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First of all: it is not good to start the “new social democracy” doing the same thing that was criticized in the old one. The criticism was based on the fact that it is not acceptable to abstain in serious matters, such as the investiture of Rajoy. Especially because abstention came to be a disguised “yes”. Both things are happening today with Sánchez’s abstention: the vote on CETA (which is a “mixed” treaty and needs a favorable vote of the parliaments) is not a minor matter and, in addition, the abstention is a covert “yes”, given that the treaty has a majority thanks to the abstention of the PSOE.

It could be due to the dislike of globalization, at least that is Moscovici’s argument. But it does not seem to be true because of the mismatch. We live with globalization and a treaty that, after all, is bilateral, can have a positive or negative impact on that same globalization.

Perhaps this is an inertial process of the race that began in the opposition to the other treaty, TTIP, between the European Union and the United States. Opposition to TTIP was so widespread and profound that it succeeded in hibernating it, if not liquidating it. And the remaining energies are now being used against CETA. But the two treaties are very different.

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It is a question of perspectives. The rapprochement is not a gracious concession of the government, but a right of the political prisoners, systematically violated by tyrannical rulers and prevaricating judges who have been applying the criminal law of the enemy to the Catalan independence movement for months. That is, the threat, extortion, persecution and revenge. The same instances that imposed exorbitant bail to the Catalan political hostages in the sordid hope of ruining the lives of them and their families and, incidentally, destroy a legitimate independence movement, democratically supported by the majority of the population.

The usual Francoist gangs have made themselves heard through various media, protesting very indignantly and threatening death to those who dare to touch a bone of their caudillo. It is part of the show and no need to pay more attention. After all, even the direct beneficiaries of the dictatorship admit that this ridiculous mass, this monument to national-Catholic tyranny, is meaningless. With Franco, by the way, the cross must go, which is an attack on nature, on the landscape, on the skyline, as the well-traveled say.

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Well, without fuss, without getting fancy or giving us a hard time, in a clear, direct and simple way, today Palinuro had a meeting with the administration and services staff (i.e. PAS) of his faculty. It was not scheduled, it did not respond to any call, nobody had foreseen it and, least of all, he had not foreseen it. When he told me about it later, he was still excited.

– It wasn’t planned, apart from the fact, of course, that the participants had agreed to meet at a certain place and time. But no one had warned me’….

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But they were all photos, that is, a vision mediated by a mechanical element that, in a subtle but inevitable way, always kills the creative edge of human action, the pen, the burin, the chisel, the artist’s brush, which will never be the same as pressing a button.

Thanks to his good relations, Coburn, who bought a studio in Hammersmith, London, lived like a typical Yankee expatriate in contact with the avant-garde. His solid reputation as a good photographer allowed him to portray some of the most important artists and intellectuals of his time. Thanks to him, therefore, who exchanged plein air painting for studio work, we have wonderful portraits -some of them almost iconographic, exhibited in this show- of Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, Wells, Twain, Matisse, Stein or Rodin. Just to see the portrait of G. B. Shaw posing for Coburn as Rodin’s Le penseur is worth the trip to the exhibition.

While spending the day in photography, we also went to see the exhibition of the work of Pablo Genovés at the Canal de Isabel II, in Santa Engracia, which is announced under the title of the noise and the fury, deliberately sought by the resonances of Faulkner who, in turn, also sought by his own Shakespearean ones. The invocation is not misplaced because, although it seems to focus mainly on the material aspect of the subject, noise and fury of the unleashed elements, the conjunction between these and the halls, libraries, museums that the waters invade conveys in a certain way that idea of decadence, degeneration and destruction that the works of the two geniuses mentioned above present.