From Woodstock, VT to Concord, MA: the birth of (one idea of) a nation by Nicolás Boullosa on June 18, 2024 As a heatwave pummels the eastern US, here’s a fresh view of our impressions of visiting some charming cities and …
It didn’t just start: genealogy of resentment & self-righteousness by Nicolás Boullosa on March 6, 2024 From frustration to self-righteousness: here’s a look at the genealogy of resentment in the so-called Culture Wars —and what youth …
Acorns: why we failed to domesticate a beloved wild food source by Nicolás Boullosa on June 2, 2023 There’s no older way of showing one’s agency over one’s surroundings than providing our own food from sources that our …
Simplicity: lives dedicated to focusing on the fundamentals by Nicolás Boullosa on May 18, 2022 “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, …
Slow architecture: houses that understand people and place by Nicolás Boullosa on May 11, 2022 Idleness and boredom are a type of lucidity experienced by those brave enough to confront themselves instead of filling their …
Sentimiento oceánico: inspirarse en Whitman y Romain Rolland by Nicolás Boullosa on December 3, 2020 «Nada se pierde en realidad, o puede perderse». Así empezaba Walt Whitman Continuities, un poema de 1888 conformado por once …
La vivienda que anhelamos construir (según Gaston Bachelard) by Nicolás Boullosa on June 10, 2020 Ha bastado una pandemia para que incluso los urbanitas más irredentos reconozcan hasta qué punto nuestro desarraigo de los ritmos …
De la nueva moral de «Aurora» (Nietzsche) a la ecopsicología by Nicolás Boullosa on February 21, 2020 Con una recta final del invierno especialmente plácida, basta acercarse a la naturaleza de proximidad para escuchar las aves, observar …
Riesgos del fin del tedio en la era de la saturación digital by Nicolás Boullosa on February 19, 2020 Desde el «panem et circenses» de la Roma decadente, la práctica populista de ofrecer obsequios efectistas y entretenimiento a la …
Ver, vivir, cambiar: la espiritualidad necesaria de Bergson by Nicolás Boullosa on November 6, 2019 La búsqueda de la exactitud y la cuantificación de cosas y fenómenos ha culminado en una sociedad técnica que asume …
