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Strategies against the Empire

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Our strategy should not only face the Empire, but also under siege. Deprive it of oxygen. Shame. Make fun of him. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubborn stubbornness, our joy and, above all, our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from those that would have you believe to brainwash us. The revolution that promoted majors will fail if we refuse to buy what we want to sell: their way of thinking, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, trying to imbue idea that it is inevitable that its worldview reality. There is something that we should not forget: we are many and they are few. We do not need, and they need us.

II

Democracy, the modern world's holy cow, is in crisis. It is a very deep crisis. In his name were committed all sorts of abuses. It has become little more than an empty word, in little more than a beautiful shell devoid of any content or meaning. You can be whatever you want it to be. Democracy is the prostitute of the free world is prepared both to disguise it as being asked to strip, to satisfy every desire, to take advantage of it and the insult.

Until relatively recently, until the eighties, seemed that democracy might be able to provide some degree of social justice.

But modern democracies are old enough to neoliberal capitalists have learned how to corrupt them. Have mastered the technique of infiltrating the instruments of democracy, the judiciary "independent" press "free" Parliament "and divert its course to bring water to his mill. The project of globalization promoted by multinationals has broken all the rules. Concepts such as free elections, free press and independent judiciary lose their meaning when the free market to reduce assets are available the highest bidder.

III

The battle to reclaim democracy will be difficult. Our liberties we were not granted by any government. They are taken away. And once we have given them aa, the battle to retrieve them is called revolution. It is a battle that will involve all continents and countries. You should not accept the national borders, but it has to start here. In the United States. The only institution more powerful than the U.S. government is American civil society. The rest of the opponents of the Empire are subjects of slave nations. No complete lack of power, ni mucho menos, pero ustedes tienen el poder de la proximidad. Ustedes tienen acceso al palacio imperial y a los aposentos del emperador. Las conquistas del Imperio se realizan en su nombre, y ustedes tienen el derecho de rechazarlas. Podrían negarse a luchar. Podrían negarse a llevar los cohetes de los arsenales al puerto. Podrían negarse a agitar las banderitas. Podrían negarse a presenciar el desfile de la victoria.

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El fragmento I procede de «Enfrentarse al Imperio», discurso pronunciado en el Foro Social Mundial de Porto Alegre 2003. Y el II y III proceden de «¡Pruebe la democracia instant imperial! (Take two boats and pay only one) ", a conference that the author gave India the Riverside Church, Harlem, in 2003. The texts are included in war rhetoric (Anagram, 2003) that will return tomorrow to the library Puerta de Toledo ... If someone wants, you know where is.

PD. Interview in Al Jazzeera (in English).

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Yesterday I spent a while to undo 2 of 5 boxes of books I have recovered this weekend. As I told you once, I'm a bad son, had them in the storeroom in which sometimes becomes a home of their parents. The fact is that, while I was looking for accommodation and thinking whether to buy more shelves or give away the surplus that threatens to throw me bookish to me from the room, flipped through some books that had not seen for years.

These old friends was this volume of essays by Juan José Hernández, irreberentes Writings (Adriana Hidalgo, 2003) that was reviewed favorably in the defunct magazine Read . I liked it, among other reasons, the trial will Adolfo Bioy Casares devoted to an author who can not stand. I swear that even given The Invention of Morel not see the book at home.

Hernandez's essay called "The Anguish of a hummingbird's La Biela" and reading about posthumous book left Bioy, Rest of walkers, which among other things concerned hetoresexual his eventful life (more : I would say that Borges knew what sex is because he had Bioy). Besides look at that, Hernández reviews some omissions or political presence Duo Sharpener Argentina literature. Now they are back in fashion military interventions, I got to reread a few fragments.

Note: SADE is the Argentina Society of Writers and a cafe La Biela in Recoleta neighborhood (something like the Salamanca district of Madrid).

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you ever heard from Adolfo Bioy Casares him for his education and literary tastes, he felt more comfortable in the nineteenth century European in its time and country birth. However, in his posthumous work, Break Walkers, never uses the word spleen, typical turn of the century he admired, but tedium vitae expression to describe the disappointment and bitterness that overwhelmed him at the end of his life.

Similar to note-books of Samuel Butler and Somerset Maugham, the book is a miscellany of brevedades which mixes autobiographical notes and literary opinions, stories of dreams and read transcripts of graffiti in public toilets and furnished; Travel memories and love affairs, talks with taxi drivers and quotations from Saints Romano mundane gossip and political, family anecdotes and verses scurrilous, as this quatrain emblematic that the author attributes to pseudo Vizcacha: "Much to the penalties not I attend / And all imitate the rabbit, / To live happy and taking / to die of old. "

Despite his lack of interest in social and political conflicts of the day, Bioy Casares joined in 1965 to a statement from a group of intellectuals in a statement repudiating the SADE condemning the invasion of Santo Domingo by U.S. Marines together. He and his close friend Jorge Luis Borges, and some ladies literate (Silvina Bullrich, Susana Bombal), justified the invasion because it was made "on behalf of democracy and support for the OAS against communism."

Walkers Rest In this episode is not mentioned, nor the act of the Lincoln Library where Borges spent his translation of Walt Whitman to the then U.S. president Richard Nixon, "human rights defender and champion of democracy in the continent." Years later, the champion would be removed from office following the Watergate scandal.

Adultery joyful and torture of suffering back pain from his youth are recurrent themes in Rest of Marchers: "I do not read or write, do little or nothing. The center of my life, lumbago, "he laments in a tone of irony.

In another passage the book, tells how to browse a guide bleu near Paris, he discovered that there appeared the inn Le Roi Soleil, "where we went to bed every night for a month, to Helen Garro." Another victim of his indiscretion is Beatriz Guido, who once asked a prologue to a novel that is about to publish. He says he will, but if you accept to sleep with him. He adds: "Of course, I wrote the foreword."

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The text follows here in daily Página 12, which published this essay together with another book, «Erotismo y pornografía».

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To Japan with love

A veces, los expertos y opinólogos complican mucho sus teorías sobre en qué consiste la literatura y cómo fomentar la lectura. Por suerte, Fernando Iwasaki suele responder esas preguntas de manera rotunda desde sus libros: el placer, idiota, el placer; la lectura y la escritura tienen que ver con el placer.

En su caso, sobre todo el de hacer reír de manera inteligente a los lectores (también llamados con frecuencia «clientes», esto es, gente que deja de ver la tele, amartelarse en el sofá o montar una estantería Ikea for holding a book in your hands.) A literature and the authors would be better if they started where Iwasaki begins his stories with the hedonism of writing, pass this pleasure. Also the readers, if they used better selection criteria and will have less patience to swallow the shit that prescription hooligan insaquible the disappointment that is the marketing .

Raymond Chandler said The simple art of writing (or so I remember) that the photographs and paratexts predisposed him against the perpetrators. Happens to me, and I swear too many people: that if that is face asshole that if the other is a diva, if that is an intellectual, if this a modern and so on. With Iwasaki I can make an exception, because the picture flap is a metaphor for his style, so sunscreen him appears smiling and meditating on the lotus position, which I generated a tremendous envy (only reached the half-lotus, and with effort).

Iwasaki Of the books I know - bad The book of love, Republicans, Neguijón and this-what I like best is her keen sense of language, his inability to take seriously himself and his talent for make a minor detail in a hilarious story. Hence his Japanese prose peruvian me parezca que siempre llega vestida de faralaes y con ganas de arrancarse por alegrías. Y yo valoro mucho a quienes, pese a su onerosa formación académica —estamos ante un historiador—, consiguen rebelarse contra la abominable retórica humanista y convierten el mundo en un lugar donde reírse de uno mismo.

En cuanto a España, aparta de mí esos premios, además de divertido, me ha parecido un artefacto literario inteligente. Desde el título —recuérdese el España, aparta de mí este caliz, de César Vallejo—, todo es juego en este libro. Es más: el libro casi podría considerarse un ejercicio oulipiano a lo Raymond Queneau, it consists of 7 variations on a story whose dramatic structure is quite similar. All the stories are divided into sections and one character-limited text on the Second World War, invariably recurs in all, though in a different position each time. And in every story there is always messing Japanese brown at some point in Spain, and always as identity issues like football in Sevilla, the kitchen or the Civil War Euskadi in Toledo.

From the alibi of Japanese exoticism and under the umbrella of looking abroad, bends and breaks Iwasaki reviewing the bizarre version of reality English. If Mars seems to us that an almond-eyed gentleman wearing the shirt of Betis in Sevilla's stadium, other folk that can seem very low intensity civil war which we live daily from so-called "two Spains" and that usually as a workhorse nationalism. Somehow, the bipolar disorder as English is the central theme of the book.

also Spain, away from me these awards can be read as a critique of the aesthetics of rehashing that feeds the society of spectacle in which we live. Iwasaki reading I suspect that he truly postmodern and avant-garde is not going to gafapasta por la vida, sino ser un gafapasta y escribir una novela que deconstruya las novelas de templarios. Por ejemplo. De eso va la parodia. De eso iba Cervantes en el Quijote, y de eso parece ir, entre otras cosas, este cachondeo que se trae Iwasaki sobre nuestro hecho diferencial patrio: somos uno de los países que más premios literario convoca en el mundo.

Lo del «España es diferente» también puede aplicarse aquí. Roberto Bolaño ya dejó escrito lo suyo sobre el asunto; pero, bueno, baste recordar que aquí no hay pueblo, diputación o asociación vecinal que se precie que no convoque su concurso literario. Un fenómeno curioso por cuanto el 50% de la población no lee y la que lee, como mucho, promedia 2 o 3 libros al año. Además, los concursos suelen premiar relatos inéditos, es decir, libros que no pasan el filtro de editores, lectores, crítica y otros escritores, sino el de un pequeño y manejable comité. Quiero decir: esta manera de organizar el sistema literario español también explica qué entendemos por cultura, o mejor dicho: industria cultural, en este país.

En fin, que así leo yo este libro, como una parodia cervantina a nuestro españolísimo síndrome premiador. Sea para dar o sea para recibir, como en la universidad o en el ejército, aquí lo importante es el título, el premio, la condecoración. Figurar. This is how many soldiers of the literature measure their worth and parade through the salons, which invite wine and ham. Neither public nor developers have to miss them, of course. Yes, and animated by the fun of this book, not who we will miss them horny. This is what has to be Cervantes.

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Spain, away from me these awards, Fernando Iwasaki
Foam Editorial Pages, Madrid 2009

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Yesterday the Minister of Transport in the Community Madrid, José Ignacio Echeverría, showed la altura de quienes nos gobiernan y lo despegados que viven de nuestro día a día. Este alto cargo fue capaz de asegurar, con cámaras delante y todo, que el «Metrobus no existe»: vídeo aquí . Alucina, vecina... Y eso que, imagino, él supervisa las continuas subidas que nos endilga a los usuarios del susodicho título de transporte.

Lo que me deja patidifuso del vídeo, al margen del ridículo del consejero, es que sus compañeros de partido, en vez de corregirlo en algo tan evidente y clamoroso, lo jalean y aplauden... ¿Debo deducir de esa actitud que tampoco se mezclan por el subsuelo madrileño con parias como yo?

En fin, se ve que en esto consiste la democracia: unos pueden negar la crisis económica o que el Mercado manda más que el Gobierno, el rey y el papa juntos, y los otros, en contrarréplica, pueden negar sin titubear que han votado a favor de la ley antitabaco o la existencia del humilde Metrobús. Esto va a gusto del consumidor, es decir, del votante. La cosa es negar lo que sea, no hacerse cargo de los errores que se cometen, polarizar posturas y huir hacia delante. Así estamos y así nos va.

PD. En este enlace se puede consultar la evolución del coste de este billete entre 1997 y 2010. Por mi parte, aporto solo 3 pruebas de los muchos Metrobús que guardo: uno de 7,40 € (25/10/2009), otro de 9,00 € (10/05/2010) y 9,30 € (26/02/2011). No lo hago por joder a Echevarría ni conspirar contra el PP, en serio; tan solo pasa que soy autónomo y guardo mis tiques.

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