Photo by Nicole Mason on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘Torra y el valor de las palabras’ José Andrés Rojo. El País. 22nd May 2018 Everything’s moving very quickly. We had hardly had time to take in the new Catalan president’s impressive collection of publicly exhibited xenophobic ideas when the race started to make gestures that could only be […]
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What should everyone else do?
Photo by Björn Simon on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘¿Qué deben hacer los demás?’ Xavier Vidal-Folch. El País. 14th May 2018 What should constitutionalist forces do? As advocates for the law, their first obligation is to follow it. Thus, just as soon as there is a Catalan government, they must follow what was laid out in the decree […]
Torra, l’attivazione dell’etnicismo e il ‘mambo’
Originale. “Torra, la activación del etnicismo y el mambo”. Pau Marí-Klose. Agenda Pública. 14 Maggio 2018 Come ricordava l’altro giorno Oriol Bartomeus in un eccellente post, la Catalogna è un oggetto delicato. Come in molti luoghi, la storia ha assemblato delle parti senza arrivare ad unirle, lasciando cicatrici che spiegano lo sforzo che aveva supposto unire […]
Chapter Two: «How to Design a Revolution»
Excerpts from “El golpe posmoderno. 15 lecciones para el futuro de la democracia”, a book by Daniel Gascón, 20018, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. The Catalan process is a designer coup. Among its most admirable features are its propagandistic intensity and efficiency. It contrasted with the sluggishness of the Spanish government, which seemed to think that […]
The nine articles by Quim Torra that are being read all over Europe
Photo by specphotops on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. “Los nueve artículos de Torra que se leen en toda Europa”. Manel Manchón. Crónica Global. 17th May 2018 Professors at several Catalan universities, jurists, journalists, legal professionals in anti-secessionist groups, many of them anonymous and participating spontaneously, have selected up to nine articles by Quim Torra, […]
Uralte Reflexe
Photo by Talgat Baizrahmanov on Unsplash Ursprünglich auf Spanisch veröffentlicht: “Reflejos atávicos”. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo. 19 Mai 2018 In einem durchaus schockierenden Profil des neuen Präsidenten von Katalonien hat der deutsche Journalist Thomas Urban einen wertvollen Beitrag zur begrifflichen Aufklärung geleistet. Wie man auf den Seiten der Süddeutschen Zeitung lesen kann, soll “Torras angeblicher katalanischer Chauvinismus” keine […]
The Return of Pre-Politics
Photo by Rémi Jacquaint on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ´El retorno de lo Pre-político´. Jorge del palacio. El Mundo. 15th May 2018 The Catalan process has served to many to discover Quim Torra. He is a politician who feels comfortable in a discursive register that seems to draw on Gobineau, the notorious author of An Essay on the […]
Estat Català: the sewer
Photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ´Estat català: la alcantarilla´. Xavier Vidal-Folch. El País. 14th May 2018 The candidate to become Catalan president, Quim Torra, is an admirer of the leaders of Estat Català and he attends their homages: the Badia brothers are “the best examples of independentism”, he said in 2011. In 2014 he […]
The bifurcation strategy
Photo by Tim Scharner on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ‘La estrategia de la bifurcación’. Lola García. La Vanguardia. 13th May 2018 Apparently, Quim Torra’s speech as aspiring Catalan president presages a bigger clash with the central government, following the wake set by Carles Puigdemont from abroad. Also, in theory, Rajoy’s cabinet, spurred by competition from Ciudadanos, won’t […]
Puigdemont, 130.5th President of Catalonia
Photo by Paweł Furman on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ´Cataluña 130,5º ‘president’ Puigdemont´ J. Ignacio Torreblanca. El País. 25th Jan 2018 Incisive though her questions were, professor Marlene Wind could have asked her interlocutor about the title (130th president of the Government of Catalonia) used by the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen to introduce […]