New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011 - E

The thinking of Gilles Deleuze has been one of the great philosophical happenings of the second half of the 20th century.: today we have no doubt about this, due to the wide ranging influence of his work, the consistency with which his ideas resist the advances of the present, their constant reappearance at each turn of the modern intellectual path and, as if this wasn't enough, the incessa

Italy in the Second World War: the American poet Ezra Pound takes part, via Radio Rome, in the propaganda war against the allies and against the Jews. But Pound's Nazi fervour over the airwaves arouses the suspicions of the Italian counter-espionage service. The radio was by now a tool to inflame, indoctrinate and mobilise the masses, a weapon of war and device of spies.

Meditation is an age-old technique that has been used for generations, with multiple benefits. The source of health & well-being, its positive effects have being scientifically proven: it helps improve memory and can even develop our IQ.

This is not a book about the world. It is not a book about social networks, or television, or Hispanic or North American literature. Nor is it a book about Twitter or the power of the image. A multifarious and dynamic essay, driven by a single preoccupation: how we view our times.