Angel Marroquin The media reduce and impoverish debates and take them to areas where distortion prevails. What better example than the debates around immigration? Each interlocutor seems to understand the subject through an uncompromising perspective and ignores any point of view that contradicts their own. Defending inflexible simple explanations and reducing the other’s experience toContinue reading “Who is cooking the food you eat?”
Lo que nos separa, nos une
Angel Marroquin Los medios reducen y empobrecen los debates y los llevan a campos en que la distorsión termina por imponerse. Que mejor ejemplo que los temas de inmigración. Cada interlocutor parece llevar el tema a su propia experiencia y soslayar cualquier punto de vista que contradiga el propio. Tener siempre la razón, reducir alContinue reading “Lo que nos separa, nos une”
Concerned residents
Angel Marroquin A minor symptom does not take long to transform into a severe illness. For this to happen, only one little ingredient is needed: looking the other way instead of facing a difficult conversation. This is what is happening today in East Wall, Dublin. East Wall is a neighbourhood where there have been protestsContinue reading “Concerned residents”
Kibbutz del deseo
Angel Marroquin En uno de los más lúdicos capítulos de la filosofía, Wittgenstein comparaba el uso de las palabras y el funcionamiento del lenguaje con un juego. En un juego las palabras tienen una función que permite mantener el juego en funcionamiento, como en un trabalenguas. Para que funcione, cada palabra esta sujeta a ciertasContinue reading “Kibbutz del deseo”
Kibbutz of desire
Angel Marroquin In one of the most playful chapters in philosophy, Wittgenstein compared the use of words and the functioning of language to a game. In a game, words have a function that keeps the game going, like in a tongue twister. For it to work, each word is subject to specific rules that everyoneContinue reading “Kibbutz of desire”
Adapt or die
Angel Marroquin After 30 years of COPs, hundreds of thousands of speeches and blah, blah, blah, the signatory countries reached a self-evident conclusion: the effects of climate change hit poorer countries the hardest. This realisation is not a bad joke: climate justice is an idea that has taken the richest and most polluting countries aContinue reading “Adapt or die”
Adáptate o muere
Angel Marroquin Solo después de 30 años de COP’s, cientos de miles de discursos y blah, blah, blah los países firmantes han llegado a una conclusión autoevidente: los efectos del cambio climático golpean con mayor fuerza a los países pobres. No se trata de una mala broma: les ha llevado mucho tiempo aceptar a losContinue reading “Adáptate o muere”
Suitcases
Angel Marroquin All of us migrants bring different things in our suitcases. Some suitcases are heavier than others; some carry the minimum things we were allowed on the plane, while others have those unique things that remind us of home. However, we all bring helpful items to start and develop our life abroad, such asContinue reading “Suitcases”
Maletas, gargantas y cables
Angel Marroquin Todos quienes venimos de otros países traemos diferentes cosas en nuestras maletas. Unas son más pesadas que otras y algunas traen ropa colorida mientras otras traen ropas grises. Sin embargo, todos traemos cosas que nos son útiles para comenzar y desarrollar nuestra vida en Irlanda. Libros de inglés, un teléfono, ropa de cama,Continue reading “Maletas, gargantas y cables”
Put the money where your mouth is
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Ángel Marroquín Once the lights of Glasgow go out and COP 26 has ended with applause, handshakes and flashes, someone will wonder: Good stuff, but who will pay for all these good intentions? Obviously all gazes will point to big corporations, not only because they are the great generators…
Here we go again
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Angel Marroquin Another COP (Conference of the Parties) is beginning, and once again, the world prepares to face two weeks of the usual parade of appalling data, international pressure and silver bullets. In short, two weeks of planetary insomnia, whose epicentre is Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, Africa. After 30…
Perfectly legal
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Angel Marroquin Rarely do tourist flows follow any other logic than that of the business one: maximising profits while avoiding risks. Naturally, therefore, all that is offered to tourists has to be comfortable and specially designed to please European tourists in search of relaxation, rest and controlled adventures without…
Perfectly legal
Angel Marroquin Rarely do tourist flows follow any other logic than that of the business one: maximising profits while avoiding risks. Naturally, therefore, all that is offered to tourists has to be comfortable and specially designed to please European tourists in search of relaxation, rest and controlled adventures without a hangover. These tourists want theContinue reading “Perfectly legal”
Here we go again
Angel Marroquin Another COP (Conference of the Parties) is beginning, and once again, the world prepares to face two weeks of the usual parade of appalling data, international pressure and silver bullets. In short, two weeks of planetary insomnia, whose epicentre is Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, Africa. After 30 years of COPs listening to dramaticContinue reading “Here we go again”
Ahí vamos, otra vez
Angel Marroquín Otra COP comienza y nuevamente el mundo se apresta a enfrentarse a dos semanas del desfile acostumbrado de datos escalofriantes, presión internacional y balas de plata. En una palabra, dos semanas de insomnio planetario cuyo epicentro esta vez es Sharm El Sheik, Egipto, África. Justamente y después de 30 años de COPs yContinue reading “Ahí vamos, otra vez”
Todo legal
Angel Marroquin Rara vez los flujos turísticos siguen otra lógica que la de la mercantil: maximizar los beneficios mientras se evitan riesgos. Todo muy confortable y especialmente pensado para agradar a los turistas europeos en busca de relajo, descanso y aventuras controladas y sin resaca. De alguna manera lo que estos turistas quieren es tenerContinue reading “Todo legal”
Selective blindness
Angel Marroquin I have always been struck by how ordinary European citizens avoid considering that the things they consume daily are produced in poor countries by underpaid or exploited workers. I don’t know. Maybe these citizens suffer from a kind of “selective blindness” that deprives them of the necessary understanding to connect what the products’Continue reading “Selective blindness”
Ceguera selectiva
Angel Marroquin Siempre me ha llamado la atención la manera en que los ciudadanos europeos comunes y corrientes evitan considerar que las cosas que consumen diariamente son producidas en países pobres por trabajadores mal pagados o explotados. No lo sé, tal vez se trata de una especie de ceguera selectiva la que les priva delContinue reading “Ceguera selectiva”
We are in peace
Angel Marroquin After living abroad for a few years, I returned to my home country for a short time, an experience that forced me to reconsider certain things. This reflection can interest others who go through a similar situation. Upon returning, one of the first things that happened to me was that I saw myContinue reading “We are in peace”
Estamos en paz
Angel Marroquin Tras vivir algunos años en el extranjero volví a mi país de origen por un corto tiempo. Este hecho me obligó a mirar de nuevo ciertas cosas que me parecen pueden interesar a otros que han pasado por situaciones similares. De estas impresiones quiero hablarles. Una de las primeras cosas que nos sucedeContinue reading “Estamos en paz”
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