Escritos Críticos

Etiqueta: Spanish Inquisition

  • 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 Slow Suicide of the West

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    El lento suicidio de Occidente (Spanish) The Slow Suicide of the West Jorge Majfud The West appears, suddenly, devoid of its greatest virtues, constructed century after century, preoccupied now only with reproducing its own defects and with copying the defects of others, such as authoritarianism and the preemptive persecution of innocents. Virtues like tolerance and…