Escritos Críticos

Etiqueta: Bruce Campbell

  • «La ciudadanía cultural y las leyes ‘Greaser’ del siglo 21»

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    Por Bruce Campbell   Los latinos están desapareciendo de las escuelas públicas, de las cocinas de los restaurantes, de las obras de construcción, y de los sembrados del estado de Alabama. Se alegran los nativistas, xenófobos, racistas, y activistas y legisladores del Partido Republicano que apoyan la nueva legislación dura (HB 56) que toma por…

  • Hurricane Katrina and the Hyperreality of the Image

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    Katrina y la hiperrealidad de la imagen (Spanish) Hurricane Katrina and the Hyperreality of the Image by Jorge Majfud Translated by Bruce Campbell September 2, 2005 In the 16th century, the Dominican brother Bartolomé de las Casas wrote an empassioned chronicle about the brutal conquest by the Spanish Empire of the new world. The denunciation…

  • The Importance of Being Called an Idiot

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    ¿ Cómo definimos la idiotez ideológica? (Spanish) The Importance of Being Called an Idiot Jorge Majfud   A few days ago a gentleman recommended that I read a new book about idiocy.  I  believe it was called The Return of the Idiot, The Idiot Returns, or something like that.  I told him that I had…

  • An Imperial Democracy

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    Una democracia imperial (Spanish) An Imperial Democracy Jorge Majfud Translated by Bruce Campbell Judging by the documents that remain to us, Thucydides (460-396 B.C.) was the first philosopher in history to discover power as a human phenomenon and not as a virtue conferred by the heavens or demons. He was also aware of the principal…

  • The Perversions of a System

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    Las perversiones de un sistema (Spanish) The Perversions of a System When the State Loses its Raison D’Etre Jorge Majfud Translated by Bruce Campbell     One of Mexico’s most popular television programs, Singing for a Dream (Cantando por un sueño, Televisa–Univisión, 2006), also available on cable in the United States to a large audience,…

  • Roman Apocrypha

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    Apócrifo romano (Spanish)   Roman Apocrypha Jorge Majfud   At the edge of the Empire and of the world, an old man lamented day and night and futilely awaited death. While he waited he told this story to those willing to venture out so far:   I have discovered that in the subsoils of the…

  • The Walled Society

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    The Walled Society The Walled Society With the passing of the years, and thanks to attentive observation of his clients, Doctor Salvador Uriburu had discovered that the majority of the population of Calataid lacked the European origin of which it boasted. In its eyes, in its hands, persisted the African slaves who repaired the walls in…

  • The Illegitimate Constitution

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    Honduras IV: La constitución ilegítima The Illegitimate Constitution Jorge Majfud The dialectical dispute over the legality of the violent process of removal from office and expulsion from the country of the president of Honduras has not reached closure. Months ago we explained our point of view, according to which there was no violation of the…