Los Quijotes del CEPLI

Generalmente se utiliza la expresión “tener los pies en el suelo” para referirse a alguien realista, con sentido común. Jugando con esta acepción, presentamos “Con los pies en la luna”, una exposición con motivo del cincuenta aniversario de la llegada del hombre al mencionado satélite. Ese pequeño paso para el hombre constituyó una hazaña que quedó reflejada en libros infantiles y otros materiales impresos efímeros de aquellos años y posteriores: cromos, envoltorios de dulces, juegos de mesa, construibles de papel, películas de cine para juguetes infantiles, tebeos,...

A través de la lectura de los autorretratos de Rembrandt o de la pintura de Van Gogh, de las esculturas de Brancusi, de la obra de Miquel Barceló, Dégas, Leon Kossoff, Miguel Ángel, Antonioni, Giorgio Morandi o Frida Kahlo, el autor aventura algunos pasos hacia una pequeña teoría de lo visible, incitando a la resistencia contra la inhumanidad del nuevo orden económico mundial.

Ofelia and Amoke appear to be complete opposites. The only things they have in common are an elderly, eccentric author named Virginia Wonnacott, the Hiraeth Association, and the feeling that something is missing from their lives. When Virginia offers Ofelia a job as her personal assistant, the lives of the two girls merge. Through conversations, used books, letters, and early morning Whatsapp messages, the girls discover a future they did not think existed as well as their feelings toward one another.

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."