Photo: Himesh Kumar Behera | Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: «Anfibios». Rafa Latorre. El Mundo. 29th May 2018 With the implosion of the legislature, newspapers had to skim over the glory of one of the most durable, interesting and perhaps fateful phenomena in Spanish politics. Within one week PNV showcased the amphibious nature -copyright by Jordi Amat- of […]
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Il nostro Jörg Haider
Foto: Fernando Mateo | Unsplash Originale: ´Nuestro Jörg Haider´. Rafa Latorre. El Mundo. 13 maggio 2018 Quim Torra invita alla caricatura. I giornali parlano di lui come di un burattino, una marionetta o un uomo di paglia. Dicono che Carles Puigdemont gli abbia vietato di occupare il suo ufficio e che abbia appeso alla sua nomina l’etichetta provvisoria in un video […]
Atavistic Reflections
Photo by Talgat Baizrahmanov on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “Reflejos atávicos”. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo. 19th May 2018 In his shocking profile of the new president of the Catalan government, the German journalist Thomas Urban has provided a valuable service of conceptual clarification. According to what we can read in the pages of Süddeutsche Zeitung, Torra’s “alleged […]
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 […]
November 9th: an ignored warning
Photo by Felix Russell-Saw on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “El 9N: un aviso que no se atendió”. Editorial. El Mundo. That the secessionist process required a complex criminal web is not doubted even by its promoters, whose internal documents warned clearly about the unavoidable clash with the state that the disconnection project entailed. What the […]
Notre Jörg Haider
Photo by Fernando Mateo on Unsplash Publié à l’origine en espagnol. ´Nuestro Jörg Haider´. Rafa Latorre. El Mundo. 13 Mai 2018 Quim Torra invite à la caricature. Les journaux parlent de lui comme d’une marionnette, d’un pantin ou d’un épouvantail. On raconte que Carles Puigdemont lui a interdit d’occuper son bureau et qu’il a collé l’étiquette d’intérimaire à […]
Our Jörg Haider
Photo by Fernando Mateo on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. ´Nuestro Jörg Haider´. Rafa Latorre. El Mundo. 13th May 2018 Quim Torra invites caricature. Newspapers describe him as a stooge, a puppet or a straw man. They say Carles Puigdemont has forbidden him from using his office and labelled his nomination provisional in a humiliating video. It […]
Separatismo e ignoranza tedesca
Foto: Sebastian Lengauer | Unsplash Originale: “Separatismo e ignorancia alemana”. Juergen B. Donges. El Mundo. 14 Apr. 2018 Quando, a metà mattina di domenica 25 marzo, ho saputo che Carles Puigdemont era stato arrestato dalla polizia tedesca sono rimasto stupito. Ho pensato che il destituito presidente della Generalitat non aveva calcolato il rischio che avrebbe corso ad organizzare la […]
Secessionism and German ignorance
Photo by Sebastian Lengauer on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “Separatismo e ignorancia alemana”. Juergen B. Donges. El Mundo. 14th April 2018 On the morning of Sunday 25 March, I was very surprised to learn that Carles Puigdemont had been arrested by German police. It seemed to me that the recently dismissed president of the […]