Edmundo Benaján, 1967. “Nos encaminamos hacia un ambiente donde el conocimiento se convierte en servicio, en una prestación económica. La especulación acerca de los significados, del lenguaje y del porvenir como escenario posible es algo que ha desaparecido de la preocupación del individuo corriente y de gran número de artistas. La expectativa de cambio intelectual, como ya ha sucedido en otras épocas, se convertirá en un acto de alineación.”

Unexpected book. During the month of July 2009 one of the most recent and sophisticated open street markets of rare and ancient books was held at the city port of Santa Maria, in the Sal Island, Cape Verde Republic. There were found two, until then unknown, Bible volumes of 45 lines, believed to be printed around 1440 in Germany, in perfect condition and with a total of 1251 pages. They were sold for 150 Euros.

The Peripheral View

The canaparo.org website support the campaigns of Liberty and recommend the work on climate change realized by the Transition Town Project and the international program of UNESCO about philosophy. Equally canaparo.org support the work on civil rights from Breaking The Silence and the Centro de estudios legales y sociales (CELS), the research stand of Global Witness and Déclaration de Berne, and the technological and informational approach of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Canaparo.org also encourage the use of the Radical Constructivism site and the consultation of the Active Distribution’s catalogue and material.

Latest News and Events

A vision of publishing

Last moth was presented in Buenos Aires one of the most interesting projects of publishing produced in recent years in Latin America. ‘Antilibros, la editorial creada por Pablo Marchetti, Mariano Lucano, Fernando Mazzeo y Daniel Riera, fundadores de la Revista Barcelona, intervino el espacio Ultra, el martes 8 de septiembre, para dar su ‘Antimanifiesto’ y presentar sus primeros cuatro libros: Caprichos, de Lucano; Dialecto pequeño burgués, de Marchetti; Ejercicios para la mano izquierda, de Mazzeo y Familia y propiedad/vergüenza nacional, de Riera.’

For more details see www.antilibros.blogspot.com.

Academic Seminar

The first of a series of seminars about the issue of 'Migrations, Diasporas, Identities' was delivered on October 19th 2006. The title of the seminar was 'The Notion of "Spatial Diaspora" and the Geographical Location of Knowledge'. Click on the title to obtain the basic material.

Photo: Aerial view of the 'Due Torri', Bologna, 1991.

Poetry and epistemology

The issue number 4 of Pores. Poetics Research is already available on line.

'Pensamiento alternativo'

The CECIES is the project of ‘Pensamiento Latinoamericano Alternativo’, one of the few initiatives that, based on Buenos Aires, have as aim the promotion and development of the local thinking in Latin America. The CECIES published the first ‘Diccionario de Pensamiento Alternativo’ in 2008 and is at the moment at the point of editing the second volume.