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Good afternoon. Today, I will talk about the new curriculum of Theory and History of the Arts in the University of Chile. To begin with, I must confess that I have a critical perspective on the latest curriculum reform. Unfortunately, I entered this university career in the process of implementing the new study plan, so I have suffered the effects of the technocratic turn that motivates this reform. Before the curricular reform, theory and history of art was a university career that motivates the aesthetic reflection. In it, there was room for philosophy, literature and cinema, with sufficient academic flexibility to develop their own theoretical projects. After the curricular reform, this university career was schooled, subscribing to the mercantile criteria of neoliberal university education. In concrete terms, this explains the emphasis on subjects such as cultural management, heritage, museums and curatorship, to the detriment of philosophy, aesthetics and literature. The idea that...
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Good afternoon. On this occasion, I will talk about tattoos. Rather, I will make a small comment about this topic.  In my case, I don't have tattoos. To be honest, I don't like them. I don't know the reasons for getting a tattoo, but I doubt that I would get one. I imagine that the tattooing process produces pleasure due to the dose of pain that characterizes it. Whatever, I have noticed that for a few years tattoos are fashionable in Chile. Before they were just something strange, rare in this country. Now I thing that they have been banalized. They are common I have many friends who like tattoos. At first, they tattooed important events, such as the birth of their children or the death of their parents. But now they tattoo irrelevant things, like phrases they heard on television or geometric figures without a particular symbolic meaning. Anyway, it's their problem and not mine. I imagine that the tribes that invented the art of tattooing linked it with religious rites...
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Hello, today I will talk to you about the job I aspire to after finishing my degree. However, talking about the job I want in this context is something difficult, because the national and international economy was very deteriorated by the COVID-19. It´s probably that I will work in other area, not related to my university degree. But today I will be optimistic to write this post. As you know, I am a student of Theory and History of Art at the University of Chile. For that reason, I have a great affinity for academic research work. In particular, for conceptual research on aesthetics and philosophy. It is an indoor activity that does not demand too much travel, but requires a lot of reflection and reading, two difficult activities to do in this contexts. My favorite place to work are libraries, where I can access books that I don't have in my library and where I can study in peace. To be honest, I am not looking to enrich myself with my profession. I will probably depend on low-payi...
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Today I talk about a TV series that´s I watch with my friends. This series is called CSI Miami. Is one of the versions of CSI that exist. Also exist CSI Crime Scene, CSI Las Vegas and CSI New York. This TV series was created in United States in 2002 by Anthony E. Zuiker and produce by Jerry Bruckheimer. Belongs to the CBS television cannel, but in Chile was transmitted in Canal 13. The plot consists in stories of crimes committed in Miami that are investigates for a group of detectives and criminologists directed by Horatio Caine, the boss of the criminal laboratory of the city, who use advanced technology for witness the scene where the crime occurred. Among her characters are Calleigh Duquesne, a ballistics expert, Eric Delko, an expert researcher in fiber analysis, Ryan Wolfe, Natalia Boa Vista and Walter Simmons. Each chapter consists in a criminal storie. This TV series has 232 episodes. As you can seen, is a very simple TV series, but entertaining. I like it because this series i...
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Today, I will tell you about the last concert I attended. It was in November 2019, during the Social Outbreak, in the Recoleta district. The event was called "Cacelorazo Constituyente": an activity organized by the municipality to motivate the citizen participation in the days of protest. The slogan of the concert was "let's go for a constituent assembly!" This concert took place in a park in Recoleta, near the Einstein underground station. The artists who participated were Gepe, Francisca Valenzuela, Camila Moreno, Fernando Milagros and Illapu, among others. In addition, there were speeches by organizations and politicians committed to the popular struggle of the period, like Daniel Jadue. The "constituent cacerolazo" was a Saturday from 2:00 pm. It lasted until 10:00 p.m., but I left the park at 8:00 p.m. There were a lot of people. It was very difficult to walk among so many people. The atmosphere of the event was one of great merriment. Lots of lau...
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The country I would like to visit is Ireland. Ireland is located in Europe. It was part of the United Kingdom until 1922. It has a total of 4,857,000 inhabitants. Its form of government is parliamentarism. Ireland is currently chaired by Michael D. Higgins, a member of the Labor Party. The country remains in conflict with Northern Ireland, loyal to the United Kingdom. Its capital is Dublin, the city where the novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce takes place. I would like to visit Ireland because I want to take the tour that Sthepen Dedalus takes in "Ulysses". I know this is a pretty nerdy wish, but I can't think of another specific reason to justify my interest in that country.  Since the reason for my visit to Ireland would be of a tourist nature, I would dedicate my stay in the country to visit streets, cemeteries and bars related to "Ulysses". Ireland is also the land of Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett, two important writers of Western literature.
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