Words have a weight: language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts

The writer and socio-linguist José del Valle presents 'The Political of Language', a work in which he analyzes how power is exercised through words and how language becomes a field of ideological and social disputeA documentary to do justice with Agustín Gómez Arcos, the "hito of Spanish literature" censored by Francoism Words are never innocent. This evidence, which goes through our streets and has been doing so strongly since the Mallorcan phi…

Words have a weight: language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts

The role played by language in our cognitive lives is a topic at the centre of contemporary debates in cognitive (neuro)science. In this paper we illustrat

Several speakers called on Chile on the eve to prevent the advance of ultra-right and fascism, in an act for the 40 years of the murder of José Man

Evil tends to be organized anonymously. It does not need evil individuals, but simply people who accept their role in the gear without questioning it. Václav Havel Banality of Evil is a concept coined by Hannah Arendt at Eichmann in Jerusalem, a book in which she analyzes and documents the follow-up of a televised trial of a Nazi war criminal by the Jerusalem District Court. Her analysis and report on the trial show the perversity of a system th…

The deterioration of public conversation and the banality of political language are two serious problems for democratic culture. Politics has ceased to be admirable in the use of oratory, rhetoric, argumentation. Quite the contrary, exacerbated –in addition – by the propensity for the use of vulgar, sapphie and brutal language. This accumulated discredit generates deep distrust in the citizenry. Without words – beautiful, just, deep – the ground…