Present Chronicles

Faced with the continuous political disappointments, the new models of subjugation of neoliberalism and the complicity of our leaders, the greatest challenge facing us today is to wake up from our state of paralysis and mobilize our own forces. Dissent means breaking with many...

This book offers a deep reflection on art and its role in times of pandemic, climate crisis, and truth manipulation. Can art reveal what we cannot see? Graciela Speranza explores how art exposes the invisible, confronting two threats of the 21st century: environmental collapse...

Half a century after the events that occurred in Chile during the period 1965-1973, readers can now see a version that is closer to the real truth. Historians have been in charge of the historical development after the military pronouncement of September 11, 1973....

The role of Artificial Intelligence is becoming increasingly relevant. However, we are often unaware of the extent to which AI is acting directly in our immediate, everyday world. Over time, methods and algorithms have been implemented that make it possible to tackle jobs previously...

An overly educated generation faces the persistent reality of precarious jobs, low wages and worse living conditions than their parents. Millennials vs. boomers. Where to go in the absence of economic and environmental certainties? What is the solution? This concise essay proposes to rethink...

Friday, December 13, 2015. Jihadist attacks take place in three different parts of Paris. The most serious is that of the Bataclan Room. The result is more than a hundred dead and almost half a thousand wounded. Years later, for nine months, the trial...

When she was eleven years old, Lea Ypi witnessed the end of the world. At least from the end of a world. In 1990 the communist regime in Albania, the last bastion of Stalinism in Europe, collapsed. She, indoctrinated at school, did not understand...

Alejandra Azuero Quijano proposes to think of the strike as an epistemic outbreak, an event that articulates stories and rhythms of time that allow us to rethink the past in order to understand and update the present. Based on repertoires of resistance and interruption,...

We get sick easily, our defenses have been drastically reduced, mortality is punishing us with horrifying figures. What is happening? Is it just a coincidence... or are there people responsible for these permanent and new massive contagions?  This book - courageous, rigorous and surprising...

Svenja Flasspöhler sets out to clarify one of the hottest current conflicts: the progressive individual and social awareness and what the limit is of what is tolerable. Sensitivity is not a new phenomenon; It occupies an important role in the history of our society...

Beyond world crises, wars, pandemics, ecological disasters and natural catastrophes, it seems that the earth is giving undeniable signs of help. Nature in its entirety of beings and biodiversity is launching in these times a call to the human being asking for a great...

In The Intruders, Carlos Manuel Alvarez dives into the recent protest organized in Havana by the San Isidro Movement, which brought together more than two hundred Cuban artists, intellectuals, and activists. In November 2020, the island's regime imprisoned rapper Denis Solís, which led to...

'I fought in Ukraine. I can't make our Army go home, but I can tell my experience.' February 2022. Pavel Filátiev is thirty-three years old. He is Russian. He is hired in the Army assault forces. One day they receive the order to leave....

What does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today? In this provocative new work, Adriana Cavarero weighs in on contemporary debates about the relationship between democracy, happiness, and dissent. Drawing on Arendt's understanding of politics as a participatory experience, but also...

Every man, woman and child on the planet is affected by the stunning information that Icke exposes. He reveals how the same interconnecting bloodlines have controlled the planet for thousands of years. How they created all the major religions and suppressed the spiritual and...

The Society of Disappointment contextualizes Lipovetsky's intellectual formation, describes the latest trends in the society of abundance and exposes for the first time a moral ideology that allows us to know his position in the face of current problems. Dreams of progress have long...

This book addresses sexuality in various essays from a feminist perspective in the light of events and debates that have reached public opinion. The author reflects on consent after #MeToo, sexual assaults and false allegations of rape; about pornography and teenagers; about misogyny and...

In this book, which is an x-ray of the state of Latin America, eight journalists describe the fissures that have opened up in their territories in recent years. The chronicles show, with the turns, sayings and expressions of each country, the entrails of their...

Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon and Other Essays explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. In essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, Jorge Carrión travels...

This book brings together 14 articles and 2 conversations by Byung-Chul Han about the expansion of capitalism and its consequences. What we call "growth" today is actually the consequence of an excessive increase in carcinomas destroying the social organism. These tumors ceaselessly metastasize and...