Artificial Intelligence and Creativity

The advance of artificial intelligence unsettles some people as if some unknown invader were drawing slowly closer through space. For them, AI is on the verge of waking up to take control of itself. This haloed horizon conceals the real reality of these technologies, which is their insertion into our structures of production. What I want to talk about is … Read more →

Mrs. Enríquez

Mrs. Enríquez was born during one of the many post-war periods. Among briars and mud, she learned hunger and resilience before she learned to speak. Her genes, programmed to produce an athlete, had instead produced a slight, wiry little woman with sinewy limbs, defiant cheekbones, and light feet. She moved with the energy and steadiness of someone who has not … Read more →

The Myths of the “Free Press“

We take the term “mass media” in its common sense: companies that produce and disseminate messages. Their product is presented as the news — not as just any information, but as the relevant events. These media outlets justify themselves, through their professionals, by means of the following myths: These myths conceal something further: the commodity character of the contents these … Read more →

The Flight of Words

One summer night, while everyone slept, the words began to escape through the window. They were tired of being used vulgarly, offensively, or wrongly — of being used to deceive, to lie, to insult. And so a few of them, the worst-treated, broke the chains that bind them to our tongue and set out on an adventure. The first to … Read more →

Traditional Cultures Are Not Traditionalist

Traditionalism is an ideology that regards certain past institutions as the most perfect and effective and links them with truth. It is a modern ideology, first explicitly formulated in the political circles that, in nineteenth-century France, reacted against the ravages of the Revolution. The concrete forms to which they appealed were those of the Ancien Régime: throne and altar. Since … Read more →

Treatise on Absolute Poetry

The mass is made of glyphs.The glyphs bore through air or earth,never through fire or water.The glyphs conceal fire or water,never air or earth.The poet, with the hammer of his hands,upon the forge of his chest,will beat the mass until the laymen say:That is a form that admits nourishment,a bowl, a jar, a chalice… We Are Wellspring, p. 47

Drought

The merchant came and saw
that nothing was left in the marketplace —
that the stalls were empty, that there were no
vases, flutes, carpets, or jewels;
that there were not even stalls, only desert.
They were all saying: it does not matter to us, we know no thirst.
But the merchant still knew it, so he took a shortcut
and brought the inner rain to a halt,

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