Year One
A chance to say thank you.
Santiago Sánchez-Cordero
Notebooks
Heroes
The older I grow, the more respect I lose for people I once admired, particularly artists. We seek guidance when we’re young, but as we age our values become more cemented. We forge our own unique selves through experience, and what is important remains with us, while the unimportant
Politics
The Zero-State Solution
Politics of wasteland.
Art Journal
Flaubert’s Horses
Imagination comes from the Latin word imago (image): the greatest writers make of scribbles on the page the projection of a living dream. Literature is an artificial dream, a flow of images flying before our minds, deconstructed after writing, reconstructed uniquely by a reader’s own lived experience. The finest
Art Journal
El Milagro Secreto
El arte y el olvido
Virtual library
Here it is, my friends, our virtual library! Over the past two weeks you’ve answered my call to build a virtual library, and the result is quite the fascinating and eclectic collection. There’s a summer read in here for everyone. I loved our project. I’m thinking we
Notebooks
The glassy, burning floor of hell
Notebooks
Hoy
“Hoy es el día más hermoso de nuestra vida, querido Sancho. Los obstáculos más grandes, nuestras propias indecisiones, nuestro enemigo más fuerte, el miedo al poderoso y a nosotros mismos. La cosa más fácil, equivocarnos. La más destructiva, la mentira y el egoísmo. La peor derrota, el desaliento. Los defectos
The spirit is a stomach
I can’t recall if it’s either in Zarathustra or Beyond Good And Evil where Nietzsche writes that the spirit is a stomach. It’s so true, and we really are what we eat. These days algorithms are our dieticians, telling us what to read, listen, and experience. Social
Art Journal
Fade to Black
Heavy metal as a force of civilization.
Poetry
The Rains of Greenland
Politics
NO EXIT
The new political developments in the USA signify a transformation in the very nature of power.