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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