Post-rumination: how a writer & a songwriter overcame depression by Nicolás Boullosa on September 20, 2023 Less known than the current enfant terrible of French literature Michel Houellebecq, writer Emmanuel Carrère published an engaging yet painful …
David Deutsch: preserving the means of error correction is “morality” by Nicolás Boullosa on February 15, 2023 In a recent interview (or analysis, given the enunciatory style of his interviewer), heterodox physicist David Deutsch (author of The …
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 …
Contextuality: the intricate bonds between things big & small by Nicolás Boullosa on April 6, 2022 German writer Hermann Hesse introduces Siddhartha to the reader as the son of a brahmin called to inherit his father’s …
Otros tiempos difíciles: Bertrand Russell y Antonio Gramsci by Nicolás Boullosa on December 9, 2020 Creemos que la situación que afrontamos hoy es tan cruda y falta de esperanza que hemos olvidado la sana lucidez …
Evocación universal en tiempos de confinamiento: la biofilia by Nicolás Boullosa on May 28, 2020 Los episodios más escabrosos de reclusión forzosa en lugares reducidos nos harían revisar la primera literatura de terror, así como …
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 …
La otra vida de Orwell: el compromiso requiere introspección by Nicolás Boullosa on November 9, 2018 Acabar una tarea, retrasar el inicio de algo hasta que presión y calendario obligan a dar el paso, organizar documentos …
