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January 19, 2018

I think I had written in other post I am not very interested in sociology. This means I do not remember the most of the subjects I have approved and, because of this reason, I do not know if as department we need to dedicate more hours to statistic or qualitative techniques, etc… However, I would like the career has a more philosophical orientation because I think sociologist we do not reflect sufficiently. For example, we are very skilled when we have to talk about the multiple ways of domination but we are not so sure when we must to say why this happen. Marx was a genius, nobody could reject that, but maybe he did not think enough this point. By the way, Benjamin did this and in his little –and unfinished – essay ‘Capitalism as a religion’ he tried to explain that a lot of sociological things have a non-sociological base. Other example, in his words: capitalism debt its success not just to the power of bourgeois and their ability to manipulate to State and to moral, but in ...

January 18, 2018

It is difficult to me to talk about a favorite book. I prefer to talk about my last one. My last book was the mails that Kafka sent to his girlfriend, Felice Bauer. It is an amazing book because Kafka exposes his closest personality at the same time he tries to win her. Two incompatible things, from beginning to ending, that little by little the same senders will notify and we, as readers, too, in approximately six hundred letters. It was a kind of impossible love because they were very different. In one hand, she was a happy girl, speech and extrovert, belonging to the bourgeois middle class, with bourgeois aspirations, and by other hand, Kafka was a very sad guy, shy and introverted, with no enough money as to maintain a family. The only thing he really liked to do was to write and everything else he hated it: his job, his family, even the literary surrounding. They wrote from two remote places and could not seem each other in regular times. Kafka many times s...

January 17, 2018

Summer holidays The place we are planning to going to is never so fun as the one we can imagine we could going to. If I could, what actually means ‘if I born again’, I would like to climb the highest mountains or to dive the deepest oceans, fight against the wildest animals or discover the most hidden places. Of course, most beautiful landscapes are not always ‘the most’ of whatever, but to think those in this way seems like an old novel story. Do not you think that to be the protagonist of Moby Dick or El Quijote could be soooo cool? Once I heard that Juan Rulfo, the Mexican writer of Pedro Páramo and El llano en llamas, thought to write about a traveler and his journey across La Cordillera de Los Andes. If this book would have been written, surely would be a fundamental book to understand what means to travel in Latin America. Just think about it. It will surely start in México, discovering the old ruins and the religious antecedent of Mexican people, the st...

January 15, 2018

Post graduate studies I do not like to study at university but I have thought to continue doing it just for one simple reason: I fear to work. And, been honestly, I think right now I could not have a complete adult life. Even living with my family I am a disaster but not to be disorganized (in fact I am tidy), but because I am lazy, useless and anxious. As you can see, post graduate studies are an excuse to my family do not chase me out from home. I have thought to study a masters related with cultural sociology but because actually I am not very interesting in this issue, I have not find out where I can do it or what I have to do to applying to a scholarship. If I could get the chance to choose where it could be, I will surely prefer the same place where now I am studying because it is the most practical thing. To have a scholarship should be the only way to pay it because I do not want to work and my parents have no money. Some people have said me I should try studyi...

January 12, 2018

My future job I must confess I do not like any job. But because maybe I should survive, I think a good job could be work as a book’s editor. Some years ago I had thought to work as one of these but I did not know nothing about what means book’s edition so I started to learn. Even, I get the equipment necessary to have a little –very little– editorial with its own ability to make a full book: a printing house. That is the job I would like to continue doing, but there are some bad things in it. To edit a book is a job harder than I had imagined. It requires a lot of time to make all the steps necessaries just to have a digital book. It is a lonely and repetitive work, just in front of a computer. And then you must make the book, what means, again, waste time and, by other hand, to have money to buy materials. Do not even talk about the sales, because sometimes people become angry when you sell them a good quality book (I mean, in content and making) in his correct p...

January 11, 2018

Favorite food First, food is one of the greatest things that exist so I will enjoy writing this post. Second, I will be terribly hungry. Although I like food very much I do not know about culinary culture. For example, in international cuisine the only one I know is Peruvian food. That is because my father's wife is Peruvian and in her country she had a restaurant. As you can imagine, she cooks tasty dishes all days! When I go to their house I eat Carapulca, Papa a la Huancaína, Tamales, Ají de gallina... anything I want even to the point to be immobilized for have been eating so much. For that reason I always said Peruvian food is the best of the world; do not know another one is just a detail. My favorite national dish is Humitas and Porotos (‘con riendas’ and ‘con mazamorra’) and I try to eat them every time I can. But sadly, the most of the time the ingredients are avaible to be bought just in summer so you cannot eat those dishes whenever you want. I th...