population brought about by scientific progress, and particularly the field of medicine, and the concentration of human beings in certain privileged areas are all factors which lead to the rise of the masses, mass society. Although it has