Mis libros y citas

  Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism Mariana Mazzucato We live in an era in which capitalism is in crisis and a flawed ideology about the role of government has infiltrated our expectations of what it can do and thus what other actors can do in partnership with government ...to change capitalism, we must therefore change the interrelationships between government, business and civil society, especially the underlying power relationship. There are a variety of different forms of capitalism and we have the wrong one.      .

  Bullshit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn't capitalism-....In many ways, it resembles classic medieval feudalism, displaying the same tendency to create endless hierarchies of lords, vassals, and retainers.    

  En defensa del humanismo: Reflexiones para tiempos difíciles Alejandro Gaviria En Colombia, hoy más que nunca, la libertad tiene que ver con el respeto a las comunidades organizadas, con la protección a quienes luchan por el medio ambiente y un futuro mejor y por la protección también a quienes protestan y no se conforman con el mundo como es. Ser libre es alzar la voz tranquilamente, es decir lo que uno piensa sin temor a la intimidación violenta, es poder construir colectivamente sin temer por la vida.        

  The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Diamond Geography sets ground rules for the evolution both biological and cultural of all species, including our own. Geography's role in determining our modern political history is even more obvious then its role in determining the rate at which we domesticate plants and animals.  

  The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Richard Dawkins Right up to the middle of the twentieth century, life was thought to be qualitatively beyond physics and chemistry. No longer. The difference between life and non-life is a matter not of substance but of information. Living things contain prodigious quantities of information.  

  El infinito en un junco Irene Vallejo La invención de los libros ha sido tal vez el mayor triunfo en nuestra tenaz lucha contra la destrucción.  

  El gran diseño Stephen Hawking,    Leonard Mlodinow Somos el producto de fluctuaciones cuánticas del universo muy primitivo. Si uno fuera religioso, podría decir que Dios juega realmente a los dados. Mucha gente a lo largo de los siglos ha atribuido a Dios la belleza y la complejidad de la naturaleza que, en su tiempo, parecían no tener explicación científica. Pero así como Darwin y Wallace explicaron cómo el diseño aparentemente milagroso de las formas vivas podía aparecer sin la intervención de un Ser supremo, el concepto de multiverso puede explicar el ajuste fino de las leyes físicas sin necesidad de un Creador benévolo que hiciera el universo para nuestro provecho.  

  The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert One of the many unintended consequences of the Anthropocene has been the pruning of our own family tree. Having cut down our sister species -the Neanderthals and the Denisovans many generations ago- we are now working on our first and second cousins. By the time we're done, it's quite possible that there would be among the great apes not a single representative left, except that is, for us.  

  Humankind: A Hopeful History Rutger Bregman When we're holed up in our own trenches, we lose sight of reality. We're lured into thinking that a small hate-mongering minority reflects all humankind.(...) To believe people are hardwired to be kind isn't sentimental or naive. On the contrary, it's courageous and realistic to believe in peace and forgiveness.  

  The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design Richard Dawkins ...living organisms exist for the benefit of DNA rather than the other way around. ... The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes.  

  Colombia. Una nación a pesar de sí misma. David Bushnell A pesar de que Colombia no ha experimentado la revolución social, ningún tipo de violencia le ha sido ajena. Los mismos partidos tradicionales que hasta hace poco sirvieron de 'opio' de las masas colombianas (en el sentido marxista)-y cuya sobrevivencia desde mediados del siglo XIX constituye otra continuidad tan impactante como anómala en la región-contribuyeron a través de los años a los brotes de violencia que, a su turno, han representado el más evidente fracaso del sistema político.  

  Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics. The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.