Etiqueta: Politics
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Immigration, History, Politics, and the Latino Vote
2019 Lectures IMMIGRATION AND THE LATINO VOTE January 30, 2019 4:30 pm McKee 113 WCU Humanities Initiative WCU welcomes Uruguayan-American scholar and author Jorge Majfud. In the first event, Dr. Majfud will join Dr. Benjamin Francis-Fallon (WCU History) in a panel about Immigration and the evolution of the Latino Voting Bloc in the US. Join…
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Los años Trump por venir
French: Les années Trump à venir 13 diciembre, 2016 La idea de que el futuro está hacia adelante es una construcción imaginaria, como casi todo, y procede de la acción de caminar. Pueblos más contemplativos consideraban que el tiempo fluía desde nuestras espaldas, razón por la cual sólo el pasado se puede ver, no el futuro. Por…
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An Open Letter to Donald Trump
Throughout the centuries, long before your grandparents arrived from Germany and had a lot of success in the hotel and brothel business in New York, long before your mother arrived from Scotland, the Mexicans had their families here and they had named all of the Western states, rivers, valleys, mountains, and cities.
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The Candidate
Los lobbies políticos no son tan estúpidos como parecen. Ponen los candidatos adecuados que sean capaces de recoger el dinero de la gente inteligente y los votos de gente que carece de ambas cosas. Political lobbies are not as stupid as they seem. They put the right candidates who will be able to collect…
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Another conservative paradox
Politicians who are the champions of private businesses as the only motor of the American (or any) economy and the best social organizers (forget F.D. Roosevelt, the 4 term “socialist” president who saved and refunded the country) always blame the government for not doing better in the economy. That is why they want to take…
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Brain structure differs in liberals, conservatives: study
Thu Apr 7 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Everyone knows that liberals and conservatives butt heads when it comes to world views, but scientists have now shown that their brains are actually built differently. Liberals have more gray matter in a part of the brain associated with understanding complexity, while the conservative brain is bigger in the section related to…
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Rock Democracies, Paper Freedoms, Scissors Securities
Democracias de piedra, Libertades de papel, seguridades de tijera Rock Democracies, Paper Freedoms, Scissors Securities Jorge Majfud The University of Georgia Ten years ago, contradicting the postmodernist wave, we developed in Crítica de la pasión pura (Critique of Pure Passion) the idea of morality as a form of collective conscience. In the same way that…
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Humanism, the West’s Last Great Utopia
El humanismo, la última gran utopía de Occidente (Spanish) Humanism, the West’s Last Great Utopia Jorge Majfud The University of Georgia One of the characteristics of conservative thought throughout modern history has been to see the world as a collection of more or less independent, isolated, and incompatible compartments. In its discourse, this is simplified…
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Ten Lashes Against Humanism
Diez azotes contra el humanismo (Spanish) Ten Lashes Against Humanism Jorge Majfud A minor tradition in conservative thought is the definition of the dialectical adversary as mentally deficient and lacking in morality. As this never constitutes an argument, the outburst is covered up with some fragmented and repetitious reasoning, proper to the postmodern thought…
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The Terrible Innocence of Art
La terrible inocencia del arte (Spanish) The Terrible Innocence of Art Jorge Majfud The idea that art exists beyond all social reality is similar to the disembodied theology that proscribes political interpretations of the death of Jesus; or to the nationalist mythologies imposed like sacred universal values; or the templars of language, who are scandalized…
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Fear of Freedom: On the Left and the Right
El miedo a la libertad, Sobre izquierdas y derechas (Spanish) Fear of Freedom: On the Left and the Right Jorge Majfud Generally, an historical phenomenon is naturalized thanks to an absence of memory (hence the political value of neutrality and forgetting). Obviously not always for political reasons: it was once assumed that…
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Katrina: la hiperrealidad de la imagen
El texto analiza cómo las imágenes impactan la percepción pública sobre eventos como el huracán Katrina, comparando con la historia de la conquista española. Abarca la importancia de la visualidad en la cultura contemporánea y cómo la falta de imágenes «crudas» limita la conciencia sobre las tragedias y desigualdades sociales, revelando una crítica a los…
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La privatización de Dios
The Privatization of God (English) La privatización de Dios A la medida del consumidor En el siglo XVII, el genial matemático Blaise Pascal escribió que los hombres nunca hacen el mal con tanto placer como cuando lo hacen por convicciones religiosas. Esta idea —de un hombre profundamente religioso— tuvo diferentes variaciones desde entonces. Durante el siglo…
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