degradation of public space in times of constant display

The disproportion of profiles and themes is the logic of appreciation with the cases of two decades, but in the end it always has something to do, in addition to your interest in art and concern for a gift that seemed to slip through our hands. The speed of technological changes and with them the rhythms of work and life have been directly or indirectly the subject of observation in many award-winning books.

Escapeby professor and expert Iñaki Gómez (Madrid, 1968), is based on this series of essays that try to better understand how to adjust the content or feelings at the table. This method is therefore more impressionistic than academic and can be read as a diet sheet or a collection of seemingly scattered articles, which in turn give shape to a polished and genuine reflection of public space or opinion in the era of information overload.

The refugees are the McGuffin excuse, the excuse for this flâneur, where they are needed to convey an aspect of a much wider reality. Escape is where we look, but what we observe again. “Looking at the details of the glass, we gather more sociological and anthropological information than from the street,” writes the author.

Here are political chronicles, cultural notes, everyday observations in a moment marked by acceleration and polarization

The title is not innocent, because the cover limits the exhibition, but also the inevitable mediation between the object and the viewer. The book suggests reflection on one’s own medium in which one is inscribedand escape takes place here metaphorical paper to write, for example, from a drawer as a display case and as a filter. Among the strengths of the book are metaphors and images, with particular emphasis on their relationship to actual truth, as it is in film.

Hello here political news, cultural notes, literary and philosophical referencesdaily observations at a time marked by acceleration and polarization. But it’s not a complete argument. With particular cruelty, the author analyzes the ecosystem of public debate and its deterioration, which was noticed years ago by authors such as Habermas, but who are aware of new aspects of degradation.

And there is an interesting parallelism between the impunity of runaway citizens and the law of the forest of social reds: “Traditionally, we minors exposed pornography on the streets indifferently and carelessly, so that no one else acted in a similar way…”.

There is a productive tension between a critical diagnosis and a certain civic hope. Although the described panorama is not entirely complacent, the book does not fall into fatalism. For example, it is worth adding a large (and beautiful) final quote: “An alternative to this Apocalypse, in which we look atrophied and our eyes need to know history. History as an escape from time. Born as a saprophyte plant at dawn, in which a beautiful city fermented, in the margins of the Chicago River, which once turned with escaping crystal power, regenerates the wind. beautifying the world”.