Photo by Antón Castro Originale: “El golpe que mostró que el Estado se defiende y que además le gusta a muchos catalanes”. Ramón González Férriz. El Confidencial 6 Maggio 2018 Il giornalista e direttore della rivista Letras ha scritto un saggio breve e incisivo sul «procés» e sull’indipendentismo catalano Il «procés» catalano ha rappresentato la maggiore sfida alla democrazia […]
Etiqueta: Ramón González Férriz
“The coup showed that the state will defend itself, and that many Catalans actually like it”
Photo by Antón Castro Orginally published in Spanish: “El golpe que mostró que el Estado se defiende y que además le gusta a muchos catalanes”. Ramón González Férriz. El Confidencial 6th May 2018 The Catalan secessionist procés [TN: Catalan for ‘process’] has been the greatest challenge so far to modern Spanish democracy. But aside from a […]
A Catalan Cultural Autobiography: The End of a Hegemony that seemed Indestructible
Originally published in Spanish: “Autobiografía cultural catalana: El fin de una hegemonía que parecía indestructible”. Ramón González Férriz. El Confidencial. In my formative years in Catalonia —the 80’s and 90’s— a cultural hegemony apparently indestructible reigned. It was the result of an unstable yet functional coalition between nationalism and progressivism. Nationalism was committed to ensure […]
Foucault in Teheran: Revolution Makes Strange Bedfellows
Originally published in Spanish. Ramón González Férriz. El Confidencial. The consideration of any imaginable alternative as a better scenario than the real, present one is a constant feature of human psychology. Interestingly, so is the opposite —preferring the mediocre certainty of the present to the uncertainty of breaking its balance—. In political terms, the former […]
Catalonia, after St Crispin’s Day: the heroes of the blunder
Published originally in Spanish. Ramón González Férriz. El Confidencial. In the world, foolishness and blunder are far more common than coldly calculated evil, not to mention heroism. Life has more to do with that what happens in a comic of “Mortadelo and Filemón” than with the great feats which take place on the movie “Braveheart”. […]