Jorge Majfud reflects once again on the economic, political, and cultural realities of recent years, with «an outsider's view from the center»: the culture of masks of the United States' cultural industries and national unconscious, the hyper-fragmentation of the contemporary individual, the construction of reality through social narratives, the narrative dictated by the major social powers of money and the social castes who have taken us steadily toward a new form of feudalism, one no longer based on ownership of the land but of finance capital. In all of the essays that comprise this book, one can see the urgency of responding to the historical moment, to the specific events that have occurred over the past two decades, but with an unflinching effort to contextualize events within their greater historical framework. Because, as the author asserts, forgetting is one of the principal weapons of moral, social, and, ultimately, military violence. Jorge Majfud reflexiona una vegada més sobre les realitats econòmiques, polítiques i culturals dels últims anys, amb "una mirada des de fora del centre": la cultura de les màscares de les indústries culturals i l'inconscient nacional dels Estats Units, la hiper-fragmentació de l'individu contemporani, la construcció de la realitat a través de narratives socials, la narrativa dictada per les grans potències socials dels diners i les castes socials que ens han portat fermament cap a una nova forma de feudalisme, que ja no es basa en la propietat de la terra, sinó en el capital financer. En tots els assaigs que componen aquest llibre s'aprecia la urgència de respondre al moment històric, als esdeveniments específics que s'han produït en les dues últimes dècades, però amb un esforç indestructible per contextualitzar els esdeveniments dins del seu marc històric més ampli. Perquè, com afirma l'autor, l'oblit és una de les principals armes de la violència moral, social i militar.
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- Títol
- Drets d’autor
- Index
- INTRODUCTION
- Tolerance is the wine of nations
- RADICAL CULTURE
- What Good Is Culture?
- What good is literature, anyway?
- Head-Shrinking Journalism
- Humanism, the West’s Last Great Utopia
- Ten Lashes Against Humanism
- The Importance of Being Called an Idiot
- The Rebellion of the Readers, Key to Our Century
- What Is an Ideolexicon?
- Virginia Tech: an ideolexical analysis of a tragedy
- The Terrible Innocence of Art
- Puppets, Puppet Masters, and Closet Liberations
- Intellectual Capital
- Men of the Cybernetic Caves
- Power and the Intellectuals
- Are We Really Indebted to Capitalism for Modernity?
- PROPAGANDA AND POPULAR CULTURE
- Where Does the Voice of the People Come From?
- The Intra-national Colonization of Patriotisms
- An Imperial Democracy
- US Politics and Economics: the Patriotism of the Rich
- Osama and the Dangers of Tunnel Vision
- Ron Paul and Right-Wing Anarchism
- Hurricane Katrina and the Hyperreality of the Image
- If Latin America Had Been a British Enterprise
- On How to Topple an Empire
- Propaganda and the Myth of Reconquest
- The Culture of Hate
- Rock Democracies, Paper Freedoms, Scissors Securities
- The Repressed History of the United States
- Patriarchy with a Woman’s Face
- White x black = black
- The Pandemic of Consumerism
- RELIGION AND OTHER EXCUSES
- The Slow Suicide of the West
- The Privatization of God
- The Jesus the Emperors Kidnapped
- Do You Believe in God? Yes or No
- The Imperfect Sex. Why Is Sor Juana Not a Saint?
- LATIN AMERICA
- Why the name “Latin America”?
- Violence of the Master, Violence of the Slave
- One Bolivia, White and Wealthy
- The Fragments of the Latin American Union
- Respect Without Rights: The Privatization of Morality
- Honduras Against History
- The Illegitimate Constitution
- The Devils of Haiti
- Latin and Latino American Immigration
- EDUARDO GALEANO
- The Open Eyes of Latin America
- “The Hoariest of Latin American Conspiracy Theorists”
- Past, Present, and Future: Interview with Eduardo Galeano
- The Open Veins of Eduardo Galeano
- NOAM CHOMSKY
- Rescuing Memory. Conversations with Noam Chomsky
- IN THE MANNER OF FICTION
- The Walled Society
- The Age of Barbaria
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