TEOLOGÍA DE LA REPRODUCCIÓN. ALEGORÍA MORAL, ELEGÍA ARTÍSTICA Y SÁTIRA DEL POPULISMO EN LA AUTORA DE LAS MENINAS, DE ERENESTO CABALLERO (2017)

La autora de Las Meninas, de Ernesto Caballero (2017), presenta un escenario improbable pero verosímil: tras la llegada al poder de una coalición política, se acuerda la venta de patrimonio para hacer frente a la crisis económica. Ángela, una monja especializada en la copia de cuadros, recibe el encargo de elaborar la réplica de Las Meninas que se expondrá en el Prado tras la venta del original. Este argumento le permite al autor plantear una honda reflexión no exenta de ironía y mordacidad. Este artículo explora cómo el dramaturgo conjuga las tres matrices discursivas de la obra: por un lado, una alegoría moral sobre el pecado de la vanidad; por otro, una elegía por el arte ante los disparatados derroteros por los que hoy discurre; finalmente, una sátira sobre el populismo como proyecto político. Estos ingredientes conforman una “fábula distópica” que ha de contarse entre las mejores piezas de Caballero. Abstract: La autora de Las Meninas, by Ernesto Caballero (2017), offers an improbable but plausible future: after gaining power, a political coalition agrees to sell some cultural patrimony as a means to face an economic meltdown in the country. Ángela, a nun who is specialized in duplicating paintings, is in charge of replicating Las Meninas, which is going to be exhibited at the Prado Museum after the original has been sold. The play is, therefore, a deep, ironic and mordant reflection, and the article explores how the playwright combines the three discursive genres of this play: a moral allegory on vanity, an elegy for the ludicrous direction that art has taken nowadays, and a satire on populism as a political project. These elements produce a “dystopic fabula” which should be considered one of Caballero’s best plays.

Karl with Carl

This essay argues that bringing Marxist and Jungian thought together can be surprisingly fruitful. While both traditions are ultimately concerned with human flourishing, they focus on different aspects of reality which would need to be combined for genuine emancipation: the social and the individual, the conscious and the unconscious, objectivity and subjectivity, modernity and ancestrality, science and spirituality. After briefly discussing divergences and convergences between the two authors, I present fragments of a Jungian-Marxian anthropology, around the depth of social struggles, the relations between ideology and archetypes, the psychic costs of capitalism, and Degrowth as the possible political project of this synthesis. If one takes human and nonhuman flourishing seriously, one can only go post-capitalist and seek to reorganize society around a slower pace, a simpler life, and more sharing and caring. The essay ends with a plea to bring back the soul to the core of radical activism.

Republican Constellations A Reflection by José Bergamín

This note reflects on the need to reevaluate labels that protagonists of Spanish republican cultural life gave to themselves. Reasons provided by Bergamín, one of its protagonists, dismantle the importance of a famous act in Seville that canonised only a part of the actors of that cultural moment. Furthermore it allows us to understand that using those labels expand the composition of an heterogeneous group who worked together in a new political project to modernise the country. The time has come to become aware that the nomenclature still used is the product of literary historiography, strongly politicised by a dictatorial state.

The statue of Glauco. Reflections on human nature during the pandemic

The statue of Glauco that the sea and the storms have disfigured so as to make its appearance more like a ferocious beast than a god, is the famous image with which Jean Jacques Rousseau, in the Discourse on the origin of inequality, questions himself on Human Nature, in a reflection that will have its purpose both in the political project of the Contract and in the pedagogical project of the Emilio. The image serves in fact to reiterate that that deterioration, that ugliness, is only external and that the statue (the man) has remained in its depths beautiful and good, since in him the feeling of piety, of his own and of his remains unchanged. dignity and the vocation to freedom of others. If this were not the case, there would be no possibility for political democracy and democratic education. The growing social inequalities, the artificialization of feelings and relationships due to technology, as well as the spread, after the pandemic, of a sort of mass "claustrophilia", a love for the closed, for one's own, with the consequent rejection of everything that comes from "outside", which is different, foreign or new, seems instead to give credit to Hobbes's thesis, namely that Human Nature is violent and aggressive and that man is always a wolf for the other man. However, it will be the task of the arts, sciences and, above all, of education, to demonstrate that, under the debris left by the salt, Glauco has remained good and that he can rediscover his true essence, the beauty of his original substance.

Religion, Religions and J.Rawls’ Political Project

The essay explores the relationship between religion and Rawls from the perspective of some issues that are central to his political project: political autonomy, public reason and the implications of the fact of pluralism for the development of the idea of decent peoples. Religion has a dual dimension in political liberalism, plural and singular. The problem of the liberal political transition is to allow these two dimensions to coexist harmoniously within the liberal political project.

Detection of Induced Activity in Social Networks: Model and Methodology

This paper examines the problem of social media special operations and especially induced support in social media during political election campaigns. The theoretical background of the paper is based on the study fake activity in social networks during pre-election processes and the existing models and methods of detection of such activity. The article proposes a methodology for identifying and diagnosing induced support for a political project. The methodology includes a model of induced activity, an algorithm for segmenting the audience of a political project, and a technique for detecting and diagnosing induced support. The proposed methodology provides identification of network combatants, participants of social media special operations, influencing public opinion in the interests of a political project. The methodology can be used to raise awareness of the electorate, the public, and civil society in general about the presence of artificial activity on the page of a political project.