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Oscar Guardiola

Modernity is a fable

“The fable of modernity and its others isn’t so much a delusion or a lie, as the mirror in which modernity can look at itself. It’s also in this mirror “where it’s others look back” … Oscar Guardiola-Rivera reports …

The Populist
Oscar Guardiola

An Unbelievable Mythmaker

Gabriel García Márquez had the strange fortune of living the life of five people. That’s what my father said while he gathered us around the radio in order to listen to the Caribbean writer give his Nobel speech from Stockholm.

The Populist
Oscar Guardiola

On The Shaman’s Couch. Why Only Indians Can Save Our Modern Soul

We all know the spirit of modernity is dying. Two overlapping processes, globalization and global warming, conspire to kill it. According to the 2013-14 Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations, the total anthropogenic Radiative