There are forms of imagining the future which have not been fully explored. This is one of them : " This new vision of time and space, which will be the theoreticalbasis of future constructions, is still imprecise and will remain so untilexperimentation with patterns of behavior has taken place in citiesspecifically established for this … Continue reading “Formulary for a New Urbanism” (Chtcheglov, 1953)

"The nature of things is nothing but their coming into being at certain times and in certain fashions. Whenever the time and fashion is thus and so, such and not otherwise are the things that come into being. The inseparable properties of things must be due to the mode or fashion in which they are … Continue reading Time and Space – What the Historical Method is about

Public discussion of human migration and the 'nation state' show a dogmatic belief in unilinear 'progress' (the idea of Progress) on every side of the debate. An argument can be made to address all positions which implicitly or explicitly adopt the ideologies of 'historical progress'. Belief in 'progress' implies an idea of historical continuity, of … Continue reading Storia delle Idee

This reflection has several steps, so the reasoning may be difficult to follow. There is no strict order though, but a confluence of facets or aspects of reality which ultimately configure the thesis presented. At each step, as happens with any discursive comprehension, a part of reality may make sense without reference to the rest … Continue reading Ideologies of Loss

No pensaba escribir más sobre España porque lo esencial ya está dicho, y no por mí; pero acabo de encontrar una entrevista a Pablo Iglesias --el líder de la "neo-izquierda"- que ayuda a aclarar todavía más lo que está pasando. Y es que a todos los aspectos de la confusión ideológica que ahora reina en … Continue reading La “izquierda” ya no sabe qué es un Estado

“Mis padres fueron de origen campesino. De Okinawa él, y de Chancay ella. Yo nací en la trastienda del negocio que tenían en Huancayo. Un hecho que ha signado definitivamente mi vida: soy factura de un paisaje al que arribo como un visitante entrometido. […] Mi afición a escuchar crecer la yerba me llevó a … Continue reading Rootless Mind, Impossible Heart

Discontinuity  is manifest in language in the sense that there is a complete separation between the signifier and the signified, between the symbolic and that for which the symbol stands for. This is also called the “arbitrariness of the signifier” (see the work of Ferdinand de Saussure - http://www.revue-texto.net/Saussure/Saussure.html ) The term “arbitrariness” means here … Continue reading Discontinuity in Language

In “Against Philosophical Appeasement” ( http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Thebes/dcs11.htm ) Anthony and Mary Mansueto write a magnificent indictment of nihilism, which starts as follows: “Nothing is harder for this sceptical age than to believe that the universe ultimately has meaning –except, perhaps, the idea that such a belief is not only warranted, but is in fact commanded, by … Continue reading Nihilism and Meaning Come Together

It would be naïve to expect a dispassionate stance regarding the matters of the so-called Second Cold War, or even about its reality or the motivations of the crisis. Nevertheless, careful observers of the current debates may be able to see that --to a very large extent—many participants and actors are characterized by something I … Continue reading On Individual and Collective Empathy

Only a philosophical study of history may reach to its deeper secrets. In particular, if we seek a meaning, it is essential to look for completeness. Schlegel may be wrong in assuming an original unity of “nations,” but his diagnosis of the status of the mind in the modern world seems right. The following text … Continue reading The broken “moral unity of man” according to F. Schlegel