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A CONTINENT WITHOUT BORDERS

Vińa del Mar Cinema Festival Promotes Latin American Cooperation

Visual Arts


HAPPINESS, PAIN, MAGIC, BEAUTY … WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?

(Oct. 15, 2004) “I do not believe in inspiration, but in sensitivity. In front of an empty canvas, interpretations of what I have seen and experienced arise from my memories. It’s nothing more than that.” (Lukó de Rokha)

The exhibition “Alegría y Dolor, Magia y Belleza del Universo (Happiness and Pain, Magic and Beauty of the Universe)” presents a visceral journey into the life and the mind of the Chilean artist Lukó de Rokha.


Linguistics


“DON’T WORRY OFFICER, WE’RE MARRIED”

When Language Fights Back

(Oct. 15, 2004) Jacques Derrida died last week. The French philosopher spent his stellar career saying extraordinary things about language in extraordinary ways. In a rather hubristic nutshell, Derrida’s thinking goes that all meaning is subject to language, and the meanings of language are constantly in flux. In any utterance, therefore, there will be a multiplicity of meanings, many of which the author of the utterance never intended.

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Courtesy of motrocyclediaries.com
Gael Garcia Bernal and Rodrigo de la Serna in Walter Salles's 2004 "The Motorcycle Diaries"
Visual Arts
Courtesy of CODELCO and Casa Matriz
Lukó de Rokha's "El Naufragio"
Linguistics
Courtesy of suhrkamp.de
"This is not a pipe:" Jacques Derrida's lesson to foreigners