Publie à l’origine en espagnol. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo. Dans ses méditations sur la révolution anticapitaliste, le philosophe slovène Slavoj Zízêk met l’accent sur le lendemain de l’événement : cet événement auquel Jarvis Cocker consacrait une chanson, qui se terminait en disant au revoir au cholestérol. En réalité, il n’y a rien comme le […]
Etiqueta: El Mundo
You don’t understand it
Published originally in Spanish. Rafael Latorre. El Mundo. “You don’t understand it”, they object to the jurist, to the economist, to the reporter. “You don’t understand it!”, yells both the teenager and the veteran; the British Hispanist, the xarnego MP, the Dutch Erasmus, the Galician undergraduate and the Gironan who buries his roots so deep […]
Catalogne Confédérée
Publie à l’origine en espagnol. Rafael García Maldonado. El Mundo. Je me plais aux choses les plus stupides du monde. Il y a certains – trop – qui s’enflamment et qui pleurent quand ils parlent d’une région devenue indépendante du monde moderne ; moi j’aime bien quand on me traite de « sudiste » à l’occasion d’une interview […]
Catalonia: Future Past
Originally written in Spanish by Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo. So far, almost nothing had happened in Catalonia; now, it seems as though anything could happen. The multitude replacing the citizen and an unlawful secession happening as an accomplished fact: no more, no less. It is a constitutional crisis never seen within the European Union […]
Confederate Catalonia
Originally written in Spanish by Rafael García Maldonado. El Mundo. One can be excited at the silliest thing in the world. Although there are some people —too many— who are moved and shed tears when they speak of a region that has become independent from the modern world, one is excited at the adjective used […]