Present Chronicles

This book explores the real threats to freedom of expression, which don’t come from minorities, feminists or offended, but from political and legislative power. Because disparagingly pointing to the offender does nothing but criminalize their right, our right as a society, to protest. /...

In 1977, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán wrote this concise and insightful dictionary, in which he tackled Francoism as a historical, political, sociological and even aesthetic reality: now, in co-edition with the Barcelona City Council, it has been recovered with some scathing illustrations by Miguel Brieva....

Authoritarianism, particularism, fanaticism, catastrophism, terrorism, solutionism... are the faces of a broad anti-illustrated reaction to the current crisis of civilization. Our present is caught in a radical dilemma: either condemned or saved. Behind this alternative lies a surrender. / Autoritarismo, particularismo, fanatismo, catastrofismo, terrorismo,...

Migration, refugee crises, terrorism, civil war: four brilliant essays from the point of view of analysis and prognosis. / Migraciones, crisis de los refugiados, terrorismo, guerra civil: cuatro ensayos brillantes desde el punto de vista del análisis y del pronóstico.

With his proverbial lucidity and the beauty of his style, Cups of Broth is the most personal work of Vicente Verdú and a sample of the philosophical and sociological thought that he propagates through pills. With this book, Verdú becomes the embodiment of the...

Why does a form of terrorism that consists of isolated, random killings break out, where the victims can be as numerous as possible? In the first part of this book, Calasso gives a brief history of the origin of Islamic terrorism, and draws an...

Marta Sanz is thoughtful on how to "protect" the feminist struggle from the simplification and commercialization of a capitalism that can absorb everything, and also thinks about power, coming to the conclusion that perhaps what needs to be modified is the notion of power...

This book tells ten stories centered on the most vulnerable: children. In 2016, the author interviewed ten immigrants in New York and Los Angeles who entered the United States between 2011 and 2014 with the intention of reuniting with their families. / Este libro...

In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is...