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Do the Humanities Humanize?

¿Las humanidades, humanizan?

George Steiner

• George Steiner ́s conference took place at the Nexus Intituut. Special thanks to Rob Riemen, its director. *** The exponential–there is no other word–explosion of science and technology has…

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Lírica y ficción

Paul-Henri Giraud

Traducción de David Medina Portillo I En “Poesía y mitología”,1 dos conferencias escritas en 1942, la literatura moderna es presentada, como los antiguos mitos, en su eterna búsqueda de sentido…

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La crítica de arte en México. Cuando el futuro nos alcance

Miriam Mabel Martínez

La primera década del siglo XXI sucedió tan rápida como los cambios de los sistemas operativos de Apple: antes de que me percatara, mi computadora exigía el siguiente. ¿En qué…

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Literal Magazine is proud to celebrate its 10th anniversary by holding its first short film competition Literally Short Film Awards. Literally Short is an event initiated by our drive to bridge all cultures…

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El discurso de José Emilio Pacheco al recibir el Premio Cervantes

José Emilio Pacheco

Majestades, Señor Presidente del Gobierno, Señora Ministra de Cultura, Señor Rector de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Señora Presidenta del Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y para las Artes…

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Tres editores comparten con Literal sus mejores lecturas en el 2013

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Alberto Ruy Sánchez De Alain Danielou, varios libros que fueron lanzados en México este año por dos editoriales, Atalanta y Kairos. Y con el pretexto de una invitación del embajador…

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On Optimism

Sobre el optimism

Alan Badiou

Could you tell us what your lecture is going to be about? I think that the keynote lecture is, in principle, to explain to the people what is the contemporary…

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On Man, Beliefs and Change

El hombre: fe y transformación

John Gray

¿As human beings, what can we do to transform the world? Whatever human beings do changes the world. The question is whether projects which are formulated to change the world…

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On Alternatives to Idealism

Alternativas contra el idealismo

Roger Scruton

You being the realist against the idealism of Alain Badiou, don’t you think the world needs a bit of idealism? No, I think it needs a bit less idealism. The…

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Silicon Valley Solutionism

El “solucionismo”de Silicon Valley

Evgeny Morozov

I come from Belarus. This is where I grew up. I spent the first seventeen years of my life living there. I come also not from the capital, but from…

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The Dangers of Totalitarianism

El peligro del totalitarismo

Agnes Heller

To you, what were the most important subjects in the symposium? I listened to the second session. And I think three very important questions were asked. The first question, which…

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How Do We Change The World? A Conversation with Rob Riemen

¿Cómo cambiar el mundo? Una conversación con Rob Riemen

Rose Mary Salum

Toward the end of 2012, the Nexus Instituut organized a series of conferences where prominent international speakers discussed the question How To Change the World? Due to the importance of…