English post by Tandino

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"This is a more insightful definition than you might think. When I first broached the topic of defining indie, I discussed five areas of contestation (independent label/distribution, independent ethos, genre, aesthetic judgment, and not being mainstream). What these arguments all have in common is that they (and indie) express the interconnection of two primary western philosophies: puritanism and romanticism. Puritanism is based on autonomy of local congregations, simplicity of worship, asceticism, egalitarianism, and a call to the past with restoration of original values through purification.

Within puritanism, there is a distrust of centralised authority in the guise of the Catholic church. Catholicism was protested against for being corrupt, hierarchical, distancing and disinterested in the needs and specificity of local communities. Does this sound at all like how the mainstream music industry is portrayed? It should. Romanticism cultivates emotions, the natural, the past, and the ordinary. Even the root for romanticism is "enromancier" meaning vernacular. The focus on "my town" reveals both of these impulses. "My town" is not the distanced centralised authority of London or Rome. It is the ultimate embodiment of the local, ordinary and parochial and therefore, expresses both the puritan and romantic foundations of this aesthetic movement."

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"La canción del pulque", de Everardo González, es un crudo documental sobre la Ciudad de México. Ese espacio de consumo que puede destruir todo. Alcanza en su onda expansiva y "Pirata" el espacio mismo donde se produce lo que ahí se consume, por ejemplo, las magueyeras o la vida tlachiquera. Quizá ahí radica su belleza efímera, tan potente en los utensilios y formas de la pulquería. Junto con la tierra, el color, en todo México, es el eje central, lo que se marchita y palidece sin cesar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPITon26ck8
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Fragmento de un texto de Ros Coward publicado el 23 de julio en The Guardian "Stockwell station is somewhere I go a lot. My family use it all the time too. It's not somewhere I particularly like; it's always a bit edgy. There was an armed bank robbery a few years ago and drug dealers hang around late at night. But edgy is different from what happened yesterday when heavily armed police chased a man on to the tube there and shot him dead in front of terrified passengers. According to witnesses there was blind panic and passengers emerged from the station crying and shaking. The local vet's, better known for its sensitive treatment of bereaved pet owners, was commandeered for witnesses of a suspected suicide bomber. Surreal was the word someone used and that's what London now feels like to me. [..] Accounts of the Oval incident describe three passengers struggling with a man with a rucksack while a woman standing next to them hugged a baby and sobbed. On Thursday, at
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En su introducción a la Modernidad barroca, Bolívar Echeverría establece dos posibilidades primarias de entender lo barroco: como forma transhistórica de la cultura o como un hecho esencialmente moderno. Si bien no se contraponen absolutamente, sí es importante tener en cuenta esa diferencia y dar prelación a un determinante sobre otra. Los autores canónicos para una y otra perspectiva son D'Ors, Croce, Curtius y Hocke; Hausenstein, Riegl, Anceschi, Maravall y el propio Echeverría.
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