How would aliens speak? During a considerable time, it was assumed that in English. Perhaps because the Anglo-Saxon science-fiction authors of the first half of the 20th century took the idea of English as a universal language far too seriously. Or because it was taken for granted that people who are able to traverse | … |

  Almost a decade has passed. When I met Enrique I thought of two things: that he was intriguing and that he was a sham. I imagined that he charmed his clients, especially women, with the candid and sagacious face of an escapist that keeps a deck of cards in his pocket. An acrobat of | … |

What is Jaimito like? When I was little and I was going to school, I constantly wondered what Jaimito was like. I listened to his adventures and misadventures on a daily basis; in my classroom, at recess, and even from the mouth of older students. There was only someone else who also lived such humoristically | … |

When power wants to rise as a totalitarian power, the pretension includes language. Under this type of ideological domination, language is rarefied and some of its particular traits atrophied: the prerogative to name the world, the ability to unveil truth. Language certainly becomes a prisoner, obscured and domesticated under the interests of power.

Baudelaire would say that every perfect debauch demands perfect leisure. Soon enough, the seats will be taken by a group of gentle men and women of leisure who have paid good money to come here, to get turned on by the sight of our rapture.   We will enter the stage one by one, to | … |