Abstract Language in the Painting of Andrew Arocho
An artwork that articulates a hybrid abstraction as a gestural, semiotic, and prelinguistic language, charged with memory.
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Kabbalah and Combinatorics
A quartz marked with aleph reveals Kabbalah as creative language, infinite combinatorics, and interpretive experience.
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Am I a Reactionary? (Lilla and ‘The Shipwrecked Mind’)
Analysis of Mark Lilla’s reactionary thought and its relevance to the ongoing Cuban crisis.
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Irony, or the Birth of the Literary
The irony arises when language and thought become separated, establishing the literary realm as a space of masks, deception, and fundamental dissonance.
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Reading ‘The Bacchae’ at Night
Image: Detail of the painting on the lid of an Attic lekanis in the red-figure style: Penteus torn apart by Ino and Agave. Ca. 450–425 B.C. Louvre Museum.
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The Click (Miniature X)
The Ghost of J. C. Flores challenges criticism, the canon, academia, and the market in contemporary poetry today.
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The Meaning as a Strange Animal
Transcendental Realism proposes understanding the world as a relational network where consciousness and meaning emerge.
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Bloodshot Eyes
In the annals of Cuban poetry, the work of Ángel Escobar is that point in the void that you feel narrowing, that flows.
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Literature and Its Gifts: Reflections on Two Fragments of the Odyssey
The epic grants double death and promises absolute knowledge, but withholds it so that beauty does not destroy us.
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The Political Problem of Homosexuality
The problem of sexuality rationalized as “identity” is seen as a contradiction inherent to Modernity.