A hangover is to Descartes what Diogenes’ plucked chicken is to Plato: a crude, all-too-physical rebuttal of the fantasy of a disembodied human being.

This essay was first prepared as a talk for a gathering at the Santuari del Miracle.

Freud describes the taming of fire as a renunciation—an act in which the impulse to extinguish the flame is restrained and the destructive force is spared, carried off, and subdued to human use.

If the world is burning, the task is not to play the lyre while writing a history of fire.

Middle features the original score composed for Lo que hay en el medio, a choreographic piece by dancer and researcher Vanessa Vargas.

Socrates’ final words in Crito carry the weight of both an ending and a promise.

Walter Benjamin famously wrote that “hell is the province of those who are not allowed to finish what they have started.”

Is the merciless, unrepentant, genocidal history of Venezuela (since its very colonial inception) just another historical instantiation of the unforgivable?