Photo: Annie Spratt on Unsplash Juan VilloroIn 1991, Umberto Eco gave a lecture at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense under the suggestive title "The vegetable memory". He recalled that the first forms of writing were mineral: stone friezes and clay...
Photo: Pixabay on PexelsJuan VilloroWhen there were no computers, cats were already virtual. They live and do not live with us. Their existence occurs next to the kibble plate and alternate sites to which we do not have access....
Photo: ALLEKO on iStockJuan VilloroOne of the great mythologies of our time consists of believing that all grandmothers cooked wonderfully. It tastes tastier if someone says that the pipian comes from a distant family recipe. The past spices up.Photo:...
Photo: Joshua Rawson Harris on UnsplashJuan Villoro"I wasn't like that; the gadgets changed me," confesses a friend. Indeed, twenty years ago, we were all not only younger but different.Technology provides experiences that once seemed contradictory, if not impossible. One...
Photo: Pixabay on PexelsJuan VilloroHow many hours should a person sleep? The enigma, of course, is unfathomable. Napoleon would close his eyes in two batches of a couple of hours and awaken with enough stamina to invade Egypt. On...
Photo: Pixabay on PexelsJuan VilloroI have lived long enough to attend the weddings of a friend who refers to the most recent one as his "fourth transformation." A journalist colleague commented that these marriages should not be mentioned in...
Image: Matheus Natan on PexelsJuan VilloroCertain hypotheses about human behavior begin as fantasies and, over the years (or centuries), become anthropologists' theses. I will address a minor topic, but one that perhaps holds the key to the times to...