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The End of the Israeli Occupation of Judaism
Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto Confusing Terence and the Talmud, my father used to claim for judaism the idea that no human suffering could be foreign to a jew. Israel has killed more than 11,000 children in Gaza and I have seen through my screen, day in and day out, the hell…
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AMIA: aún es deber moral buscar justicia
A 21 años del atentado contra la AMIA Como en todas las otras áreas de la vida institucional, el Estado de Derecho argentino también es insolvente. Y al igual que en lo que se refiere al naufragio político, social y cultural del país y de sus mecanismos institucionales, el grotesco fracaso de la ley y…
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7. El autor y sus lectores
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6. Plaza Irlanda
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The Meaning of Longing in Borges and Proust
In memoriam William Ferguson, Fergu. “The ball I threw while playing in the park / Has not yet reached the ground.” Dylan Thomas The distinction between trifle and matter of importance is a teleological one and in so far as it deals with time spent, it interrogates it with a rather mundane question, a trifle,…
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5. Cartografía de los afectos
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Via Tiburtina
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Designing Ethos
Political Lessons from our Toilette Bowls and Doors. Toilets in modern water closets rise up from the floor like water lilies. The architect does all he can to make the body forget how paltry it is, and to make man ignore what happens to his intestinal wastes after the water from the tank flushes them…
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Umbra Aeterna
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Identity: An American Ideological Franchise
The Power of Victimisation and Color in American politics. In an episode of “Black in Latin America”, a series on race aired on PBS on the 3rd of May 2011, Harvard Professor of Black Studies, Public Intellectual and television personality Louis Gates Jr. went on an intrepid exploration of race somewhere deep in the guts…